He chose another woman.
He expected me to accept it.
He never expected me to reject him back.
I was supposed to be the Alpha's mate. The woman destined to stand beside him and become Luna of Blackthorn.
Instead, on the night our bond awakened, Ronan chose Seraphina—the woman the pack had already accepted as his future Luna.
Then he rejected me.
I thought that was the end of us.
I was wrong.
The mate bond refused to disappear.
As whispers spread through the pack, I became the woman everyone blamed for the trouble tearing Blackthorn apart. Ronan tried to hold on to the life he had chosen, but the bond between us grew stronger with every attempt to escape it.
Then I discovered the truth.
My blood carried a secret that could change the entire pack.
I was not simply a rejected mate.
My family had hidden an old power for generations, and someone was willing to destroy Blackthorn to claim it. My brother, believed to be lost forever, returned with a past nobody had told him about. The woman who wore Ronan's Luna title had secrets of her own. And the throne everyone thought had been destroyed was only one part of a much older threat.
Soon, the pack is forced to choose sides.
Ronan must face the consequences of the choice that broke me.
I must decide whether the bond between us deserves another chance.
And when the old rules demand that I become a Luna, an heir, and a ruler, I make the one choice nobody expects.
I choose myself.
But freedom comes with a price.
Because the past is not finished with us.
And when the truth finally reaches the entire pack, love, loyalty, power, and destiny collide in a final battle that will determine who gets to decide the future.
He rejected his mate for another woman.
She survived the rejection.
Now the Alpha wants her back—but she may no longer want him.