LOGINHe rejected her under the moonlight. Now fate has thrown them into the same war... Aria Ashborne was supposed to be forgotten the castaway of a fallen pack, the daughter of a disgraced Alpha. But fate has a cruel sense of humor. When Alpha Kaiden Blackthorn the brutal enforcer of the Northern Territories discovers she is his fated mate, he rejects her in front of the entire council, branding her unworthy. But Aria doesn't beg. She doesn't break. She builds. She builds in silence. Now a fierce warrior leading her own rebel wolves, she's forced into an uneasy alliance with Kaiden when a deadly new force begins tearing through the werewolf ranks. Old enemies. New secrets. And a bond neither of them can truly sever. What happens when hate burns hotter than desire? And when the one person you swore to destroy... might be the only one who can save you?
View MoreCHAPTER 7ARIA’S POVThe snow clung to my fur in thick, wet clumps by the time we reached the edge of the borderlands. The run back from the Ashborne ruins had left my muscles aching, but the heat in my chest was stronger than the cold. Not the kind of heat that warmed you, the kind that burned, like embers buried deep under your ribs.Betrayal had a taste, I decided. It was sharp, metallic, like blood you bite down on. And Kaiden Blackthorn’s name was on every drop of it.Cera shifted first, shaking out her dark hair as steam rose off her skin. I followed, pulling my cloak tighter around me. She didn’t ask what I’d found in the ruins, though I knew she was dying to. She’d seen the way I froze in my father’s study, how I clutched the journal like it might vanish if I blinked.We didn’t speak much on the way back. The silence wasn’t uncomfortable, it was heavy. Weighted with questions neither of us wanted to crack open in the middle of the forest.By the time we stepped into camp, the
CHAPTER 6KAIDEN'S POV I felt it the moment she stepped onto Ashborne land.The bond muted and distant these past few days flared like a spark in my chest. Pain, laced with something sharper than longing. It burned through me, waking the wolf I'd been trying to silence since the ceremony. My hands trembled where they rested on the table, war maps forgotten. The air in the war room thickened, my breath catching like smoke in my throat.“Aria.” I muttered, clenching my fists tightly and closing my eyes in frustration, trying to calm my breathing.Elias, my Beta, lifted his head. “What is it?” “She's back. In the ruins.” I answer him, feeling the pain in my chest increasing second by second.His eyebrows frown in disbelief as he stares at me. “That's suicide. If she gets caught then…” He words trails off, and I know what he's going to say.“She won't be caught.” I said. She can't get caught. “She's not that foolish.” I don't know if I'm telling him or myself.He studied me for a beat,
CHAPTER 5ARIA'S POVThe morning after the false howl, I woke before the sun, or to be specific I didn't sleep much peacefully.Sleep had offered no solace. My dreams had been filled with flickers of firelight and ashes, my father's voice a fading whisper. Every time I reached for him, he disappeared. Always the same. Always gone.I threw off my blanket and stepped outside my tent. The frost was heavier today. The earth was hard under my bare feet, grounding me in the moment.Something inside me shifted last night. Not because of the howling or the bond, but because of the memory that came with it, a whisper of a place, a symbol carved into stone.My father's study.I hadn't thought about it in years. The last time I was in there, he was standing by the fire, cloaked in silence. I was just a girl then, clutching a broken arrow and tears I hadn't let fall. He told me stories of the High Council. Of betrayal. Of something hidden deep beneath the Ashborne estate.A secret he said would c
CHAPTER 4ARIA’S POVI stood at the edge of the clearing as frost laced over the tree limbs, the chill of dawn brushing against my skin like a warning. The cold barely registered anymore, not when fire roared inside me. My breath came steady, but every inhale felt like swallowing shards of ice. I couldn't shake the echo of Kaiden's voice from my head. The way he said my name. The way he rejected me like I was nothing. Like I hadn't haunted his past as much as he haunted mine.My arms were folded tight across my chest, fingers digging into the rough wool of my cloak as I tried to steal the fury writhing beneath my skin. My wolf prowled inside me, wounded and confused. She hadn't expected the rejection. I hadn't either.Not from him.“Wake up everyone!” I told David, who'd appeared without making any sound, like he always does. “We're training today. Hard.”He nodded once, his gaze lingering on my face. He didn't speak. He didn't need to.By midmorning, the camp came alive with the gr
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