LOGINShe chose his gifts carefully every year. His mother made sure he only received the ones he'd throw away. Faith Blackwood has spent years invisible in her own home, her belongings taken, her voice silenced, her carefully chosen gifts replaced with ones designed to make Harrison look down on her. On the night of her coming of age, fate delivers the last thing she expected: a mate bond with Harrison, the stepbrother who has made her life a misery. Harrison has spent years becoming exactly what his mother shaped him to be: ambitious, cold, and blind to the girl right in front of him. But when the truth begins to unravel, he discovers that everything he knew was built on lies, manipulation, and years of meaningful gifts he was never meant to receive. Sent to the mate cabin for three weeks, Harrison must face what he has done — and Faith must decide whether the boy she once called Harry still exists beneath the Alpha her stepmother created. A silver wolf with a name fit for a goddess. A man who must decide whether becoming worthy of his mate matters more than becoming the Alpha he was raised to be.
View MoreBut he hadn’t, not really. His mother had pulled him aside that first week in the new packhouse. “Don’t let her call you those childish names,” she’d hissed. “You’re to be Alpha someday. Act like it.”Faith’s fingers tightened around the silver pendant, her eyes searching his face. “Your mother told me you hated it when I called you Harry. That you found it embarrassing.”Another lie. Another manipulation.“No,” Harrison said, his voice rough. “I never hated it.”Wallace stepped further into the room, addressing the elders. “As Alpha of our birth pack, I move that we recognise Faith Blackwood’s rightful claim to leadership here, as decreed by pack law and bloodline.”Faith’s father made a strangled sound. “You can’t—““Actually,” Elder Miriam interrupted, “we can and we will. The council has reviewed the evidence Wallace brought forward. The attempt to sell your daughter to the Brigham pack constitutes treason against your own bloodline.”Harrison watched as Faith processed these word
His mother smiled, a cold, calculating expression that made Harrison’s skin crawl. “See? This is why you need to reject her. She’s already promised elsewhere.”The pieces clicked together in Harrison’s mind with sickening clarity. His mother hadn’t just been trying to keep Faith down; she’d been actively plotting to remove her permanently. Send her to a known mate-killer, wash their hands of her, and secure whatever dark bargain they’d made with the Brigham pack.Faith trembled beside him, but her chin remained lifted in defiance. The silver wolf pendant glinted in her white-knuckled grip.“You knew,” Harrison said, turning to his mother. “You knew she was my mate all along.”His mother’s momentary flicker of surprise confirmed his suspicion before she could mask it.“That’s why you’ve been pushing me to reject her before the bond could fully form,” he continued, the truth burning through him like wildfire. “You couldn’t risk me discovering what she really meant to me.”Faith’s father
Harrison swallowed hard. The pendant felt warm against his palm, almost alive. “I don’t know. I just... couldn’t stop thinking about the way your face changed when you saw it. For a moment, you looked like the girl I remember from before. Before everything changed.”Faith’s gaze flickered between his face and the pendant, searching for deception. The bruise on her shoulder seemed darker now in the fading light of the room, a physical reminder of all the harm he’d caused.“May I?” he asked, gesturing toward her injury.After a long moment, Faith gave a small nod and lowered her bag to the floor. She stood rigidly as Harrison stepped closer, her breathing shallow and controlled. He moved slowly, telegraphing each movement, aware that any sudden motion might send her bolting from the room.His fingers hovered over the bruise, not quite touching. Heat radiated from her skin, and this close, her scent was overwhelming, not just sage and roses, but something wilder, something that called to
“And?” Faith clutched her bag tighter, as if it contained everything precious she had left in the world. Perhaps it did.“And I’m not going to,” he said simply. “Reject you, that is.”Faith’s eyes narrowed with suspicion. “What game are you playing now?”“No game.” Harrison swallowed hard. “I’ve been a fool, Faith. Worse than a fool. I’ve been cruel to my own mate because I couldn’t see past my own ambition.”“Don’t,” she whispered, her voice breaking. “You’ve always said you wanted a strong mate. Well, I’m not her, so it’s just better for everyone. My father, who hasn’t seen me anything more than the ghost of his late mate, my stepmother, making sure that I could never be allowed to look like anyone of importance and lastly, you, the guy who competed with his elder brother once for Alpha of your real father’s lands, which switched to me once you both moved here. Not that it mattered, I knew that I wouldn’t take power in this pack. Father told me that you would be the next Alpha of th
“Mine,” came a roar from against the tree as far away from the shift circle as one could possibly get.Faith stood there in wolf form, with a scent of river water and fresh rain hitting her like a large wave. Harrison.She ran in her wolf form as fast as she could to take her back to the packhouse,


















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