LOGINAria Kane thought the Moon Goddess had finally favored her when Alpha Kael Voss of the Shadowthorn Pack claimed her as his fated mate beneath the blood moon,his hand wrapped around her throat, his teeth grazing her neck while the entire pack watched in awe. One heartbeat later, he shattered her. “You are nothing but weak, weak filth,” he snarled, rejecting their bond in front of everyone before choosing the pure blooded Seraphina as his Luna for a political alliance. Humiliated, broken, and cast out like trash, Aria fled into the night with nothing but the burning scar of a severed mate bond. Two months later, she discovered she was carrying his twins. Five years on, Aria returns to Shadowthorn,not as the timid girl they discarded, but as a deadly rogue hunter with a reputation soaked in blood. She is raising two powerful five year old heirs who carry ancient shadow wolf blood and gifts that could destroy the pack. When a brutal war with the rival Crimsonfang Pack forces Kael to summon her back under threat of death, the rejected mate bond erupts violently between them. The same alpha who once humiliated her now looks at her like a starving beast, desperate to claim what he threw away. He will lock her in his chambers, knot her until she screams, and burn his own empire to possess her again. But Aria is done being anyone’s mate. She has secrets that could topple the Shadowthorn throne. Allies who betrayed her in the darkest ways. And two innocent children Kael can never have,unless he is willing to kneel, bleed, and destroy everything he once chose over her.
View MoreThe black SUV smelled of leather, wolfsbane, and barely contained rage. Aria sat in the middle row, wrists bound with spelled silver cuffs that burned like acid against her skin. Luka and Lila were strapped in on either side of her, small bodies tense but silent. Their eyes glowed faintly in the dark interior,Luka’s shadows flickering at his fingertips, Lila’s tiny claws digging into the seat.Beta Ronan drove, his reflection in the rearview mirror smug. Two enforcers flanked the vehicle in matching black trucks. They had caught up with them just outside Seattle, overwhelming Aria’s wards with sheer numbers. She had killed four before they tranqed her. The memory of her children’s frightened faces still made her blood boil.“Comfortable, little shadow?” Ronan asked, voice dripping mockery. “Alpha’s been waiting five years for this family reunion.”“Touch my children again and I’ll wear your intestines as a necklace,” Aria hissed.Lila bared her teeth. “Mommy will eat you.”Ronan laugh
Aria slammed the phone down, heart hammering. Shadows exploded from her hands, cracking the concrete walls. She forced them back under control, breathing through the rage.Five years. Five years of hiding, training, bleeding, and building something safe. And now that bastard wanted them back? She will never allow that to happen.She moved to the weapons wall and began loading up,silver daggers, spelled bullets, a garrote made from Crimsonfang alpha hair. The twins would need to be ready. She would teach them more tonight. Harder drills. No more gentle stories.“Mommy?”Lila stood in the doorway in her black pajamas, rubbing her eyes. Luka was right behind her, shadows already curling around his feet.“Bad men coming?” Luka asked.Aria knelt and pulled them both into her arms, inhaling their scent,wild pine, shadow, and that unmistakable trace of Kael that made her want to both protect and destroy.“Yes,” she whispered. “But we’re stronger. Remember what I taught you?”“Never bow,” the
5 years later….The warehouse smelled of rust, gun oil, and wolf blood.Aria moved like smoke through the dim emergency lights, twin curved blades strapped to her thighs, black tactical gear hugging every curve her body had earned through five brutal years. At twenty four she was no longer the soft, hopeful girl who had spread her legs on a moonlit altar. She was a blade. A ghost. A mother who had learned that mercy got you killed.“Again,” she commanded, voice low and sharp.Luka and Lila dropped into fighting stances on the cracked concrete floor. Five years old and already lethal. Luka,dark hair like his father’s, golden eyes that sometimes bled into shadow,summoned tendrils of darkness that coiled around his small fists. Lila, with her mother’s fierce green eyes and a wild streak of silver in her hair, bared tiny fangs, claws extending with a soft snick.“Target,” Aria said.A rogue wolf they’d captured earlier snarled from the center of the circle, chained and muzzled. He’d been
Aria ran until her lungs burned and her bare feet bled. The forest tore at her like the pack had,branches whipping her face, roots tripping her, cold mud sucking at her ankles. Kael’s rejection echoed in every heartbeat, a jagged wound where the mate bond used to sing.Weak human filth.The words sliced deeper than the bite on her neck. His seed still dripped down her thighs, sticky and mocking, as she stumbled deeper into the human territories beyond Shadowthorn land. No wolf would follow her here. They despised the cities,too loud, too weak, too human.She didn’t stop until the trees thinned and city lights stabbed her sensitive eyes. A dingy motel on the outskirts took her last twenty dollars. The clerk, a tired woman with nicotine stained fingers, didn’t ask questions when she saw the torn dress and bloody neck.Room 17 smelled of mold and old cigarettes. Aria locked the door, slid to the floor, and finally let the sobs tear free. She curled around the pain in her chest, rocking,
The full moon hung like a bleeding wound in the sky, bathing the Shadowthorn ritual grounds in crimson light. Aria’s heart hammered against her ribs as Alpha Kael Voss circled her on the raised stone platform, his golden eyes locked on hers with raw, predatory hunger.The entire pack watched,hundre
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