LOGINNerissa Ashwood has been called cursed her entire life. Her mother died protecting her,her father and brother died trying to save her. Hated by her own pack and treated worse than a servant, Nerissa survives each day as the weakest omega in Red Claw Pack while dreaming that one day the Moon Goddess would finally give her a mate who could love her. Instead, fate destroys her completely. On the night of the mating ceremony, Nerissa discovers that the future Alpha of her pack is her fated mate. But before the entire pack, he rejects her cruelly and chooses another woman as his Luna, leaving Nerissa humiliated and broken. Heartbroken, she runs into the forest where a terrifying stranger saves her from rogue wolves. One forbidden night changes everything. Pregnant, abandoned, and secretly sold to the ruthless Alpha of Obsidian Keep, Nerissa soon realizes the dangerous man who bought her is the same stranger from the forest, a feared Alpha with blood on his hands and darkness in his soul. But while everyone sees her as nothing more than a weak omega, Nerissa carries a secret buried deep within her bloodline and as ancient powers begin awakening inside her, enemies start closing in from every side. Now trapped inside a fortress filled with betrayal, jealousy, and dangerous desires, Nerissa must survive long enough to protect her unborn child. But when the ruthless Alpha discovers who she truly is… Will he protect her from the monsters hunting her or become the most dangerous one of all?
View MoreNerissa POVThe night after the assembly, Obsidian Keep was quiet for the first time in months.I stood at the northern corridor window and listened to it.The assembly ran until evening. The formal documentation signing took longer thanDarius projected because forty Alphas applying pack seals to foundational charterdocuments was a process that could not be hurried without insulting the significance ofwhat was being signed. Darius managed the pace with his characteristic flat precisionand did not once show the strain of managing it.Afterward there was a gathering in the main ground.Food and fire and the sounds of forty packs finding the particular ease that comes afterthe hard thing is finished.I moved through it with Zayden beside me and the twins passed between Edna andIsolde and Evander and Harper and Aldric Crowe who held both grandchildren in thefirelight with his recovering eyes.The pure undefended wonder of someone receiving something they stopped belie
Nerissa POVThe first delegation arrived before sunrise.Felix of Ironfang with his healed shoulder and his flat operational eyes and twelvewolves behind him in full Ironfang colors. They came through the rebuilt eastern gate inan organized manner.I was on the northern wall when I saw them come through.Been there since before dawn. The full embrace changed what early mornings felt like.The fortress frequency at that hour was particular and clear. Every sleeping wolfproduces a quiet steady hum that the permanent sensitivity reads as a single collectivesound. The sound of Obsidian Keep at rest.It was the most peaceful thing I felt since the power became permanent.I went down to meet Felix at the inner corridor entrance.He stopped when he saw me.I looked at the Mark. At the pendant. At whatever the full embrace was doing to thequality of my presence that wolves had been responding to differently since the mainground ceremony."Luna," he said."Felix," I said
Nerissa POVThe night before the territorial assembly Zayden could not sleep.I lay still for a moment.Listening to him breathe in the way that meant he was awake. The slight difference inrhythm. "Say it," I said."Say what?" he said."Whatever is keeping you awake," I said.The room was dark. The oil lamp had burned down hours ago. The northern territoryoutside the window was the deep black of a clear night with no cloud cover and the fullmoon three days past but still producing enough light that the window was a palerectangle in the dark wall."Forty packs arrive tomorrow," he said."Yes," I said."The Ashfen and Thornwall boundary dispute documentation is prepared," he said."Darius has arranged the session order so that dispute comes second rather than first.First impressions of the assembly should not be a territorial conflict between twoattending packs.""That is sensible," I said."The three eastern packs with incomplete Ashmoor alliance documentation h
Nerissa POV It started with the weather.Aldric was three weeks old when the first storm came from nowhere.A dark formation building directly above the fortress in a sky that was clear twentyminutes before. Building fast and from nothing and sitting directly over Obsidian Keepwith the intentionality of weather that has been directed.Felt it through the permanent sensitivity.I went inside.Found Aldric in Evander's arms in the eastern corridor.Awakes,his eyes pointed at the ceiling with the focused upward attention he gave thingsthat interested him. His small fists open rather than closed.Evander looked at me when I came through the corridor entrance."How long?" I said."Four minutes," he said. "He woke from sleep and looked at the ceiling and the skychanged."I crouched in front of them and looked at my son.He looked at me.Then I looked at the ceiling again.The storm above the fortress rumbled once.Aldric's open hands moved.Tiny fingers spreading wide
Nerissa POV My breath became uneven.The whisper echoed again inside my head.My wolf had never spoken before,not even once.Fear crawled through me,the stranger outside the gates still stared directly toward the storage room window, his cold gray eyes sharp enough to make my entire body tense.“W
Nerissa POV My knees slammed painfully against the wet ground as another bucket of freezing water hit my back.The women around the wash area burst into laughter.“Look at her.”“She can’t even carry water properly.”I tightened my fingers around the metal bucket while cold mud soaked through my t
Nerissa POVThe doors of the pack house slammed behind me.My feet hit the wet ground and I just ran without direction. The rain started heavily before I even reached the tree line.The forest swallowed me fast. Trees closing in on every side, branches slapping my face and arms, roots catching my
Nerissa POV The servant standing outside the door looked uncomfortable.“The gathering has already started.”Humiliation never came alone in the Red Claw Pack.“I have to go,” I whispered.“What?”“If I don’t…” My throat tightened. “Aunt Mara will punish both of us.”Harper cursed under her breath






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