He was the Alpha King. Savage. Unforgiving. Untouchable. She was the omega who once scarred him—and vanished. Twelve years ago, Freya, a rare female omega, dared to sink her claws into the future Alpha King, Ragnar Thorne, branding his flesh and haunting his pride. He swore vengeance that night—and when she disappeared, he swore he’d find her—one day. Twelve years later a masked woman arrives and walks straight into his arms. Bold. Defiant. Unbending. Freya has lived in the shadows, hiding her true nature and history. But her return isn't by accident. She has her secrets… and her reasons for walking straight into the lion’s den. Ragnar’s hate would turn into an obsession that will spiral into something dark, primal, and uncontrollable, and then the past claws its way back.
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Freya breathed in sharply as she launched the dagger with accurate precision, causing it to cut through the air with the sound of a whoosh as it pierced into the tree right in the middle of the mark making a springy noise as its handle vibrated for a couple of seconds before stilling in place.
The girl straightened as she glared at her aim. It was at least two to three centimeters to the left, which made her jaw tick.
Freya was just 12 years old but she was angry at herself for not hitting the dagger right in the middle. She wanted perfection. Yanking out her beautifully carved silver dagger from the tree she walked back to her spot, this time she stepped a little further away from her usual spot and focused on the mark on the tree.
Freya was all alone in the woods. This place was her hidden spot, which no one knew about. No one ever dared to wander this far in the woods so it was her safe place, or so she thought.
Breathing in deeply, she raised her hand and was about to launch the dagger again when, all of a sudden, goosebumps rose on her flesh as she heard rustling nearby. This place was so securely hidden that she was sure no one would ever find this; it could be a wild animal.
Freya faced in the direction from which the noise came. Her senses were on full alert as she launched the dagger in the direction from which the noise came.
A couple of seconds passed, and the air was still but there was something eerily different in the surroundings, something darker. And then it hit her like a zap of lightning.
The strong scent in the air. It was an Alpha. But not just any Alpha. The air seemed to quiver with his dominant presence, and just like that, a boy who was close to 15-16 years of age appeared through the woods. It wasn't his presence that startled her. It was those glaciers of cold blue eyes glaring at her that unsettled her, and that wasn't even the end of it. He was holding the sharp blade of her dagger between his two fingers. There was no blood on him, no cut, nothing. Her blade didn't even cut him. But it was made of silver, and it was burning him as he held the hilt of it.
Freya was sure that he didn't see that coming then how could he react so fast and stop the attack with zero injuries.
She flinched visibly when he made a tsk sound. Freya instantly recalled her mother's wise words to stay miles away from Alphas.
"An Omega," His voice was deeper than the deep sea and it was rich with dominance. It was unlikely for a teen of his age to have that deep voice and all those muscles. He looked strong. Bigger than most of the alphas his age.
It was clear that he was surprised by her presence in the woods.
"You shouldn't be out here all alone," He said darkly expecting the little girl with silver ash hair to flinch or probably run away. She had unique hair, he hasn't seen such hair before, instead of running away she stepped towards him. Raising her palm in front of him, she demanded. "My dagger," Her voice sharp and void of any fear which took him by surprise.
"Mind your tone, little one," he growled lowly as the girl flinched back. Her heart thumped wildly, but she remained cold.
Fearless.
"My dagger!" Her voice was cold as she jutted her chin in the direction of her palm.
Defiance danced through her fierce green eyes as he grabbed her jaw rather roughly with his free hand and yanked her to him.
She didn't rest her hand on his chest to steady herself, though he pulled her roughly, but her balance was good as she steadied herself, glaring back at him with equal fervor.
"Aren't you scared?" His deep voice was deadly calm. The small hair on her skin quivered because of his alpha authority, but she refused to back off. Despite his hold on her jaw, she still jutted her chin out in defiance and uttered a single word.
"No," Her voice was calm and her face was blank, causing him to smirk darkly. He twisted the dagger in his free hand, twirled it as if it were his favorite toy, and pressed it against her throat.
"Respect me," He said dangerously. The dagger slightly burned her skin.
"Earn it!" She gritted, glaring up at him.
For the first time in his 16 years of life. Ragnar was rendered utterly speechless. He was stunned by this little she-wolf omega who wasn't acting like an omega at all. She had piqued his interest.
Ragnar pressed the dagger to her throat, expecting to see fear in her eyes, but the girl was calm.
"Didn't your mom teach you how to be submissive like an omega?" He asked coldly.
"Didn't your father teach you how to behave with girls?" She countered back, and his jaw ticked. His smirk disappeared. Now she was getting on his nerves.
"You have got a sharp little tongue, don't you?" He hissed as the girl inhaled sharply.
"I do," She agreed and yet again he was baffled by her. How old was she? 11-12? And she had the nerve to talk to him like that...
"If you're done, give me my dagger?" She demanded yet again, though she was in his hold but she was fearless.
"Take it-" The words barely left his lips when the girl charged forward. She abruptly jerked down, freeing herself from his hold, and the next thing she jumped on him with her legs on his shoulders, and she elbowed his head. He raised the dagger to hit her, but she swiveled on top of him, so now she sat on his shoulders while covering his eyes with her hands.
She poked both of his eyes, making him scream as the dagger fell from his hand, and he winced, holding his eyes. The girl jumped off him, grabbed her dagger from the ground, and made a run for her life. She barely ran a few steps when he grabbed her nape, and she was yanked back and slammed on the rough ground.
The fall was so brutal that it knocked the breath out of her lungs. She grabbed her elbow, which felt as if it had fractured.
Before she could gather her bearings, the boy grabbed her throat in an attempt to punish her. Just when he began to choke her, Freya swung her dagger, causing him to move back.
He expected her to run, but she charged at him. She hit his calf with all her might, causing him to fall on his knee, but Ragnar grabbed her wrist, yanking her down to her knees, and before he could tackle her, she swung the dagger, and a sharp pain exploded in his face.
He growled in pain, pressing his hand on the wound as he glared at her with his good eye, only to notice fear on her face for the very first time. Seeing his blood might've done something to her because the next thing she was sprinting for her life.
Ranger let out a throaty laugh, which sounded maniacal as he pulled to his feet chasing after her.
Wounded.
Outrageous.
Curious.
... But he never found her.
Freya writhed against the chains.Not because they hurt,But because they didn’t.Because the silver didn’t burn the way it should. Because restraint felt safer than freedom. Because without them, she wasn’t sure she could trust herself not to tear the world apart in her hunger.She had bound herself. By her own hands. By her own will. A wild, reckless act of desperation to deal with the heat. Because she knew what would happen if she didn’t. Because she knew what he would do if he found her like this.And now… He had. The only thing she wanted was for him to stay miles away from her until her heat gets over with.The door hung broken on splintered hinges, jagged wood veining outward like the cracks in her control. His scent—storm-drenched pine, steel, and something deeper, older—had filled the room like a rising tide. His blood painted the wall, smeared in a violent streak where he had punched stone.But it wasn’t fury in him anymore. It was something quieter. Something far more dan
The ink on the parchment blurred into meaningless swirls.Ragnar’s jaw clenched as he stared at the lines of text: trade negotiations, border patrol rotations, supply routes for the Northern post. Each line was etched in careful script. Each word meant to ensure the safety of his kingdom.But none of them mattered.Because his mind refused to focus. Every line blurred beneath the weight of her name.Freya.Her name was a curse and a prayer in the same breath. The taste of her still haunted him, sweet and defiant, like fire laced with frost. His lips remembered hers too well, remembered the way she pushed and pulled like she hated how much she hated him and wanted him. That kiss… gods, it had ruined him.He had touched her like a drowning man clinging to air. Desperate. Possessive. Reverent.And now... now he was unraveling.Across the desk, Nate’s voice droned on, steady and calm, oblivious to the storm rising inside the prince.“…the merchant guild is withholding grain until the tari
"let me down," Freya growled trying to free herself from his hold. It had happened so quickly the way he grabbed her and tossed her over his shoulder. The last thing Freya saw before the world tilted off its axis was Ragnar’s shadow slicing through the garden like a thundercloud about to break. And he was carrying her on his shoulder like a sack of potatoes.Her blood boiled because she was flung over his shoulder in one violent, seamless motion, his arm locked around her waist like a shackle forged in fury. And she didn't see it coming when he grabbed her. Her open hair moved wildly behind her, and her fists pounded against his back with no effect. The muscles beneath her strikes might as well have been stone.“Put me down, Ragnar!” she snarled, her voice cracking like a whip. “What the hell do you think you’re—”“Quiet,” he snapped, the word like a blade drawn behind clenched teeth. “You’ve pushed far enough.”Servants froze. Gasps echoed. Cloaks and baskets were dropped as he stor
One by one. Cries and gasps and whispered prayers fell from their lips like spring rain. Weathered hands reaching, trembling, unbelieving. They clung to her like drowning souls, pressing their foreheads to her shoulders, her hands, the fabric of her cloak. Some laughed. Some wept so hard they couldn’t speak.“Freya, by the gods... Freya-”“We were told you died, that you burned-”“They said your body vanished in the flames-”“We lit candles every night-”She held them. She let herself be held. Freya, the flame, the wolf, the storm, she let those things fall away. Here, she was just a girl who had come home.Their warmth pulled her back from the edge of everything. She could feel the grief unwinding from their bodies like thread unraveling. These weren’t people she ruled; they were kin. Her bones had been shaped by their stories. Her fury had been forged in their suffering.She sat among them, not on the throne they offered, but on the floor. The bare stone beneath her knees. Shoulders
The world returned slowly.Not in a rush, but in reluctant fragments, light bleeding through the gauze of unconsciousness, breath by breath. Freya stirred, her fingers curling against sheets soft as sin, heavy with the scent of cinder and frost.Her bones didn’t ache. They smoldered.Not broken, but reforged. Hammered by something ancient and remorseless. The hum was still there. The exhaustion. The pain. All of it was still there.Magic, slow and coiled, moved beneath her skin like a serpent too full of fire. The echo of the well still clawed at the edges of her senses, hungry, half-formed. She felt… other. Sharpened. Tempered. A blade that had finally kissed the forge.But something else had shifted too.A hollow space. A deep ache in her center, like part of her, had been carved out and offered as payment.The well had taken something.She didn’t know what. And it was terrifying.Her eyes snapped open.She winced at the bright sun rays falling on her face. Freya had to blink a coup
The moment Freya touched the rim of the well, the ground exhaled, a soundless, hollow breath, like the world itself bracing.And then something inside her shifted."Freya, step back a little," Ragnar said from behind her. She was standing too close to that cursed thing.A rush of sensation spiraled through her chest, not wind but memory. Not memory, but magic. It flooded her like smoke through a hollow vessel. The forest around her swayed as though caught in a dream, and the trees warped, shrank, and stretched. Time unraveled into a single, blistering pulse.Then it struck.Not a blast, not an explosion, something colder. A will older than gods. Invisible fingers seized her ribs from behind and shoved her forward, not away from the well, but into it.A scream tore through her lips as Ragnar dashed forward, trying to grab her. Freya didn’t fall into the well. She was devoured.Freya's scream died down. It caught in her throat as air vanished. Her hands flailed, fingers scraping at the
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