LOGINOn the night of the Dark Moon Pack’s mating ceremony, Violet Ambrose finally receives the blessing she has spent her entire life preparing for. Her mate is Alpha Neal James. The most powerful wolf in the pack. The man every woman dreamed of claiming, and before the entire pack… He rejects her. Five years later, the timid girl who once dreamed of love is gone. In her place stands a hardened warrior, trained by the mysterious guardian of the neutral lands and forged by loss, rage, and survival. Will Violet claim the life that was stolen from her, or destroy the pack that betrayed her?
View MoreVioletI didn’t sleep. I tried, but it never came. At some point, someone had led me to a room, pressed clean clothes into my hands, murmured something about food, about rest, about safety. But none of it stuck. None of it mattered.Because every time I closed my eyes, I saw chains. I saw my mother’s wrists, the bruising, the way her skin had broken under them. I saw my father’s hollow stare, like something inside him had already given up. I saw Eli’s eyes, too old for a child, too aware. And beneath all of it, I felt him.Neal.Even with the bond severed, even with that connection ripped apart so violently it had nearly destroyed me, something of him lingered. It sat beneath my skin like rot, like a memory my body refused to forget. A scar that hadn’t decided if it wanted to heal or split open again.My fingers curled tighter into the blankets as I stared up at the ceiling, forcing my breathing to stay slow, steady. I had broken the bond. I had felt it snap. But this… this wasn’t the
VioletI didn’t realize how badly I was shaking until Aleric took my hand.Not the battlefield kind of shaking.Not rage. Not adrenaline.Something smaller.Something far more dangerous.Hope.The corridor felt too long.Every step echoed louder than it should have, the sound bouncing off the stone like a heartbeat I couldn’t quiet. My fingers tightened around his, grounding myself in the steady strength of him, in the warmth that never faltered.“They’re through here,” he said softly.Soft for him.Careful.Like he understood exactly what this moment was.Like he knew it could break me just as easily as it could put me back together.My throat tightened.For a moment, I couldn’t answer.I had seen them in chains.Seen the hollow in their eyes.The way life had been drained out of them piece by piece.What if—No.I shoved the thought down hard before it could take root.“They’re alive,” I said quietly, more to myself than to him.Aleric’s thumb brushed once over the back of my hand.
Aleric:“No, stop.” My heart sank with her words, I thought she wanted this, wanted me.I opened my mouth but no sound came out. The thundering of my heart multiplied, my mouth went dry… Then she spoke.“Scars… there’s nothing sexy about the scars.” I backed away from her, realizing.This wasn’t about me, but about the things she had endured. The marks that life had painted across her beautiful body.“Everything is sexy about you, Violet,” I finally managed around the relief loosening the noose that had settled around my throat when she backed away from me, so I continued.“You look at me sometimes, and there is this spark is in your eyes, this fire, and fuck… it could rattle the heavens. There is no one, and nothing, more perfect than you are.” I couldn’t help but close that distance she had created between us again.I needed her, this perfect creature.“I love you, and nothing you can say will change that. Nothing you could do will dim the fire in my soul that burns for only you, yo
Violet:The moment Aleric wrapped his arms around my wolf form, something inside me finally stilled.The rage. The fire. The violent storm Perdition had unleashed. All of it quieted beneath the warmth of his touch. My massive black wolf leaned harder into him, pressing my head against his chest as if the simple act of being close to him could anchor me to the world again. His hands slid through my fur, careful but firm, as though reassuring himself that I was real.“You’re here,” he murmured roughly. “You’re actually here.”The bond between us pulsed softly, warm and steady. I could feel the tremor in him through it. The fear he had carried. The desperation that had driven him across half the territory to find me. I closed my eyes. For a moment, I let him hold me. Behind us, the sounds of Russ and the warriors digging through the rubble continued, stone grinding and shifting as they searched for Neal beneath the wreckage. But Aleric didn’t move away from me. His forehead rested gently
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