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Chapter 1

Vera’s POV"I, Vera Lane, reject you, Robert Chelles, as my mate."Those words — calm, unhurried, final — hit the room like a stone dropped into still water, and the ripples spread instantly. Every guest erupted at once, whispers crashing into each other from every direction.I turned to leave without looking back.A pair of strong, warm hands caught me. I turned and came face to face with Robert's young, handsome face.His eyes were a pale, washed-out blue. They used to make me think of the quiet mystery of Lake Daylan.Right now, they were brewing a storm.It had been so long since I'd seen him this young. I stood there for a moment, thrown.Robert stepped forward and pulled me against him in one smooth motion, no room to resist, no question of refusal.He leaned down slightly, his voice low and tightly leashed: "If you want to throw a tantrum, at least pick your moment."In my previous life, Robert had kept up a flawless performance — patient, tender, the ideal mate. So this undisgu

Chapter 2

Vera’s POVRobert heard me come in and stepped out of the kitchen, spatula in hand.I knew this scene well.In my previous life, after Bellis left for overseas, Robert stopped coming home. He buried himself in work. The stress, the skipped meals, the endless coffee — his stomach eventually gave out.I was worried about him, so I learned to cook. Every day I brought food to his office and stood there watching until he finished every bite before I'd leave.One time, I knocked over the pot while making soup. Boiling liquid splashed across the back of my hand, raising blisters instantly.Robert didn't say anything when he found out. He just sat in the living room in silence for a whole night.After that, he wouldn't let me near the kitchen. No matter how busy he was, he came home and cooked dinner every single night.Looking back now — God, he was the most dedicated performer I'd ever seen.I shook myself loose from the memory, pretended I hadn't noticed him, and made for the stairs."Vera

Chapter 3

Vera’s POVI curled my fingers tight in my palm, bracing. But Bellis spoke first: "The coronation is in three days. Robert said he'd take you to pick out a dress."I froze for a second.I'd almost forgotten the coronation was three days away.Which was also the day I was leaving.I had zero intention of showing up to the coronation, and I definitely didn't need a new dress. But I needed something to redirect Robert's attention away from my desk."Okay," I said immediately. "Let's go."Seeing how quickly I agreed, as if I feared Robert might change his mind, a flicker of contempt crossed Bellis's eyes. Then she turned to Robert, putting on an innocent look. "See? I told you, Vera was just being stubborn before. Ask her again and she'll come."Robert's expression softened. He reached out and tapped the tip of her nose, fond and easy.The moment we walked into the boutique, Bellis lit up and started pulling dresses off the racks. The staff assumed she was the Luna being crowned and swarme

Chapter 4

Vera’s POVI was thinking clearly again in an instant. I shoved him back, my voice flat and cold in a way I'd never quite managed before. "It's late. Go sleep in your own room."Robert stood there for a moment, blinking himself sober. He rubbed a hand down his face, looking faintly disgusted with himself.He didn't move closer or leave. He just stood there.I didn't say anything. I just watched him.After a long stretch of silence, he finally sighed. "Come back to the bedroom tomorrow. I've already asked Bellis to move out. We're mates — it's not right to keep sleeping in separate rooms."He hesitated, lowering his voice slightly, like it cost him something. "My parents were also asking when we're planning to have kids."That word — kids — went straight into the deepest wound I carried. My voice came out shaking, barely controlled: "It's really late. Can we talk about this tomorrow?"God knows it took everything I had — every last scrap of self-control — not to hit him right then and t

Chapter 5

Robert’s POVOnce Bellis had calmed down, I tracked down the nurse and found Vera's room.Concussion, the nurse told me. Still unconscious.My chest clenched. I kept seeing it — the moment the rig fell, the look on Vera's face as she watched me.Not anger. Not hurt. Not betrayal — just relief.She had even smiled, just slightly.She wasn't blaming me. But the unease I felt was sharper than anything I'd felt in years.I took a breath and pushed open the door, then stopped cold.The bed was empty.I grabbed a nurse and demanded to know where Vera had gone. No one knew when she'd left.In the past, I would have told myself she was just angry about Bellis and needed space.But right now, something was driving me — a raw, irrational certainty that I had to find her. Now. Immediately. Otherwise...Otherwise, I'd never find her again.The thought hit like a fist to the chest and I almost recoiled from it.The nurse gave me an odd look. "She's your mate, isn't she? Finding her should be easy."

Chapter 6

Vera’s POVThe plane climbed steadily. I watched the city lights shrink below me and finally let myself breathe.Robert's reach was still limited. He'd have no way to trace me.And it would be fifteen years before he became the werewolf king with the world at his feet. By then, he probably wouldn't even remember my name.Time passed the way it does when you're working hard — fast and clean. Five years went by.On an ordinary evening, I came back to the temporary bunker we'd set up near the survey site to find a familiar silhouette standing by my door.He smiled — a slow, narrow smile — and his eyes held something I couldn't read."Long time no see, my Luna."Robert. How had he found me?Every muscle in my body went rigid. The hair on my arms stood up.Five years. There was no reason to be afraid of him. And yet something about the way he was looking at me — the way he was talking — made my skin crawl.Like a wounded animal still wearing a harmless face. Dangerous. You just knew.Then i

Chapter 7

Vera’s POVJulian and Robert both froze.Julian cleared his throat and found something very interesting on his boots. I opened my laptop and got to work.I was sure that if I kept my distance and stayed cold, he'd get tired of it and leave. The location alone should have done it — freezing, remote, nothing to do.Three months passed. He showed no sign of going anywhere.By then the whole project team knew that the engineer in Group B had an ex who showed up every single day with increasingly creative ways to win her back.Nobody knew who he was. They only knew that on my birthday, he could snap his fingers and light up the dark Frost Pack sky with fireworks. When I got sick, one phone call from him shut the entire project down for a forty-eight-hour paid break.And I was almost used to it — the smiling face that appeared every time I opened my door, the sandwiches, the hot milk.One morning I woke up to a world blanketed in white.Siberian winters come fast.And I hated winter. Hated t

Chapter 8

Vera’s POV"Lots of people are scared of the dark," Robert said, offhand.I pushed him back. Fixed him with a stare. "You lied to me again."In my previous life, I had jumped off a cliff to lead away the assassins hunting Robert. Both eyes were destroyed in the fall.For a long stretch of time I had lived in total darkness.The sight came back eventually. The fear never fully left.From that point on, Robert never turned off a light while I slept. He never let me go anywhere dark alone.He knew — in the bone — how afraid I was.But that had come years into our previous life, long after we were together. There was no way the Robert of this life could know any of it.And yet the moment the lights went out, he had reached for me.He must have remembered the previous life, yet he chose to keep it hidden from me.He could see it now — his own instinctive reaction had given him away, and his breathing went unsteady.Then Julian's voice cut through the darkness: "The classified files are gone

Chapter 9

Vera’s POVRobert was quiet for a moment, like he was trying to find the right place to start."I remembered my previous life.""When?""Five years ago. After you left, I was driving to the airport to find you. I was in an accident. Three months in a coma." He paused. "When I woke up, I thought I'd had an extraordinarily long dream. But it was too real to be a dream. I think it was the previous life."He kept going. "Back when we first became mates — honestly, I resented it. You were never what I wanted. Bellis was. But I knew she didn't really want me either, which is why she'd pushed me toward you."Pain moved through me, quiet and precise. "Keep going," I said."After she left for overseas, I was furious. I wanted to prove she'd made a mistake. I threw myself into work — barely came home. I told myself if I became the werewolf king, she'd come back on her own.""I was so obsessed with proving myself that I never once noticed the way you looked at me. Not until the day you were makin

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