Bluebutterflywrites
The night his village burned, baker Rian Hale spat blood on the boots of the Lycan King and rejected him as his mate in front of an entire army.
It was the best insult of his life. It was also almost the last.
A rejected bond does not break clean. It tears. Now the most feared Alpha on the continent is coughing blood, and every wound he suffers cuts into Rian too. If one of them dies, so does the other.
Rian wants King Kael to suffer. But when the King's own army tries to kill the human who rejected him, Kael stands in front of Rian and says, "Touch him, and I die with him."
Then the silver necklace Rian's mother has hidden for twenty-two years lights up the sky. Rian was never an ordinary boy. He is the last Moon Guardian, the only person alive who can break a mate bond or make it stronger. Someone has been hunting his bloodline for decades. Someone wants the King weak. And that someone is very close to the throne.
Now the cold, arrogant King who burned his home, or so Rian believed, must beg a stubborn human to take his rejection back, while both of them uncover the truth behind that night.
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