Dave_writes
Elva has spent five years as Luna of Blackthorn Ridge, a wolfless Omega the elders call a hen that cannot lay. Her mate, Alpha Eriq, is the only one who defends her. Then the Goddess finally answers her prayers with two pink lines on a pregnancy test, and Elva is ready to tell him with her hands on his face.
Instead, Eriq rides through the gate with another woman on his arm. Saskia Morrow, the Beta's daughter, is carrying his child, and the whole pack is whispering that the barren Luna should step aside.
Elva is stripped of her nursery, locked in her room, and denied water. Desperate, she slips out through the north postern with a healer's pouch, a carved wooden swan, and the secret growing inside her.
Five years later, she is Vesper Lark, a sharp-tongued trading CEO who outmaneuvers ruthless men and hides her past from everyone. Only her daughter, Nyra, knows the truth. Then an elevator door opens, and the Alpha she ran from is standing inside.
Eriq has hunted her across four territories. He doesn't know about the child. He only knows the woman before him carries the scent of the wife he lost, and his wolf is howling for her.
With a feverish little girl in a hospital bed and a secret that could destroy them all, Vesper must decide what she owes the man who broke her. But when Eriq learns whose blood runs through that sick child, will he come to her with an open heart, or will he claim the one thing she swore he would never take?
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