Alessia Frost
Five years ago, Alpha Lachlan Pierce publicly rejected Imogen Hartley, calling her too weak, too ordinary. He rejected their mate bond in front of everyone, and Sienna Bancroft watched with satisfaction. What Lachlan never knew was that Imogen left Melbourne that night in the rain, pregnant with his children.
She rebuilt herself in Sydney, found a pack that asked no questions, and raised her twins, Hayley and Declan, with the fierce love only a mother could give. Most days, she barely thought of him at all.
The twins were born with abilities no child should possess, and they were getting harder to hide. When a moment on the school playground forced Declan to reveal what he was, the careful life Imogen built began to fracture. Lachlan arrived in Sydney, tracking rogue activity that led straight to Imogen's door.
He saw the girl with honey-blonde curls and his grey eyes, the boy with the Pierce family's bone structure. He did the math in seconds. The children he never knew existed were his.
Two children. Five years. And she never told him.
What follows is not a story of a man reclaiming what he threw away. Imogen was not the girl he left behind; she had learned exactly what she was made of, and she would not be dismissed or controlled. Not by him, and never again by Sienna Bancroft.
Ancient forces had been hunting children like hers for a thousand years. To save her twins, Imogen must fight beside the man she swore she'd never trust again.
He rejected his mate. She raised his children alone. Now, the only thing more deadly than the enemies hunting their twins... was falling in love with him again.
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