Rejected Once, Now Claimed By The Lycan
No wolf. No mate. No place in the world.
On the night of her eighteenth birthday, Ava Cole waited for her wolf — and nothing came.
In a kingdom built on strength, that made her nothing. Laughed at, cast out, and abused by everyone who should have loved her — including her own family — Ava learned to survive in the shadows of a world that had no use for her.
Then she met her fated mate.
Alpha Jackson Edgar, the powerful Alpha of Night Howl, took one look at the wolfless girl fate had chosen for him and said the words that shattered what little was left of her: I reject you.
Heartbroken and alone, Ava stopped believing in the moon goddess, in fate, and in the idea that anyone could ever truly want her.
She was done with second chances.
She was done with hope.
Until the Lycan King came.
Sebastian Reynolds didn't come to Night Howl looking for a mate. But the moment his eyes found Ava, the bond was undeniable — fierce, consuming, and impossible to ignore. He wasn't asking her to trust a bond she had already watched destroy her.
He was asking her to trust him.
But Ava has been broken before. And just as she begins to lower her walls, Jackson resurfaces — realising too late what he threw away, and refusing to let another man claim what he now believes is his.
Two powerful men. One wounded woman. And a choice that will change the fate of the entire kingdom.
Will Ava risk her heart again — or will she let fear decide her future?