The Alpha's Forgotten Mate
Her pride, her rage, and her beautiful, terrible certainty (everything she had built her life around) cracked under the weight of that single, impossible choice.
She saw her mother’s face again, proud and smiling in the moment before the star-fire took her. She saw her father reaching for her as the royal guards dragged him down.
And she understood, with a clarity that hurt worse than the binding, that they were gone forever. And if she died here, defiant and proud, they would still be gone.
But if she lived… if she endured… There might come another day.
Annalise bowed her head.
“Red Hollow pack,” she whispered, voice cracking. “The Beta’s mate, Selene… She’s mine. Blackpine pack, the healer
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