When your main tormentor turns into your destined fate? Always the unseen one—the Beta's daughter who never lived up to her father's expectations and the pack's favourite outcast—Aria Sterling is But nobody makes her life more intolerable than Luca Blackwood, the haughty and merciless Alpha heir who apparently enjoys her suffering. Everything changes the night the Mate's Mark shows on Aria's wrist, shining with the unambiguous decision of the Moon Goddess: she and Luca are bound by fate. Luca responded? transparent rejection. Public shame. a promise to never take her. But the link is more with power than with love. The Mate's Mark is a portent of hardships that might either unify or destroy the pack entirely, not only a sign of romance. Aria and Luca discover they are at the centre of a storm building inside their ranks as murmurs of a prophesy surface. The pack is split, their link is weak, and the truths buried in their pasts might ruin them both. Aria has to choose whether to fight for a bond she never wanted—or risk losing the pack she calls home—while enemies are closing in and fate weighs on their shoulders. In this story of forced intimacy, swizzling tension, and high-stakes power moves, love and hate blur. Will Aria and Luca's relationship turn into their biggest weapon, or their ultimate undoing?

The burden of inheritance was never lighter than when it lay on a single, unbreakable tie one created in the flames of conflict, treachery, and love. Having worn the Crescent Mark as both a gift and a curse for as long as I could remember, I now stood at the edge of our uncertain destiny and that mark throbbed with a subdued intensity. It was a reminder of every pledge signed under starry sky, every life lost, and every sacrifice made. Tonight, I was meant to find the actual power of that relationship, not only with people I loved but with the very core of our common fate.


Chapter 211 - Aria's Bond