Astrid dedicated her life to Leon, believing in their love, their pack, their future. But the devastating return of her sister, Clara, as Leon's destined mate, shatters Astrid's carefully constructed world. Betrayal cuts deep, leaving Astrid stripped bare and forced to confront a horrifying truth: her loyalty was misplaced, her sacrifices meaningless.

Just as despair threatens to consume her, Kaeleen, a magnetic and rebellious Alpha from a rival pack, storms into her life, igniting a forbidden passion that challenges everything she thought she knew. He offers her a chance to escape the suffocating control of her past, to claim a life of her own, a life where she is the priority.

But Leon won't relinquish his prize so easily. Obsessed and dangerously possessive, he unleashes a storm of violence and manipulation, determined to drag Astrid back into the darkness. Now, Astrid must make a desperate choice: succumb to the chains of her past, or embrace the dangerous allure of a love that could save her... or ignite a war that will consume them all.

I didn't show it but her words hung in the air between us, a confession so raw and hopeful it felt like I was holding my breath.


'ou make me feel like I can start all over. Be myself again.' She's been through so much. 


There was a tightness in my chest I couldn't place. I tried to run at it but it wouldn't go away. I was pissed with the people who made her feel this way. The people who made her feel worthless. Who made feel unlike herself. 


She was crying, but she was also chuckling through her tears, wiping at her eyes with the back of her hand. The combination was so purely Astrid, a mix of deep-seated pain and an unbreakable spirit, that I felt my heart ache with a feeling so fierce it was overwhelming.


Chapter 74 - Chapter 74