Years ago, Diana was publicly rejected by her mate, Alpha Elijah Thorn, who deemed her “too weak” to be his Luna. Humiliated, she left the pack.

Now, she returns—beautiful, powerful, and already engaged to a noble warrior from another pack.

But Elijah’s wolf has never forgotten her.

Too bad… because this time, she’s the one who won’t choose him.


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But then there comes AJ—the one who saved Diana.

Five years later, he saved her again, posing as her fiancé when Diana needed someone by her side. While she was forced to face Elijah and endure the torment of their mate bond, AJ stayed. He watched her, protected her, and remained by her side through it all.

But now, one question remains: who is Diana’s true mate? The man who rejected her years ago, or the man who has been saving her all along?

Perhaps the answer lies in the one who must sink his teeth into her skin between her thighs to save her from the torment of the mate bond.

I wanted nothing more than to pull Diana away from this place and take her back to my pack. But before we stepped inside, she had whispered her true reason for coming—she wanted to find clues about her mother.


"If we can't find the book, we can at least find out why I'm feeling this heat," she had said. "Perhaps my mother left something behind."


I couldn't disagree with her logic, but watching the man who fathered her sit there after calling her a curse set my blood boiling. We could have found out about her mother without stepping foot in this house. Somehow, we would have found a way.


Still, hearing Diana challenge Curtis Stone with his own words brought a faint smirk to my lips. There was the girl I knew—the one I had trained to stand up for herself, before this cursed heat threw everything into chaos.


Chapter 26 - Take me to bed