AnnVale

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?

My Tormentor My Mate

My own initial difficulty was this. I entered the clearing, the pendant around my neck throbbing weakly as I was guided into the heart of the woodland. Marlon stood close by; his face blank as he described the work.

"A rogue has been captured close to our border," he stated. "They will only talk to you; they say they know the intentions of the competing pack. Get them working for you without compromising the pack.

I scowled, my chest becoming tight. Then should I fail?"

"Then you show that the bond clouds your judgement," he remarked.

The renegade was tethered to a tree, their black eyes watchful and piercing as I got nearby. Their stance was stiff; every motion deliberates as they examined me.

With a flat tone, "You're the Beta's daughter," they stated. Then the mate of the Alpha.

My voice calm, I responded, "I am." "And you will tell me what you know about the plans of the competing pack."

A Loyalty Test