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

Her mark blazing as she pressed on, she tightened her teeth. "I have heard worse." You won't break me.

Aria approached the mirror at the end of the road, its water-like rippling changed to show her doubts and fears.

The individual arrived besides her; their voice was kind yet sharp. This is the restless, flawed, inadequate person you are.

Though the questions threatened to overwhelm her, Aria glimpsed the mirror as her heart pounded once more—a constant among the tempests.

Her voice quiet, she said, "No. That is not all I am. My flaws make me strong. I am worthy as I aim for qualities that really count. And I won let anybody else or you take it off.

The mirror cracked, the pieces floating in light. The individual back off, their form wavering.

"You Alpha have passed this challenge. Still, the ultimate truth always sits there. Are you game to cope with it?''

Aria's Last Trial