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Cassia Phoenix always dreamed her mate would be her refuge—the one to give her the home she never had, the life she craved. But fate is cruel, and dreams are lies wrapped in pretty promises.

When she finally finds her mate, it’s not salvation. It’s a sentence. 

He’s already claimed by another, and she's nothing more than a mistake he’s determined to erase. Every day, he reminds her that she is unwanted. Unworthy. Unloved.

Being an omega, She spent her life on the fringes of her pack, invisible and expendable. But this? This is worse. 

So she runs.

To Winter Lake, a place that shouldn’t exist, where the rules of the world don’t apply. There, she might find a sliver of peace—if her mate doesn’t hunt her down, and if the powerful alpha of this forbidden pack doesn’t discover the truth about who she is. About what she is.

Staying is dangerous. Impossible, even. But then there’s him. The brown-eyed shifter who saves her from the storm, whose strength and promises make her question everything she thought she knew about fate, loyalty, and belonging. He makes her want to stay. To fight. To believe.

But when she’s spent her entire life running, how does she stop?

Cassia: The Alpha King's Outcast Omega

We've been driving for an hour, maybe more; I don't know. It's hard for me to figure out exactly how much time has passed since the shock of Kieran's sudden appearance and the confirmation that he hates me has now eased.

I should've known it already, being what I am. Maybe I always did, but it was a knowledge I was happy to shove deep down in the well inside me to live with all my pain and hurt. Still, it's like some sick joke that I'm an omega, a pack healer, and my mate—the one person in the world supposed to love me—hates me.

What's strange is it doesn't really hurt. At least not the way his indifference, his coldness, and his many, many casual cruelties used to. Not when I think about how I felt when I learnt that Lucian had been lying to me. That was something else.

Sometime Between Now and Then