Bistas_She

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

Early the next morning, I wake before Lucian does, which has become the pattern of our days. Before he used to be the early riser, and now it's me because I like to go sit in the garden while the sun is still rising so I can soak up the tranquility I love so much about Winter Lake.

He jokes that I've made him lazy, wanting to spend more time in bed than out of it, and the thought, as it always does, puts a smile on my face as I head downstairs in a pair of sweats and one of his t-shirts that I quickly threw on.

The house is quiet and still as I make my way out through the back door and into the backyard. Only to discover that I'm not the first one to wake.

Leaning on the side of the wall, and staring into the thick forest at the end of the backyard, is Zia, dressed in the same blue skinny jeans and long-sleeved gray jersey top she was wearing the night before.

I'm the Father