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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

"You're surprised." His voice is flat, reminding me how rarely he's ever surprised.

I should've had a camera ready for his first sighting of Lucian. No one would've believed the great Douglas Phoenix could be surprised by anything. "You never give up anything without getting something even more

valuable back in return. Especially information. You're always saying it's a currency with more value than—"

"Gold or money," he interrupts, nodding. "And it is."

When he doesn't immediately speak, my fears about what he wants in payment increase. The fact that he's not telling me, but is waiting for me to ask is not a good sign, either. It means that it must be something big.

"So, what is it, then? You've already said you want me to come back and fix the broken parts of a pack that are tearing themselves apart, but it must be more than that."

A Gift to Pawn(2)