
At eighteen, I was drugged and raped by a stranger.
The person who did it? My best friend. The person who planned it? My own sister.
I woke up with nothing — no wolf, no honor, no family. Just my father's banishment order still ringing in my ears, and a child growing inside me that I never asked for.
Six years. I spent six years turning myself into a weapon. Underground fights, professional circuits, every battle I wasn't allowed to lose. No wolf, no pack, no safety net. Just rage and the kind of survival skills you only learn when you have absolutely nothing left to protect.
Then the summons arrived.
Declan Voss — Alpha heir of Iron Ridge Pack — wants me back. Back into that world. As a wolfless combat instructor.
I told myself I could handle it. Ignore the whispers. Ignore the stares. Keep my walls up and do the job.
Then I looked into his eyes.
Amber-brown, warm.
The exact same eyes I see every morning on my six-year-old son's face.