I ran to escape a lie. I crashed straight into the one thing I was never supposed to survive.The night I crossed into wolf territory, I thought I was just trespassing on private land.I didn’t know the forest was claimed by a man with silver eyes and a monster buried beneath his skin.Kael Ardent is no ordinary alpha. He’s a billionaire, a beast, and the last man who should’ve ever found me.But when his wolf scented me, he didn’t ask questions.He claimed me with claws, with heat, and without mercy.Now I’m marked.My body is changing. My blood is no longer mine.He says I’m his mate.The Council says I’m illegal.And me? I can’t decide if I want to run, fight, or beg him to do it again.Because the deeper this bond pulls us together, the more I remember The fire.The boy with wolf’s eyes.The promise made under a blood moon.I was never meant to survive Kael Ardent.I was made to destroy him.