My naivety wasn’t an excuse for the choices I made. I should’ve pushed him away, I never should’ve given him access to my body… From the very first moment I laid eyes on him, I knew. He was mine. My mate. It was something I had never dared hope for. Fate had never been kind to me. I don’t know who my real parents are, and at fourteen I lost the only people who had ever cared enough to give me a home. Since then, survival meant drifting from one job to the next—working just hard enough to earn my next meal. My plan was simple: save enough money and leave this godforsaken pack and kingdom behind. But then I found my mate. And that plan shattered the moment I believed the impossible—that an Alpha as powerful as Aesir could ever want a nobody omega like me. I was wrong. It was all a cruel illusion. I was scorned by the very man fate chose for me—degraded, rejected, and left alone to gather the broken pieces of my pride. Seven years later, fate drags me back into his orbit. Now I’m trapped in an impossible situation with the same Alpha who once destroyed me. In just seven months, I must convince the entire Werewolf Alliance that Alpha King Aesir is not worthy to be my chosen mate. But that raises a far more difficult question. How do you make your fated mate fall out of love with you? How do you make him hate you enough to walk away… when he’s determined to claim a love that never truly existed?