“Let me go Henry,” I said coldly. “I am not yours, not anymore.”
Henry scoffed. “You will always be mine. I was your first mate.”
“And yet you rejected me. I don’t need you anymore, I have-”
“Who do you have, Nyssa? Him?” He laughed humorlessly. “You don’t even know who he is.”
Rowan growled, a low warning sound. “Shut the fuck up!”
“Why?” Henry shot back. “Tell her what you’re hiding, Rowan, let’s see if she still loves you after.”

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Nyssa was once the beloved of the pack—the Beta’s daughter, mated to the Alpha.
But once her parents died, and she was unable to shift, her life began to crumble until she was finally rejected by her mate, Henry.
It was hard enough that he left her for her best friend, but as the Beta’s daughter, she was forced to remain with him until an attack leaves their pack vulnerable and they have to seek help for the lycans.
What was meant to be a diplomatic trip turned into chaos when Nyssa realizes she is mated to Rowan—the lycan king.

Lycans and wolves don’t get along, and there is a lot of history between the three of them.
To Nyssa, the angel she doesn’t know is better than the devil she knows,
But what happens when that angel is just another devil in disguise?
After all, Rowan is hiding some dark secrets of his own, the kind that threatens their already fragile bond.
Would she be able to handle the pressure? Or will she go back to Henry who may have never gotten over her in the first place?

I heard the music playing at the bonfire all the way from the palace.


I could picture the hanging lanterns and the children dancing around the fire like they always did each year; the races and the street food vendors lined up on the corner of every street.


I'd finished work hours ago, but I couldn't bring myself to step out of the house. It'd been years since the last time I attended, and although the guilt of getting my sister hurt had faded, my body hadn't forgotten.


I knew if I thought hard enough, I'd remember the panic and confusion I felt when the chaos began, but that wasn't what bothered me today.


There was something else lingering underneath my unease, something I couldn't—or wouldn't—put a name to.


"Your Majesty, the car is ready for you."


I blinked back my thoughts and turned to the guard who stood in the doorway to my office, hands clasped behind his back as he concentrated on the floor.


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