"Do you know where you are?"

"Who cares which hell I fall into!" Dakota responded coldly.

"Do you know what I do with my enemies?"

"You kill them and drink their blood!"

Dakota never imagined attending her sister's engagement party would turn her life upside down.

The man she loved twice, the mate she gave everything to, the father of the twins she nearly died birthing, is marrying her sister. Raising their son. Living the life he promised her.

With her memories flooding back in devastating waves, Dakota does the only thing she can: she runs.

Straight into enemy territory. Into the hands of Alpha Kade, the rival her pack has feared for years.

He should kill her. Use her as leverage. Start a war.

Instead, he offers her refuge.

But when her mate comes demanding her return, claiming the bond can't be broken, Dakota faces an impossible choice:

The man who destroyed her twice, or the enemy who's offering her a chance to destroy him back.

Some loves are forbidden. Some are fatal. And some enemies... become everything.

"Leverage," Richard repeated, the word carrying a humorless edge that made the wolf inside him stir restlessly. "You speak as though Dakota is a piece on a board I can simply move at will. As though she is territory to be marked and claimed, a resource to be allocated like hunted meat." His jaw tightened, a low growl threading beneath the words. "She has never been that. Not for me. Not for anyone."


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