When your main tormentor turns into your destined fate? Always the unseen one—the Beta's daughter who never lived up to her father's expectations and the pack's favourite outcast—Aria Sterling is But nobody makes her life more intolerable than Luca Blackwood, the haughty and merciless Alpha heir who apparently enjoys her suffering. Everything changes the night the Mate's Mark shows on Aria's wrist, shining with the unambiguous decision of the Moon Goddess: she and Luca are bound by fate. Luca responded? transparent rejection. Public shame. a promise to never take her. But the link is more with power than with love. The Mate's Mark is a portent of hardships that might either unify or destroy the pack entirely, not only a sign of romance. Aria and Luca discover they are at the centre of a storm building inside their ranks as murmurs of a prophesy surface. The pack is split, their link is weak, and the truths buried in their pasts might ruin them both. Aria has to choose whether to fight for a bond she never wanted—or risk losing the pack she calls home—while enemies are closing in and fate weighs on their shoulders. In this story of forced intimacy, swizzling tension, and high-stakes power moves, love and hate blur. Will Aria and Luca's relationship turn into their biggest weapon, or their ultimate undoing?

The night was still more than darkness; it was a moment frozen in time, a delicate stop before the storm of destiny would sweep over us. Perched on a ridge, I could see our damaged campground below. Flames danced along the damaged ramparts, their light flickering against ripped banners and the faces of my kin, worn with tired hope and caution. Every howl, every whispered memory of loss and betrayal, connected strongly within me at that moment. Not only by outsiders, but also by the cracks inside our pack had been pushed to the brink. We would ascend, or we would collapse, and at last we had reached a tipping point.


Chapter 184 - The Rising Pack