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?

 Secrets and unspoken pledges abound on that evening. From a distance, the dark outline of the ancient grove known as the Forbidden Crescent loomed—a place murmured about in subdued tones by those who dared remember the stories of our ancestors. For millennia, the Crescent Bloodline had been a legacy carved in shadow and silver, a gift as well as a curse. Even if that truth threatened to destroy everything I believed in, tonight, Aria, the Crescent Alpha, would enter its depths driven to find the truth buried within its holy ground.


Chapter 189 - The Restrained Crescent