Synopsis
The day I gave birth to my daughter, my mate, Adrian Blackwood, walked into my hospital room and threw a paternity test onto the bed.
“Elara,” he said, his voice thick with carefully crafted heartbreak, “after everything I’ve done for you, how could you betray me? Whose pup is this?”
Before I could even process the accusation, he stepped back as if I were something foul. “It’s over. I’m severing the bond. You’ll repay every resource I’ve spent on you, and you’ll leave the pack within a week. I never want to see you—or that child—again.”
I held my newborn closer, her tiny breaths warm against my chest. Beneath the crushing weight of the Alpha’s suppression, my wolf whimpered in silence, unable to rise in our defense.
Abandoned, accused, and stripped of my place, I realized that the greatest betrayal wasn’t the lie he believed—it was the love I had once trusted.
