As the human mate of Alpha King Orian, I was never his choice. Five anniversaries. Five times he left me waiting to be with Celeste — his first love, his she-wolf. On the night he set off fireworks across the city for Celeste, I finally said the words: "I reject you." He laughed. "Don't be ridiculous. You're just a human. What would you even do without me?" So I stayed — not for him, but for Mia. Our daughter. She was suffering from Lycan Blood Drought, with only one cure left in the entire kingdom. Then he gave that cure to Celeste's daughter. I looked at the man I had sacrificed everything for and felt nothing but ice. "You don't deserve to call yourself her father," I told him. "I will curse you with my last breath." took Mia and never looked back. I rejected him one hundred times after that. On the hundredth time, the most powerful Alpha in the kingdom sank to his knees in front of me. "I'll give you anything you want," he whispered. "Just bring you and Mia back to me. Please." No. That was far from enough.

Aria was never chosen — she was owed. Bound to Alpha Damon Hawthorne to settle her father's blood debt, she's spent two years invisible to a man who saves his tenderness for someone else. Then a car crash takes the baby while He's too busy carrying his first love. Humiliated, bleeding, and done begging to be seen, Aria finally sever the matebond for good. By the time Damon realizes what he's lost, she's already gone.

The night of the fire, my husband ran past me and saved his first love instead. I lay trapped in the flames, screaming his name, but he never looked back. In that instant, ten years of marriage turned to ash. To reclaim my father's legacy, I was forced into a contract marriage with a stranger. I thought it was just a transaction—until I discovered that my mysterious "husband" was none other than Enzo Black. The most feared mafia don in Chicago. The same man who had pulled me from the burning building that night. Cold, ruthless, and dangerously possessive—he tore up the divorce papers and trapped me in his world. "You signed your name. You're mine. There's no escape." My ex-husband's schemes, my rival's betrayal, the battle for my family's empire—one by one, he crushed them all and stood between me and every threat. I once believed love was betrayal and pain. Until he kissed away my tears and whispered, "Princess, this time… let me protect you."

Five years. That's how long I survived behind those iron bars for a crime I didn't commit. A crime that my own parents pinned on me to protect my sister, Laura. My mate, Alpha Victor Smith, promised to wait for me. He promised to protect our newborn twins. Promised it would all be okay. But, he wasn't there when the prison gates opened. I found him at a Valentine's Day celebration instead, standing beside Laura like she belonged there. My son Jasper doesn't recognize me as his mother. He hates me, he sees only the murderer everyone told him I was. Now my sister wears my life like a stolen coat—my mate, my son, even my legacy. She's taken everything while I rotted in a cell for her crime. But I'm done being their scapegoat. I'm petitioning the council for a divorce. I'm going to expose every lie, clear my name, and reclaim everything they stole from me. They should have killed me instead of just caging me. Now they'll learn what a betrayed Luna can do.