Prologue
ELIJAH
I’ve walked these woods a thousand times.
Fought for them. Bled for them. Buried my past beneath their roots and ruled every inch like the Alpha I was born to be.
But that morning when her scent drifted on the wind, delicate and unfamiliar, I knew the forest was about to give me something it never had before.
A mate.
Not a warrior. Not a threat. A human.
Nora.
She didn’t roar into my world like thunder. My instincts warred with my reason. I was an Alpha. She was fragile. Soft. Mine.
And yet she didn’t break.
She saw the wild in me and didn’t run.
And I was ruined the moment she smiled.
They say fate only gives you one true mate. One soul the moon chooses for yours.
If that’s true, then I’ll tear down the world to keep her.
Because she doesn’t just belong in my pack.
She belongs in my blood.
