Nightshade
I never asked to be his mate.
Damien Magnus was everything I could never have, powerful and untouchable. He was the heir to the Moonstone pack. I was the pack's only omega, a disgrace, surviving on scraps and their mercy.
When the mate bond finally snapped into place on my eighteenth birthday, I saw the horror reflect deep in his eyes. Rejection even before he spoke the words.
But for a single night, he let himself want me.
He came to me in darkness a desperate and hungry man. He touched me like I was precious, like I meant the world to him. He made love to me like I mattered.
By morning, he'd made his choice.
The note he left behind shattered what was left of my heart: "This never happened. You mean nothing."
I would have left quietly. Disappeared. Let him have his perfect life with his perfect mate.
But I discovered the biggest shock of my life, I was pregnant.
Now I'm running for my dear life with his child in my womb, bleeding from wounds his vile chosen mate inflicted and crossing pack borders as a rogue.
And five years later, when fate finally forces us back together, Damien discovers the truth. I didn't just survive. I thrived.
His daughter has his eyes. His power and strength.
He wants us back. He'll do anything.
But I've learned the toughest lesson.
Sometimes love isn't enough.
The mate bond breaks.
And sometimes, just sometimes... it can be forged afresh