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?

Low in the heavens, the moon sent silver light over the devastated clearing. The group had battled nonstop for weeks against internal as well as external dangers. Now, as night grew darker, a silence descended over the camp, a brittle calm broken by the far-off howling of the Dark Wolves. Near the center fire, Aria stood with her Crescent Mark softly throbbing under the bandages on her arm. She could feel another storm approaching even if the present fight was over. The Mark's warmth felt like a live reminder of the power she had as well as the great responsibility accompanying it.


Chapter 125 - A Mate's Load