BLURB— Claimed by the Alpha Who Outranks My Mate

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He is the Alpha King of Hollowmere.H outranks the mate who refused me.And tonight, in front of two hundred wolves, he is going to claim me.

Three winters ago, Caine Halberg let go of my hand at the Solstice fire.

He told two hundred wolves I was not the bond he wanted. He took the Alpha King's niece instead— for the rank, for the council seat he could not have won as a Vance. I was nineteen. I have been the rejected one ever since.

My wolf has not lifted her head in three winters.

Until Tuesday morning.

Until I walked into the office of Halden Vrenas— forty-two, Alpha King, the most powerful wolf in three thousand square miles— to deliver a council file, and my wolf woke up screaming.

His did too.

He outranks Caine by rank, by law, by the wolf at the back of his throat. The Hollowmere covenant says the Alpha King can claim a wolf outside the bond system— but only by putting his crown on the floor.

He is going to do it. He is going to walk into the pack hall on Monday night and tell two hundred wolves I am his. He is going to lose the Kingship to claim me.

The pack will not forgive me. Lia, his niece, will not forgive him. Caine has friends he does not control. And the equinox combat is nine days off.

But the silver scar at my throat is forming. The brass at my collarbone is warm. And the Alpha King who chose me when no one else would is teaching me, every night in his bed, what being wanted feels like.

He outranks my mate. He outranks the bond. He outranks the silence that has been my life for three winters.

I was nineteen the night Caine let go of my hand.I am twenty-three the night Halden Vrenas takes it.