She gave her mate everything—her body, her loyalty, her future. And he shattered her with a smile the moment his first love returned. On the night of her birthday, with nothing left to lose, she signs her name on the Alpha King’s list—a death sentence disguised as an escape. Every year, girls vanish into his domain. No one speaks of what happens to them. Whispers call him a monster so she expected cruelty. What she doesn’t expect is him—a King cloaked in coldness and power, whose haunting beauty masks a curse that bleeds through his soul. One look. One spark. One forbidden pull. She defies him, mocks his authority, and dares to see the man beneath the monster. But the Alpha King has sworn never to love again… because love means death. He didn’t choose her. He tried to ignore the pull. But fate is cruel, and so is desire. He warns her: she will be nothing more than a body to use. A breeder, not a bride. But her defiance becomes his obsession. Her fire awakens something violent in him. And when her former mate dares to return and take her back, the Alpha King discovers a truth far more dangerous than any curse: He doesn’t just want her—he needs to own her, destroy her, and mark every inch of her as his.