Maya Reyes is wolfless — the one thing a pack can never forgive. Orphaned, overlooked, and publicly humiliated by Alpha Axel Kane in front of the entire pack, she has one job: survive mandatory bond-testing and disappear.Then the bond snaps into place. Not with some forgettable wolf. With him.Axel Kane — heir to Manhattan's most powerful pack, a man who has never once been told no — rejects her on the spot. In front of everyone. But rejection doesn't break a bond this strong. It only poisons it, and now neither of them can escape what fate has done.As the council refuses to grant him an out, as his enemies smell weakness, and as a past he can't outrun starts closing in, Axel is forced to face the one thing he fears more than losing his throne: wanting the girl he swore was beneath him.She was supposed to be nothing to him. Now she's the only thing he can't stop thinking about — and the only person standing between him and everything he's about to lose.Fate doesn't ask permission. And it never rejects twice.