Riley McCroft doesn’t believe in fate.As Blackwood University’s sharpest strategist and the only halfling on the elite hockey team, she’s built her future on grit and grades — med school, the league, proving she doesn’t need a wolf to matter. Kael Voss was never supposed to be part of that plan.Until Moon-Tide.The mate bond ignites between them in front of the entire campus. For one breathless moment, Riley thinks the impossible has finally happened.Then Kael rejects her. Publicly. Brutally.Now she’s the campus joke, and the only way to protect her med school dreams is to swallow her pride and rejoin the team. Except the coach has one condition: she must travel with Kael — the boy who shattered her — on a high-stakes road trip to salvage their championship season.One bed. Late-night strategy sessions. A bond that refuses to break.Every shared glance is dangerous. Every argument crackles with heat. And every time Kael looks at her like he’s fighting his own wolf, Riley wonders if the rejection that broke her heart was never the full story.But forgiveness isn’t easy when the boy who was supposed to be her forever is the one who made sure she never would be.In a world of fangs, ice, and ruthless ambition, some bonds are worth fighting for… and some rejections are worth making him grovel for.