He called me nothing. Now I am his nightmare. The night of the mating ceremony, I stood before the Alpha King and felt the mate bond snap into place. My heart soared. For one second, I thought I was saved. He looked at my muddy dress, my scarred hands, my wolfless body. And he laughed. "I reject you," he said. "You are nothing." The entire kingdom watched me fall. I ran into the darkness with his words burning in my chest. But the rejection did not kill me. It woke something inside me. Something ancient. Something that has been sleeping in my blood for eighteen years. Now the forbidden lands bow to me. The ancient wolves call me queen. And the Alpha King who threw me away? He is on his knees. And he is begging me to come back.