"You left" his voice dropping to a gravelly, terrifying rumble. His eyes were pitch-black, a feral shade that defied nature. He grabbed my wrist. It felt like my skin was on fire. "You don't get to do that again.” I survived him once. I had to start my life over again from nothing. I became a doctor. I took care of his kids by myself in a city where nobody knew who he was. For three years I didn't hear from him. Three years of pretending the mate bond wasn't a scar I carried everywhere I went. Then he showed up again. The man who was standing in my doorway was not the person I remembered. He was cold and distant before. Now he was something even darker. His eyes turned completely black when he looked at my kids and when he looked at me it was like I was something he lost and will never let go of again. My wolf remembers everything I spent three years trying to forget. He said he didn't know about the babies. He said he was lied to. He pins me against the wall of my own kitchen and tells me he will burn the world before he lets me leave him again. But I survived him once. I rebuilt from nothing. I don't need his protection, his empire, or the dangerous heat that ignites between us every time he gets too close. The problem is something is hunting my children. And the only man powerful enough to stop it is the one who already broke me once.