She saved him in the dark without knowing who he was.He never saw her face.Mara— a lonely omega has nothing left worth protecting. No husband, no child, no reason to exist beyond the cruel habit of waking up every morning. When she stumbles upon a dying man bleeding into the forest floor she doesn’t think. She just acts. She gives him the only thing her broken body still has to offer — her breast milk and disappears into the night before he can see her.She doesn’t know she just saved the most feared Alpha alive.He doesn’t know the woman he has been searching for weeks is about to walk through his castle doors.She comes for a hungry baby who needs what her body won’t stop producing.He sees her for the first time across a crowded room and feels something move in him that has no name yet.But Mara is carrying a secret that has nothing to do with milk or grief or a dead husband.Someone in that market knew her other name.And whoever they are — they found her first.