They called Sera Voss defective at eighteen. No shift. No wolf. No place in the pack.Her father exiled her on a Tuesday night in November, and she cried exactly once on the drive out. She decided, somewhere on that dark road, that she would never need anyone again.Ten years later, she is the most feared litigation attorney in the city. She wins cases that should not be winnable. She does not apologize. She does not defer. She does not let anyone close enough to matter.Then her firm assigns her to Blackwood Industries.The moment Sera walks into that conference room, she scents him. Caius Blackwood. Billionaire. Alpha. Fated mate.She has seventy-two hours left on her witch-sourced scent blocker. He does not know what she is. She tells herself she will finish the case in sixty days and disappear.She tells herself the mate bond is just a matter of biology.She tells herself she stopped wanting to belong somewhere a long time ago.She is wrong about all three.