While my daughter was dying, her father—Derek, heir to the Shadow Pack—forced me to hand over her bone marrow to save his mistress’s bastard daughter! When my baby girl took her last breath, my entire world shattered. I sealed her tiny body inside an ice coffin, clinging to one last impossible hope—that one day, modern medicine might be able to bring her back. But fate was even crueler than Derek ever was. A tsunami swallowed the coffin whole, dragging my daughter into the dark, endless abyss! And finding her again would cost a fortune I didn’t have. Derek didn’t help. He didn’t even try. Instead, he took everything I had left—my home, my money, my dignity—and left me drowning in grief and despair! So I did the unthinkable. To get my daughter back, I sold myself to the most feared man in the world: Alpha Alistane. They called him a cold-blooded tyrant, a monster who destroyed every woman he touched. But when he looked at me, there was no cruelty in his eyes. It was hunger, possession and obsession... As if I had already belonged to him all along... Years later, Derek came crawling back—red-eyed, broken, and full of regret—begging me to forgive him... begging for a second chance. But before he could even touch me, Alistane stepped in front of me, our daughter in his arms. “She is my mate,” he said, his voice as cold and lethal as death itself. “And this child is mine to protect.” Then his eyes locked onto Derek’s. “As for you?” His lips curled into something terrifying. “Pray I let you leave alive.”