Rhea White, a powerless omega on scholarship at Greywood Academy, is relentlessly bullied by Kyros Greywood, the ruthless Alpha heir who treats her entire existence as an insult. When her pack faces extinction, she is forced into a contract marriage with the very man who bullied her, only to discover he is her fated mate, and also the reason for his hatred toward omegas. Years ago, a favored omega betrayed the Greywood pack, causing the death of Kyros’s mother, the pack’s Luna. Kyros refuses to acknowledge his bond with Rhea and continues an affair with a high-ranking she-wolf, Thalia, from an elite pack, publicly humiliating her until she overhears him call their bond “a curse I’ll never acknowledge.” Heartbroken and stripped of all hope, Rhea demands a pack divorce and invokes a forbidden ritual, taboo in the supernatural world, to sever the mate bond. With only two percent of those who attempt it surviving, the ritual could cost her life. Convinced she is too weak to live without him, Kyros believed she was bluffing until it was too late. Only then did he realize the mate he destroyed was the one thing he was never meant to lose.