Disclaimer: This story contains explicit scenes, mature themes, emotional chaos, possessive hockey players, and very questionable decision-making during heat season. The deal was simple.Fake-date Tyson Blackwood, the campus's most insufferable Alpha, hockey captain and the man personally responsible for my first heartbreak, or watch my scholarship disappear overnight. He needed a girlfriend to make his ex jealous and I needed to stay enrolled.So we shook on it. Terms stated cold and clean: no feelings, no complications, strictly business.The no feeling part was going great.Right up until my heat hit, his rut triggered, and we spent five days in his suite while his rut burned through every wall between us.Now he's looking at me differently. His scent patch fails everytime I walk into a room and the pack that spent years treating me like a joke is watching the hockey captain lose his mind.The hockey captain who chose me as a pawn is now knotting me like I'm the only thing he's ever wanted to keep.

I was a good mate, a faithful and devoted Luna. The kind of mate who stayed quiet when she should've screamed. I loved my daughter so hard because it was the only real thing in my entire life.Then she turned up dead and everyone decided I did it.My own mate looked me in the eye across the courtroom and chose to believe the worst. My half-sister, the one person I trusted completely, stood beside him with his baby in her belly and watched them drag me away with a smile she didn't bother to hide. Three days later she visited me in prison just to twist the knife. She told me everything, about the affair that had been happening for over a year, the set-up and I would rot in The Ironclaw Prison because because nobody was going to believe the Killer Luna.She was right for seven long years.Seven years in The Ironclaw Prison changed me from a Broken Luna into something else. I survived things that were designed to break me and became something that could not break anymore.Then the Lycan King bought me at an auction like I was property and made me an offer I was smart enough to take.He needed me to destroy my ex-mate politically and I needed his empire to burn my ex-mate's entire life to the ground. We both knew exactly what this was.What neither of us planned was what happened in between.I got every piece of my revenge but I also got something that scared me far more than seven years in The Ironclaw Prison ever did.