After escaping her abusive fiancé, Kaelis Vane disappears into a quiet apartment complex under a fake identity, desperate for a fresh start.No controlling calls.No tracking her location. No more fear.Then she meets her neighbor.Cillian Ardane is calm, polite, and strangely attentive.He fixes her broken lock after someone tampers with it. Carries groceries to her apartment without being asked. Waits downstairs when she works late so she never walks home alone.For the first time in years, Kaelis feels safe around a man.What she doesn’t know is that Cillian is one of the most dangerous mafia figures in the city.And her escape?Was never an accident.Because years before they met, Cillian saw her crying outside a restaurant after one of her fiancé’s violent outbursts and became obsessed.He started watching her. Protecting her. Planning for her.Now the woman he secretly built an entire escape route for is living right beside him.And when her ex comes looking for her, Cillian stops pretending to be harmless.

For 1,700 years, the Royal Alpha has ruled as an untouchable force, feared as a god and obeyed without question. He has spent centuries destroying every mate bond before it could form, refusing to allow anything to threaten his control. Immortality has made him powerful, but it has also made him empty.Everything changes when he steps into a hidden black market and finds a broken girl being sold. She is nothing more than a discarded mistake. Raised among wolves yet never able to shift, never belonged, and was ultimately cast out. Stripped of her identity, and reduced to something less than nothing. To everyone else, she is worthless.But to him, she is a contradiction.He buys her without hesitation, not out of mercy, but because something about her unsettles even him. As she is brought into his territory, strange changes begin to ripple through the world. His power reacts unpredictably around her. Other wolves feel it too, though they cannot explain it.When the impossible happens and she becomes pregnant, the secret she carries becomes a death sentence. The Alpha Council declares her an abomination that must be purged before her child is born.Now, the god who refused to love must choose: protect the girl and watch his 1,700-year empire collapse, or kill the only thing that has ever made him feel alive.