He looked at the girl fate chose for him and decided she wasn't enough. She was wolfless, scarred, and standing in front of two packs when he said the words that broke something inside her that she thought would never heal from. She did not beg. She did not fight. She accepted his rejection and walked away, and Kade Blackthorn spent three years telling himself he made the right choice. Then she came back. Not the timid, broken girl he rejected. Something else entirely. Something his wolf has not stopped reacting to since the moment she walked back through the door, because the bond he thought he severed never actually died, and now that her wolf has finally awakened, every wall he built in the years she was gone is coming down whether he wants it to or not. She does not want him back. She wants justice for her mother, exposure of a corrupt Alpha, and the destruction of everything her uncle built on lies and poison. She just needs Kade's pack to do it. He destroyed her once. She has no intention of letting him close enough to do it again. But fate has never cared about intentions, and the bond between them is older and more powerful than either of them is prepared to survive. He will have to earn what he threw away. She will have to decide if he is worth the risk of being chosen again.