🥀 KATRINA 🥀 By AdRiyadhAn She was his greatest love. He was her deepest wound. Their past was never meant to be uncovered. Katrina Mendoza has learned that some secrets are better left buried, some people are impossible to forget, and some wounds never truly heal. Jason McAllister was once the man she trusted with everything. Now, he's the last person she wants to see. But fate has a cruel sense of humour, and the past isn't finished with either of them. When old secrets begin to surface, the line between love and hatred grows dangerously thin. Beneath the glamour of two powerful families lies a truth someone would do anything to keep hidden. And Katrina? She's hiding something of her own. 🖤 Some hearts break. Some secrets destroy. And some love stories refuse to stay buried. 🥀 Romance | Mystery | Betrayal | Family Secrets 🥀

He rejected her before an entire kingdom. She returned as the one woman he could never afford to lose.On the night the powerful Alpha Adrian Blackwood was supposed to announce his destined mate, he discovered that the woman chosen by the Moon Goddess was a wolfless nobody.Seraphina Vale.An orphan with no pack, no wolf, and no influential family to protect her.Rather than accept her, Adrian dragged their bond into the light and destroyed it before the most powerful Alphas in the kingdom.He called her weak.He called her unworthy.And when his future Luna laughed at Seraphina's humiliation, the entire ballroom followed.The rejection was only the beginning.Adrian ordered his guards to strip Seraphina of her ceremonial status and throw her out of the palace. Her belongings were dumped at the gates, and the pack that had once welcomed her treated her like a disease.But the worst humiliation came when Adrian announced that he would reward anyone who could prove that Seraphina had deceived the kingdom into believing she was his mate.She left without begging.Without crying in front of him.Without giving him the satisfaction of seeing her break.Then she disappeared.Three years later, the business world was shaken by the arrival of a mysterious billionaire who purchased failing corporations, dismantled powerful dynasties, and never appeared in public without concealing her identity.Her name was S. Vale.And her newest acquisition?Blackwood Industries.Adrian's empire.When Seraphina finally walked into his boardroom, wearing a black designer suit and carrying the documents that could strip him of everything he owned, the Alpha who had once ordered her thrown out of his palace could barely speak.She wasn't the helpless woman he remembered.She was wealthier than him, more influential than him, and powerful enough to destroy everything he had spent his life building.But Adrian's shock was nothing compared to what happened when he discovered that he could still feel their rejected mate bond.The Moon Goddess had not severed it completely.And Seraphina was hiding a secret that could bring the entire werewolf kingdom to its knees.Someone had deliberately made her appear wolfless.Someone had arranged the rejection.And the people responsible were the same people now begging her to save their kingdom.Adrian wants his mate back.His enemies want her dead.The kingdom wants her power.But Seraphina wants something none of them are prepared to give her.Justice.And this time, she will decide who deserves to kneel.He rejected her as a nobody. Now the entire kingdom will learn what it means to be rejected by a queen.