Dahlia's POV
If losing my mother and watching my father crumble under the weight of his grief wasn’t enough to make me swear off ever accepting a mate bond, my relationship with Finnian Blackwell sealed that decision like the final nail in a coffin.
Finnian—now Alpha Blackwell—had been everything I needed exactly when I needed him. Our fathers had been bound by duty—his as the Alpha, mine as his Beta—so from the moment we were born, our lives had been intertwined. We grew up side by side, inseparable from the start. Along with Gamma Kessler’s children, Silas and Jovie, and Isolde Mariner, the Head Omega’s daughter, we formed a tight-knit little band of mischief-makers. On any given day, we could be found racing through the pack house playing tag, hiding under stairwells for an intense ga
