“I stood in the Alpha's bedroom, trembling as I touched the healer's note hidden in my sleeve. After three years of waiting, I was finally pregnant with my mate's pup. But when Lucius walked in, his eyes were as cold as river stones. He threw a parchment onto the table. "Sign it. The Eastern Estate and the gold are yours." It was a contract to break our mating bond. He was rejecting me to marry Rosalind, the so-called prophesied Luna. I was immediately cast out of the castle. The pack mocked me as a discarded stray, and Rosalind's followers even smashed my parents' graves with iron hammers. Hiding in a freezing safehouse, I held my flat belly in despair. I couldn't understand. Eight years ago, I saved him from a rain-slicked alley. He had cried into my neck, swearing to protect me for all his days. Why did he suddenly turn so cruel? Why did he publicly abandon me, yet secretly threaten his new Luna with a brutal death if she ever dared to harm me? Until I found a hidden ancient text and saw the terrifying truth: The Mate Blood Curse. If he completed our bond, I and our unborn child would die in a river of blood. He didn't betray me. He shattered my heart to save my life, and now he was marching into the rogue lands to sacrifice his own soul to break the curse forever. Wiping my tears, the dormant, ancient power in my veins suddenly snapped taut. I am the White Wolf, and I will take back my pack and wait for my Alpha to come home.”