

For five years, Gideon—my brother's Beta—and I had a secret.We were supposed to announce our mating at the pack's Winter Solstice festival.Instead, he breathed hot against my ear."Babe, we've been sleeping together for five years. I'm bored with you. Find someone else for the marking ceremony, alright?"I didn't cry. I just gave a calm, simple nod. "Alright."Only because in my last life, I had begged him through tears to complete the bond.After he finally marked me, he grew cold.He never again woke me by rubbing his stubbled chin against my forehead.Even when we made love, he kept his eyes shut, as if he were wit for my life, he left me.He was going to comfort his savior, Aveline. The old wound she suffered saving him had relapsed, sending her into a mental spiral. In that moment, I finally understood.A mark I had to beg for was nothing but a curse, a wound that would never heal.This time, I pulled away with a smile, removing his hand from my waist. "You're right. I'm tired of it, too. We're done."h someone else, just using my body.When I was in agony giving birth to our pup, fighting

Betrayed and burned to death by her sister Clara and her former lover Jax in her past life, Rowena is reborn on the day of the Great Alliance. This time, she watches with a cold smile as Clara schemes to snatch the "powerful" Werewolf Alpha, Jax. Rowena knows the dark truth: Jax is a brutal beast, and the Werewolf clan is on the brink of ruin.Rowena chooses Thorne, the enigmatic and allegedly "impoverished" Vampire Lord, whom everyone mocks as a loser. Little does the world know, the Vampires possess ancient wealth and dormant god-tier bloodlines. As Rowena and Thorne’s bond deepens, she discovers that her own Fae blood holds the key to the ultimate hybrid heir. While Clara suffers under Jax’s cruelty and births a monster, Rowena rises as the Empress of the new world. In this life, the flames that once consumed her will now burn her enemies to ash.