The Wolf That Claimed Me

My wedding dress was supposed to be white, not soaked in the warm, metallic red of my father's blood. I stood at the altar, trembling, waiting for Alessio to claim me. Instead, he looked at me with eyes full of cold disgust. "I reject you, Lunara," he hissed, his voice echoing through the silent forest. "And I will make you the whore of my pack." The betrayal cut deeper than any knife. But the slaughter that followed was worse. In seconds, the ceremony turned into a bloodbath. My father, my mother—ripped apart by the man I was supposed to love. "Run!" The command echoed in my mind. I grabbed a lantern and smashed it, setting the forest on fire to create a wall of flames between us. I tore the heavy skirt of my wedding gown and ran. I ran until my lungs burned, until the screams of my pack faded into the distance. I thought I had escaped hell. But I ran straight into the territory of a beast far more dangerous than the one I left behind. An Alpha who doesn't take prisoners. An Alpha who looked at me not with pity, but with a hunger that terrified me more than death. I escaped a monster only to be claimed by the Devil himself. ****** Lunara Grimwald has spent her life as a pawn. Sold by her father to the cruel Alpha Alessio in a pact of revenge, she flees on her wedding day, escaping a fate worse than death. But freedom comes at a price. Lost in the forbidden forests of Romania, Lunara is struck by her first heat. Enter Edric Eldoria. An ancient, powerful Alpha who has sworn off mates after a tragic past. When he finds the trembling Omega in his territory, he intends to capture an intruder. Instead, their wolves collide in a frenzy of instinct. In a moment of lost control, they accidentally mate, binding their lives and souls together. Now, Lunara is trapped again—this time to a man who resents her existence but is forced to protect her. If she dies, he dies.