Aria was the lowest of the low in the Crescent Moon Pack. A weak, wolf-less Omega, she was used to being invisible. But on her eighteenth birthday, the Moon Goddess played a cruel joke: her fated mate was Alpha Maddox, the ruthless, undefeated leader of the pack.
When she approached him, hoping for a miracle, he humiliated her in front of everyone. "I need a warrior for a Luna, not a pathetic Omega. I reject you."
Broken and bleeding, Aria accepted his rejection and ran into the deadly night, expecting to die. Instead, the pain of the broken bond unlocked a devastating secret: Aria wasn't an Omega. She was a Royal.
Five years later, Alpha Maddox's territory is under attack. Desperate, he seeks an alliance with the terrifying, legendary Alpha of the newly risen Silver Crown Pack.
He expects a warlord.
Instead, he finds the girl he threw away-and she is wearing a crown, radiating ancient power, and looking at him like he is nothing.
I possess a rare bloodline blessed by the Moon Goddess. In this generation, only I can help the cursed Silver family bear children and ensure their peace and prosperity.
Ashton Silver had cherished and protected me since childhood, utterly devoted.
Before I gave birth, fearing complications due to my special blood type, he searched the entire territory to secure a living blood donor for me.
Yet after our pup was born safely, that she-wolf with my same rare blood type-Kathy Thorne-was still being kept by him in secret, became his mistress.
Because of the curse, pregnant she-wolves hemorrhage heavily during childbirth and suffer terribly, and I was no exception.
But just ten days after I gave birth, he brought Kathy, who had just become pregnant, directly back to the pack house.
"Elaine, I don't blame you for deceiving me with your mystical tricks before."
"The facts prove there's no such thing as a curse. I can clearly have pups with someone else!"
"Kathy needs me now. Starting today, she'll be living here."
"But don't worry-you're my Luna, she's just a mistress. She won't threaten your position!"
To help strengthen the weak Kathy's constitution, he even sent wolves daily to draw my blood for her medicinal treatments.
But he didn't know-my blood isn't something just anyone can consume without consequence.