The Alpha's Unchosen Mate

by Lyra Thorne

Heat 3 / 5Novel · 24 chapters65,990 words4h 47m read~7h 20m listenFree with a free account

Under the Cascades moon, a scent bond can be refused. Cassia Quill has built her career on that single, hard-won right — drafting the contracts that protect omegas from the pack hierarchy’s oldest trap. She never expected to end up on a rain-slick Seattle fire escape, signing one herself.

Ex-hunter. Newly turned alpha enforcer. The one man whose scent still unravels her careful composure. Leif Ghent is waiting on that narrow landing with a legal pad and a rival crew’s graffiti glowing in the alley below, and the Moonveil alpha is not asking. One lunar cycle. A filmed, public scent-bond bargain to hold a disputed block. In exchange, Leif testifies at the Cascades lodge on behalf of the omega-refusal reform Cassia has spent years trying to force through the elders’ iron grip.

The clauses are clear. The boundaries are negotiated. The cameras are rolling. What neither of them accounts for is the moment they step into each other’s space and the old, refused bond-scent roars back to life — louder than the law, louder than the contract drying in the rain between them.

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