I knew better than to fall in love with an Alpha.

I did it anyway.

Emin and I were never meant to have a future. We agreed on one rule only: no strings attached.

We both knew why. Lunas were hunted. Alpha-born children became leverage and weapons that enemies waited to destroy. Neither of us wanted to create a weakness we couldn’t protect.

Then the mate bond surfaced between us and shattered the control we thought we had. Alpha Emin of Clawnight was my fated mate.

He chose practicality over instinct. I chose hope over fear. We collided and he rejected me before I could pretend I hadn’t seen it coming.

What he never knew was that his child was already growing inside me.

When his rule hardened and enemies began closing in, fear made the choice I couldn’t. I ran. In the middle of the night, rejected by the Alpha and pregnant with his secret baby, I ran.

Not because I stopped loving him, but because loving an Alpha while carrying his heir demanded a price I wasn’t ready to pay.

Six years passed in hiding.

I built a life in the shadows, raising a son with Alpha blood and my secrets. I believed distance would keep us safe. I believed Emin would never find us.

I was wrong.

Now he stands in front of me again, just as the enemies he feared all those years ago finally strike. And this time, running won’t be enough.

Because the one thing Emin never wanted, the child he never claimed, is no longer just my secret. He’s the part of Emin’s heart he refuses to lose again.

And he’s the prize that enemies have waged a war to win.

This is a rejected mate, fated mates, secret pregnancy shifter romance featuring an Alpha and his unwanted mate who carries his secret baby. Packed with scandal, betrayal, second-chance angst and a happily ever after (HEA).