He rejected her in front of the whole pack. He didn't know what he was giving up. Elena Voss stood in the Pack Hall and listened to the man she loved sever their bond in front of everyone she'd ever known. No explanation. No mercy. Just three sentences and the sound of something inside her tearing loose. She built a life on the ashes of that night. A small apartment on the edge of territory. A job in town where no one knew her name. A wall around her heart thick enough that even the pull of the bond couldn't c***k it. Then two lines on a plastic stick changed everything. She's carrying Kane Ashford's children — and in the oldest, cruelest law of her bloodline, twins born after a rejection aren't a blessing. They're an omen. A verdict already written before her babies take their first breath. And when the pack healer tells her one of them may be born without a wolf at all, Elena understands exactly what that means: exile, the moment he's born, no matter how small or innocent he is. She has six months to find a way to save her son. Six months to dig through forgotten records, hide a pregnancy from an entire pack, and outrun a law older than she is. Six months before Kane finds out what he really rejected — and what it might cost all of them if he doesn't choose right this time. Because Kane doesn't know about the twins yet. He only knows he made a mistake, and he means to fix it — one visit, one apology at a time, certain the only thing broken between them is a bond he can somehow mend. He has no idea he's already run out of time. When the truth finally reaches the pack elders before it reaches him, Elena will have to stand in the same hall where she was rejected and fight — not for Kane, not for forgiveness, but for two lives the pack has already decided don't deserve a chance. And when Kane finally learns the truth, standing before the whole pack with everything on the line, he'll have to answer one question in front of everyone who's ever doubted him: Is the law he was raised on worth more than the family he almost lost without ever knowing it existed? Some mistakes don't just cost you the person you loved. Some cost you everything you didn't know you had.