He broke the bond to protect his pack… never knowing she was already carrying his heir. Aeryn Vos thought the worst pain a wolf could feel was her mate’s rejection. She was wrong. Cast out for the sake of a political marriage, she walked away from her alpha, her future as luna… and the secret growing under her heart. Six years later, Aeryn is a single mom hiding in the human city, raising a too-curious, too-strong little boy who howls in his sleep and heals too fast to be normal. On paper, Lio is just another kid. By scent, by soul, he belongs to the alpha who shattered her. Corin Vargan made the “right” choice for his pack and has been choking on it ever since. He buried the bond, the guilt, the memories of the only woman his wolf ever claimed. Then, on a random city street, his world stops: A tiny wolf pup with his eyes. His scent. His power. A child calling another man “Dad”… and looking at Corin like he’s the coolest stranger in the world. He rejected his mate, never knowing he was rejecting their child too. Now his wolf recognizes the pup as his own—while Aeryn will do anything to keep her son out of pack politics and far away from the alpha who once chose everyone over her. He wants a second chance. She wants safety, stability, and no more broken promises. Their son just wants to know why the grown-ups keep lying. One single mom. One guilty alpha. One secret heir torn between the human world and the call of the pack. When the truth explodes, will the pack claim the child as theirs… or will Aeryn and Corin learn to become a family on their own terms?