My mother cried the day I was born.Not from joy. From fear.You can never be a girl, she whispered, holding me like I was already something to hide. I will protect you the only way I know how.That promise became my whole life.For twenty three years I was the roughest, meanest fighter in my father's camp. No one questioned it. No one dared. Every man who tried got put on his back and left there.It kept me alive. It kept my father afraid of me.It also kept me hidden. Because the truth was simple. If they ever found out I was a woman, I wouldn't be a fighter anymore.I'd be property.Then a rogue started looking too long. Getting too close. And I knew my time was up.So I ran.Straight into enemy territory. Straight into Kagiso, the beta everyone feared and no one crossed.He caught my scent. Every part of him went still.Mate.Then his whole face twisted into disgust.The moon goddess had just given her most devoted general... a short, scrawny man with wild curly hair and a face full of freckles.He hates it. He hates me. But he can't reject the bond, not without breaking the one thing he believes in more than anything else.So now I'm trapped in his pack, under his watch, hiding a secret that grows harder to bury with every pound I gain back, every curve I can no longer hide beneath these clothes.I'm not scared of him.I'm scared of what happens the day he finally realizes what I really am.Because when he does, will he still want me?Or will I become exactly what I ran from?