In seventeen years, Ariel had never known softness. No lullabies. No family. Just the cold walls of a pack that never saw her… not truly.Orphaned at birth and raised among wolves who treated her like nothing more than a servant, she survived by shrinking herself. By blending in. By doing everything the pack demanded. And everything he demanded.Alpha Darian.The ruthless. The feared. The untouchable alpha.So when his eyes finally landed on her during the Moonlight Coronation, she thought the tides had changed. That maybe the Moon Goddess hadn’t forgotten her after all. When he touched her, claimed her, and took the one thing she’d been saving for her fated mate—her innocence… her virginity, she believed it meant something.But it didn’t.The very next day, Darian stood before the entire pack and crowned another as his Luna—a woman born of royal blood, power, and prestige. Not an orphan girl like her with nothing to offer but loyalty.No one looked her way as she was cast out.Not even him.Bruised and broken, Ariel finds out that she is pregnant for Alpha Dorian; and tries to tell him, but his new Luna did not give her the opportunity to… So she fled the pack’s gates for the last time, her soul carrying more wounds than her body with her unborn baby. But fate is cruel… and strangely kind. Because on the edge of despair, she meets Alpha Kael… Dorian’s cousin and the only man who saw her through the shattered pieces.He was never meant to be a part of her story.But hearts don’t care about bloodlines or boundaries.As Ariel begins to heal in Kael’s shadow, her heart dares to hope again. To feel. To fall.But secrets always find their way to the surface.And Kael has one that could destroy everything they’ve built.What happens when the man she begins to love turns out to be tied to the very pain she ran from?Will she run again…Or will she finally choose to be fated to the one who sees her?