Throughout my life, I had always avoided danger, not walked straight into its jaws. Hiding felt safer, even natural. I’d never deliberately confronted my fears. Facing my father and his pack had always seemed like a battle I couldn’t win—not when I was fighting alone.

But everything changed when Hadrian stood beside me. His strength and influence gave me a foundation to rely on, yet I wasn’t the same person anymore. I had grown stronger, fiercer. When I fought that wolf from the ...