Pack rules state: "You kill the alpha, you become the alpha."

As the pack's enforcer and the alpha's daughter, I know the rules as well as anyone. I just never expected the devious foster brother that we brought into our pack and gave a place to call his would assassinate my father and use those rules to usurp his position. The coward even hired a mercenary to take my young brothers hostage.

He's a stoic, powerful human soldier who has no idea what he's up against when he takes his place as guard outside my prison cell. And when I'm forced to become the new alpha's mate so he can solidify his command of the pack, that human delivers me to my doom.

But I know something my brother doesn't. That even if he dangles my brothers' lives in the balance, the pack will never accept an interloper. He thinks he can starve me into submission while he rallies the pack. He thinks a mere mortal soldier can keep me in check while he rallies the pack around him.

He's not wrong. I'll fake my submission so long as it keeps my brothers safe. But he needs to know I’m ready to go to war, even if it means I have to get close to my enemy.

Maybe a bit too close…

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