A ruthless alpha. A gifted omega. A burning passion. For taking her mother’s life during childbirth, Sihana is condemned to be hated all her life. Desperate to be loved, she works hard to please her pack and prove her worth but ends up a pseudo-slave to them. The bitter experience of being mated to her bully who promptly rejects her puts her off mating but the goddess gives her a second chance mate in the person of Alpha Cahir Armani. The Alpha of the strongest pack in the world, Cahir Armani has a reputation for being bloodthirsty, cold and cruel. Cahir is ruthless, a man who kills without remorse, laughs without humor and takes without asking. What no one knows is that underneath his bloody armor is a scarred man. Cahir has no place for a mate in his life but the goddess throws Sihana his way. Although he sees no use for a mate, he can’t resist the pull of the mate bond any more than he can resist Sia’s seductive curves. Kissed by the goddess and gifted healing abilities, she becomes a treasure her ex-mate and his pack refuse to let go of but who can stop a man like Cahir from claiming his mate? Can Cahir learn to love and can Sia heal his wounds? Will a relationship between two broken people work or are they better off without each other?
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His hand massaged my tense shoulder making me sigh. It didn’t take long for me to relax in his arms. The blanket of warmth and security he surrounded me with put me to sleep but not for long. Nightmares plagued my dream from the second sleep took me. It felt like I was thrown into a marathon where I was already losing – they were catching up with me but all I could do was stumble, trying to run. In the crowd of people watching the race, everyone looked at me with anger and hatred in their eyes chanting ‘vengeance.’ “Wake up,” a voice louder than the chants of the crowd called sounding amplified. “Sihana.” Something warm touched my forehead, making me jerk awake. My mouth fell open in a soundless gasp and my eyes blew to twice their sizes. I breathed loudly through my mouth, my chest heaving up and down as I looked around trying to understand where I was and what was happening. “You’re safe now.” My eyes focused on Cahir and then my memories flooded back in. Some lady beat me up and her team almost carted me away to goddess knows where. Cahir had golden eyes and I’d watched him slaughter three people in mere minutes. Bile rose in my throat. I fought out of his embrace and ran into the bathroom to offload the content of my stomach but I hadn’t eaten so I ended up retching up a clear liquid until my throat became raw. “Sihana –“ Cahir pulled my hair back as I bent over the toilet. “You’re fine now. No one will touch you ever again.” “I want to go home,” I groaned, sitting on the bathroom floor. Where was home? “We’ll be on the next flight home if that’s what you want,” Cahir assured me. “No.” I shook my head. “Not Alpha Blood.” That pack did not feel like my home. It was a suffocating place for me and as I just found out, there were people watching me there. “No?” Cahir’s face creased and for a moment, he looked hurt but I shook my head. I came here to escape that place, so I wasn’t in any hurry to go back there. “If you don’t want to return to the pack now, then we can stay here for a few days. You’re here for a vacation, after all.”
“R – Really?” I asked dubiously. “I can stay?” But did I want to stay? That was a bigger question than whether or not he wanted me to stay.