He destroyed me. I ran with his secret. Now he's found us—and he's not letting go.
I scrubbed floors for seven years, hiding in plain sight with the one thing Damon Thorn would kill to possess—his son. The night I left, I was eighteen and pregnant. He was the Alpha everyone feared, engaged to marry someone his family chose for him. I was nothing. A mistake. A secret he'd never admit to. So I disappeared. Raised our boy alone. Worked myself to the bone. Made sure no one—especially Damon—would ever find us. Then he walked through my hotel room door. One look and I knew. Seven years meant nothing. The mate bond still burned between us, hotter and more dangerous than ever. And when those storm-gray eyes landed on Asher—his son, his heir, his mirror image—everything I'd built came crashing down. Now Damon's giving me an Move into his mansion. Let him be a father. Give him what he should've had all along. Or he'll take Asher anyway. He's rich. Powerful. The Alpha of the strongest pack in three states. I'm a single mom with nothing but a fierce love for my son and a bone-deep terror of the man who once made me believe in forever. But here's what Damon doesn't know— Our son isn't just any wolf pup. He's an Alpha Prime. Born with power that shouldn't exist. Power that makes him the most valuable and dangerous child alive. And the enemies Damon's made? They're coming for Asher. Coming to use him, study him, or kill him before he becomes too strong to control. Suddenly, my ex isn't just demanding I come back. He's the only thing standing between our son and a fate worse than death. The mate bond says we belong together. My wolf howls for him every night. And my traitorous body remembers exactly how good we were when nothing stood between us. But my heart? My heart still carries seven years of scars. Damon says he never stopped loving me. That choosing duty over us was the biggest mistake of his life. That he'll spend forever making it up to me if I'll just give him a chance. He broke me once. Can I risk letting him do it again? Or worse—what if this time, when I fall, I take our son down with me?