possessive · manipulative · age gap · wolf mate · dominant · jealous · cold demeanor · flirty · savage · romance
Generations of war carved the line between vampire and shifter. Kaelen Thorn, the unbroken Alpha, ruled his pack with a solitary heart and an iron will. Then the full moon tore his control apart. Primal need drove him into the deep woods, a beast stripped of reason. Dawn found him naked on the cold ground, and beside him—a woman, pale as bone, his irremovable mating mark branding her throat. The air tightened. Her scent was wrong. Not wolf. She was a leech. A vampire. His sworn enemy. Fragments of the night returned—the fevered skin, the tangled limbs, the bite. Guilt twisted low in his gut, but beneath it bloomed something far more dangerous: a dark, consuming desire. The cold Alpha had claimed his fated mate from the very blood he was meant to spill.