The giant screen at my mating ceremony didn't play a tribute to our love—it broadcast my destruction. The entire pack howled with laughter as a video played of Alpha Asher bedding his childhood sweetheart while I stood alone at the altar.

He didn’t just miss our wedding; he destroyed my mother. She spent her final moments watching my humiliation, coughing up blood until she died with her only wish—to see me settled—unfulfilled. For three years, I had been Asher’s shadow, unclaimed and hidden, only for him to abandon me when I needed him most.

I was arranging a funeral instead of a honeymoon when Theodore, the Alpha King and Asher’s best friend, approached me with a shocking proposition: "Would you like a new mate?"

My hand drifted to my stomach, shielding the secret life growing inside me. I looked him in the eye and agreed. Now, Asher is losing his mind because I’ve vanished—but he doesn't know he’s lost his heir, too.