Be Warned: May have mature scenes, such as the first chapter, though you will be warned beforehand.
It started when her Alpha claimed her as his mate. She felt no connection to him, but being 14, she didn't know what to feel.
Since then, she's been cut off from the rest of the pack, and not allowed to leave the house she was suppose to call home.Then when she turned 18, her life changed when the man she's known as her mate for the last 4 years suddenly set her up for rape by her Beta and another, and then banishes her from the pack.
Feeling hopeless and abandoned by the people that was suppose to be her family, she enters enemy territory in hopes of finding her end, but instead finds herself saved by that pack's Alpha, Callum, but later finds that the life she had was a lie.
Mark was not her mate. Her old pack and Mark's entire family has been keeping a secret too big to be kept, and her family's past is about to resurface.
As Claire aims to leave her oppressive stepfamily behind, she befriends Zion. Will he be her ticket to freedom or a distraction in achieving her dreams?
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Claire Olsen has had a crush on Zion Petrakis since the first time she laid eyes on him, but he never noticed, instead only having eyes on the school's it girl, Maddie Jennings. Knowing she couldn't compete with Maddie, Claire hid her feelings for Zion, satisfied with admiring him from afar. However, when a series of events led Claire closer to Zion, her feelings for him grew from infatuation to love. And despite fighting hard to keep her feelings contained by distancing herself from Zion, he was determined to show her that he's earned a spot in her life.
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