A True Bond

"I may not be your first date, your first kiss, or your first love...
but I want to be your last everything."

When two people with separate lives, guarded hearts, and their own truths are destined to meet, you'd expect chaos-missteps, resistance, a love that arrives like a storm.

But sometimes, destiny is quieter.

Sometimes, it begins with a single smile... and a bond that forms before either of them understands what it means.

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Liam Jones has always been reserved-not out of fear or shyness, but because the world makes more sense when he listens to it instead of speaking. Nature speaks to him in ways humans never have: the language of wind, the quiet understanding of animals, the pull of something unseen yet deeply familiar.

What began as something strange became his refuge. His peace. His way of believing in good, even when the world gave him reason not to.

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Leo Thomas has lived his life by duty. Trained for leadership, shaped by responsibility, he always knew he would become Alpha-just not like this. A tragedy forced the crown onto his head long before he was ready, leaving him cold, distant, and armored against the very thing wolves crave most.

He isn't afraid of love.

He's afraid of what loving someone would cost them.

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When Leo finally encounters his destined one, he's forced to confront everything he's been running from-how compassion disarms him, how kindness weakens his defenses, and how love, slow and inevitable, threatens to undo him completely.

Because some bonds don't shatter walls.

They make them unnecessary.