Katerina Bathas has been tortured by her brother, her pack, and the kids at school ever since her parents died. Her brother needed someone to blame, and he chooses Katerina. The pack wanted someone's life to make living hell, hey why not Katerina? The kids at school needed a geek to make fun of, oh, there's Katerina. And now, on her 16th birthday, she's met her mate. The one person in the world she can turn to, the one to love her through everything, and anything. Only he doesn't. The moment he realises she's his mate, he rejects her. She couldn't take anything more after that, so she did what any sane person would do... she ran.
She was accepted into a pack, the strongest pack that ranks number one, The Untamed pack. And she's set out to be everything she wishes she was. Only her Alpha's joining packs with another, the one's who rank second. Alpha's order's are to be obeyed no matter what, and now Katerina's being forced back in her home town of Ever Falls, and back to join her old pack; The Fallen Moon. The place she swore to never return to, the place where she grew up, and the place she despises. Only, Katerina isn't the same chubby face'd, not so atractive girl she used to be. She's undeniably, breath-takingly beautiful. And she's about to make the lives of the one's she's hated for 2 and a half years - Living. Hell.
Kylie survived the brutal destruction of her pack only to discover her cold alpha mate was the one responsible for the brutal slaughter of her family and pack mates. She can't forgive and she won't forget.
Kylie cooperates with his demands while she searches for a way to free the remaining survivors and herself. Success teaches her just how complicated mate bonds can be and gives her the chance to choose her own fate.
"Screw the mate bond. If I went for his throat while he was driving in human form, I might be able to kill him right now, and if I didn't succeed, the resulting accident might. I leapt for the front seat, powerful jaw ready to rip out his throat as he had ripped out my family's to take my revenge.
Without even taking his left hand off the wheel, he blocked me by getting his right forearm between my jaws. I bit down as hard as I could, wishing to break his bones and sever the limb. Worse, I felt the tingles of our first contact where violence had connected us. The iron of his blood mingled with the other scents around me."
(This is a dark story, but not the stereotypical one where she falls in love with her captor. This is the story of escape from a toxic relationship and finding healthy love.)
MATURE content including violence, dubious consent, intimacy, and mature and other possibility upsetting themes like threats of suicide and miscarriage. Not intended for the 18- crowd, sorry.
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