His to Mark

He marked me when I was fifteen-then vanished.
Now I'm wearing white for another man. A man I didn't choose. A man who doesn't care if I bleed.

Cassian Thorne was my first everything. My shadow in the woods, my forbidden secret, my lion. He claimed me young with a bite that still burns beneath my skin-and then disappeared, leaving me to rot in a gilded cage.

Eleven years later, I'm a political pawn in an arranged mating between old money and old blood. But the past doesn't stay buried. Not when he returns-feral, furious, and more dangerous than ever.

He doesn't ask for forgiveness. He doesn't ask for permission. He takes what's his.

Me.

Now I'm running through the woods again, heart pounding, dress in tatters, prey to the only predator I ever wanted. And he's not the boy I loved. He's a king of monsters, and I am his marked mate.

No crown. No cage. Just claws, fangs, and a promise written in blood.

🔥 A fast-burn, villain-obsessed fated mates shifter romance full of primal chase, filthy dominance, and a love that never forgot how to bite.