The Mate I Hate [1/2]

He is her fated mate. She is everything he hates.

Kara Fletcher is the Wolven Huntress - a hunter turned werewolf, now protecting the very species she was trained to destroy.

Alpha Chris Ashford lost his father to hunters barely a year ago. The grief is still raw. The rage still burns.

When the mate bond ignites between them at a supernatural summit, it should be destiny. Instead, it's a living nightmare.

Chris doesn't reject her - not officially. His duty to his pack won't let him. So he accepts her as his mate while hating every second of it, every breath she takes, every reminder of what hunters stole from him.

Kara feels it all through their bond. The disgust. The resentment. The wish that fate had chosen anyone else. But she accepts her role as his Luna anyway - because his pack deserves stability, because her wolf deserves a mate, because walking away would prove every wolf right who said a hunter could never belong.

Two people bound by fate, trapped by duty, burning with emotions neither can escape.

But when hunters return with a vengeance and blood demands blood, their fragile bond will be tested in ways neither could imagine.

Some sacrifices can't be undone. Some choices can't be forgiven.

Can fate survive hate - or will it cost them everything?