I Cut My Alpha's Blood Tithe, and His Enemy Alpha Won't Claim Me

My Alpha dissolved our mate mark at the Moon Feast and called me wolf-empty - so I cut the blood tithe that hid his moonrot and left him half-shifted before the elders. Exile was supposed to break me. Instead, Orrin's enforcer dragged me back for more blood, and I cut his oath too. Now I'm walking north with Ronan Slade, an enemy Alpha with a broken howl and a mouth that won't quit. He offers Cinderfall shelter under a no-claim contract: no mark, no collar, no decision made for me. But his pack counts my blood like winter grain, and the mine we need for proof holds the names of his dead. Orrin's scout is already running home with my location. If we don't reach Salt Moot first, Hollowmere will bury the truth and every wolf who touches it. Ronan refuses to own me - but when my wolf answers his broken howl, I have to decide if I'm walking beside him or just running from Orrin with a new shadow.

Oleh Mia Moore