Melanie thought her mate Alpha Kurtis would always prioritize their family when danger struck the territory. But during a catastrophic draconic raid on his birthday banquet, Kurtis sprints right past their screaming seven-year-old child to carry his perfumed mistress into an underground bunker, leaving their daughter to die under crushing rubble.
Clutching her child's lifeless body in the smoking crater, Melanie slices open her own chest to sever the sacred mate link, turning Kurtis into a despised stranger. As Kurtis collapses into belated, broken agony upon seeing what his selfishness cost, Melanie marshals allied clans to annihilate his pack entirely.
