Bring Him to His Knees
He stood in front of two hundred witnesses and called me weak. Said my hands shook too much to hold a blade. Said I wasn’t fit to stand beside him.
He was right about one thing — I was never fit to stand beside the man he was that night.
I’m something else now.
Two years since Roan rejected me in front of his entire pack, I’ve built something he can’t touch — a pack of my own, a name that doesn’t flinch when his does, and a power born from the very bond he tore out of my chest like it cost him nothing.
Turns out it cost him everything.
Now he’s dying, slowly, from the inside out, and he doesn’t even know it’s my door he’s begging at. He thinks he’s asking a stranger for help. He has no idea the Alpha who holds his survival in her hands is the woman he humiliated to save his own pride.
And there’s a truth buried in that rejection he still doesn’t know — one that changes everything about why he really let me go.
He wants me back. He needs me to live.
I haven’t decided yet if I’m going to save him, ruin him, or do both, slowly, the way he taught me pain could be delivered — in front of everyone who ever doubted me.
This time, I hold the bond. This time, I choose.