I Rejected the Alpha Who Once Rejected Me

She came back to his territory with credentials, not apologies.

Six years ago, Cassian Draven rejected Seraphina Mancuso in front of his entire pack. Publicly. Brutally. Using the old words that sever a fate-bond before it can take root. She walked out that night and never looked back.

Now she's back as the Southern Council's most formidable Emissary, untouchable and entirely in control. Cassian has no authority over her. No claim on her.

And absolutely no idea she left with his child.

Aria is five years old, silver-eyed, and frighteningly knowing. She draws faces she has never seen. She navigates toward people by direction rather than name. She calls two hundred birds from a clear sky without raising her voice.

She is not ordinary.

Neither is what is coming for her.

Because someone has been waiting for Aria since before she was born. Someone Seraphina trusts completely. Someone who knows exactly what Aria is and exactly what she is worth.

And the only person standing between her daughter and a plan twenty-six years in the making is the man who once said her name like a mistake.

The man who is about to learn exactly what that mistake cost him.