The alpha's claim
Chosen mates #1
She was supposed to choose her mate.
Instead… she was claimed.
Scarlett Ashborne thought she knew how her future would unfold.
Two years of quiet promises. Stolen moments. A bond that didn’t need words.
Until the day everything shattered.
On Binding Day, in front of every pack, the man she trusted most chooses someone else.
Publicly. Cruelly. Without looking back.
Left unbound, humiliated, and alone, Scarlett refuses to break. She refuses pity. She refuses to let anyone decide her worth.
But fate isn’t finished with her yet.
Because someone else is watching.
Dangerous. Powerful. Feared.
Alpha Kael Nightborne doesn’t believe in gentle bonds or soft choices. When he sees Scarlett stand tall in the face of betrayal, he makes a decision that changes everything.
He invokes an ancient law.
And claims her.
Now bound to an alpha she doesn’t trust, trapped in a pack that sees her as an outsider, Scarlett must fight to survive in a world where strength is everything—and weakness is punished.
But Kael didn’t choose her by accident.
And the more she resists him, the more dangerous the bond between them becomes.
Because hate is easy.
But something darker… and far more powerful… is growing between them.
And neither of them will walk away unchanged.
