Hellin remembers every second of killing him.
The silver dagger. The blood on her hands. The way Alpha Robbin looked almost grateful as he died. She told herself it was justice. She told herself he was a monster who deserved to bleed out at her feet.
She was wrong about one thing: it wasn't the end.
Hellin wakes eighteen years in the past — young, unmarked, and staring across a training yard at the boy Robbin used to be. Kind. Unbroken. Nothing like the tyrant she executed.
Then her wolf whispers the one word that changes everything: mate.
Now Hellin has eighteen years to decide his fate — and hers. Someone is already working to turn Robbin into the monster she remembers, one carefully placed cruelty at a time. And the closer she gets to him, the more she realizes her memories may be lies someone else planted in her mind.
To save him, she'll have to trust the man she once killed. To save everyone else, she may have to kill him again.
This time, she isn't sure which choice is mercy.