The pain is instant — and the worst Juno has ever felt.
She won’t let him see it.
“I, Juniper Calloway, accept your rejection.”
Two sentences.
And the fated bond every wolf is promised is over before it ever truly began.
What Roman doesn’t know is that rejection isn’t the end of Juno’s story.
It’s the beginning of one he never saw coming.
While she learns to breathe again — one song, one quiet morning by the lake at a time — a stranger from a neighboring pack hears her voice carry across the water and can’t make himself walk away.
Alpha Griffin Vale isn’t looking for a fated mate.
He’s looking, for the first time in his life, at a woman he simply can’t stop thinking about — curves, scars, and all.
As Juno finds her worth in a love that was never forced on her by fate, Roman is left to watch the Luna he called “not beautiful enough” become everything his pack — and his own aching heart — never knew they were missing.
Some mates are written in the stars.
Hers was written in second chances.
He rejected her for not being beautiful enough.
Another Alpha saw her… and never looked away.