Too young to understand what the bond meant.
The second time, I was twenty-three — standing in front of him with everything to lose. He did it anyway.
Twice.
You'd think I'd have learned. You'd think there'd be nothing left of me to break.
But four years later, Cole is standing at my door — stripped of the arrogance that cost him everything, asking for a mercy he doesn't deserve. And I'm finding out the hard way that rejection doesn't kill a bond.
It just waits.
He says he was wrong. He says he's spent years understanding exactly what he threw away, and he's not leaving until I believe him.
But grovel or not, some mates make you earn forgiveness one broken promise at a time — and Cole is about to learn that being sorry and being worthy are two very different things.
The final book in the Ashworth Pack series.
Three alphas. Three rejections. One pack that finally has to reckon with what fate demands of the wolves who defy it.