Bound to the Wolf Enforcer: A Fated Mate Enemies to Lovers Wolf Shifter Romance

NADIA

I've spent eight years not thinking about Cole Rusk.

I was almost good at it.

He's back now — walking into Thornvale Pack like he has the right, carrying his atonement in both hands, looking at me with those steady grey eyes like he knows exactly what he owes and intends to pay every cent.

He left eight years ago for a position with the Ashcroft Alliance. He said it was opportunity. I watched him walk away from everything we were becoming and told myself I was better off.

I was right.

I'm still right.

So why does my wolf go quiet every time he stands close? Why does the border I've been holding alone for four years feel smaller when he's on it with me? Why does the man I spent eight years building walls against feel more like home than anything I've let myself want since he left?

He says he came back to make it right.

He doesn't know that the only thing I'm afraid of is letting him.

COLE

I know what I did.

I know what I chose and what it cost her and what I became in the years that followed. I've carried it through every terrible thing I did in Victor Ashcroft's name and through the moment I finally chose differently and through every day since of quiet, unrecognized work to make the Duskpine territory safe again.

I came to Thornvale for the investigation.

That's true.

But I asked about Nadia Voss before I asked about anything else. I've been asking for months. Because she is the only person who knew me before I became someone I don't recognize, and if there is any version of this world in which I am redeemable, she is the only one who has the full picture to judge it.

She doesn't trust me. She has every reason not to.

But her wolf goes still when I'm close, and I've been reading wolves long enough to know what stillness means. It means recognition. It means something her mind is refusing that her body already knows.

I have the truth. All of it — everything I did, everything I sacrificed, everything I protected her from without telling her.

When I give it to her, she'll either keep her walls up or she'll understand why I built mine.

Either way, I'm done running.

She is worth standing still for.

A broken wolf enforcer and the fierce head tracker he left behind in this emotionally charged, second-chance paranormal romance. Slow-burn tension, dark secrets, fated mates, and a redemption that was eight years in the making.

Standalone. No cliffhangers. Guaranteed HEA.