The Alpha King She Rejected

Corinne Vance spent a decade earning the Conclave liaison office. She did not spend it waiting for a wolf. The moment she takes her oath, the Alpha King lays a fated bond on her in front of the entire council like a gift she asked for. Corinne rejects him in public, in front of every shifter in the room, and expects to be dismissed by morning. Killian Reyes moves her desk next to his instead. Six months later, her dead predecessor's ledgers surface, and the cabal behind them is selling children to something worse than death. Corinne is the only one who can read the cipher. Killian is the only one who will follow her into it. She doesn't take the rejection back. She rewrites the oath that made her, and makes him meet her halfway. A fated mates rejected mate shifter romance with a defiant heroine, a patient alpha king, and a bond that runs both ways.