The Wolf at Wintergate

Once a year for five years, a biker has come through Wintergate on the longest night, ordered the same coffee, paid in exact change, and ridden out before sunrise. Sera Quinn has never asked his name. She doesn't have to. She knows the sound of his engine the way she knows her own heartbeat. This year the storm closes the pass and the biker stays. His name is Elias. He's an enforcer for a shifter MC, the war with the rival club is finally ending, and he's been riding here every solstice because Sera is his fated mate — and claiming her while his pack was at war would have killed her. Now he's got three days and a snowstorm and a woman who has spent five years watching him leave. Sera takes his keys, chains his bike to the diner post, and tells him to choose. He chooses her. He stays.