Hiding My Twin Pups from Their Alpha Dad

Five years ago, Alpha Berkley Knox stood before his entire pack and said the six cruelest words a wolf can speak.

You are no mate of mine.

Estrella Shepherd ran that night with her whole life caving in — and a secret she wouldn't understand until it was too late to turn back. Two heartbeats. His.

She built a fragile human life at the bottom of the mountain. A diner shift. A rented duplex. Twins with his eyes and her stubbornness, who think their mother is just tired, not hunted. One rule kept them safe: never let the mountain remember she exists.

Then her sister is taken, and only an Alpha's word can free her — and there's only one Alpha whose land she's held on, only one man whose nose can read a lie like a scent on the wind. Estrella can hide the twins for one more season. She cannot hide them from a father who can smell his own blood in a room.

But the man who destroyed her isn't the villain she's spent five years hating. The rejection that broke her was never his idea — and it never worked the way she believes. Something is still tying them together, screaming across every mile of her exile, and the truth of that night will cost her the last clean thing she has left.

Now a blood-treaty is collapsing, an elder wants her children for a crown, and the safest place for her twins is the most dangerous place on earth: at their father's side.

She can trust the man who unmade her — or she can run.

She can't do both.

Can a bond survive the lie that was told to save it?