Azaria Freeman gave everything to Aldrith Corp. She carried two roles without complaint, held the company together, and believed her reward was finally within reach. Instead, the promotion she earned was handed to someone with the Aldrith name.

Furious and done staying silent, Azaria storms into a board meeting and challenges the very people who overlooked her. But the moment she steps inside, everything changes because Theon Aldrith realizes the truth:

His mate has been right under his nose all along.

And she is human.

Something that hasn’t happened in centuries.

Now, power, instinct, and fear collide as Theon faces an impossible choice: claim her and risk everything, or walk away from the one person fate has chosen for him.

Theon stood completely motionless in the midnight air, his eyes widening with conflict shimmering behind them as her words sat between them. The initial surge of hope that had flared in his chest vanished, replaced instantly by fear of repeating the same mistake again. He looked down at her face, seeing the slight tremor in her hands and the tension in her frame. He could not bring himself to do this to her. The memory of the night she had first witnessed his transformation was burned into his mind, the horror in her eyes, the blind panic, the brutal psychological shock that had nearly undone her grip on reality. To subject her to that sight again, now when they had barely begun to mend the broken pieces of their bond, felt like a reckless gamble.


Chapter 170 - Chapter 170 - Surreal