Family’s Regret After I Left

Adopted into the Blackwood family after her parents died saving them, Seraphina quickly becomes everyone's darling. Her adoptive father treasures her, and even Aria's brother Ethan and her childhood mate Damien begin to favor the gentle Omega over her. When Sera destroys their mother's heirloom necklace, Father orders the past forgotten, and when Sera covets the anti-silver antidote Aria developed in their mother's memory, Damien threatens to cancel their mating ceremony to force her to surrender it.

Aria refuses. She has already submitted her research to the Alpha Council, accepting years of isolation in its labs to escape a house that no longer feels like home. On her birthday, her family throws Sera an anniversary party instead, and Sera gifts her a fur coat made from Max, the dog Aria loved. Dusted with silver powder, the coat burns her as her family watches with indifference.

Bruised and betrayed, Aria counts the days until she can vanish from the people who treated her as a stranger.