Betrayed by my Dear Mate

Kaia Valen, daughter of Alpha Valen, goes to collect the mating rings she designed for her ceremony with her fated mate, Jaxon Stone. The jeweler hands her two identical rings: hers, and one bearing the name of Talia Aldrich, the omega Jaxon sponsored. The same names, the same date, the same sacred symbols—pledged to another she-wolf.

Following Jaxon's message to a cabin deep in the woods, Kaia overhears him asking someone to buy Talia a house in their name and vowing he cannot give her up. At lunch he lies about the call and shrugs off the second ring as a mistake, while Talia arrives uninvited and settles at his side. Kaia says nothing, holding her silence as her wolf stirs.

She once begged Jaxon to help sponsor the frail omega, and now the bond she believed was eternal is crumbling. Kaia must decide what a betrayed mate does when the wolf beside her has already chosen someone else.