Memories flashed back to that Winter Ball years ago. He just escaped from a Rogue attack and his pack was in knee-deep financial debts but my father agreed to help them after the pack elders’ months of begging in order to forge an alliance through marriage if his daughter would like it.

If I would like him.

But as soon as we met, it was the moment when we discovered that we were mates.

“You dropped your ring when you came for me last night, why didn’t you take it back with you?”

“What ring?” I asked coldly.

“The one I allowed to be found in the cabinet.”

The audacity...