Lily Brightpaw has known only rejection and pain. Born to an Alpha family, she was cast aside—mute, unable to shift, branded a curse for her mother's death. Years of abuse taught her silence was survival. She waited for the Moon Goddess to send a mate who would cherish her. She was wrong. When her pack crumbles, Lily is dragged before Zayn Knightmoon, the slave her family once owned. Now he commands her pack and commands her fate. He is her second chance mate, and he wants her to bleed. Zayn has lost everything that mattered. His father. His true mate. His entire pack. All destroyed by Lily's bloodline. Finding her as his second chance should have been poetic justice—until he realized the girl trembling before him isn't the monster he'd imagined. She's shattered in ways that mirror his own wounds. "You hate me," Lily whispers, her voice barely there. "No," Zayn answers, his words cold as steel. "Hate is mercy. I want you to feel what I felt. Every scream. Every loss." But as he watches her accept his cruelty without breaking, something shifts inside him. The revenge he craved tastes like ash. The bond he rejected pulls at him with undeniable force. Zayn stands at a crossroads—does he feed the ghosts haunting him with her suffering, or does he risk everything by choosing the broken girl who might be his salvation?