The last time an Alpha claimed me, it wasn't love. It was a business deal with teeth.
I ran with my daughter and never looked back, until a job at the edge of nowhere put me on land that belongs to three men who scent me before I've even said my name.
The enforcer who moves like the woods made him. The blacksmith whose hands forge protection he's never once let himself receive. The farmer who lost everything once and chose warmth anyway.
They tell me the truth instead of deciding for me. They ask instead of taking. My daughter names them family before I've let myself believe in one.
But my past doesn't stay buried in snow. He's coming for what he thinks is still his, and this time I won't be the only one with teeth.
Once bitten was never my choice.
Twice knot is going to be.