The Alpha's Defiant Mate - A Rejected Fated Mates Enemies to Lovers Forbidden Alpha Romance #961417

I watched my entire pack die. Now the killers want me.
My name is Claire Ashwood, and I'm the last surviving member of the Silver Wolves. The night rogues attacked our territory, my father—our Alpha—ordered me to run while he held them off. I heard his dying breath as I fled into the darkness.
Three days later, I collapsed on Shadowridge land. Starving. Injured. Hunted.
That's when I met him.
Dominic Thorne—powerful Alpha, gorgeous as sin, and absolutely forbidden. The second our eyes locked, I felt it. The mate bond. The one thing I can't afford right now when assassins are tracking my every move.
He should've turned me away. Instead, he offered protection. But there's a price.
The bond between us grows stronger every day. His pack wants answers about why I'm really here. And the council of Alphas? They're deciding if I'm worth keeping alive or if I should be handed over to my enemies.
Because I'm not just some random survivor.
I carry a rare gift in my bloodline—the power to break or forge pack bonds. The kind of power that could save lives or enslave entire territories. The kind of power that got my family killed.
Now the clan that murdered everyone I loved wants me to join them. Use my abilities for their twisted plans. They've given me a deadline and a choice:
Submit willingly, or watch Dominic and his pack burn the same way mine did.
But they made one mistake.
They think I'm still that scared girl who ran through the forest. They don't know I've been training. Getting stronger. Learning to fight.
And they definitely don't know what happens when you back a wolf into a corner.
I'm done running.