The Lycan King's Omega Queen

Alina is an Omega, the lowest rank in her wolf pack, and for weeks she has been trapped in the same nightmare. In it, a man with a cold voice tells her she cannot escape, that she must die brutally. Rogues rush toward her, and the man transforms into a massive black wolf and slaughters them all before turning his fury on her. Every night she wakes gasping, the outline of his face becoming sharper in her mind. Her best friend Crystal convinces her to return to the pack territory for a one-month vacation—Alina hasn't been back in five years. Her parents never contacted her once during that time, and when she arrives, their house is locked and empty. With nowhere else to go, she follows Crystal to the Lycan manor, where the former king Atlas and queen Daisy welcome her warmly. Late that first night, thirsty and searching for the kitchen, she wanders into a dark corridor. A hand seizes her. The voice is exactly the same as her nightmare. She looks up and the moonlight reveals his face—the man who haunts her dreams, standing inches away, demanding to know who she is. Before she can answer, her inner wolf erupts with a single word: mate.

The man is Aaron, the new Lycan King, just returned from a five-day war. He stares at her with burning intensity, then his expression hardens. In his private garden, he tells her the truth she already dreads: she is an Omega, he is the Lycan King, and he will never accept her. "You can't be my mate," he says coldly. Alina runs away in tears, but Aaron's cruelty is a mask—when he first caught her scent after the war, he was overjoyed. It is her status that fills him with resentment. He summons her again only to command her silence: tell no one about their bond, because he will soon break it completely. Yet when she notices the unhealed wound on his palm and offers to blow on it, something soft flickers in his eyes before he vanishes. The contradictions pile up. He humiliates her at dinner, then questions her sharply when he learns she has been searching for a mysterious pack fighter—not realizing he is the one she seeks. When Crystal jokes that Alina has a crush on this unknown man, Aaron's jealousy ignites. He corners Alina in the training hall, bare-chested and furious, and threatens to find her supposed lover and kill him in front of her. Alina cannot explain that the man she wants is him. Trapped between his rejection and his possessiveness, she tells Beta Lucas she accepts the rejection and will leave. Aaron, learning of her calm willingness to walk away, is enraged—he believes she is eager to find a new mate. As a pack party approaches, Crystal openly declares her intention to win Aaron's heart, and Alina overhears that the new Alpha of the Silver Moon pack will attend. She decides to leave quietly after the rejection, never imagining the Lycan King has no intention of letting her go.