Her wolf childhood friend called her a burden and shoved her to the most feared serpent. She thought it was her worst day—she didn't know it was her beginning. Rian knelt in the dark and asked, "Be my Master forever. Okay?" As she nodded through tears, she finally understood—the proof of being loved was never in what they said, but what they surrendered. But how could she ever know this heart was truly hers?
