I Died as his Mate—Now I’m back as His Stepmother

Mariah_Maverick Romance

Wren Ashby was nobody.
An Omega born with no status, no family name worth anything, and the cruel misfortune of being fated to the most desired Alpha heir in the Silverstone Pack. She loved Adrian Voss with everything she had. She waited for him. She believed in him. She prayed for him.
He repaid her by rejecting her at the Mating Ceremony.
In front of everyone.
For her stepsister, Emilia.
She crawled into the forest that night and died alone in the dark, 19 years old, with dirt on her hands and his name rotting in her chest like a wound that never got the chance to heal.
But the Moon Goddess does not forget a debt.
Wren wakes up three days later in the body of Iris Caldwell. Beautiful. Wealthy. Beloved daughter of the Beta of the neighbouring Greywood Pack. A dead girl whose suspicious passing nobody is asking enough questions about.
She has a new face. A new name. A new father who looks at her like she is the most precious thing he has ever been allowed to keep.
And she has a plan.
When Greywood and Silverstone are drawn together under the iron authority of the most powerful Prime Alpha, Wren finds herself standing inside the walls she was never supposed to survive long enough to breach. Face to face with the people who destroyed her. Close enough to finally make them pay.
But nobody warned her about the Prime Alpha…Lucian Voss, and Adrian’s dad.
Forty one years old. Devastatingly powerful. The kind of man who walked into a room and made every other man in it feel like they were playing pretend. He sees through her carefully constructed smiles from the very first night. He knows she is hiding something. He cannot figure out what it is and it is driving him absolutely mad.
He wants her anyway.
Goddess help her, she wants him too.
What starts as strategy becomes something she did not budget for. His hands. His voice. The way he looks at her in the dark like she is a mystery he has decided to take his time solving. She tells herself it is just desire, that it means nothing, that she is using him the way everyone in her old life used her and this is just the game.
She almost believes it.
Meanwhile Adrian cannot stay away from her.
He does not know who she is. He does not recognise the girl he left to die in the forest in the stunning composed woman who has somehow become the centre of his father’s world. But something about her scent makes his wolf feral. Something about her laugh pulls at a grief he cannot name. He is engaged to Emilia. He is supposed to be happy. He has everything he chose.
So why can he not stop watching her.
Why does looking at her feel like remembering something he lost.
And why does his father look at her like she already belongs to him.
Three people. One truth buried under layers of lies, revenge and a bond mark that refuses to fade. Wren came back to burn everything down and walk away clean.
She did not come back to fall in love.
But the heart, it turns out, did not get the memo.
…Secrets will surface. Debts will be paid. And before it is all over, the heir who killed his mate will learn exactly what it costs to throw away something the Prime Alpha has decided to keep…

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