He was sent to kill the Alpha.

Falling for him was never part of the mission.

Anthony Thorne has spent his whole life as a weapon.

Silent. Deadly. Obedient.

When his Alpha gives him one final order?to infiltrate the territory of the powerful Jackson Draven and put a blade through his heart?Anthony doesn't hesitate. He knows how to lie. How to disappear. How to earn trust just long enough to destroy it.

He was trained for this.

But the moment Anthony crosses into Jackson's land, something shifts.

Jackson Draven is everything Anthony was warned about?strong, feared, impossible to fool. He rules his pack with sharp instinct and absolute control, and from the first moment he lays eyes on the mysterious stray in his forest, he knows something is wrong.

Anthony is hiding something.

Jackson should throw him out.

He should keep his distance.

He definitely should not want him.

But every glance feels dangerous.

Every touch feels forbidden.

And the closer Anthony gets to the Alpha he was sent to kill, the harder it becomes to remember where the mission ends... and where desire begins.

Because Jackson is not the monster Anthony expected.

And Anthony is no harmless stray.

Now trapped between the ruthless Alpha who owns his past and the powerful wolf who could change his future, Anthony must make an impossible choice:

Complete the mission...

or betray everything he's ever known for the one man he was never supposed to love.

In a world ruled by loyalty, instinct, and blood, one wrong move could destroy them both.

But some wolves were never meant to be enemies.

And some bonds are too powerful to break.