What would you do if the bleeding, mangled beast you dragged from the freezing snow turned out to be the most feared tyrant in the realm? She was a broken outcast.
He was a betrayed king.
Together, their colliding fates would drown the winter snow in vengeance and blood.
The winter of 1452 was unforgiving, burying the neutral territories of the whispering peaks under 4 ft of ice and despair.
For Mave, the bitter cold was a familiar companion, stripped of her pack, mark her flesh, still bearing the jagged burned scar of banishment from the frostfall pack.
She had spent the last 3 years surviving as a ghost.
She was an omega, the lowest tier of wolf kind, born to nurture and soothe, yet cast out into the ruthless wild for a crime she never committed.
Alpha Desmond had accused her of poisoning the pack’s water supply, a treasonous lie orchestrated by his own ambitious beta.
Yet Mave bore the punishment.
She lived in a dilapidated abandoned trappers cabin hidden deep within a ravine surviving on meager rations and her extensive knowledge of medicinal flora to mask her sweet honey and cedar omega scent from roaming rogues.
She rubbed her pulse points with a noxious paste of pine sap and charcoal every morning.
She was a shadow, a survivor.
But her quiet, desperate existence was shattered on the eve of the blood moon.
Mave was trudging through the snow drifts, gathering scarce winterbane roots, when the metallic tang of fresh blood hit her senses.
It was a copper stench, so thick it cut through the freezing wind.
Caution urged her to flee.
A wounded predator was still a predator, and the neutral territories were crawling with feral rogues driven mad by hunger.
Yet the deep-seated instinctual pull of her omega nature, the compulsion to heal, to protect, anchored her feet to the snow, following the crimson trail she found him.
Lying at the base of a shattered oak tree was a wolf of monstrous proportions.
He was easily twice the size of a standard pack alpha, his coat the color of midnight obsidian, but it was currently matted with frozen gore.
Two thick, jagged iron shafts protruded from his ribs, and the distinct suffocating reek of wolf’s bane emanated from his wounds.
Silver tipped arrows.
The ultimate executioner’s tool for their kind.
He was breathing, but barely.
A wet rattling weeze escaped his massive jaws.
By all logic, Mave should have left him.
A rogue of this size would tear her apart the moment he had the strength.
But as she stepped closer, the beast’s golden eyes flickered open.
They were clouded with agony.
Yet behind the pain burned an intelligence and a raging, unyielding defiance that struck Mave to her core.
He didn’t whine.
He didn’t beg.
He simply stared at her, accepting his violent end with a terrifying calm.
“You’re a fool for fighting whatever did this to you,” Mave whispered, dropping her foraging basket.
“And I’m a bigger fool for doing this.
” It took two agonizing hours to drag the beast back to her cabin using a makeshift sled of pine branches.
Her muscles screamed, her lungs burned in the freezing air.
But the beast remained silent, slipping in and out of consciousness.
Once inside the meager warmth of her cabin, the real nightmare began.
The beast was too large for her cot, so she hauled him onto the heavy oak table in the center of the room.
Mave stoked the hearthfire to a roaring blaze and boiled water, gathering her meager supplies, iron, tongs, a bone saw, clean linen, and her most potent picuses of crushed king’s foil and yrow.
The silver had to come out.
For a werewolf, silver was poison.
It burned the flesh and halted their natural cellular regeneration.
If you have the strength to bite me, do it now because this is going to be agony.
Mave warned, her voice, trembling slightly.
She pressed a thick leather strap between the wolf’s jaws.
Then, gripping the first iron shaft, she braced her boot against the heavy table and pulled.
The beast convulsed.
A deep guttural roar shook the dust from the cabin’s rafters, but he clamped down on the leather, his massive claws gouging deep trenches into the solid oak.
Black poisoned blood spilled across the wood as Mave extracted the first arrow quickly followed by the second, but the physical wounds were only half the battle.
The wolf’s pain was coursing through his veins, inducing violent bones tremors.
Mave worked relentlessly through the night.
She packed the gaping wounds with a paste of crushed garlic and moonflour to draw out the silver residue, stitching the torn flesh with steady, practiced hands.
She brewed a thick tea of willow bark and forced it down the wolf’s throat to break the fever.
By dawn, Mave was utterly exhausted.
Her hands were stained crimson, her simple woolen dress ruined.
The cabin smelled of copper sweat and burning herbs.
She collapsed into a wooden chair beside the table, watching the steady, deep rise and fall of the beast’s chest.
He was alive.
Against all impossible odds, the monstrous wolf had survived the night.
What Mave did not know as she drifted into a restless exhaustion was that she had not saved a mere rogue.
She had just dragged King Taylor of the Obsidian Wastes.
the most ruthless, bloodthirsty alpha in the northern kingdoms.
From the jaws of death, betrayed by his most trusted general, Lord Jordan, and ambushed by 50 elite mercenaries, Taylor had been left for dead.
And now the tyrant owed his life to a banished, scentless outcast.
For 3 days, the massive black wolf hovered between life and death.
Mave hardly slept meticulously changing his bandages and forcing water and broth past his heavy jaws.
On the evening of the fourth day, the fever finally broke.
Mave was at the hearth stirring a pot of venison stew when the sound of shifting bone and tearing muscle echoed through the small cabin.
It was the sickening visceral sound of a wolf shifting back into its human form.
She turned slowly, her heart hammering against her ribs.
Where the monstrous beast had lain, a man now stood.
He was breathtakingly imposing, standing well over 6 and 1/2 ft tall.
His physique was a landscape of raw power, corded muscle, layered with hundreds of silvery battle scars, the map of a man who had survived a lifetime of war.
His dark hair fell past his shoulders, framing a jaw carved from granite.
But it was his eyes that paralyzed her.
Piercing predatory gold, he swayed slightly, gripping the edge of the oak table.
His torso was wrapped in Mave’s crude linen bandages, a stark contrast to his dark skin.
Instinctively, Mave took a step back, her hand moving toward the heavy iron fire poker.
Taylor’s gaze locked onto her, analyzing every detail in a fraction of a second.
The small drafty cabin, the boiling herbs, the terrified, ash smudged woman standing defensively by the fire.
He took a deep breath, his chest expanding, but his brow furrowed in confusion.
He couldn’t smell her wolf.
She smelled of burnt pine smoke and dirt.
“Where am I?” Taylor’s voice was a low, grally rumble that vibrated through the floorboards.
It held undeniable authority, an unquestionable command that demanded immediate obedience.
The whispering peaks, Mave replied, fighting to keep her voice steady.
Neutral territory.
I found you bleeding out in the snow four miles south of here.
Taylor looked down at the bandages wrapped tightly around his ribs.
He remembered the ambush.
He remembered Jordan’s blade slipping between his ribs, the stinging burn of silver arrows raining down from the canopy.
By all rights, he should be rotting in the snow.
“You saved me,” he stated.
“It wasn’t a question of gratitude.
It was an assessment of a tactical anomaly.
Why would a human or whatever she was saveing beast in the winter?” I couldn’t just let you die, Mave [clears throat] said, her grip tightening on the iron poker.
Though looking at you now, I might have made a mistake.
You’re no ordinary rogue.
A dark, dangerous smirk touched the corner of Taylor’s lips.
A rogue? Is that what you think I am? He took a step forward, testing his strength.
A sharp jolt of pain shot through his abdomen, but he didn’t flinch.
Put the iron down, little bird.
If I wanted to snap your neck, I would have done it before you heard my feet hit the floorboards.
Sit down before you tear your stitches, Mave ordered, surprising herself with her own firmness.
I didn’t spend 3 days scrubbing your poisoned blood out of my floor just for you to bleed all over it again.
Taylor paused.
No one had given him an order in a decade.
Men had lost their heads for speaking to him with [clears throat] far less disrespect.
Yet looking at this small, fierce woman brandishing a fire poker, he felt an unfamiliar flicker of amusement.
He slowly lowered himself onto the wooden bench.
“What is your name?” he demanded.
“Mave,” she answered cautiously.
“And yours? Taylor?” He lied, or rather omitted his title.
He needed to know who he was dealing with, and revealing his identity as the Alpha King to a stranger in neutral territory was a death sentence.
There was a massive bounty on his head now.
You have no pack, Mave.
No scent.
You live like a rat in the frozen wastess.
Why? Mave’s jaw tightened.
Her hand instinctively ghosted over the collar of her tunic, hiding the scarred brand of the Frostfall pack on her collarbone.
That is none of your business.
Eat the stew.
Rebuild your strength.
And as soon as the blizzard breaks, you leave.
For the next two weeks, an uneasy truce settled over the cabin.
The tension between them was palpable.
A thick wire pulled tort.
Taylor was a terrible patient, stubborn, demanding, and constantly pacing the small confines of the cabin like a caged predator.
Yet he watched her.
He watched the way she expertly butchered a snow hair, the gentle way she ground her herbs, and the sorrowful haunted look in her eyes when she stared into the fire late at night.
Despite his ruthless nature, Taylor found himself strangely drawn to her.
There was a resilience in Mave that rivaled his finest warriors.
She was hiding something he knew that much.
He had noticed her applying the ash and pine sap to her neck, deliberately destroying her natural scent.
He knew she was a wolf, but he didn’t push.
The Alpha King, a man who crushed rebellions beneath his heel, found himself patiently waiting for a solitary woman to trust him.
The fragile piece shattered on the 16th night.
The wind was howling outside, a violent crescendo, when Taylor suddenly went perfectly still.
He was sitting by the fire whittling a piece of pine, but his golden eyes darted toward the heavy wooden door.
Extinguish the fire,” Taylor hissed his voice, dropping to a lethal whisper.
“What?” Mave asked, startled.
“Do it now?” Mave threw a bucket of snow over the hearth, plunging the cabin into absolute darkness.
In the silence that followed, she heard it.
The faint rhythmic crunch of snow.
boots, multiple pairs, and then the undeniable putrid scent of wet fur and sour hail.
Mercenaries.
Jordan’s hounds, Taylor muttered, his muscles tensing.
They tracked my blood.
He was still severely injured.
His ribs had barely knitted together, and shifting into his wolf form would tear him apart from the inside.
For the first time in his life, the king was vulnerable.
A heavy fist pounded on the door.
“Open up in the name of the new King, Jordan.
We know someone is in there.
We smell the chimney smoke.
” Mave backed against the wall, her heart hammering in her throat.
“If they found a rogue here, they would kill them both.
If they realized who the rogue was, they would torture them first.
” Taylor picked up a heavy iron skinning knife from the table.
His body positioning itself between Mave and the door.
Even broken his instinct was to shield her.
“Stay behind me,” he growled.
“You can’t fight them,” Mave whispered, fiercely, grabbing his arm.
“There are at least six of them.
[clears throat] You’re half dead, Taylor.
” Before he could argue, the front door was kicked violently inward.
The wooden hinges splintering into the room.
Three massive brutes stepped into the moonlight pouring through the doorway, their eyes glowing an unnatural feral yellow.
Well, well.
The lead mercenary sneered, stepping into the cabin.
He was a hulking brute with a scarred face.
Looks like we found ourselves a little squatter.
And who’s your friend, sweetheart? Taylor prepared to lunge, ready to sacrifice his own life to tear out the throat of the leader.
But before he could move, Mave stepped out from behind him.
She didn’t cower.
She didn’t hide.
The quiet, submissive healer vanished, replaced by a fierce, desperate survivor.
Reaching into the folds of her cloak, Mave pulled out a small glass vial filled with a volatile glowing green liquid, highly concentrated wolf spain and sulfur dust.
An explosive deterrent she had spent years perfecting for an emergency just like this.
“Get out of my house,” Mave said, her voice icy and steady.
The mercenary laughed, taking a step forward.
or what, little girl? Mave smashed the vial directly into the roaring embers of the extinguished fire.
The reaction was instantaneous.
A blinding, deafening explosion of green smoke and agonizing chemical dust erupted into the small room.
The mercenaries shrieked, clawing at their burning eyes as the airborne wolf Spain seared their lungs.
“Taylor, now!” Mave screamed.
In the chaos, Taylor didn’t hesitate.
Moving with the lethal grace of a seasoned killer, he drove the iron skinning knife into the leader’s chest, twisting it upward.
The man dropped like a stone.
Taylor grabbed Mave by the waist, his massive arm hoisting her against his side, and he bulldozed through the remaining blinded mercenaries, bursting out into the freezing, howling blizzard.
They ran into the unforgiving blackness of the whispering peaks.
The outcast Omega and the disguised king fled into the snow.
Their fates now irrevocably bound by blood and survival.
The blizzard howled like a chorus of damned souls.
A merciless onslaught of ice and shadow that swallowed the whispering peaks whole.
Taylor and Mave plunged into the blinding white abyss.
their bodies battered by the freezing gale.
Every step was a battle against the elements, the snow dragging at their calves like iron chains.
Taylor, despite his massive size and monstrous strength, was running on borrowed time.
The silver poisoning had severely weakened his cellular regeneration, and the exertion of their escape was tearing at his freshly stitched wounds.
Mave guided him with desperate precision.
She knew these treacherous woods better than the predators that stalked them.
She led the towering alpha through a labyrinth of frozen pines and jagged ravines, moving steadily toward a hidden cavern system she had discovered during her first year of banishment.
When they finally breached the safety of the dark limestone cave, Taylor collapsed.
His massive frame hit the rocky floor with a sickening thud.
his breathing shallow and ragged.
“Taylor,” Mave cried out, falling to her knees beside him, her hands numb, and bleeding from the cold, frantically tore away the ruined blood soaked linen around his torso.
The stitches had held, but the surrounding flesh was inflamed, burning with an unnatural heat.
“Leave it!” Taylor ground out his jaw, clenched in pure agony.
His golden eyes flickered in the absolute darkness of the cavern.
The cold.
It slows the venom.
I just need time.
You don’t have time.
[clears throat] If infection sets in, your wolf won’t be able to fight it.
Mave countered fiercely.
She scrambled into the depths of the cave, locating a small hidden cache of emergency supplies she had stashed months ago.
Returning with flint dry kindling and a heavy woolen blanket, she quickly sparked a meager fire.
As the orange glow illuminated the cavern, Taylor finally got a clear look at his savior.
Mave’s heavy winter cloak had slipped from her shoulders during their frantic escape.
The high collar of her tunic was torn.
There, resting just above her collarbone, was the jagged, brutally burned scar of a pack brand.
It was a crescent moon pierced by a jagged pine branch, the emblem of the Frostfall pack.
But a vicious diagonal slash was burned over it, marking her as an exile, a traitor.
“You are of Frostfall,” Taylor stated his voice, a low, dangerous rumble that echoed off the damp cavern walls.
Alpha Desmond’s territory.
Mave froze her hands, trembling over the fire.
She pulled her tunic up defensively, her eyes dropping to the stone floor.
I was, she whispered the shame of her exile, still a raw, bleeding wound in her heart.
Before they cast me out to rot, Taylor pushed himself up, resting his broad scarred back against the jagged cave wall.
The pieces were rapidly falling into place.
The Frostfall Pack was situated on the southern border of his kingdom.
They were a weak, cowardly pack, heavily influenced by the political minations of the capital.
“What was the crime?” he demanded, his golden eyes narrowing.
“Treason!” Mave spat bitterly the injustice of it, igniting a sudden fiery anger within her.
They accused me of poisoning the pack’s main reservoir with wolf spain.
Three pups died.
Dozens were sickened.
I was the pack’s lead apothecary and omega whose sole purpose was to heal.
They found barrels of the poison hidden beneath my floorboards.
It was a setup of brutal, calculated lie, but Desmond needed someone to hang for the tragedy.
Who better than an orphaned omega? Taylor’s breath hitched.
A chilling realization washed over him.
A truth so devastating it temporarily eclipsed his physical agony.
When did this happen? Mave.
Three winters ago, she answered, looking at him with confusion.
Taylor closed his eyes, a heavy, suffocating silence descending upon the cave.
Three years ago, the exact timeline when his former general, Lord Jordan, had begun fortifying his private armies, Jordan had claimed he was securing the southern borders against rogue incursions.
It wasn’t a setup born of petty pack rivalry little bird, Taylor said softly, the lethal calm returning to his voice.
He opened his eyes, the gold blazing with a terrifying absolute authority.
It was an experiment, a weapons test.
Mave stared at him, her heart hammering against her ribs.
What are you talking about? Jordan didn’t care about your pack.
Taylor explained his voice, devoid of emotion, yet carrying the weight of a falling executioner’s axe.
He was testing the lethal concentration of liquid wolf Spain in a water supply.
He needed to know how much was required to kill a wolf without them tasting the bitterness.
You were framed by a traitor plotting to overthrow the throne.
How could you possibly know that? Mave breathed, taking a slow step backward.
You’re a rogue.
I am no rogue.
Taylor forced himself to stand.
Despite the horrific injuries, despite the blood and the dirt, an undeniable aura of absolute power radiated from him, filling the cavern with an oppressive, suffocating dominance that brought Mave to her knees on sheer instinct.
I am Taylor of the Obsidian Wastes, Alpha of the Northern Kingdoms, and I swear to you, upon the blood of my ancestors, the men who ruined your life will burn in the fires of my vengeance.
Mave was paralyzed.
The Alpha King, the ruthless tyrant known as the Obsidian Beast, a warlord whose very name made neighboring kingdoms tremble in terror, had been sleeping on her kitchen table.
and she had scolded him.
She had threatened him with a fire poker.
Let the enemies of the throne know this.
The obsidian beast does not forgive, and he does not forget.
Blood paid in betrayal shall be returned a thousandfold.
The royal decree of the first northern king.
You You are the king,” she stammered, bowing her head in sudden overwhelming terror.
“Look at me, Mave,” Taylor commanded gently.
He stepped forward, placing a massive, calloused hand under her chin, forcing her to meet his golden gaze.
“You do not bow to me.
You dragged me from the jaws of death.
You fought for me when my own blood brothers drove silver into my back.
You are an omega by birth, but you have the heart of a warrior.
Over the next 3 days, hidden within the cavern, Taylor outlined his desperate plan to reclaim his kingdom.
He detailed the political landscape, revealing the truth of the rebellion.
We cannot go north to the capital.
Taylor explained, tracing a rough map in the cave dust with a stick.
Jordan holds the fortress.
We must head east to the human territories to Lord William of the House of Sinclair.
My grandfather saved his family from a rogue slaughter decades ago.
The Sinclair’s are bound to the throne by a blood oath.
If we can reach his fortress, I can rally the remnants of my loyalists.
Mave looked at the map, her mind racing.
The eastern pass requires crossing the Blood River.
It will be frozen, but Jordan’s patrols will be heavily guarding the bridges.
We can’t outrun them, Taylor.
Not with your injuries.
Then we won’t outrun them.
Taylor smiled a dark, feral expression that promised sheer violence.
We will go right through them.
The journey eastward was a gruelling test.
For two weeks, Taylor and Mave traveled under cover of darkness.
As his wounds healed, Taylor’s true power returned.
His senses sharpened, his reflexes became lightning fast, and his oppressive alpha aura wrapped around Mave like a shield.
He watched her with a fierce possessive intensity.
The banished Omega, stripped of her dignity, was magnificent.
They reached the frozen banks of Blood River on the solstice eve.
Looming across the ice was the stone fortress of the Sinclair family.
Blocking their path upon the main bridge was a heavy garrison of usurper mercenaries.
30 men stood armed with silver spears and crossbows.
We slip across the ice downstream, Mave whispered, lying flat on a snowy ridge.
No, Taylor replied his voice, a dangerous purr.
They are hunting us.
No one on that bridge lives to report my survival.
Before Mave could protest, Taylor stood.
The transformation was explosive.
Bones snapped and reformed.
Muscles expanded as thick midnight fur erupted from his skin.
Within seconds, standing upon the ridge was the true obsidian beast.
With an earthshattering roar echoing across the valley, Taylor charged.
The mercenaries panicked.
Shouts of terror rang out as the massive wolf barreled into their ranks.
Taylor was a blur of devastation.
Silver arrows bounced off his hide as he tore through the barricades, snapping spears with his jaws, rending armor and flesh with ease.
Mave refused to stay behind.
Drawing her iron knife, she charged down the ridge.
She arrived just as a mercenary leveled a crossbow at Taylor’s blind spot.
Mave threw herself forward, driving her knife deep into the man’s shoulder.
He screamed, dropping the weapon, but backhanded Mave across her face, sending her crashing onto the hard stone.
The mercenary drew a dagger looming over her.
He raised the blade.
He never brought it down.
A shadow eclipsed the moonlight.
Taylor’s jaws clamped around the mercenary, lifting him effortlessly before throwing him violently over the edge of the bridge.
The remaining mercenaries fled, terrified by the carnage.
Taylor shifted back into his human form, his chest heaving, his body covered in blood.
He rushed to Mave, dropping to his knees and pulling her close.
“Are you hurt?” he demanded, inspecting the bruise on her cheek.
“I am fine,” Mave gasped.
gripping his broad shoulders.
The path to Sinclair is clear.
Taylor pulled her tightly against his chest.
He could finally smell her true scent beneath the pine sap.
It was a sweet blend of honey cedar and wild rain.
The scent of his mate.
“You brave woman,” Taylor whispered.
“You saved me again.
” Within Castle Sinclair, the war turned.
Lord William wept, seeing his king alive, pledging his garrison of 5,000 men.
Word spread rapidly underground.
The king was alive.
Strategy for retaking the capital infiltration.
Wolves disabled the silver ballistas.
Siege Williams forces cut off supply lines.
Execution.
Taylor breached the great hall alone, engaging the usurper in a duel.
The final battle lasted 3 minutes.
Taylor tore the usurper’s throat out before he could draw his blade.
The remaining guards dropped their weapons in absolute submission.
King Taylor stood before the crown as generals cheered, his eyes searched until they found her.
Mave stood near the doors, dressed in fine silks, looking ready to bolt.
Taylor descended the steps.
He walked directly to Mave.
Your Majesty,” Mave whispered, beginning to curtsy.
Taylor caught her hands.
He traced the scarred brand on her collarbone.
“The pack that cast you out has been dissolved,” Taylor announced clearly.
“You are no longer an exile Mave.
” He dropped to one knee before her.
“The court gasped.
You found a broken beast in the snow and you gave him life.
Taylor said, his golden eyes locked onto hers.
Be my mate.
Be my queen.
Mave looked at the fearsome warrior.
A brilliant smile broke across her face.
“Get up, you foolish king,” she whispered, pulling him to his feet and pressing her lips to his.
The cheers shook the castle.
The banished Omega had conquered the king.
Together they would rule the kingdom in an era of unbroken peace.
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