Shivering Pine Alpha Mate Rejection (The Shivering Pine Alpha Mate Rejection #4)

He carried his rejected fated mate through the gates of a pack that wants her dead. She is his enemy’s daughter, his enemies-to-lovers nightmare, and the only thing standing between Shivering Pine and ruin — and she knows it.

She is his rejected mate and his enemy’s daughter, and the fated mate bond didn’t care about either of those facts when it snapped into place. Now Ember is inside Torin Gage’s fortress — not as his Luna, not as his equal, but as the secret he cannot afford to keep and cannot afford to lose.

He is ice where she runs fire. Tactical, controlled, built for cold decisions — and every cold decision he makes now has her name underneath it. He told the Pack Council she was a target, not a spy. He put her in his quarters under his direct protection. He is holding the line between her and death with nothing but his authority.

His authority is fracturing.

The Pack Council wants her gone. A hostile pack war is already burning at the northern border. And somewhere inside the stronghold, moving unseen through the passages Ember has no access to, is the spy her father planted to make sure the rival packs win — by making sure she doesn’t.

Ember isn’t asking to be protected. She is demanding to be an Equal Luna: the right to stand beside him in the war room, not locked inside it. Torin knows she’s right. Proving it to a pack that despises her bloodline may cost him everything he’s spent his life building.

The greatest threat isn’t coming from outside the walls.