I thought that being a mate meant ‘forever,’ but that was all a lie. Danika I hadn’t been looking for anything more than a good time when I met Gia, but when she told me that I was her mate—and that we were meant to be together—I believed her. Why wouldn’t I? But five years later, the life I’d built for myself with the Quickthorn Pack fell apart, and the only thing on my mind was getting as far away from Gia as possible. The best place to cool off and sort my sh*t out? A place where Gia would never dare to show her face. Lightcrest Territory. Avery I was used to being solitary. Estranged from my family and everything the Lightcrest Pack represented, I’d set up my own tattoo shop and made my own way in the world—and that suited me just fine. I’d made my own family. The last thing I needed was an interruption to my routine. The last thing I needed was a brush with fate.