After Selena was forced to leave Alpha Kian's kingdom for being his second chance mate she swore to never come back, leaving her family and friends behind.

Without any other choice, she leaves the pack and has to survive on her own.

With no pack or family to help her, she builds up her life.

When fate one day interferes and she finds herself captured by the king's guards as an enemy and tossed in the castle's prison to be tortured.

Can she escape without the King finding out his mate has come back to his kingdom, and keep her secrets hidden from him?

When her life and the ones she cares about depend on her secrets.

Is the King still the cold-hearted mate she once met a late night in the dark or has he changed?

Selenas pov

The truck comes to a halt and my body rolls into someone else besides me, I'm too weak to move and can hardly open my eyes from the swelling in my face. Hearing some voices I know it's the king's men and I'm guessing we have arrived in his kingdom.

The doors back in the truck open and I hear some screaming before bodies are dragged out of the truck, hands comes and grab me, lifting my body up and tossing me to the ground. I hit the hard concrete with a thud, biting my tongue to prevent myself from making any sound.

I feel blood oozing out of my tongue and spit it out in front of me, blood pouring down my jaw. Trying to take in my surroundings with my ears, I know we were about fifteen people on the truck and I heard more than one truck when we arrived here.

"Get up on your feet rogue!" A guard stops by my body and kicks me in my stomach. All air leaves my body and I have to clutch my arms around my stomach in pain, trying to open my eyes I look around and in the corner of my eyes, I see a gorgeous man in a dark grey suit walking closer to us. I have a feeling I know who it is!

He has three more men beside him and by the aura around him I can already guess who he is and the men beside him.

Trying to sit up I lean forward and keep my head down, whatever happens, my true identity can't be revealed.

The man walks closer and I have to keep my raising heart down, I know they will pick up my heart rate if I don't keep it steady. I see his feets walking closer to where I am sitting on the ground before he stops a bit in front of us. I just breathe slowly and focus on keeping my head low, hoping he won't notice me.

" is this all?" I hear him say and that's all I need to know, it's him. I will never forget his voice as long as I live... My mate!

" yes my king! " comes a guard's voice to answer him.

Keeping my eyes locked on the ground I wait for what's to come.

" take them to the dungeons and start to interrogate them!" He orders out and guards start to drag people down a stair. A pair of arms come and grab me before I'm being dragged over to the stairs, he doesn't stop and my body bounces down every step. I'm already badly beaten up and for every step down the stairs, I try just to hold in my whimpers. I will not give them that kind of satisfaction.

Coming down the last step the guard drags me inside and I have to just try and breathe through the bad stench of blood and body fluids that hits my nose the moment we come inside the building.

The guard stops outside a cell and opens the door up before he tosses me inside and I land on the floor. smacking my head on the hard concrete, feeling my head crack up by the impact and a warm substance running to my cheek.

I have no energy left to move and my wolf is dormant from all this wolfsbane they have ingested us with, I can't heal from my wounds and black spots start to dance in front of my eyes. I don't fight it right now! Just letting the darkness suck me down and take me away from this place.

I think back on the moment I saw my mate all those years back. I followed a mouth-watering scent and it lead me to the cemetery. It got stronger when I walked a bit further in, and I couldn’t resist it. That's when I saw him! He stood beside a new grave with his back towards me, I didn't need him to turn around for me to know it was my mate.

I stopped In my tracks when I saw whose grave he stood by. Cursing to the moon goddess in my head! How cruel could she be?

My mate is the Alpha king... Kian!

The king over all werewolves and he just lost his mate, they said she was pregnant and to week, she couldn't survive a pregnancy and died just a month into her pregnancy. He buried her yesterday!

I try to slowly walk backwards without making any sound when I see him take a sniff in the air and slowly turn around.

His eyes meet mine and my breath hitches in my body. He is so handsome! tall, and very muscular. Black hair and in the darkness I can se his glowing amber eyes.

He is breathtakingly handsome!

"MATE" the words just slip out of my mouth before I can stop them.

-NO !! He roars at me, taking long strides toward me. He comes to stand right in front of me and I am too afraid to even breathe.

He takes my chin in a firm grip and tilts my head up to look at him. He looks me deep in my eyes, sparks shoot out from his touch and I gasp from the feeling.

”You are not my mate! And you never will be! ”

Hi spits out the words to me. He’s so angry, that his alpha aura slips out of him and I can barely breathe anymore.

”you will leave my land and never come back! If You ever set your foot at my lands again I will kill you and your whole family! Is that understood?" He says with such hatred in his voice.

I can't move, can't look in his eyes, the pain I feel almost has me falling to the ground. I think I would have if his grip on my chin wasn’t that hard. A whimper leaves my lips.

" I said is that understood!" He barks out to me and a tear slip down my chin. I have to hold back a sob from the pain I feel.

His grip on my chin tightens and all I can do is nod. If his look on me could kill, I would be dead right now. He let go of me and I fall to my knees. Trying to gather myself from all this heartache I feel.

"Now get the fuck off my land!" He booms out and his alpha command washed over me and I can’t do anything else than obey.

I scramble to my feet and start running.

Selena pov

I'm jolted awake by some cold water being thrown at me, I suck in some air into my lungs and try to move my arms and legs but every limb in my body hurts. Right now I'm nothing more than dead weight and all I can do is move my fingers.

" get up rogue whore !" I hear one of the guards yell at me and even if I wanted I can't get up. A foot come up and hit me in my stomach, the pain takes my breath away and I try to gasp for air.

" just pick her up and taker her to the room!" I hear another voice and my guess is they will take me to a torture room. The guard bends down and picks me up, I get tossed over his shoulder and I have no resistance in my body at all.

I feel how my blood travels down to my face and the swelling only makes it hurt more. It starts to pulsate in my ears and I will faint if they don't let me down soon.

" place her in the chair and make sure she is properly fastened!" A voice boomed out and I feel his aura, I know he is a higher rank wolf and probably the beta or gamma to the king.

I get tossed in a chair and the guard takes my hands and fastens them to the chair, my arms get locked with some ropes and all I could move right now is my legs. I feel the guard squat down and start tying my legs, he is done with one of my legs.

" you can skip the other! This bitch won't put up with much resistance she is almost dead anyway" the voice says again and I don't try to open my eyes just let my head hang down.

The guard let me go and I hear some tools being placed on a table, I can only guess what they will use on me.

" bring the hammer! Let's start with breaking her fingers" I hear him say and some feet move over the floor before I feel his presence close to me.

His hand comes down and grips my face only to force my head back. Keeping my eyes closed I just breathe for what's about to come.

" Tell me where your leader is!" He says to me and even if I knew the answer I couldn't tell him with how swollen my tongue is. His pressure on my cheek increases.

" you won't tell me? Let me make one thing clear! I will get it out of you in one way or the other!" He let go of my cheek and it only takes seconds before I feel the hammer on my pinky finger, crushing it under his blow. I can't hold back a whimper and I feel how tears form behind my eyelids.

I try to breathe through the pain and feel how my stomach turns upside down and I have to empty whatever I have in it on the floor. My puke run down my legs and I get hit in my face so my head whips to the side.

" that's because your puke hit my shoe!" I almost faint from the blow and don't know how much more I can take without my wolf.

I hear more men walking closer and the second his scent hits my nose I know my time is up if he finds out it's me.

They come closer and I hear them walk into the room, stopping a bit away. My head is hanging down and I hope with how bad I have been beaten he won't recognize me, he might not even remember me after all these years since he forced me out of his kingdom.

" got anything out of her!" His voice comes to my ears and a shiver runs down my body. I know my scent is hidden from him with help of a potion but at this rate, with all this beating I don't know how much longer it will hold.

" no, this bitch is barely alive! I don't think we got much use for her! I can just finish her off!" The voice says and I just sit here and listen to them.

"Let me have a look at her!" I hear my mate say and fear creeps up my spine, I can't let him touch me and find out.

I will rather be killed than let him know it's me.

Forcing my eyes open a bit I see the man in front of me with his legs on each side of my legs, giving me the perfect shoot to kick him in his crotch with my foot. I know it will probably hurt ten times worse with his anger and I might not survive this, it's a long shoot and one I have to take. Muster up every ouns of strength I have left I kick him with my free foot in his crotch.

Earning me a furious growl before his hand comes to my face and he hit me so hard I fall to the ground still tied to the chair. My head cracks open on the floor again and this time I can't even whimper. Feeling how my life leaves my body, slowly darkness starts to suck me in.

My mate's feet come to stop in front of me and I hear him squat down to me.

He sits there and I hear him sniff in the air.

" Kian what's wrong?" One of his men says and I don't care anymore. This is it! I'm not going to make it out of here alive.

" I don't know! Something is off with her! Take her to the cell and se if she makes it through the night." He says and gets up from the floor. I hear them start walking out of the room and I try to listen to where they are going before darkness takes me.

Kian pov

Walking out of the room I get this feeling I need to go back to her, push the feeling aside and keep walking. something is off with her and we need to get to the bottom of it.

" What did you pick up about her?" My beta Declan asks me the moment we step out of the interrogation room.

" That's just it! I didn't pick up anything. She has no scent at all. " I tell him when we make our way down the hall.

" strange! She came in with the rogues we caught, none of the guards picked up anything different about her" he says when we come to the end of the hall, looking around almost every cell down here is occupied with rogues, we have been fighting off outside the kingdom. They have attacked our alliances and everyone is trying to find out what's going on here.

" find out who caught her and beat her up! I want to know the smallest detail!" I say to him before walking up the stairs.

" I will go and talk to the patrol who caught them!" He says and walks the other way once we come upstairs.

I make my way over the yard and head to the castle, coming inside I get straight to my office. his rouge problem we have been facing lately none of us can get to the bottom of.

Looking through some files in my office when my dad comes walking inside.

" hey, son! I heard you caught some more rogues yesterday. Anything new?" He asks before he takes a seat in front of me.

I place my files down on the table and sit back in my chair.

" No there isn't. None of them says a word, even when they are beaten to death they keep their mouth shut!" I tell him.

"Something is off about all this! And you haven't found anything on the disappearances?" I drag a hand through my hair and look down at my files. We have been missing several people over the last year and no pack has found any trace of them.

"Right now there is nothing new," I say when there is a knock on my office door and Declan opens the door.

He walks right to the chair beside my dad and takes a seat.

" found something?" I say and he sits back in his seat.

" I found the guard that captured her, but none of them have anything to say about her. It all went down so fast! When they shot them with wolfsbane they started to fight each other and once they got them most of them were already beaten up!" He says with a frown on his forehead and I already know there is something more.

" and what?" I say when he doesn't continue.

" Well, several of our guards say they saw the white wolf in the fight!" Looking at him he looks as puzzled as I. The white wolf is extremely rare and we haven't had any in several hundred years. That's how rare they are!

We can only read about them in books and all it says is that every white wolf has different gifts, some have several and some only have one.

About three years ago we started to hear rumors about a white wolf being spotted, what has us more puzzled is there are reports from all over the country and not a specific place.

"How could it be and where did it go?" I ask him

" no one saw what happened to it" he sighs and leans forward.

" Could it be their leader?" He asks the question I have been having on my mind for a while.

"Could be" I just state, I will have to go down tomorrow myself and start interrogating everyone who has made it through the night.

Several of them were in bad shape and might not make it through.

" We are going out tonight! Why don’t you join us?" Declan asks and looks at me.

" I don't have the time!" I just state to him.

" son I think you should! You don’t know maybe you have a second chance mate out there and you won't find her in here" my dad says and I look at him for a brief moment.

I never told them I already found her three years ago at the cemetery when I just had buried my first mate.

I chased her out of my kingdom, I don't want a weak mate again and that little girl in front of me was just like my first mate. I'll rather be without a mate than be mated to a weak one again. I have never regretted my decision!

" No I don't have and I don't want one" I just tell them and start going through my files again.

"Well think about it, we can just grab something to eat," Declan says before he rises from his chair and starts walking to the door. He opened it and walks out, leaving Me and my dad alone in my office.

" son you need to come outside of these walls, it has been three years since she died! It's time to move on." I just shrug my shoulders at him. None of them will understand if I tell them about her. I guess my parents will have the hardest time understanding why I did it.

" alright I will let you do it your way," he says and raises from his seat. I give him a nod before he walks out of my office. When I am alone I open my drawer and take out the file from the bottom. I haven't looked at it in several years. Placing it on my desk I open it up. Her beautiful blue eyes are the first I see, she looks so fragile and innocent in the photo. After I chased her out of my kingdom I learned she was the daughter of my head warrior and they searched for her day and night for almost six months before they gave up. She left without a trace once she stepped out of my kingdom. I even helped to search for her, a part of me just wanted to know where she went but there was no trace of her.

Closing her file I put I back in the drawer and turn off the lights in my office before walking out.