"Dad, please hear me this time," I pleaded, my eyes brimming with tears. "Please stop, you're ruining my makeup." "I can't handle this, Father. He threatened me," I cried, burying my face in my hands. "You can, and you will. Dry your tears, Alphas don't show weakness," he said, not acknowledging the bruises on my neck and wrists that were visible through my tears. --- Kendall yearned to escape her father's control and find her soulmate. But once she finally found them, she realized her choice had been a grave error. Her mate turned out to be completely different from what she imagined, embodying everything she despised. In fact, he was worse than her father – the very person she had been escaping all her life, and now she was trapped with him. --- All he sought was his destined partner. Unbeknownst to him, that partner happened to be the daughter of his sworn enemy, someone he had secretly sought to exact his pent-up anger upon.
