“For three years, I was Alpha Brennan Dawson's dirty little secret. By day, I was his efficient, wolfless assistant. By night, I was the only one who could calm the beast in his soul. Then his chosen mate, Kassie, came home, and the man who'd held me hours before looked at me like I was furniture. His first order of business was to erase his past. He commanded me to draft a Severance Declaration for the fated mate he'd rejected in the rain six years ago. He wanted to give Kassie a clean slate. He even told me to add a generous compensation clause from the Pack Treasury, a reward for the rejected girl's six years of silence. I stood there, taking notes, while he dictated the terms of my own erasure, the ultimate insult slapping me in the face. He had no idea. He didn't know the girl he'd rejected in a dark corridor was me. He didn't know the woman he was paying to disappear was the same one who'd spent the last three years warming his bed. I would write the declaration. I would take his money. And when he signed his name to my freedom, I would disappear from the life of the man who broke me twice.”