Banished to freeze, she woke up trapped under a pile of massive wolves. They weren’t eating her; they were warming her

«Shut up,» she mumbled, a real smile—the first of her life, it felt like—touching her lips.

«You knew this would happen.»

«I knew you would happen,» he corrected, his voice full of reverence. He brushed a thumb over the silver crescent mark on her palm, and his own mark pulsed in answer. «The healer of the broken.»

She looked past him at the nine other faces that were now her world. Ronan the Tracker was already sharpening a blade. Elias was looking at the barn, his blue eyes calculating, planning.

Gabriel was cleaning his medical supplies. The twins, Jasper and Owen, were already arguing about the best way to build a fire. They weren’t waiting for orders. They were simply being her family.

«Ronan,» she called, and her voice, her new voice, rang out. «Your watch. Finn, Elias, scout the perimeter. I want to know this valley by sunrise.»

They snapped to attention, smiling. «Yes, my Queen,» Elias said, bowing with a flourish, which earned him a shove from Ronan.

«We stay here,» Amanda said, looking at the broken-down barn. «This is our home. This… this is our beginning.»

Caleb took her hand, his fingers lacing with hers. «And what a beginning it is,» he said.

They walked back into the barn, not as a refuge from a storm, but as the seat of a new power. The barn where an Omega had expected to die was now the foundation of a new world. The nest of ten wolves had been the cradle of a Queen, and she was just getting started.

And so the rejected Omega, the girl left to die in a barn, found her power, not in spite of her rejection, but because of it. Amanda’s story teaches us that sometimes the world has to tear you down to your very foundation before you can rebuild yourself into the Queen you were always meant to be.

She wasn’t just surrounded by a nest of wolves; she was surrounded by a destiny she was finally ready to claim.

But the story isn’t over. Alpha Marcus is still in charge of his pack, and a blood moon is on the horizon. What kind of darkness is coming for them? And how will Amanda and her ten wolf guard face it?