Bound to the Fractured Wolf

<p><strong>He was my darkness and I was his light. Maybe that was how fate intended it all along.</strong></p><p><strong>Darius</strong></p><p>The quiet herbalist? <strong>She can't be my mate</strong>. My wolf was fractured-we were dying. Poisoned. Tortured. Split into pieces I'll never put back together. It's the only explanation.</p><p>But when I collapse at her door she's there and my wolf is desperate to claim her. Both halves of him screaming in unison for the first time since I broke.</p><p>I push her away because it's all too much too fast. I'm not worthy of a mate. Especially not now that I'm scarred inside and out.</p><p>I'm too broken too damaged too far gone. Anything good in me was burned away in that cell.</p><p>No she's better off without me.</p><p>Now I just have to convince my wolf-and my heart-to let her go.</p><p><strong>Elena</strong></p><p>I've watched him from the shadows for years certain he never saw me. So when he stumbles to my cottage and declares me his mate I'm more than shocked. I'm shaken to my very core.</p><p>Seconds after claiming me he collapses from the torture and I'm left wondering if this is all some twisted dream. Or more likely a nightmare.</p><p>But I can't focus on my confused feelings because I've got to save his life to have any chance of finding out if this bond is real. His body is shattered and his wolf is fractured and it's going to take every ounce of my power to bring him back from death's door.</p><p><strong>The only problem? The alpha who tortured him is my father. And he's coming to take me back.</strong></p>