Name He Never Gave

He was supposed to be the one person who would never make me question where I belonged.Instead, he was the man who refused to give me his name.Five years ago, Ewan Caerlock loved me in private, claimed me as his mate behind closed doors, and then stood before his royal court and chose the Crown over me.He had reasons.I had a broken heart.So I left Edinburgh with the one secret that could have changed everything.His daughter.I built a life without him. A good one. A safe one.I became the woman who stopped waiting to be chosen.And my little girl grew up knowing she was loved, even if one line on her birth record remained blank.Then one medical test exposes the truth.My daughter carries royal wolf blood.His blood.And suddenly Ewan is standing in front of me again, older, colder, more powerful, and staring at the five-year-old girl who looks far too much like him.Now the Crown wants answers.His family wants control.And the mate bond I buried years ago is waking up like it never forgot him.Neither did I.But Ewan does not get to walk back into my life because fate says we belong together.He does not get to claim my daughter because of blood.And he definitely does not get to call me his after proving once already that loving me was not enough to make him choose me.If he wants a second chance, he will have to earn more than my forgiveness.He will have to prove that this time, when love costs him something, he will not let me stand alone.Because I do not need his crown.I do not need his protection.And after everything I survived without him, I no longer need his name.The only question is whether I still want the man who once refused to give it.