After breaking up with my fated mate, I left the pack lands alone, hiding my shattered soul from everyone. For five years, I changed my name, severed all my mental links, and made a clean break with my past. Every wolf in my old pack thought I was dead. They thought I died on the day my fated mate held a mating ceremony with my stepsister behind my back. For five whole years, moonlight roses were placed on my empty grave, every single day without fail. Five years later, I returned to lay flowers on my mother's grave. My ex-mate, Asher Blackwood, was there again, holding a bouquet of moonlight roses to mourn me. After a moment of shock and awkwardness, I managed a greeting. “Long time no see, Asher.” He flinched, hiding the roses behind his back. “Long time no see, Lily… I thought… you were dead.” I smiled, pretending not to notice his wolf eyes instantly turning blood-red. He wasn’t wrong. Lily Vance was dead. She died five years ago, on the day he betrayed me and mated with his mysterious stepsister, Bella.
