Book excerpt: "Do you love her?" Zola's voice came out shaky and her lips were pouty. I couldn't resist any longer. I needed her like I needed the air to breathe. I dipped my head in to capture her lips with mine, claiming our very first kiss. "You deliberately chose to be with someone else after telling me you wanted me. I was a fool. I had to find out, through a grapevine I might add, that you have a girlfriend. But that isn't even the cherry on top. No, the cherry is, that after weeks of this shit, I finally get the nerve to confront you and your response is to try and kiss me?" The words spoken out loud made me sound like a prick. How did I let it come to this? "I thought you loved me..." She whispered when I didn't respond. I do... But I can't. She was the forbidden fruit. The one thing I couldn't have, but desired above all. "Shanti is a wolf from a powerful family." *** Elias Hendricks is the most powerful Alpha King known. He had almost everything a man could ever need or want, the only thing he lacked was a mate to share it with. The one he desired above all, he could never have. How could everything feel so right, but be so wrong? Zola Harkness is a kind, loving, and genuine human hybrid who happened to be raised in a pack of royal wolves. She was a conspicuous person who happened to also be ingenue. The kind of woman that all men craved. However, she only desired one. What will Elias do when he is presented with an ultimatum? Forced to choose between the one he loves and his Kingdom. Will he find a way to overthrow the werewolf law, taking Zola as his human mate? Or will he walk away from the one he loves forever taking on a chosen mate to rule by his side?