Not Your Second Chance，My daughter and I have found our new spring

I was the Female Alpha of the Stormlands pack. But gave up my position to my brother.

All so I could stay by the side of Adrian, the Alpha of the Valley pack, the man I had loved in secret for six years.

My brother couldn't bear to watch me wait any longer. On Valentine's Day, he went so far as to slip a potion into Adrian's drink and send him to my bed.

When Adrian woke, he refused to accept me as his second-chance mate.

But he didn't reject the bond either. He simply agreed to marry me, cold as ice.

Shortly after the wedding, he dumped all pack affairs on me and left for five years.

I gave birth to our daughter Ivy alone and waited for him to come back.

Five years later, I pushed aside an important pack meeting and took Ivy to the airport to pick him up.

My daughter reached for him, begging to be held. He glanced down and said flatly, "Sorry. I'm a germaphobe."

After that, Ivy and I bathed three times a day. I scrubbed the house until it was spotless as a sterile ward.

But he still wouldn't come home, and he never once held either of us.

Everything changed when I saw an interview. Someone asked, "Alpha Adrian, when were you happiest?"

He smiled carelessly. "Last week, I guess. I put Mia to sleep, then pulled Selena into the bathroom."

Selena was the mate who had rejected him. She had run off with another wolf and had Mia.

Rumor had it they had been living together for the entire five years he was gone.

So the rumors were true all along...

That night, I stopped hoping he would ever accept me as his second-chance mate. I decided to take my daughter and leave the Valley for good.

I reclaimed my title as Female Alpha of the Stormlands, absorbed the entire Valley pack into my territory, and took my daughter out of his life forever!