Barrett Tremblay survived the attack that nearly tore the Crescent Pack apart but he lost more than just an eye that day. The future he’d planned for himself as Head Enforcer with a mate and a family had died at the hands of a knife wielding maniac. All these years later, he thought he’d accepted his change in position, learned to manage the PTSD, even gotten used to the looks from strangers when they saw his scars, but then the unimaginable happens... Gia Martin only remembers the stories of the Crescent Pack coup that left her father dead and her mother brokenhearted. She’d been a little girl when what was left of her family fled in the night and her memories of her birth pack are fuzzy and faded. All of them except for him. The man who had saved them, the one she’d idolized for what felt like forever, the one she couldn’t be sure even survived the fighting but whose handsome face still lingers in her mind. She’s an adult now. Old enough to make her own decisions, to choose her own pack, and she knows there’s a reason everything inside of her yearns to return to Noir. Only, what she finds there isn’t at all what she imagined. Barrett is a broken man and Gia’s a young woman with her whole life ahead of her. But if fate decides they’re the answer to what the other needs, who are they to fight it? *Note from the Author - While this novella can be read on it's own, it is best read as a bonus story in the Fated Mates world. It is set after the conclusion of the series and features many of the main characters from the series living out their HEA so to avoid spoilers it is best read after Unforgivable Fate (the last book in the Fated Mates Series). This novella also features an exclusive sneak peek at Book One in an all new paranormal wolf shifter series coming in 2024 so keep reading after The End for your bonus content.*