On the (night of her eighteenth birt*$hday, Leila Winters +
*witn^%?essed her parents b# eing mu[$]rdered by the Wol#_=%f Kin@g\[ Colt, and = )she hersel#*^]f was .$taken capti!+:,$ve. She was shoc-_ke=d to disco.*v)er :that Colt wa -@s actually her fated
!mate, w^#^h ich `; ma,\+de it impossible for her to%?; take reven
ge \with  !her @own hands. As she was forced to get cl-;ose to C )olt, Leila %_
gradual, ly uncovered that the?; truth w as  `?fa=r fro./$
@m= w[)=hat_ \,_she had assumed.$ He
r _ ?fa ther was ) not a t$.*ra?ito% _ r,\% but had kill
ed `the
`+ k
(%ing t((o protect :her. :`=,Col[t, th\ough the s?on of (`the-  former Wolf King, #,
de=\_spised @pu ^re-$blood supr emacy. The t.? ru\ e mastermi nd was / Colt’s half\,
,-\)si,:@ster Snell ,\ who]$ h^_;ad murdered L *eila’s biological mo)th !er an^d impersonated: he.%+r fo^ =r.:. ten year^s, ma!?nipul-(ating everything. In^ the end, L/eila saw thr\+, ough]( the / @*deceptio n a;nd plunged a!+ dagger into Snell’s heart. Colt  v`ol$\ u:n-(  tarily reli nquish%?ed the throne an@=?d wa$lked hand in] han/d with Leila- t @@ow:@;_ard a future dete_r?m^ined by love rath]$:+er,@ t#\ha$n proph!?ecy.