Mark of the Alpha: Blood Oath

Eli has spent his life running. From the breeding pens of his birth pack, from Alphas who only see him as property. When he trespasses into Blackthorn territory, his luck ends. Ronan Vale, the brutal Alpha feared across the south, takes him down in the snow and sinks his teeth into his throat, forcing a mate bond that chains Eli’s body and wolf to his will.
Dragged into a pack that runs like a syndicate, Eli becomes Ronan’s unwilling possession. Every moment is a battle. Defy, submit, survive. The bond betrays him at every turn, twisting fear into craving, hate into heat. Ronan’s obsession is as merciless as his rule. He treats Eli like a prize, a pet, a weapon, and yet his grip is never just about control. Beneath the violence lies something far more dangerous. Devotion.
Outside threats gather. The rival Redmaw pack smells weakness, circling Blackthorn’s borders with promises of blood. Inside, Ronan’s lieutenants question whether their Alpha is losing control, undone by his new Omega. And Eli, caught between cage and wilderness, keeps searching for an escape that never lasts. Each attempt only proves what Ronan already knows. There is no running from the bond.
What begins as capture and resistance sharpens into obsession, then into something neither man wanted to admit. Love written in bruises and fire, forged in the violence of pack wars and the intimacy of need. To survive Blackthorn, Eli must decide whether freedom lies in breaking the bond, or in surrendering to the only man who can never let him go.