In one life, he died unloved. In this one, he’s reborn as a disgrace. But fate doesn’t just give second chances—it gives power.

Lucid Colossi spent his entire life on a hospital bed—abandoned, dying, forgotten. He never knew love, only needles and pity. But when death finally came, something went wrong—or maybe, terribly right.

He wakes up in the body of Hazel Vernon, a sickly alpha female in a world where alphas are meant to be male, and females like her are seen as biological failures. Betrayed by her family, discarded by society, and rejected by all four of her soulmates, Hazel’s fate seems even crueler than Lucid’s.

Until she crashes into a secret so forbidden it’s nearly a myth: The Enigma—a being with no shadow, no heartbeat, and no place in the alpha-beta-omega system.

His name is Val Earnhardt. Cold. Untouchable. Unmated.

Until her.

One bite from him turns her world upside down.

One night with him seals her fate.

Now, Hazel is no longer the disgrace of the Vernon family. She’s the wife of the most dangerous man alive, shielded by the powerful Earnhardt bloodline, kissed by wealth, obsessed over by a husband who sees her as his one true salvation.

But old enemies want her dead. Former soulmates want her back. And the world isn’t ready to watch an alpha female rise—pregnant, powerful, and mated to a man who isn’t even human.

What happens when the girl everyone threw away becomes the most dangerous woman in the room?

​The very sight of the hospital filled me with a familiar, acidic frustration. I was here on a ridiculous errand, forced by my idiotic manager to create a false image of kindness for the public. It was all a farce, a hollow performance designed to make me seem like the "nicest person on Earth." The thought of it was enough to make my blood boil.


​I stomped through the sterile hallway, my gaze sweeping over the polished floors and clinical walls, my anger simmering just beneath the surface. It was in that moment, in that fleeting glance, that my world stopped. A figure came into view, one so familiar and so deeply loathed that my stomach twisted into a painful knot.


Chapter 35 - The Punishment