I was the unseen shadow in the prestigious Gangnam Pack, a quiet orphan who kept the books and cleaned the mess. When Alpha Min-ho realized I was his mate, he didn't smile. He panicked. He needed a strategic marriage with the Northern Clan to save our territory from bankruptcy. I was a liability. He rejected me in the rain outside a 24-hour convenience store, handing me a thick envelope of cash to disappear. I took it. I didn't scream. I didn't beg. I walked straight into the one place he was too afraid to follow: the decayed industrial district controlled by Kai, the Alpha of the Night Walkers. Kai is Min-ho's sworn enemy, a man rumors say killed his own kin to take power. I expected death. Instead, Kai gave me a job washing dishes in his basement bar and ignored me for three months.