JUNE I was sure that Alpha Axel had one mission in his life and that was to ruin me. Not only had he succeeded in creating a fear in my heart that I knew would cause me to die one day, he also made me hate him. Yes, I hate my mate. He was the worst kind. I might not know the number of lives he had taken for sport or to protect himself, but right now, before my eyes, Lennox seemed very redeemable. My wrists stung as I fought the warriors who thought it was nice to challenge me. Only today did I have to thank my father for all the training. I had hoped it would please Alpha Axel, to make him see that I wasn’t the vulnerable woman he thought I was except he was close to me. When he is, my knees always threaten to give out under me. But that wasn’t enough. Nothing could ever please t