Bittersweet Bonds

Until my eighteenth birthday, life was pretty peachy. Or at least, close. Sure, I was still unawakened and had a secret big enough to blow everything wide open, but hey... tiny details.

Four scent-matched alphas who also happened to be my brother's best friends? Check.

Fate blessing me with the dreamiest, tastiest-smelling guys I've ever met? Check, check.

Weller. Owen. Tristan. Freddie.

I'd planned the perfect moment to reveal myself as their scent match, their missing puzzle piece. Everything was working out perfectly... until it fell apart with a bang.

Graduation night was supposed to be the big moment. The night I finally came clean and admitted the truth: I was theirs, and they were mine. Turns out, the universe had other ideas.

The day after everything went wrong, my mother whisked me away to a remote mountain cabin for my graduation trip, because nothing says celebration like forced isolation, right? Stuck with no cell service and insidious, creeping anxiety, it took days to find out the truth.

My mates were bonded. To someone else. My best friend for ten years, to be exact. Talk about rubbing salt in a fresh wound.

Heartbroken, humiliated, and betrayed... I did what any self-respecting girl would do. I threw my phone off a mountain and disappeared without a trace. Five years went by in the blink of an eye while I busied myself creating a life without them, and I convinced myself I buried it all deep enough that it couldn't touch me ever again.

But now, with my brother in a coma from a car accident, I have no choice but to return home to Emerald Hills. Back to the town I ran from, back to the alphas who smashed my dreams into a million pieces, back to the best friend who stabbed me in the heart and smiled as she twisted the knife.

Five years should've been enough to forget how they broke me. All it did was sharpen the edge.

My new wilderness skills might come in handy because now I'm out for blood.

Bitter Truths is book one in the series and will end on a cliffhanger. Narrated in duet style.