A smug smile appeared on her step sister's lips when she finally revealed she was actually pregnant with her mate's child. Her father's futile attempt to apologize, for ignoring her all this time, because he had his own reasons and asked her to understand. A plea of forgiveness from her mate as he begged her not to reject him, claiming it was just a stupid mistake that he shouldn't have made. And to top it off, a cursed alpha from the north, to whom her step sister was actually promised, is here to collect his debt, so she has to take her place as the sacrifice now. Darn!
the story is good overall if you skip some parts here and there especially about nationalism. it would have been much better if the story background was another world, to begin with. The worst I think about nationalism was that the Chinese were protecting tigers who are famous to poach wild tigers( have more tigers in tiger farm for their pinuses than in wild) for their pinuses and Russians are killing them where only the last few Siberian tigers remain. can't say writer had much knowledge about the Siberian tiger current situation