The story
He rejects the mate he finds in a cage. Then he starts searching for her.
Tana is concealing the fact that she is the last surviving fire dragon while trapped in an arena where defeat means death. She heals Cedric, the imprisoned wolf king beside her, without knowing he is her fated mate. His mark reveals that she isn't a wolf, and he rejects her while she is pregnant. Tana builds a life in the city with their daughter. Cedric is still searching the mountains for the woman he abandoned, unaware of the child she is raising without him.