Abandoned by Wolf Alpha, I Awaken Fox Divinity

Isha, an orphan from the South, marries Alpha Edwin Sterling. For a hundred days he stays cold, locking her in a seaside villa each heat to suffer on sedatives. Then she learns he is not impotent—he spends every hour curing his cousin Lily of a love poison. The sealed crest bore Lily's name, and the soul mark she entrusted to him was given to Lily. She demands it back, is mocked, forced to swallow an Eastern insect love-curse, and left on the Estate's rear mountain to die. On the brink of death…