Rejected By My Mate Claimed By His Alpha King

r

d to be the happi

as finally going to stand before the entire Blackthorn Pac

about handsome warriors and powerful Alphas, I had always wanted something simple. I wa

had been askin

adjusting the back of my dress. "You look beautiful. I'

ugh the mirror and m

as the better daughter. She had a wolf, beautiful clothes, an

had never

to a sister, and I wanted to b

nk I'll find my ma

"Who knows? Maybe you'l

"Someone powerful w

y shoulder. "You never know wha

to beli

n most werewolves could shift, but my wolf had never awakened. My father had taken me to he

, he stopp

a disappointment I was. She gave Selena the best things in

never st

had been alive. She disappeared when I was a child, leaving me with not

fused to tal

ions, he told me to st

ned to ke

y was di

ht finally give me somethin

id, taking my hand.

her out o

s stood in neat rows, while the elders gathered near the stone altar. The A

stood Alpha Da

eath

nd his cold nature. Even other Alphas respected him. His black hair w

him from a dis

aught him looking in my direction. Once, when a warrior p

red that mome

I had wondered whether the

at him, my hear

he was

man like Darius would never

yes met mine, he

art s

d. Some discovered their mates and embraced them with tears in thei

ything with tr

lder calle

a Va

wd fell

er my dress. The elder placed his hand o

reveal the one whose s

nt, nothin

p pull stru

rabbed the fro

ody. It was unlike anything I had ev

te wa

s the crowd until t

staring

nected us, growing stronger

he wor

" I wh

expressio

a moment. His jaw tightened, a

step toward him, he walked o

id carefully. "The Moon Godd

kno

oked dire

breathe. I wanted him to smile. I wanted

rned to face t

announcemen

owd qu

oman I intend to

idn't understand

ed at

she were embarrassed by the attention. But when s

mach t

could

The Moon Goddess h

omfortable. "The bond has already be

ware of

voice w

take a wolfless

uck me harder

ered. Others stare

unable to accept

riu

oked

spered. "You ca

showed no

I reject you

ded throug

if something inside me had been ripped apart. Tears blurred my vi

claimed didn't exist, le

ything we

ook against the ground, and I struggled

ched witho

t come t

t even l

head. "Why are you doing this?

asked for anything, yet the Godd

of pain was

egan to mur

me, calling me unlucky, weak,

round to open

na steppe

's side and slipped

eath

gentle expression that

he said. "I never wa

hand resting o

u k

faltered f

't make thi

he was going

dn't a

was e

e break that had nothing

epsister

ged me to hope, all while knowing that the man I ha

nd, but my leg

y from me and add

er out

rds app

ne reached for my ar

k," Dariu

very breath hurt. I would not give him

me away, I looked

ready turned

resting on her waist. She leaned agains

tood somethi

ess had chosen for me

e than a mistake

f the ceremonial grounds, a stra

top

y dress, my mother's silv

the faint red light spr

as hap

ut the pendant grew hotter. A sharp pa

ent, I heard a vo

dmoon he

od ran

enger rushed into the ceremonial grounds. He dropped t

e the seal

drained fr

it?" Sele

ard the place

y, there was something oth

e

slowly. "He's demanding pa

ger lowere

moon, Alpha. If the debt remains unpaid, Blac

ed the lette

eyes retu

inking, but the look on his

me in front of

d me suffer w

at me like I was sud

his Beta and spok

g is still accepting a personal

d turne

al off

met min

new I had every re