The Defective Mate He Rejected Is A White Wolf

The Defective Mate He Rejected Is A White Wolf

Gale Kaaya

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I stood at the altar in my lace gown, the heiress of the Sterling Pack, waiting to marry the man I had protected for years. To soothe his fragile ego, I had taken suppressants to hide my wolf, letting everyone believe I was "defective" and unable to shift. But when the priest asked for his vows, Liam didn't say "I do." Instead, he looked toward the back of the hall where his pregnant mistress stood with a toddler. "I can't let my bloodline die out with a broken mate," Liam announced to the entire city's elite. He looked at me with cold, hard eyes. "I reject you, Ava. Sarah carries a strong male heir. You are nothing but a wolf without a skin." The humiliation burned as I coughed up blood onto the white roses, the bond shattering in my chest. He thought he was discarding a useless cripple. He didn't know that the only reason he felt strong was because I had dimmed my own light. I wiped the blood from my lip and looked up. My eyes, usually hazel, flashed a blinding silver-white. "I accept your rejection." I turned and walked away, leaving him with his stolen happiness. He didn't know that when I returned five years later, I wouldn't be alone. I would be coming back with a Lycan King, and I would own the very ground he stood on.

Chapter 1

I stood at the altar in my lace gown, the heiress of the Sterling Pack, waiting to marry the man I had protected for years.

To soothe his fragile ego, I had taken suppressants to hide my wolf, letting everyone believe I was "defective" and unable to shift.

But when the priest asked for his vows, Liam didn't say "I do."

Instead, he looked toward the back of the hall where his pregnant mistress stood with a toddler.

"I can't let my bloodline die out with a broken mate," Liam announced to the entire city's elite.

He looked at me with cold, hard eyes.

"I reject you, Ava. Sarah carries a strong male heir. You are nothing but a wolf without a skin."

The humiliation burned as I coughed up blood onto the white roses, the bond shattering in my chest.

He thought he was discarding a useless cripple. He didn't know that the only reason he felt strong was because I had dimmed my own light.

I wiped the blood from my lip and looked up. My eyes, usually hazel, flashed a blinding silver-white.

"I accept your rejection."

I turned and walked away, leaving him with his stolen happiness.

He didn't know that when I returned five years later, I wouldn't be alone.

I would be coming back with a Lycan King, and I would own the very ground he stood on.

Chapter 1

Ava POV:

The scent of rain usually calmed me. It smelled like the deep forests of the Sterling territory, where the ancient pines touched the sky. But tonight, standing on the balcony of the Pack House, the air smelled wrong.

It was the eve of the Full Moon, the night before my wedding.

My nose twitched. Beneath the scent of damp earth and pine, there was something else clinging to my fiancé's jacket as he walked onto the terrace. It was cloying. Sickly sweet. Like peaches left to rot in the summer heat.

It was the scent of an Omega in heat.

"You're late, Liam," I said, keeping my voice steady. My wolf, drugged into silence for years, clawed at the back of my skull. Danger. Betrayal.

Liam Conner, the Alpha of the Crescent Tech Pack, adjusted his cufflinks. He looked handsome in the moonlight, with his sandy hair and sharp jawline. But his eyes were shifting, refusing to meet mine.

"Business, Ava. You know how it is. The merger with the Northern Pack is complicated," he said, walking over to kiss my cheek.

I pulled back slightly. The smell was stronger now. It made my stomach turn.

"You smell like her," I whispered.

Liam stiffened. "Like who? I told you, I was in a meeting. Probably just some secretary's perfume. Don't start this again, Ava. Not tonight."

He sighed, a sound of exaggerated patience that made me feel small. That was Liam's talent. He was an Alpha from a minor pack who had climbed the social ladder by latching onto me, the heiress of the Sterling Pack. Yet, he always managed to make me feel like the lucky one. Like I was the broken toy he was gracious enough to play with.

"I have taken the suppressants for years for you, Liam," I said, my voice trembling. "To make you feel strong. To make sure my bloodline didn't intimidate you. Don't lie to me."

"You take them because you can't shift, Ava!" he snapped, his facade cracking. "Let's not pretend it's for my benefit. You are a wolf without a skin. A defect."

The words were like a physical slap. In our world, the ability to shift into a wolf was everything. It was the source of our strength, our healing, and our rank. I had let everyone believe I was defective to protect his fragile ego.

"Go to sleep," he said dismissively, turning his back. "We have a wedding tomorrow. Try to look happy. The investors are watching."

I watched him leave. Liar, my wolf hissed in my head. He reeks of another.

The next day, the Sterling Pack's ceremonial altar was decorated with thousands of white roses. The entire city's elite was here. Alphas in tailored suits, Lunas in designer dresses, and the air buzzing with the power of a hundred different bloodlines.

I stood at the altar in my lace gown, my hands shaking. My father, the Alpha of the Sterling Pack, squeezed my hand before letting go.

"He doesn't deserve you," my father murmured through the Mind-Link. But if this is what you want, my daughter, I will support you.

I have to try, Dad, I replied silently. For the alliance.

The high priest began the ceremony. The ancient words of binding washed over us. I looked at Liam. He was sweating. His eyes kept darting to the heavy oak doors at the back of the sanctuary.

"Do you, Liam Conner, take Ava Sterling to be your Luna and mate?" the priest asked.

Silence stretched. It was too long. The murmurs began in the pews.

Then, the doors banged open.

"Daddy!"

A small voice cut through the tension like a knife. A little girl, no older than four, ran down the aisle. Her hair was the same sandy color as Liam's.

Behind her walked a woman. She was petite, with big, tearful eyes and a trembling lip. But as she passed the rows of wolves, I saw the smirk she hid from the crowd. Sarah Jenkins. The Omega who had been exiled from the River Pack for seducing a mated male.

And then, it hit me. The smell.

Sarah released her pheromones. It was a wave of that rotting peach scent, amplified by distress and calculation. It was a biological weapon designed to trigger a male's protective instinct.

Liam's head snapped toward them. His eyes glazed over, his pupils dilating. The beast inside him roared, responding to the Omega's call.

He ripped his hand away from mine.

"Sarah," he breathed.

"They told me you were getting married," Sarah sobbed, falling to her knees dramatically in the center of the aisle. She pulled the child close. "I didn't want to ruin it... but Chloe... she needs her father. And the new baby... the baby needs a pack."

She placed a hand on her stomach.

The crowd gasped. An illegitimate pup? And another on the way?

I stood frozen. The humiliation burned my skin. I looked at Liam, waiting for him to order the guards to remove them. Waiting for him to choose me.

Instead, he looked at me with cold, hard eyes. The eyes of a stranger.

"I can't do this, Ava," he said, his voice ringing out in the silent hall.

"Liam, don't," I warned, my voice low. "Think about what you are doing."

"I am thinking!" he shouted, stepping toward Sarah and pulling her up. He wrapped a protective arm around her. "She is carrying a strong male heir. I can feel it. And you? You are broken, Ava. You can't even shift. How can you give me a strong Alpha son if you are weak?"

He turned to the crowd, puffing out his chest.

"I will not let my bloodline die out with a defective mate!"

He looked me dead in the eye. The air around us crackled with the gathering energy of the ritual.

"I, Liam Conner, reject you, Ava Sterling, as my future Luna and mate."

The words struck me like a physical blow. It was the Rejection. Even though we hadn't completed the mating bite, the intent severed the energetic bond we had built over years of courtship.

A sharp pain exploded in my chest, as if an invisible claw had ripped through my heart. I gasped, doubling over. I coughed, and bright red blood splattered onto the white lace of my wedding dress.

"Ava!" My father roared, stepping forward, his eyes flashing gold.

I held up a hand to stop him. The pain was blinding, but clarity washed over me. I wiped the blood from my lip. I looked at Liam, who was cowering slightly behind Sarah, using the Omega as a shield against my father's anger.

He was pathetic.

I straightened my spine. I was a Sterling. We did not beg.

"I, Ava Sterling," I said, my voice clear and icy, echoing off the stone walls, "accept your rejection."

Snap.

The bond shattered. The connection to Liam vanished, leaving a hollow, bleeding space in my soul. But in that void, something else woke up.

My inner wolf, silent for so long, stood up. She shook off the chains of the suppressants.

He is nothing, she growled. We are everything.

I looked at Liam one last time. For a split second, my vision shifted. The world turned sharp and high-contrast. My eyes, usually a warm hazel, flashed a brilliant, blinding silver-white.

Liam stumbled back, fear flickering in his gaze. But I turned around and walked away, leaving a trail of blood drops on the white roses.

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