I was the pathetic, clumsy, wolfless stain on the Blair Pack. My family treated me like an abomination, a shameful secret they desperately needed to erase. To finally get rid of me, my stepmother and sister orchestrated a brutal ambush. They sent me to an isolated highway overpass in the freezing rain, trapping me in a car surrounded by six massive, feral rogues. Their goal was to completely break my spirit before shipping me off to an asylum. While I was supposedly being tortured in the mud, my sister stood at our pack's grand gala in a stunning red gown, weeping perfectly timed fake tears. "My poor, wolfless sister couldn't handle the pressure of our world. She ran away tonight and has become a Rogue." She publicly announced my death sentence while my Alpha father stood beside her, silently endorsing the lie that stripped away my identity and branded me a target to be hunted by neighboring packs. They thought they had flawlessly disposed of their dirty little secret. They truly believed I was just a defenseless, broken doll crying in the backseat, ready to die quietly and take their sins to the grave. But they had no idea what they had actually unleashed. I wasn't a fragile Omega; I was a highly trained, lethal cleaner. And as I crashed their perfect ballroom alongside the terrifyingly powerful Lycan King of the Graves Dominion, I was ready to burn their entire world to the ground.
Kaelen POV
The freezing Detroit rain washed the grime of 8 Mile Road into slick, oily puddles. I stood shivering beneath the rusted awning of a pawn shop, water dripping steadily onto my cheap canvas jacket. I kept my shoulders hunched, my eyes downcast, playing the perfect part of the pathetic, clumsy wolfless stain on the Blair Pack.
A stretched black Lincoln Navigator pulled up to the curb, its tires sending a spray of dirty water over my boots. The driver didn't get out to open the door. Instead, a sharp, impatient honk pierced the rain.
I splashed through the puddle, deliberately dragging mud onto the pristine beige leather as I hauled myself into the backseat. In the rearview mirror, Justin Frye's nose wrinkled in profound disgust. He was an Omega, the lowest ranking wolf in the pack, but he had an inner wolf. To him, my lack of a scent made me an abomination-something less than garbage.
"Try not to ruin the upholstery, trash," Justin muttered, throwing the SUV into drive.
I offered a pathetic, trembling nod.
A moment later, the mechanical hum of the privacy partition filled the cabin, sliding up to seal me in the back. The second it clicked shut, my trembling stopped. The terrified, watery-eyed girl vanished.
I unzipped my cheap duffel bag and pulled out a heavily modified burner phone. My fingers flew across the screen, exploiting a vulnerability in the Lincoln's Bluetooth network. Justin wouldn't use the mind-link to report to my stepmother-Candace was too paranoid to leave a psychic trail.
*"I have the package,"* Justin's voice crackled through my earpiece.
*"Good,"* Candace's voice replied, dripping with cold malice. *"The hungry rogues are waiting under the I-94 overpass. Let them have their fun. Break her spirit, Justin. Make sure she remembers her place before we ship her off to St. Augustus."*
I stared out the rain-slicked window, my face a mask of stone. They thought I was a lamb being led to the slaughter. They had no idea what was actually sitting in the backseat.
Ten minutes later, the Navigator slowed, pulling into the pitch-black shadows beneath the massive concrete pillars of the I-94 overpass. The locks clicked shut. Three beat-up pickup trucks boxed us in, their high beams blinding in the dark.
The stench of sour sweat, wet earth, and feral aggression seeped through the air vents. Rogues.
A crowbar smashed through my window, showering the leather seats and my lap in shattered glass. A filthy, massive hand reached in, grabbing my jacket.
I let out a high-pitched, terrified scream.
Then, I went to work.
I seized the rogue's thick wrist, twisting it at a brutal angle while driving my elbow straight into his exposed throat. Cartilage crunched. He dropped with a choked gurgle. I kicked the door open, sending his massive frame flying backward into the mud.
I stepped out into the pouring rain and pulled the cheap, decorative stick from my hair bun. It wasn't plastic. It was solid, weaponized titanium.
Five more rogues lunged at me, their eyes glowing with feral intent, their bodies easily twice my size. But I didn't fight them. I dismantled them.
I ducked a wild swing, driving the titanium needle into the brachial plexus of the first attacker, paralyzing his arm instantly. I spun, sweeping the knee of the second, feeling the joint snap under my boot. A strike to a nerve cluster here, a punctured femoral artery there. It was a clinical, blood-soaked choreography.
In exactly thirty seconds, the fight was over. Six massive rogues lay groaning and twitching in the mud, completely incapacitated.
The only sound left was the heavy downpour and the frantic, hyperventilating gasps coming from the driver's seat.
I walked over to the nearest bleeding rogue, calmly wiped the red smear off my titanium pin onto his flannel shirt, and slid it back into my hair. I stepped up to the driver's side window.
Justin was pressed as far back into his seat as physically possible, his face pale, his eyes wide with a primal, suffocating terror. He was staring at me like I was a monster that had just crawled out of a nightmare.
I looked at him, my eyes dead and hollow.
"Open the trunk, Justin," I said, my voice devoid of any emotion. "I have luggage."
Rejected By My Pack, Claimed By The Lycan King
JESSICA KIRK
Werewolf
Chapter 1 1
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Chapter 2 2
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Chapter 3 3
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Chapter 4 4
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Chapter 5 5
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Chapter 6 6
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Chapter 7 7
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Chapter 8 8
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Chapter 9 9
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Chapter 10 10
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Chapter 11 11
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Chapter 12 12
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Chapter 13 13
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Chapter 14 14
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Chapter 15 15
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Chapter 16 16
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Chapter 17 17
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Chapter 18 18
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Chapter 19 19
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Chapter 20 20
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Chapter 21 21
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Chapter 22 22
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Chapter 23 23
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Chapter 24 24
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Chapter 25 25
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Chapter 26 26
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Chapter 27 27
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Chapter 28 28
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Chapter 29 29
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Chapter 30 30
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Chapter 31 31
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Chapter 32 32
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Chapter 33 33
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Chapter 34 34
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Chapter 35 35
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Chapter 36 36
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Chapter 37 37
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Chapter 38 38
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Chapter 39 39
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Chapter 40 40
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