REJECTED BY MY ALPHA... CLAIMED BY HIS FATHER

REJECTED BEF

heavy with somethin

the torchlight. Three years of waiting. Three years of believing the bond, trusting it, li

dreds of wolves in human form, silent and expecta

d across

is face. His jaw tightened. His hands clenched at his sides. T

stomach

said quietly

looked at her like she was a stran

stepped

This is it. This is

and she instinctiv

ject

anded like

ure that bent her forward. Her hand flew to her ribs. The pain wasn't

p, a woman was st

rful, everything Aria could never be. Selena's hand f

erupted in

r wor

it c

or t

f humiliation. She forced her voice out anyway, needing to u

hy

he decency to look asha

," he said. Like it was obviou

one stupid enough to believe in a bond. In a f

before she shattered

hen she

teps that made the entire pack tense with

ll. Dark coat that probably cost more than the entire pack earned in a

en. The A

tened automatically, heads lowered in defer

ia like the space belonged to him

the kind of authority that made

not re

p. "Father, I don't t

went silent mid-sentence like som

hysical thing-complete, uncompromising attention. His eyes were

couldn't step back. Her

orth," he said, each word deliberate

ld didn

*re

red and reformed into something new. Something dangerous. Something that made

ng her before the ce

te the fear-scent rolling off her in waves. He'd seen the moment she felt the bon

e was int

own. They became catatonic husks for weeks. But this one-this small, powerle

e. A calculated move that made sense. Selena came w

*rejected* a fated ma

is son was more

tching her feel the bond tear away

he didn't

anted to submit to him even in t

omething in him that her huma

pped c

ll. Fear, yes. But also something else. So

" he said, and wat

he wanted to speak. To

give her t

r," he commanded the guards.

her, Kael caught he

The first real emotion he'd see

o

to shatter completely be

ittle wolf-was going to shatte

de what to do