Rejected by the False Mate, Claimed by the Alpha King

his mistress again, I would find another mate. He laughed in my face

wed two pups growing inside me, and a note from Alph

d him the elders' dissolution papers and told him I was leaving with nothing but

the rogues who had destroyed me. Zander threw me aside when I lunged at her. Later he

f our bond snap. I could not understand how the man who once claimed

snow to Wintermoon, and let Silas mark me under the

pte

phin

the flickering light of the hearth castin

voice trembling but lac

to her again, I will find

th time I had made

ent smoke filling the gothic room. He paused, and for a fleeting second, the sinews in his jaw stood out like taut wire against his skin. It was

ss the delicate line of my collarbone as if appraising damage

arsh reminder of my place at the ab

of a man guarding a stolen thing he knew was not his. He had never marked me-always keeping that final claim as a bargaining chip, never expecting

avy weight press down on my ch

on a distant, milky hue. He was receiving a message through the

e's voice, thin and sharp as a needle, seemed to prick the qu

ed the half-smoked cigar into the roaring fire. Without another glance in my direction, he

n crying for a decade suddenly let out a long, quiet sigh. It was the sound of absolute surre

heard my silent prayer-and that a true Alpha was alrea