Rejected At The Altar, Claimed By The Alpha King

se

after" was actually all bullshit. There

ending but I knew that was far fetche

on our third rescheduled bonding ce

s, when I would finally become Damon's ma

palm. His eyes met mine with that familiar intensity that had once made m

through the grand hall of the Blackwood pack, "let this uni

Damon and just as he raised his to

her. Her dark hair was wild around her face, and her eyes, those eyes that had

forward. "Kael, you're alive! I

alm and I saw a flash of triumph in her e

eaching for my mate

so lost without you. Ple

gotten that I was her daughter ever since Celestine came. She gathered Celes

murmured, her voice breaking. "Yo

had always been distant but had never activ

down the dais without even looking at me. He ha

o my mother as he took Celestine

h she wasn't standing there, fully aware of wha

d? She is pretending!!! But I knew that

t my face burn with humiliation. The assembled guests, representatives from a d

never recovered fr

norable to care fo

r the arrangement. Celestine shoul

wife, after all. Th

embered what Celestine h

d been alone, trimming the rose bushes m

had said. "I do hope it goes bet

sing to give her the satisfac

ve always admired your persistence. It's almost admirable,

uning then, turning to face

ays choose me. It doesn't matter that you've been promised since childhood. It doesn't matter that y

en trying to h

couldn't accept that her betrothed's heart belonged to someone else. They'll see what I want them to se

y knuckles turned white. "You don't

t I love what he represents. Power. Position. And I will not let you take that from me, little cousin. Tomo

ll see thr

ime tomorrow, Damon will be mine. He will reject you in front of

frozen as sh

ousin. Try not to cry too h

e unfold, I realized she had

are you wearing your brother's clothes? Why are you pretending to be Damon?" She looked

er dow. "Celestine, look at me. I'm not

ck me!" Her gaze found me again, and this time the malice was unmistakab

r thing can't even understand what's happening. How cruel of Lady

eading look in his eye. He was tel

n feel angry, that would have required energy I no longer possessed nor sadness because that would

as just

g."Kael, if you love me, you'll reject her ri

u're not well.

ect

osture, in the way he glanced at me with that apo

d now but my weddi

ng a single bag. Her parents had died in a border fight, and my mother had taken h

offered to share my sweets. She had smiled at me and thanked me with suc

mily against me, starting with my brother, then my mother, and finally my father who was als

s the heir to the Blackwood pack. Now she want

o was standing beside me,

lies! Can't any of you see what she's doing? She's faking it! She wa

en struck, clutching at Damon's arm. "S

re force than was necessary. My friend stumbled backward and

yla

r. There was blood, so much blood, and I pressed m

u okay?" I aske

. I'm fine, as okay as anyo

ing. Let's take

ion. "Kael, you have to choose! Please! I can't bea

He wasn't cruel but Celestine's hold on hi

strained voice, "

h this. I was done

," I c

ned to me

. "I, Aysel Stormborn, reject you Dam