Alpha Duncan's Rejected Bride

HAPT

made sense. The way they had never shown me love and treated me like a commodity instead

to play with," five-year-old me asked, h

before turning back to the televisio

ain then," she replied dismissively, flip

g of rejection and despair-just a c

reality. "Well, that's believable," I said, anger bubbling beneath the surface, my vo

because you obviously didn't choose t

mother finally said, a

cof

ween us. "Why don't we sit dow

nearest chair, unwilling to let this go. They

ing impatience rise within me.

2 Yea

er husband deep in the forest. Being werewolves, they felt secure from the

cking inside her, humming a lullaby. She laughed

her attention, but sensing no dange

ster," a v

sister, whom she hadn't seen

niece was born yet,"

What if it's a boy?" the woman

what you destroyed." The bitterness

hrough her naturally silver-white hair.

't fulfill your duty to the pack," he

man replied quietly. "Stay away from here and never come back. If

appeared into the bushes. The pregnant woma

n to kiss her softly. "Honey, I just saw your sister leaving," he

n caught her breath. Her mate helped her up an

e lingered, watchin

s Mom

looked jittery, their faces twisted in a mix of apprehension and anger, voices rising and falling in a ch

s voice booming with authority. "The people are sick, our borde

ross the table. "It's all that selfish woman's fault! She wanted to be with

dignity and respect, she would have never ru

off the ground. I barely stifled a gasp as I watched the alpha's fury. A sickening snap echoed

was broken only by the murmurs of agreement. "Good. We will take her child after her birth and kill them - both she and her mate,"

hite wolves, blessed by the moon goddess herself. Just my presence alone could bring prosperity to any pack, which is precisely why

uilding, the urge to push growing stronger. My mate rushed off to fetc

y mate returned with the towels, quickly setting them out beneath me. "You

of grueling effort passed, and at last, I held my beautiful baby girl in my arms. "She'

ul," my mate said tenderly as

... except for one person. My sister burst into the room, followed by a thron

and I felt the weight of the room shift

her was killed. You were ripped from your mother's dying ar

on your shoulder. You inherited the bl

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nd the cruel words tumbling from my f

also killed her," I muttered, the ache of b

yed the pack first," the coldness

her!" I screamed, my voice b

With a surge of defiance, I burst out the door into the night, heart racing as I r