Rejected By The Pack, Reborn An Alpha Queen

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and rotting cabbage, a foul, acidic burn with every breath I

a mouth ful

ut of

garbage rained down, each impact a dull thud of pain t

I wanted to tell t

my own mother, Annis, had forced down it

under a false name"Griffin Joseph". Ten years fighting in the brutal Spine of the W

the High Sovereign himself fastening the medal to my

dog dying i

up, mud and blood blurring my vision. My half-brother, Johnathan Joseph, looked d

ot inherit titles or honor. If word gets out about you disguising yourself as a man to join the army, our family

y adopti

go, your parents had already informed the royal court that Amara, the 'Wraith of the Spine' who fell in battle, the younger sister of Griffin Joseph, would inherit his legacy. She

om the sheer force of rage and betrayal that seized my heart. It felt li

quiver. A practice shaft. He meant to toy with me, to break m

, twisted into a monstrous grin against the falling snow.

I had defended. They stole my honor, my life, and now

ck. Bone shattered. Pain exploded through me, but I cou

ans, prolonging it. My consciousness began to fr

oul. Johnathan's sneer. My mother Annis's cold indifference. My father Carroll's c

I, Gillian Joseph, swear I

gentle warmth. The stench of rot vanished,

my eyes fl

breathing hard, in

r rested near my fingers. Through the window, the fam

. But the calluses from a decade of holding a sword

asn't

my past life, to save my family from the charge of treason for my years of deception-a woma

s sister," was scheduled to meet with Lady Kensington

de, worried eyes. "Miss? Did you have a nigh

s re

had chosen to sacrifice m

uy my family's safety and my parents' forgiveness. Now I k

ot leave

nd over a life

se from disuse, but it was steady

But we agreed. We're to pass through

stop the

She didn't question me again. She knocked

the door open, letting the biting wind

stepped out into the s

wasn't just p

to take eve