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pected to find my Fated Mate. I
arcus, the future Alpha and the man I had secretly loved, looked
sneered, his voice echoing
cle. Your bloodl
reject me; he
reject you
it. He banished me to the human city, leaving me
and the agony of a severed soul tie. I accepted that
d to swallow me whole, a pair of s
an fed me his blood and whispere
wled, his power vibrating against
runt. I w
the pack that threw me away. Marcus is about to marry ano
at the biggest mi
pte
ie
inst my cheek, a familiar chill that seemed to seep straight into my marrow. It was a cold I had
b cracks of the single window pane, the Alpha house loomed atop the hi
lived
at felt reckless, dangerous. He was the future Alpha of the Ob
were frayed, the paper yellowed with age. I opened it to the latest page: a ch
o the graphite smudges.
kening. It is the day the dormant wolf spirit within us claws its way to the surface. It is t
oddess's face. I nursed a secret, fo
up, R
e Beta's daughter, stood there with a sneer plastered on her perfectl
the leg of my cot, hard. "Get to the kitchens. The Alpha ne
er the pillow, my heart ju
her nails. "If you even survive the shift tonight. Everyo
I was the dust beneath their feet. I cleaned, I cooked, and I absorbed the abuse bec
tone steps of the training grounds. My hands were ra
l there
smooth like velvet o
turning it into a blinding halo. He wasn't looking at me with the usual disgus
ng the drills. "Make sure she gets a break before ton
Thomas repli
ble in his eyes, before striding away. My heart hammered against m
erately kicking over my bucket. Dirty water soaked my knees. "H
d onto that small mo
iant silver eye watching us judgmentally. The entire Pack g
pine and damp earth. My skin began to itch, a deep, burning s
nnounced, his voice boom
d blinding, sha
d, ground to dust, and knitted back together in a new, alien shape
reaking against the roots. My vision blurred into a haze
t, overpowering, and absolute. It smelled like storm cl
toxicating thing I
gh the haze of my transfo
n feet away, stari
i
st time, screaming with joy. The connection was instant. A golden thread of energy s
a sickening crack. The pain vanished, replaced by a sud
tark white, but it looked thin, frail against the
oward him, my wolf whining in submission and adoration. Mate, I
t move. He d
to see in his eyes.
but with a cold, clinical assessment. His gaze swept o
the clearing
was ice, cutting through the
he wagging of my ta
adow swallowing my small form. The golden
ry member of the Pack. "You have no muscle. Your bloodline is
gainst my skull. The rejection in his eyes hur
aid, shaking his head. He looked around at the Pack, catc
. His eyes were void of an
ian Sand Pack, reject y
were a phy
ed keen ripped from my throat, a sound of pure animal misery. The pain was absolute. I
ced me back into my human skin. I lay naked and shive
f my sight," M
g a trembling hand out tow
ck on me without a second glance. "Take her to the
rms, dragging me roughly
Marcus said, stopping
build in my mind. He was the Al
bye,
na
udden and terrifying. It felt like being buried alive in a tomb. My
As we drove away, I watched the moon through the rear windo

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