The Queen No Alpha Can Command

Silvercrest Pack, reject you, E

e he was readi

Cold.

. The bonfire crackled in the middle. The full moon hung over the pine trees, w

e mine. Please l

of humor. She made him mine

into place and Kael dropping to one knee, not to c

t and alive. My breath stopped. My hands shook. For the firs

a

is grey eyes found

y die on his face be

he whi

and rejected me loud enough for the elders on t

behind my rib

th the pack, you cannot defend the border, and you cannot give Silvercres

landed some

She wore silver - Luna silver. She had been measured fo

yone ha

ne exc

sick this morning. I understood now. She had

e rolled over the circle. "Do yo

I would feel his children be born to someone else. I would go mad slowly, the way

uld hurt once. Like

ked a

Miller's Creek when we were nine. Not the teenager who had once carried my books when my

This one. So I would n

shake, and I was prouder of that than of any

ond s

im - real pain, shocked pain, and for

not rea

hing strange

hrough my chest. Like a room I had lived in my whole life had suddenly gone still. No pack hum in the back of my min

o

oo. Alphas and elders could alway

one the second part without thinking, the words

e from its roll. I take back my obedience from its Alpha

dropped

pitied, kept at the edge of the terri

ot-" Kael

ust

tinct, the Command that bent ever

ne

red wolv

id

rrowed dress, with a broken mate bond bleeding ou

ce wen

you still

had no wolf, everyone had said so for eighteen years

voice at the back of my

g shape

"Question her. A wolfless Omega does not resis

N

ill staring at me like I was a door that had ope

oes into exile at dawn, or she goes now,

do for me. I decided to accept it as pa

o now,"

ecided to be ashamed of me. I walked between the kneeling rows in my bare feet - I had lost my sho

called

e the way cold wa

ed through, cut by branches I could not see, and so far past the border

ouncil told pups that as a bedtime warning. Be go

fallen pine because my legs had

en I heard

let through. They were not here to welcome me. Exiles were meat out here, and I smelled like

gest on

a human girl would. Lik

room in my chest, someth

ike snow falling off a mountai

o break - and re