Rejected By My Alpha: His Second Chance
Rejected. Abandoned. Marked by fate.
Eighteen-year-old Aria Lane has just found out her mate is none other than the cold, ruthless Alpha, Kael Blackthorne. He immediately rejects her in front of the entire pack. Kael made it so obvious that she wasn't good enough for him, not even close. But fate might have its plans.
When a mysterious plague and looming war threaten the Lycan Territories, Aria returns to the pack that ruined her. Kael, wracked with guilt and betrayed by those he trusted, will do anything to reclaim what he once rejected. But Aria is no longer the timid girl he shattered. She's stronger, smarter, and she has secrets that can bring his entire world crashing down.
As a fallen goddess manipulates the supernatural world against one another and a curse threatens to annihilate everything, Aria and Kael must navigate a bond forged by the moon and a love tainted by betrayal. But this is not just the normal world, it's one where trust is a knife and love can kill.
In a world where love can kill and trust is a blade, will their second chance heal the wounds of the past? Or will destiny demand their last sacrifice?
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Chapter: Messengers of FateThe crowd parted as Lucien and i made our way, his Alpha aura radiating like waves. The three refugees stood in the middle of the clearing, their exhaustion evident in every line of their bodies, but their eyes flamed with the type of desperate determination born of being bearers of life-and-death news.The largest of the three, the one that bore a branded crescent moon burned into his forehead, stepped forward as soon as he saw Lucien approaching. His eyes, however, went right to me, and his weathered face altered with something that looked horrifyingly like awe."You," he gasped, kneeling in the mud. "You bear the mark. The true mark, not this fake they burned into my flesh."His pack members did the same, dropping to their knees in clear weakness. My pack members around me shared bewildered looks. Their formal submission was something they had never seen."Rise immediately!" Lucien barked, his tone conveying Alpha authority.The refugees slowly stood, but their gazes never wavered
Last Updated: 2025-09-20
Chapter: Council of RoguesPrivate training would have to wait.Lucien and I were walking towards a clearing when Vera emerged from behind a trees, her face scarred with urgency."Alpha," she called, coming to a stop before us. "We've got an issue. The scouts just returned from the northern territories."Lucien's expression snapped to full Alpha mode instantly, all trace of the warmth I'd seen there disappearing."What kind of problem?""The kind that requires an emergency council meeting. Now."I started to step back, expecting to be dismissed, but Lucien's hand clamped around my hand."You're coming with me," he said."To a council session? But I'm not...""You're pack," he interrupted, his voice final. "Pack members are owed the right to know what threatens them. Especially members who've proven they can be quite handy."The walk to the council hall took us through the heart of Haven's Rest, and I marveled at how so very different this town was from usual pack arrangements. Instead of one great fortress mean
Last Updated: 2025-09-19
Chapter: Morning After Gloryawn crept in through my window in fingers of gold and amber, filling my small cabin with warm light that was a blessing to me after the previous night. I yawned carefully, testing every muscle and joint for damage done by the fight. My shoulder still ached where the rogue's claws had torn through the flesh, and my ribs creaked as I breathed in too deeply, but overall I felt different.Stronger. More solid, as though the savagery had burned off some underlying vulnerability that had clung to me all along.I got out of bed and walked over to the basin in the corner, splashing water on my face. My face looking back at me in the mirror, the same as it had always been, but my eyes were different. They were more assured than they used to be, with a sense of purpose that made me stand up straighter."Good morning," Nyra's voice came off, echoing warmth though my chest."Good morning," I replied, still surprised that our conversation came so easily now. "How are you?""Alive. Whole. Ready for
Last Updated: 2025-09-17
Chapter: HOMEI sat on the edge of my cot in my small cabin and stared at my blood-stained hands.The silver light had faded from my tattoo, but I could still feel the heat of it on my skin. The ancient runes that had appeared on my skin when I'd awakened were gone, but somehow I knew they were still there, just beneath the surface like sleeping snakes.I flexed my fingers, surprised at how steady they were. A few hours ago, these very hands had taken three lives without flinching. I should have felt guilt, horror, disgust for what I'd done.Instead, I felt proud.The realization should have disturbed me, but it didn't. Those villains wanted to hurt children. Innocent cubs who had done nothing to deserve hurting. Protecting them had not been an option, it had been instinct. As natural as breathing."We did well tonight," I told the empty room.Nyra's response was immediate, as clear as if she'd spoken aloud. "We protected our pack. Our family. It was what we had to do."The ease of our conversation
Last Updated: 2025-09-07
Chapter: In Battle And BloodThe silence after the rogue's death was heavy.I stood over the corpses of the three rogues, my claws extended and dripping with their blood. My shoulder ached where the second rogue had torn muscle, and my ribs hurt so much. But I'm here. Alive. The kids are safe.And something inside me had been altered at its core.Nyra was not a whisper anymore. She was there, present there, her sense blended with mine in a way that felt old and yet completely familiar.The crescent moon on my neck pulsed with warmth, and I might have sworn I glimpsed silver light dancing at the edges of my vision."Aria!"Lucien's roar echoed out across the settlement as he burst into the clearing, Garrett and a dozen men behind him. They halted in their tracks at what they saw before them, gasps on their faces as they took in the carnage.Three dead rogues. One blood-soaked omega standing victorious in the midst of it all."What in the devil's name did you do here?" Garrett demanded, his enormous body stiffening
Last Updated: 2025-09-06
Chapter: First BloodThe howl shattering the darkness was wrong.I sprang up in my small cabin, my heartbeat thumping against my chest. That sound, low growl, heavy with malice, caused a shiver to run down my spine. It was not the cry of any wolf from Haven's Rest. There was something peculiar about it. Something that hunted.Across the settlement, pandemonium broke into action. Shouts rang out from every direction as warriors burst forth from their beds. Heavily loaded footsteps pounded upon my door, and I heard Garrett scream above the noise."Northern perimeter broken! All warriors to the north wall!"I quickly dressed and stumbled outside, nearly colliding with Finn as he ran by."Get inside," he yelled back over his shoulder. "Barricade your door and don't go outside until it's over."I had no choice, though. Not when I could hear the sound of fighting getting closer, the snarls and wails of wolves killing one another in bloody combat. Behind the trees to the north, I could see glimpses of movement,
Last Updated: 2025-09-05
Chapter: Mira BlackwoodThe sellers in this section speak in hushed tones, and their customers appear more serious, and desperate."That's it," Kael says, nodding toward a stall draped in deep purple. Herbs hang in loops along the rafters, and the air beside it radiates with something that may be magic or merely incense smoke. A sign claims "Curses... And every other thing was written in a language that's not English."The woman standing behind the counter is in her thirties, with auburn-colored hair and piercing green eyes. She is rummaging through what may be a set of crystals, each containing a different color of inner light."Excuse me," I speak up as we enter. "Are you Mira Blackwood?"The woman looks up, and for an instant I see something flick across her face. Surprise? Recognition? But it is so fleeting that I might have imagined it."No," she says, her voice lightly accented with something I don't recognize. "My name is Kaia. Mira Blackwood died three years ago. Heart failure. I bought her stall out
Last Updated: 2025-09-20
Chapter: The Underground MarketThe words hit me like ice water, but Kael's tone is more urgent than panicked. Not an attack on the doorstep, but close enough to matter."Who is here?" Luna asks, looking back and forth between us with growing worry."Elena," Kael says. "We need to go. Now."I can see him trying to hide his senses from being obvious. His nostrils flare slightly, feeling the air, and his entire posture was starting to be unstable. But to Luna, he probably just seems like some guy who's suddenly dashing around."Okay," I say, getting out my emergency medical kit from the desk. "Luna, I'm sorry, but we actually do have to leave.""Elena, what is wrong?" Luna follows us to the door, her voice laced with alarm. "You're dashing around as though something's chasing you.""It's actually not like that," I say quickly. "But we're fine. Just... close up early today, okay? Leave. Go home. Don't hang around here late by yourself.""You're scaring me.""I don't mean to." I move to embrace her hastily, and I catch
Last Updated: 2025-09-19
Chapter: Leaving Everything Behindhe sunlight streaming through my apartment windows is different. Less promise of a new day and more like a spotlight on what I'm leaving behind.Kael's at my kitchen table, oddly normal considering he became a wolf and killed three people less than twelve hours ago. He's wearing the clothes i borrowed from my neighbor under the pretense of a plumbing emergency, and he's managed to make coffee without burning down my kitchen like I'd assume. The only reminder of last night is the silvering of his scars on his arms and the occasional flash in his eyes from that otherworldly light."You have to call your clinic," he says to me without looking up from the document in his hand. Another strange flash of normalcy in what's otherwise become a completely abnormal situation."I know." I look down at my phone, trying to figure out how I'm going to tell Luna that I won't be coming in today. Or tomorrow. Or maybe never again. "What do I even say?""Family emergency. Someone has died in family. Som
Last Updated: 2025-09-17
Chapter: Silver and Blood"Sit on the edge of the bed. And don't move until I get back with my med kit."He say on the bed with a pain-filled groan, blood still oozing through the makeshift bandages we'd ripped from my spare shirt. In the harsh light of my bedside lamp, the silver scars look worse than they did in the car. Red veins fan out from each wound, and the skin around them is an ugly gray that makes my stomach knot up."Elena," he says to me as I search my closet for the first aid kit I keep at home. "You don't have to do this. Werewolves healing isn't human-like. I'll be fine in a couple of hours.""You have silver pieces stuck in your system." I step out and set down my kit on the nightstand. "From what I learned from those books, werewolves don't like silver. Those pieces need to be taken out now, or your supernatural healing mechanism won't be able to work as it should.""Did you read about silver poisoning?""Dr. Blackwood' work." I pull on latex gloves and begin to lay out tools on a new towel.
Last Updated: 2025-09-07
Chapter: The Alpha's TruthThe man in the car with me is covered with blood, panting like he has just run a marathon, and telling me to drive faster down the empty streets so he can be at rest, his super-healing mechanisms can work effectively.Three hours earlier, the most unbelievable thing to ever happen to me was a difficult surgery on a German shepherd.Now I'm driving home with a werewolf who just killed three armed hunters with his bare hands, and it feels normal."Hurry up, Elena," Kael says through his gritted teeth, his hand pressed against the silver cut in his ribs. "The longer the bits of silver stays in me, the more difficult it'll be it for my body to heal."I press the gas harder, taking the turns to my apartment way more faster."How do you know so much about it?" I asked, taking the turn too sharply once again. "About silver poisoning and healing and all of that?""Because I've been living with it my entire life. We need to discuss. What I am. What you are. Why those hunters knew where to look
Last Updated: 2025-09-06
Chapter: The Wolf UnleashedInstead of collapsing, instead of fleeing, something changes in his eyes. His body spasms and jerks, and I stand frozen with horror, looking at the transformation that began in my apartment three nights ago now at last complete.This time, there's no transforming back and forth. This is raw, unrelenting, fierce.His bones creak and stretch with sounds similar to splintering tree branches. His back arcs impossibly, his muscles straining and reforming under flesh that breaks out in thick black fur. His face changing completely and his canine shine in the streetlight.He's no more the dog I've known over the last three weeks. He's becoming something more terrifying.When the transformation is finished, a gigantic black wolf takes Shadow's place. Not dog-sized, but wolf-sized in the same way ancient legends had described them. Quite five feet tall at the shoulder, with a body made for speed and power and murder. His eyes burn with human intelligence, but the fury that shines from them is
Last Updated: 2025-09-05
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