Rejected as the Fat Mate
She was never meant to be chosen.
Tahlia Osadebe has spent twenty-five years as the punchline of her own pack — too soft, too quiet, too big — while her sister collects compliments and custom-tailored praise. In secret, Tahlia is the one holding the territory together, balancing books no one else will look at, dismissed by everyone who should be grateful.
Then the Moon Goddess plays her cruelest joke yet.
At the kingdom's most sacred festival, the mate bond snaps into place between Tahlia and Ronan Edevane — the Alpha Prince every she-wolf in the kingdom dreams of claiming. For one breathless second, she lets herself believe fate might finally be kind.
Instead, Ronan looks her over in front of hundreds of wolves and laughs.
"I reject you, fatass."
The bond tears loose. The courtyard erupts. Tahlia collapses to her knees as her sister smiles.
But rejection doesn't break her. It frees her.
When Alaric Neron — the quiet, formidable new Alpha of a failing neighboring territory — sees the mind everyone else overlooked, he does what no one else ever has: he chooses her for her intellect, not her body. Power. Respect. A future where she's no one's joke.
Meanwhile, the prince who discarded his fated mate in public is unraveling. His wolf won't settle. His instincts won't quiet. And every time he watches Tahlia smile at another man, the regret cuts deeper than any blade ever could.
She was the girl nobody wanted.
Now two Alphas are ready to burn the world down for her.
And Tahlia?
She's done being chosen.
She's ready to choose herself.
Baca
Chapter: Chapter 95_GrandfatherRonan's POV"Enough games from a distance. If you want this ended, come face me directly."I shouted the challenge across the battlefield's chaos, watching Merek's expression shift with something that might have been genuine surprise at my defiance. To my shock, he stepped forward from the tree line, moving through his own warriors with the unhurried confidence of a man who feared nothing this battlefield could offer him."Hold your positions," he called to his forces, and the fighting around me paused with unnerving discipline, warriors on both sides stepping back to create space as Merek approached, his own blade drawn now for the first time since his arrival.Reeve moved to flank me, but I raised a hand, stopping him. "Let this happen. If he wants to finish this personally, I won't hide behind guards who've already sacrificed enough."Merek stopped several paces away, studying me with the same careful assessment he'd shown throughout every previous encounter. "You've inherited more
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Chapter: Chapter 94_The BattlefieldRonan's POV"Something's wrong. This position should be empty."I reined my horse to a stop at the ridge's edge, scanning terrain that should have shown nothing beyond routine patrol activity, my instincts screaming warning before my eyes fully registered the reason why."My lord." One of my escort guards pointed toward the tree line below, where movement had begun emerging with disciplined, coordinated precision. "Multiple units, converging from three directions.""That's not possible. This inspection was supposed to remain confidential.""Apparently not confidential enough." Captain Reeve drew his blade, positioning himself protectively at my flank. "Orders, my lord?"I calculated our options rapidly, six guards against what appeared to be considerably larger numbers already moving to encircle our position. "We can't outrun them on this terrain. We hold the ridge, force them to come at us through the narrow approach rather than surrounding us on open ground."The first wave hit with
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Chapter: Chapter 93_The BetrayalTahlia's POV"I found her private correspondence hidden inside a false-bottomed drawer in the records office. You need to see this now."Cassian's voice carried none of his usual composure as he burst into the war room, a stack of intercepted letters clutched in his hand. I set down the requisition ledgers I'd been reviewing, dread already coiling tight in my stomach."Show me."He spread the letters across the table, and I forced myself to read through them methodically, cataloging dates, cross-referencing them against the transfer orders and troop movements we'd already uncovered."These are addressed to Nadia directly," I said slowly, "but the handwriting isn't hers.""Look at the content, not simply the recipient."I read further, and the words settled into my stomach like stones. Detailed troop positions. Supply route timelines. The exact schedule for reinforcements arriving from Marrow Vale and Ember Crest, information that should have remained sealed within our highest command
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Chapter: Chapter 92_The TraitorTahlia's POV"I need you to leak false troop positions to three separate people, each one slightly different, and tell no one else which version you've given whom."Cassian raised an eyebrow at the request, though he didn't question it, already reaching for parchment to begin the task. "You suspect the traitor's someone within immediate command structure.""I suspect it's someone with access sensitive enough that Merek considers the intelligence worth the risk of maintaining an active source inside these walls." I paced the length of the war room, mind racing through the mechanics of the trap I intended to build. "Three false positions, each fed to a different commander who reports directly to strategic planning. Whichever version reaches Merek's forces first tells us exactly whose hands the information passed through.""And if none of them leak it?""Then we've at least eliminated three suspects and narrowed our search considerably." I met his eyes. "Who reports directly enough to st
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Chapter: Chapter 91_WarTahlia's POV"He's amassed warriors from six territories already. Six, Cassian, in less than two weeks."I spread the latest intelligence reports across the war table, the same table where I'd once organized supply lines against Kael Draven's approaching army, now facing an enemy considerably older and considerably more patient than anything we'd previously survived."King Merek spent forty years building this network," Cassian said grimly, studying the troop movements marked across our map. "He's not improvising. Every resource, every alliance, every territory now pledging support—he's had decades to cultivate exactly this moment.""Then we need considerably more than improvisation ourselves." I turned to Ronan, who stood at the war room's edge, still carrying the particular tension that had settled into his posture since his confrontation in the royal crypts. "This isn't simply another crisis to manage. This is the largest conflict Silver Ridge has faced in generations, against an e
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Chapter: Chapter 90_The Dead ManRonan's POV"You look like your father. Pity. I'd hoped you'd resemble me instead."The voice came from the shadows at the rear of the empty tomb chamber, and I spun toward it, blade already drawn, torch trembling slightly in my other hand despite my effort to steady it. A figure emerged slowly into the flickering light—tall, weathered by decades I hadn't accounted for, his features carrying unmistakable resemblance to portraits I'd seen throughout the palace's oldest galleries."You're supposed to be dead.""Supposed to be is doing considerable work in that sentence." King Merek stepped fully into the torchlight, his posture carrying none of the frailty I might have expected from a man decades past his official death. "I imagine this moment carries more shock for you than it does for me. I've had considerably longer to prepare for it.""Every conspiracy. Corwin. Selene's manipulation. Talon's succession. You orchestrated all of it.""I orchestrated the opportunities. Others chose how
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Chapter: Chapter 53_The Woman From My MemoriesNeris's POV"Something's wrong with my memory."I say it before I fully understand why, sitting across from my mother in a borrowed room within the academy's rebuilt east wing, hours after Gideon's confession left all three of us reeling."What do you mean?" she asks carefully."I've spent eighteen years believing my memories of early childhood were simply thin, the way anyone's memories from that age tend to be. But since you arrived, fragments keep surfacing that I don't remember ever having before." My hands tighten in my lap. "A woman's voice, singing something I can't quite place. A house I don't recognize, hidden somewhere in trees I've never consciously visited. A pendant, silver, shaped like nothing I've seen since."Something shifts in my mother's expression, careful and pained at once. "Describe the pendant.""Small. A crescent, but not like the mark. Simpler. I remember it catching light whenever I moved.""That was mine," she says quietly. "I gave it to you the night befor
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Chapter: Chapter 52_The Truth About GideonNeris's POV"She's lying."Gideon says it before I've even finished explaining who's standing at the academy gates, his voice too fast, too certain, exactly the way it sounded the first time I confronted him over a video call about a rogue attack that wasn't one."You haven't even seen her yet.""I don't need to see her. Your mother is dead, Neris. I identified her body myself." His hands are steadier than his voice, folded tightly in his lap the way they always go when he's managing a conversation instead of having one. "Whoever this woman is, she is manipulating something she's clearly researched extensively. Grief makes people vulnerable to exactly this kind of exploitation.""She knew things nobody could have researched. A scar. A nickname my mother used before I could even speak.""Then someone close to your mother before her death shared those details, deliberately, to construct exactly this kind of convincing lie." His jaw tightens. "I understand the appeal of believing your mo
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Chapter: Chapter 51_The Woman Who Called Me DaughterNeris's POV"Stay back."I say it before she's taken more than three steps through the academy gates, my wolf rising instinctively despite the ancient recognition still humming beneath my skin."Neris." Her voice carries an ache I don't want to trust, warm and familiar in a way that terrifies me more than any threat I've faced this month. "It's been eighteen years. I understand you don't recognize me.""I don't recognize you because my mother is dead." My voice shakes despite every effort to steady it. "I have a report. A containment order. A confirmation of elimination, signed and filed the same night my parents died.""Paperwork isn't truth, daughter. You of all people should understand that by now.""Don't call me that." I step back despite myself, Cassian's hand steady at my shoulder, Evren tense beside me, Lucien watching the entire exchange with careful, methodical attention. "I attended a memorial. I remember it, vaguely, through everything else from that year. There was a serv
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Chapter: Chapter 50_The BeginningNeris's POV"You're not hiding anymore."Evren says it quietly, joining me on the academy's highest balcony, the one that overlooks the entire rebuilt courtyard and, beyond it, the tree line stretching toward mountains I've never had reason to look at closely until tonight."I used to avoid this exact spot," I admit. "Too visible. Too many windows below where someone might glance up and wonder why the servant girl was standing somewhere she didn't belong.""And now?""Now I don't know how to stop looking at everything like it's mine to see." I lean against the railing, the cool stone solid beneath my hands, the letter from this morning still folded carefully in my pocket, its single sentence refusing to leave the edges of my thoughts entirely. "Strange, considering I still don't fully know what I am.""I don't think any of us fully know that yet," Cassian says, arriving from the stairwell with Lucien a step behind him. "Kaelith. Virel. Whatever combination of ancient bloodlines and ma
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Chapter: Chapter 49_The Girl Who Came BackNeris's POV"You're staring."I say it without turning around, watching the courtyard through the same window I used to clean every morning before dawn, back when nobody noticed me long enough to earn a name beyond "the servant girl.""I'm allowed to stare," Evren says, coming to stand beside me. "You just walked back into this academy carrying an ancient relic and enough authority to make twelve Alpha bloodlines answer to you. Staring seems reasonable.""It's strange," I admit. "A month ago I couldn't walk through that courtyard without someone finding a reason to remind me I didn't belong here.""Things change."Below us, the courtyard has been rebuilt in pieces, students moving through the reconstruction with a different energy than I remember, some carrying supplies, others simply working alongside instructors who once wouldn't have acknowledged my presence in the same room. A group of younger students spots me through the window and, instead of scattering the way they used to, se
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Chapter: Chapter 48_The Wolf They FearedNeris's POV"Impossible."Kessel's voice cracks for the first time since I've known him, all his careful composure finally abandoning him as he stares at what I've become.I rise slowly from the chamber floor, and the ancient presence settled inside me doesn't feel foreign anymore, doesn't feel like something separate fighting for control. It feels like the rest of myself I never knew was missing, finally returned."You said every prior vessel either died or lost themselves," I say, my voice carrying a resonance that wasn't there before, layered with something vast and certain. "I did neither.""That should not be possible." He backs toward the chamber's edge, and for the first time, I see something in him I've never seen before, not calculation, not patience.Fear."You built this entire chamber assuming whoever claimed the relic would need you to interpret its power," I say, understanding settling into place with a clarity that feels less like realization and more like remembering s
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The Billionaire's Substitute Bride
She thought her life was over when the man she loved betrayed her and stole her career.
Her family forced her into an arranged marriage with a cold, mysterious billionaire; rumored to be old and impotent. Everyone pitied her, calling her the substitute bride.
But they were wrong.
When Amelia Quinn married Alexander Sterling, she didn’t expect love. She expected silence, distance, and a cage. Yet behind the billionaire’s mask lay secrets of his own, and behind Amelia’s pain burned a fire no one saw coming.
When fate reunites her with her betrayers and an unexpected ally offers her a chance to rise again, Amelia takes it. She sheds her name, hides her scars, and returns to the world as someone else; smarter, bolder, and ready for revenge.
But Alexander is watching.
And the more she hides, the more he wants to know who his substitute bride truly is.
In a game of love, lies, and redemption,
Only one truth remains:
The woman they thought was replaceable will become unstoppable.
Baca
Chapter: Chapter 94: The ArgumentAmelia's POV The briefing was at nine.Whitmore's team had the hotel identified, a property in Marylebone, central enough to be unremarkable for a business meeting and close enough to Rodriguez's London operation to make the perimeter setup practical. Rodriguez had walked the space the previous evening and confirmed the sight lines and the entry points and the communication monitoring infrastructure.She presented it clearly and thoroughly and when she finished the room was quiet for a moment.Then Alexander said: "Find another way."Rodriguez looked at him."The Zurich timeline is four to seven days," she said. "We have used two of them on the warrant processing. Vane's legal team is active and moving assets. Each day we lose is operational capacity for him to complicate the case before trial." She paused. "This is the other way. There isn't a further other way.""There's always a further other way," Alexander said."Not one that produces Vane in a position where the Swiss authoriti
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Chapter: Chapter 93: The TrapAmelia's POVWhitmore called at six the following evening.The warrants had been issued. Rodriguez's team had moved on Nathan at three PM, a quiet arrest at his flat in Marylebone, no resistance. The Zurich authorities had confirmed Vane was in their jurisdiction and the international warrant was being processed.Processing, Whitmore said, did not mean immediate.The Zurich cooperation was real but procedurally careful. Vane had significant legal resources in Switzerland and his team had already filed a response to the warrant request. The processing timeline was now estimated at four to seven days rather than the hours Rodriguez had anticipated.Four to seven days.During which Vane was in Zurich, aware that Nathan had been arrested, aware that the warrant existed, and operating with full access to whatever contingency measures he had built into his network for exactly this scenario."He'll move assets," Whitmore said. "Financial structures, communication channels, operational contac
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Chapter: Chapter 92: The UltimatumAmelia's POV Alexander got into the car at twelve forty-seven.He sat beside me and closed the door and Rodriguez said nothing and Victor pulled away from the curb and we drove for two blocks before anyone spoke."You heard it," he said."Yes," I said.He looked straight ahead.I looked at him. At the set of his jaw and the quality of his hands in his lap, loose but deliberate, the hands of a man who had decided before walking into that pub what he was going to do regardless of what was said inside it and was now in the process of the decision becoming real."Are you alright?" I said.He was quiet for a moment."He believed what he said," he said. "About not knowing what Vane intended for Elena. I could hear it." He paused. "That doesn't change what he did afterward. But I could hear that the specific thing was true.""Yes," I said. "I could hear it too.""He's been carrying that for three years," he said. "Knowing about Elena afterward and staying inside it and carrying it." He look
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Chapter: Chapter 91: BrothersAmelia's POV The meeting was at noon the next day.Whitmore had the night.He used it the way he used everything, methodically and without waste, and by eight the following morning he called Alexander and said the financial documentation was complete and court-ready and that the case against Nathan Sterling was buildable independent of anything Nathan said or did not say in the next twenty-four hours."The wire is insurance," Whitmore said. "Not necessity. Whatever he tells you today adds to what we have. It does not determine it.""I understand," Alexander said."If he says something significant," Whitmore said, "let him finish. Don't react. Don't confirm or deny what you know. Just let him talk.""Yes," Alexander said."And Alexander." A pause. "He is going to try to make this about family. About the two of you. He is going to use thirty-four years because that is the only leverage he has left." Whitmore paused again. "Be prepared for that."Alexander said nothing for a moment."I'
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Chapter: Chapter 90: Facing ItAmelia's POV Rodriguez arrived at eleven thirty.She came through the door with the flat professional efficiency she brought to every scene and went directly to the east wing with the forensics contact while Victor briefed her in the corridor. I heard their voices through the wall, low and precise, the specific language of people who did this kind of work and had learned to strip the personal out of the professional without losing the detail.Alexander was in the study.He had gone there after the security room, not in the way of someone escaping, in the way of someone who needed a specific room to be in. The study was his room in the way the east wing had been mine. The place where he thought.I gave him twenty minutes.Then I went in.He was not at his desk.He was in the chair by the window, the one that faced the garden, and he was sitting with his forearms on his knees and his hands loose and his eyes on the middle distance in the way of someone who was not seeing the garden at
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Chapter: Chapter 89: SabotageAmelia's POVWe were back at the estate by ten.Victor had driven fast and said nothing, which was the appropriate response to both the situation and the quality of silence in the car. Alexander had been on calls for most of the journey, the low controlled voice that meant he was managing something serious without performing the management.I had looked out the window at the dark road and thought about sketchbooks.Forty three of them over six weeks.Every morning before five. The dated pages, the proportion studies, the colour work, the iterations of each piece from first rough thought to resolved construction. The specific evidence that the collection had been built over time, by one person, in one room, before sunrise.Gone.The show pieces were safe. The legal case was unaffected. I had told Jade both of those things and I had meant them.But the sketchbooks were the record of the making.The documented proof that this work had a process, a history, a human being behind it who had
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Masuk
