Rejected by the Alpha, Claimed by the Dark King
Aria Hale spent her entire life believing the Moon Goddess created someone just for her.
Someone who would see her. Choose her. Love her.
She didn’t expect her fated mate to be Alpha Blake Thorn—the golden boy of the pack… or that he would reject her in front of everyone on her eighteenth birthday.
Humiliated, heartbroken, and stripped of her place in the pack, Aria runs into the Forbidden Woods, praying for the pain to stop.
But instead of death, she finds something far more dangerous:
The Dark King.
Erevan is ancient, feared, and impossibly powerful. To the world he is a myth.
To Aria, he is the first person who looks at her like she is worth the world.
And when she collapses in his arms, he does the unthinkable—
He claims her as his mate.
In the Dark Realm, Aria begins to unlock abilities she never knew she had. Abilities that were never meant to exist in the mortal world. Abilities that could destroy everything she once called home.
When she returns to her old pack, Alpha Blake realizes the awful truth:
Rejecting her was the biggest mistake of his life.
But it’s too late.
Aria is no longer the girl who begged for love.
She is the mate of a king.
Chosen. Claimed. Unstoppable.
And she will never kneel again.
A rejected-mate romance filled with betrayal, power, jealousy, possessive love, and a heroine who rises from broken to legendary.
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Chapter: Chapter 65The figure shaped like her father stood with the same quiet confidence she remembered from childhood—broad-shouldered, warm, steady, the kind of presence that used to silence nightmares before they could fully form. The golden eyes that once held laughter now held something different: an unyielding expectation. A calm that felt too cold. Too perfect. Too constructed.Aria rose slowly, every muscle trembling under the weight of the light pressing against her skin. Here, her shadow was gone—peeled away as if it had never existed. Her connection to Erevan felt distant, muffled, like she was reaching for him through a wall of glass.“Papa…” she whispered again, stepping forward despite herself. “Is it really you?”The figure smiled—soft, tender, devastating. “I am the memory of him. His strength. His purpose. Everything he intended for you to become.”Her chest tightened. “He didn’t intend for me to become this alone.”“You were never meant to be ordinary,” the illusion murmured, voice sm
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Chapter: Chapter 64The twin gateways pulsed before them—one searing white, one rippling with shadow, both spinning with a gravity that tugged at Aria’s bones. The light roared like a rising sun; the darkness breathed like a living creature. Each pulse dragged at her chest, her veins, her magic, as if demanding recognition. Acceptance. Surrender.Aria’s fingers tightened around Erevan’s. His shadows wrapped fully around her hand in return, anchoring her as the pull of the gateways intensified. His breath was sharp, too quick, but his stance remained unbroken.The Fractured watched from the edge of the platform, their eyes glowing with solemn inevitability. “The Trial begins when you step forward.”Aria swallowed the thick knot in her throat. “And we’re separated the moment we do.”“Yes.”The Fractured stepped closer, their presence a gravity of its own. “You will be placed on opposite edges of the same truth. You must move toward the center without losing yourselves to the realm you stand in.”Erevan’s j
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Chapter: Chapter 63The crack beneath their feet widened with a low, resonant groan—like the realms themselves were bracing for the weight of what had been spoken. Aria swore she felt the ground shiver beneath her boots, the path trembling in a slow, reluctant recoil. The void beyond the platform darkened, shadows thickening like smoke curling inward.Erevan stepped closer to her instantly, shadows snapping outward in jagged spines. His breath was sharp, uneven, barely contained. Aria could feel the rage rolling off him—not wild, but controlled, deadly, coiling behind his ribs like a creature ready to strike.He looked at the Fractured with eyes the color of a starless storm. “If you think for one breath that either of us will choose to sever anything—”The Fractured held up a hand, silencing him not with force, but with the weight of inevitability.“The Trial,” they said softly, “is not designed for choice. It is designed for truth.”Aria’s stomach tightened. “Truth about what?”The Fractured’s gaze shi
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Chapter: Chapter 62The platform steadied beneath them, though Aria felt anything but steady. Her pulse still thrashed from the memory the Fractured had forced upon her—the agony, the collapse, the unstoppable unraveling of realms under one being’s burden. The echo of that scream still rang inside her chest like a wound. Her breath came rough, uneven, and Erevan’s arm across her shoulders was the only thing keeping her upright.The Fractured watched them in silence, the shifting threads of their body dimming slightly—as though revealing that memory had cost them something too.Aria swallowed hard, tasting the metallic tang of fear. “You said I have to choose a path no one survives. What path is that?”The Fractured’s gaze softened—not gentle, but mournfully knowing. “One where you do not let the realms force your shape. One where you define the Convergence instead of becoming a vessel for it.”“Define it?” Aria whispered. “How am I supposed to define something that predates creation?”“You do not do it a
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Chapter: Chapter 61Aria felt the platform tilt beneath her feet—not physically, but with a shift so deep it felt like the world rebalanced itself around a single point: the masked figure now standing only a few steps away. Their presence pressed against her skin like a second heartbeat, too familiar to be foreign, too foreign to be trusted. The air seemed to hum around them, vibrating with the strain of a truth Aria wasn’t ready to hold.The First Fractured extended their hand toward her—not threatening, but beckoning. “Come,” they murmured, their dual-toned voice soft and resonant. “You cannot understand what awaits you unless you see what awaited me.”Erevan snarled before Aria could speak, his shadows coiling around her protectively. “She isn’t going anywhere with you.”The Fractured turned their strange, luminous gaze on him, and Erevan’s shadows recoiled as if struck by an unseen force. Their voice deepened. “Shadow King, you fight everything you do not understand. But this is not your lesson.”Ere
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Chapter: Chapter 60The vortex ahead pulsed like a living wound—spiraling light and shadow twisting into a whirl of fractured reality. With every step Aria and Erevan took, the path beneath them narrowed, the glow sharpening into a thin, trembling thread suspended over an abyss of shifting nothingness. The air grew heavier, saturated with the same magic that now churned inside Aria’s chest—magic that felt too vast to contain, too ancient to command.Her breath hitched as the vortex widened, revealing glimpses of images flashing inside it—mountains inverted in the sky, rivers flowing upward, cities collapsing and rebuilding in the same heartbeat. None of it stable. None of it real.But someone was holding those images together.Someone shaping them.A presence pulsed behind the distortion—steady, controlled, powerful.Erevan’s grip on her hand tightened, shadows curling around her fingers like protective vines. His voice lowered to a rasp. “Stay close. Don’t let anything separate us.”“I won’t,” she whisp
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