OFFSIDE MATE: REJECTED BY ONE ALPHA. CLAIMED BY ANOTHER.
To be rejected by your fated mate is to be marked for death.
Sloane Thorne has the scar to prove it. A rejection mark from Crew Harding, the boy who spent their entire lives tormenting her before destroying her in front of the entire pack. He murders her family, steals everything, and leaves her with a cursed mark that's slowly killing her.
Three months later, she's hiding under a fake name when she collides with Kai Volkov. The Ice King. A second mate bond snaps into place.
He sees Crew's mark on her skin. Assumes she's a spy and rejects her immediately.
But Kai can't stay away. The bond won't let him. He takes her captive, swears it's for answers, but obsession doesn't need an excuse.
Every touch sets them on fire.
Every stolen glance is a war neither can win.
Then Kai discovers what Crew has been hunting. What Sloane's family died protecting. What's been sleeping inside her all along.
And suddenly, she's not just his mate.
She's the weapon that could destroy them all.
Now Crew wants her back. Collared, caged and his.
But Kai Volkov doesn't share what's his. And Crew is about to learn that the hard way.
But Sloane? She's done being claimed by Alphas who think she's theirs to break.
Blood will spill. Alphas will fall.
The question is whether she'll survive long enough to watch.
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Chapter: 011— "HOW SHAMELESS."The gates opened and I saw it and I stopped talking.I had grown up in a Beta family home.My father had been proud of that house. Four bedrooms, proper grounds, the kind of home that said we are not wealthy but we are not nothing. I had thought it was large when I was small.Looking at this, I revised that opinion considerably.“Say something,” I told myself."It has a fountain," I said."Yes.""It's running.""It runs continuously.""That's—" I searched for the word. "Unnecessary.”I got no reply.He parked and got out and I got out and stood in the driveway. I looked up at the facade and then sideways at the east wing and then sideways the other way at the west wing and thought. Who needs this much building? I was not impressed.I was assessing.There was a difference.The front door opened before we reached it. A man appeared. Tall, silver-haired, dressed better than I had been at any point in the last three months, with the kind of face that had been carefully trained to expre
Last Updated: 2026-04-20
Chapter: 010— "YOU WISH.""You look exactly like someone we've been searching for."My heart dropped to somewhere around my ankles.But my face… my face was doing something completely different. My face had decided we were fine. We were confused actually. Mildly offended even."Me?" I let my eyebrows climb. Looked behind me like there might be someone else in the alley. I looked back and added a small bewildered laugh that I was very proud of. "I think there's been some kind of mistake.""Has there.""I've lived in Briar Falls my whole life." I gestured at the alley like it was a character reference. "Born here. Well… nearby. Small town, very unremarkable, you wouldn't know it."The big one said nothing. Just looked at me."Is this about the Hendersons?" I tried. "Because I told them I'd return the casserole dish and I fully intend to, life has just been…""We're looking for a woman from Silvercrest Pack.""A… sorry, a what?""A pack."I blinked at him slowly. The blink of someone hearing a foreign language f
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Chapter: 009— ASH.I moved before I thought about it.Three steps and both my hands were on his wrist. Grabbing, pulling, twisting — like if I just tried hard enough I could undo the last thirty seconds and the paper would still be in my drawer where it belonged.He didn't move. Didn't even shift his weight. Just looked down at my hands on his arm the way you look at something mildly inconvenient."Let go," I said."Who gave this to you?""It's mine. Give it back.""Who gave it to you, Sloane.""Give it back right now—"His eyes moved from the paper to my face and I felt the exact second it happened. The moment he saw through me completely. The desperation I couldn't pack away fast enough. The way my voice had cracked slightly on “right now” like a person who was scared and not just angry.I watched him register it. Watched him file it somewhere behind those flat cold eyes.I hated him so much I could taste it."This is a code," he said. "From Crew.""It is NOT from Crew—""Then what is it?""It's MINE,
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Chapter: 008— "EMPTY THREATS."Her eyes didn't leave mine."There's a way to stop it. Your mother was a friend of mine."The notepad slipped.I caught it — barely — and the old woman's hand shot out immediately. Not touching me. Just one sharp look that said ‘calm down’ louder than any word could. Her eyes cut sideways. A quick sweep of the diner. Joe behind the counter pretending to wipe something.I straightened my spine. Rearranged my face. I made myself look like a waitress taking an order and not a girl who had just been told she didn't have to die.She slid the paper across the table without looking at it. So smooth I almost missed it."Call that number," she murmured. "Three days from now. Not before." She set her menu down and folded her hands like we'd discussed the weather. "I'll be waiting."Then she stood. Left cash on the table and walked out.I stood at the edge of her booth and stared at the door swinging shut behind her. I didn't move. Couldn't. My brain was doing something loud and disorgani
Last Updated: 2026-04-18
Chapter: 007— COLD FINGERS."Why did Crew send you?"My heart stopped.Just… stopped. One full second of nothing before it slammed back so hard I felt it in my throat.Crew.Someone in this town knew that name. Someone was standing behind me right now saying it like it was nothing. My whole body went cold because I had been so careful. I had changed everything. My name, my history, my entire life — and somehow, somehow…I turned around slowly.And felt the second shock land directly on top of the first.Kai Volkov stood at the far end of the rink.Him.Of course it was him. Of course the one person who had already made my life a misery was standing on my ice at six in the morning holding Crew's name in his mouth like a weapon.How does he know that name, my brain fired. How does he know, does Crew know he knows, is this a setup, was any of this ever—"What do you mean?" I said.My voice came out completely steady.I had no idea how.He didn't answer. Just walked toward me with that unhurried walk that had never
Last Updated: 2026-04-17
Chapter: 006— "WHY DID CREW SEND YOU?"I didn't fall because of the pain.I fell because I stopped believing my legs would hold me.One second I was standing on the ice, the bond cracking open between us like something that had been waiting. The next second Kai Volkov's voice cut through it cleanly."I do not claim you and I refuse this connection."The bond didn't just break.It detonated.The force of it hit my shoulder blade first — the rejection mark, Crew's mark, the thing quietly killing me for months and it lit up like someone pressed a burning coal directly into the scar. My legs went. One moment upright, the next on one knee on the ice with my hand pressed to my shoulder and two hundred people watching me kneel in front of a man who'd just decided I was nothing.Again.The word sat in my chest. Again. Like I was made for this. Like the universe had one joke and I was always the punchline.Anya's skates cut toward me fast."Sloane…""Don't," I said.She stopped.I found a fixed point on the ice. A scuff mark, s
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