Rejected by My Mate, Desired by His Enemy
Iris Whitmore's world shatters when her Alpha husband Damon rejects and exiles her while pregnant, choosing his manipulative half-sister Clarissa instead. Poisoned, framed, and left to die in a storm, Iris is rescued by Donovan Ashford, Alpha of rival Nightshade Pack, who offers sanctuary without demands.
Three years later, Iris has transformed from broken omega to confident healer, raising her daughter Haven in peace. When her grandmother Sage appears with shocking news—Iris is actually Alpha-blooded, her true nature suppressed by dark magic—everything changes. As Iris unlocks her powers, she discovers Donovan is her fated mate, their bond hidden by the same spell that stole her identity.
Forced to attend the Regional Summit, Iris must confront her past while protecting Haven, whose unprecedented magical abilities make her a target. The conspiracy runs deeper than betrayal: ancient witch-wolf Lucian Cross and Clarissa orchestrated everything to create the perfect sacrifice—Haven—for a dark ritual.
With her mate bond finally complete and her Alpha power unleashed, Iris returns not as the victim who fled, but as a force of nature ready to reclaim what's hers. She'll protect her daughter, lead her pack, and prove that what was meant to break her only made her unbreakable.
Sometimes the greatest revenge is becoming everything they said you couldn't be.
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Chapter: CHAPTER 10: The Ally"Can we talk? Privately?"I'm sorting herbs when Octavia slips into the healing room like a ghost.My hands freeze over the dried lavender I've been separating into bundles. The scent is sharp and clean in the air, almost medicinal. I've been working in here for two hours, grateful for the quiet, for the familiar routine of organizing supplies that nobody's bothered to organize properly in weeks.Octavia stands in the doorway, half in shadow. Damon's other half-sister. The one who doesn't talk much. The one I've seen at pack gatherings sitting in corners, watching everything with those dark, careful eyes.We've barely spoken in three years. Maybe ten words total. She keeps to herself, lives in a small house on the edge of pack territory, works in the pack library cataloging records. She's as close to invisible as I am.Was. Past tense. I'm not invisible anymore. I'm the Luna who defied the Alpha. The one everyone's been whispering about for the past three days."Octavia." I set down t
Last Updated: 2026-02-19
Chapter: CHAPTER 9: The Campaign Begins"Did you hear? She refused to terminate."The pack grapevine moves faster than wildfire. By noon, everyone knows I defied the Alpha.I walk into the healer's office where I've worked for four years, and the conversation dies. Sarah and Emma stand by the supply closet, their heads close together. When they see me, they spring apart like they've been caught doing something wrong.Sarah's face flushes. "Iris. We didn't expect you today.""It's Tuesday. I always work Tuesdays."They exchange a look. The kind of look that says they've been talking about me. The kind that says whatever they were saying wasn't kind.I move to my station and start setting up for the day. Checking supplies. Organizing instruments. The familiar routine that usually settles my nerves does nothing today.Behind me, the whispers start again. Quieter now, but not quiet enough."How dare she? The Alpha commanded it.""Selfish omega. Thinking of herself over the pack.""Two babies at once. The resources..."Each word
Last Updated: 2026-02-19
Chapter: CHAPTER 8: The Decision"He wants me to get rid of you. But you're mine."The locked door stares at me like a challenge. He thinks it will keep me contained. He's wrong.I don't sleep that night. Can't. My mind won't stop moving, circling the same thoughts over and over until they wear grooves in my brain.Get rid of it. His words. Said so casually. Like my baby is a problem to be solved rather than a life growing inside me.I sit on the edge of the bed with my hand pressed against my stomach, talking to someone who can't hear me yet but somehow needs to know."He wants me to get rid of you. But you're mine."The words come out fierce. Certain. Something I haven't felt in three years crystallizing in my chest."You're mine," I say again. Louder. "And I'm keeping you."It's the first act of defiance I've committed since I said I do. The first time I've chosen something for myself instead of choosing whatever makes Damon's life easier.It feels terrifying.It feels right.I watch the sky through the window tur
Last Updated: 2026-02-19
Chapter: CHAPTER 7: The Marriage"I'm tired. Not tonight."They say a frog will sit in slowly boiling water until it dies. I was that frog.Six months after the wedding, Alpha Thornwell died in his sleep. Heart attack, the pack doctor said. Quick. Painless. A good death for an Alpha who'd led Silverpine for thirty years.Damon became Alpha at twenty-three.The ceremony was three days later. I stood beside him in the town square while the pack elders bound the Alpha bands around his wrists and pronounced him leader. His face was stone. Grief locked somewhere I couldn't reach.I tried that night. Came to him where he sat in his father's study, now his study, staring at papers he wasn't reading."Do you want to talk?""I'm tired. Not tonight."I left him alone.That became the pattern. I reached out. He pulled away. I gave him space. He took more.The months between us touching went from one to two to three. When it did happen, late at night when he came home smelling like whiskey and couldn't sleep, it felt like charit
Last Updated: 2026-02-19
Chapter: CHAPTER 6: The Wedding Night "The first time with your mate is magical!"They don't tell you that wedding nights can feel like funerals.I sat in the bridal suite at the pack house, wearing a white nightgown I'd bought three weeks ago from a shop in town. It had cost more than I should have spent, delicate lace at the collar and hem, the kind of thing I imagined a bride should wear. The other mated she-wolves had told me stories while helping me dress earlier. Their eyes had gone soft and dreamy talking about their own wedding nights."You'll feel the bond strengthen," Sara had said, adjusting the flowers in my hair that would be gone in an hour. "It's like nothing else.""He'll be so gentle with you," another had added with a knowing smile. "The first time, they're always so careful."I believed them. Sat on the edge of the bed in that expensive nightgown with candles burning on every surface and believed that this night would be different. Special. That Damon would look at me the way he had three months ago wh
Last Updated: 2026-02-19
Chapter: CHAPTER 5: The Beginning "You have a beautiful smile. Don't hide it."Four years ago, I believed in fairy tales.I was nineteen years old, sitting on a stool in the pack healer's room with a needle and thread in my hands and Damon Thornwell's blood on my gloves, and those seven words changed the entire direction of my life.I hadn't been called beautiful before. Not once. Orphans in Silverpine Pack didn't get called beautiful. We got called useful, or quiet, or well-behaved, or sometimes nothing at all. We learned early that invisibility was safer than visibility. That taking up space was a luxury that belonged to wolves with bloodlines worth mentioning.I had been invisible my whole life.Until that afternoon in the healing room when the newly appointed Beta came in with a gash on his shoulder from training, and made me laugh while I stitched him up, and said those seven words like they cost him nothing.Like they were simply true.I had fumbled the needle. My face had gone so hot I could feel it in my ears
Last Updated: 2026-02-18
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