Rejected By My Mate, Desired By The Alpha King
For twenty-two years, Katina Ashbourne was the shadow to her twin sister Katerina’s light. While Katerina was groomed to be the perfect Luna, Katina was treated as a weak, cursed burden. Still, she held onto one hope: the Moon Bond Ceremony.
But hope turned into a living nightmare when her fated mate publicly rejected her to claim her sister. Worse, Katerina staged a cruel lie, accusing Katina of attempting to kill her unborn child. Without a trial, Katina’s wolf was sealed with forbidden magic, her Alpha bloodline stripped away, and she was condemned to a life of brutal slavery beneath the very family that should have protected her.
Enter the Alpha King of the North.
Ruthless, feared, and bearing lethal crimson eyes, he arrives to negotiate a political alliance only to halt everything when a broken slave serving wine catches his attention. Her scent is impossible. Ancient. Pure. Tearing up the original contract, the King demands Katina as his sole price.
Safe in the cold North, Katina’s shattered life begins to heal, but the secrets are only just beginning. Not only is she secretly carrying the child of the mate who rejected her, but ancient relics are responding to her touch, and her sealed wolf is clawing its way to freedom.
As her remorseful ex-mate begs for forgiveness, rival kings wage war to claim her bloodline, and the corrupt Moon Council hunts her unborn child, Katina must rise from the ashes of betrayal. But when the ghosts of her past literally rise from the dead to finish what they started, Katina will have to decide: will she hide in the shadows forever, or burn her enemies to dust?
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Chapter: Chapter 8She did not sleep.The carriage rolled through the night without stopping, the northern road growing rougher and wilder the further they travelled from Ravenmoor, and Katina sat in the darkness long after the lantern burned low and watched the moon track slowly across the sky through the narrow window. Cassian had returned to his horse sometime after their conversation ended, leaving without ceremony, and she had been grateful for it, grateful for the silence and the darkness and the absence of those crimson eyes that seemed to see straight through every wall she had spent twenty-two years building.She pressed her hand against her chest in the dark.The faint pulse was still there. Weak, barely perceptible, like a single candle burning at the bottom of a very deep well. But alive. Stubbornly, impossibly alive despite everything the Moon Council’s witch had done to extinguish it.She pulled her hand away and said nothing, not even inside her own mind, because some things were too dan
Last Updated: 2026-09-18
Chapter: Chapter 7The carriage was the finest thing Katina had ever sat inside, and she hated how much she noticed that.Quilted black velvet lined the interior walls, the cushioned bench beneath her softer than any bed she had slept in since childhood, the small brass lantern swaying gently from its hook above casting warm gold light across the space. Outside, the sounds of Ravenmoor grew quieter with every turn of the wheel, the familiar clatter of cobblestones, the distant bells of the city quarter, the noise of a place that had been her entire world for twenty-two years and she sat perfectly still, both hands folded in her lap, and watched it all disappear through the narrow carriage window without allowing herself to feel anything about it.She had learned very young that feeling things too loudly only made them hurt worse.The King had not joined her. His soldiers rode in formation around the carriage, black and crimson cloaks visible through the window whenever the lantern light caught them at t
Last Updated: 2026-09-17
Chapter: Chapter 6The sound that tore from the King’s throat silenced the entire hall.It wasn’t a growl exactly, though it carried that same primal weight, something deeper, older, a sound that seemed to come from somewhere beneath the centuries of composure he’d built around himself.His grip on Katina’s wrist tightened, not painfully, but with the unthinking urgency of a man who had just found something he’d been searching for without knowing it was lost.“Your Majesty…” Lady Ashbourne’s voice cracked through the silence, alarm bleeding into her careful hostess’s tone. “Is something wrong? If the servant has offended…”“Silence.” The word cut through the hall like a blade, and Lady Ashbourne’s mouth snapped shut, her face draining of color.The King hadn’t looked away from Katina once, his crimson eyes moved over her face with an intensity that made her want to shrink back and step closer all at once. Some instinct she didn’t understand pulled her toward him even as fear screamed at her to run.“Sa
Last Updated: 2026-08-07
Chapter: Chapter 5The upper hall looked completely different. Overnight, Ashbourne Manor had transformed into a palace worthy of royalty: deep crimson and black banners hanging beside the Ashbourne silver crest, long banquet tables stretching across the room beneath fine white linen, fresh flowers filling crystal vases and completing the lavish display.Servants hurried in every direction carrying polished silverware, trays of food, and expensive decorations, while the entire manor buzzed with nervous excitement.“Don’t just stand there!” A passing maid nearly collided with Katina, catching the silver wine pitcher before it slipped from her hands. “The Northern delegation will arrive within the hour,” she added, already hurrying away without waiting for a reply. “Lady Ashbourne wants everything perfect.”Katina stepped closer to the wall to avoid the rush of servants, her heart beating a little faster. Part of it was fear; the upper hall had never been a kind place, and today would be worse, with the r
Last Updated: 2026-07-29
Chapter: Chapter 4Katina stared at the old man, and for one long, confused moment she wondered if the Sealing had finally broken her mind.“What did you say?”The old man immediately straightened, his cloudy eyes darting toward the narrow staircase leading out of the cellar. He looked nervous, as though someone might be listening as though a predator lurked just beyond the darkness and when his expression hardened, his voice came out lower than before.“Nothing.” He shook his head quickly, his expression tightening. “Just an old fool speaking nonsense. Forget you heard it.”“You said Moonborn,” Katina insisted. “You said I smelled like…”“I said nothing.” He quickly crouched in front of her again, this time reaching for her wrist not the one bearing the fading mate mark, but the other, as though even touching the marked wrist was dangerous.He held it gently and locked his eyes onto hers. “Listen to me, and listen carefully. Whatever you are, whatever I sensed… you must never speak of it. Not to Gri
Last Updated: 2026-07-29
Chapter: Chapter 3The witch’s words lingered in the chamber as an uneasy silence settled over the room, and for one brief, fragile moment, Katina dared to hope that someone had finally seen the truth and that this nightmare might finally end.“What did you say?” Elder Thornwick stepped forward, his sharp eyes narrowing at the witch.The old woman’s trembling hand remained pressed against Katina’s chest, her cloudy white eyes staring into empty space as though she were seeing something no one else could. When she finally spoke, her voice was barely audible.“There’s already a seal.” She paused, swallowing hard before adding, “An ancient one. Someone sealed this child long before I ever touched her.”A murmur spread through the chamber as the Council members exchanged uneasy glances. Lady Ashbourne stiffened.“That’s impossible.” She answered too quickly, her tone firm and certain. “The girl has never shown any power. She’s weak, everyone knows she’s weak.”The witch slowly repeated the word, “Weak…” but
Last Updated: 2026-07-29
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