After My Rejection, Three Alphas Wanted Me
Dessa Whitlock spent her whole life being told what she wasn't — not beautiful enough, not strong enough, not worth the mate bond the Moon Goddess gave her. When Alpha Prince Kieran Ashwood rejects her in front of three hundred witnesses, she loses everything overnight: her home, her pack, her place in the only world she's ever known. What she finds instead is worse and better than anything she imagined — a second bond with the Alpha who takes her in, a third with a Lycan stronger than any wolf alive, and a power buried in her blood that no one, including her, knew existed. As the ancient Vael'kin bloodline wakes up inside her, three Alphas become unwilling, unshakeable magnets to whatever she's becoming — and the boy who mocked her body in public becomes the man who can't survive being without her. But the same power that's making her untouchable is making her a target. Somewhere close, someone who used to braid her hair and call her family is watching her rise with a jealousy sharp enough to become a blade. Dessa has to figure out what she is, claim what's hers among three men who all refuse to share, and survive the person closest to her before her own bloodline gets her killed.
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Chapter: Chapter Four: What Answered the CallDessaI couldn’t sleep. I hadn’t slept properly in three nights, not since the yard, not since the stranger at the tree line had looked at me like I was something worth remembering.Every time I closed my eyes I was back in the Great Hall with Kieran’s voice looping on some broken track I couldn’t switch off. Fatass. Weak. A joke. Then the gate, then the command that hadn’t touched me, all of it layered on top of each other until I couldn’t tell which memory I was standing inside anymore.I gave up around midnight. Pulled on my boots, shrugged into the first coat I found by the door, and let myself out into the cold before I could think better of it. Silas would have told me to stay. That was exactly why I didn’t wake him to ask.The trees swallowed the last of the porch light within a hundred yards. I told myself I only wanted air. I didn’t tell myself where my feet were really taking me until I heard it. Snarling, dozens of throats deep, the wet, ugly sound of bodies colliding in th
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Chapter: Chapter Three: The Command That FailedKieran had already pushed past the first ring of wolves by the time I reached the yard.He was half-dressed, boots and an open jacket thrown on over bare skin like he hadn’t bothered to finish before the truck stopped moving, and he walked through Kade territory like the ground owed him something. Two of Silas’s wolves flanked him, snarling low, herding him without daring to touch. Not one of them wanted to be the reason an Alpha’s heir bled on foreign soil. He didn’t so much as glance at them.His eyes locked on me the second I cleared the porch steps, and I watched his face change when he saw me. It wasn’t recognition. It was him doing the math.“There you are.” His voice was rough, stripped of yesterday’s bored cruelty, something jagged underneath. “Do you have any idea what you’ve done? Running off in the middle of the night like some weak, pathetic—”“Like what, Kieran?” I cut in. My voice didn’t shake. I made sure of it. “Go ahead. You had no problem saying it in front of three
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Chapter: Chapter Two: The Second BondThe pain hit me three miles past the Thornevale border, folding me in half in the passenger seat of Silas’s truck with no warning at all.One second I was staring out the window at the dark tree line, numb, replaying Kieran’s voice on a loop I couldn’t switch off. The next, something seized behind my ribs so hard I heard myself make a sound I didn’t recognize, half gasp and half sob, and my hands flew to my sternum like I could hold whatever was happening in place.“Dessa.” Silas had the truck stopped and was out of his seat before I’d even registered the tires leaving the road. His hands hovered near my shoulders, not touching, like he wasn’t sure he was allowed. “Dessa, talk to me. What’s wrong?”I couldn’t answer. There wasn’t room in me for words. The thing tearing loose in my chest wasn’t the old wound reopening. I knew that pain by now, knew its shape, the ragged tear of a bond dying. This was the opposite. Something was being built, fast and violent, thread by thread, in the sa
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Chapter: Chapter One: The Rejection“I reject you, fatass,” Kieran Ashwood said.He didn’t even look at me. His eyes stayed on the mirror behind the dais while he tilted his head to check the line of his jaw. He said it the way you’d brush lint off a sleeve. Casual. Practiced.The Great Hall of Thornevale went silent for one heartbeat.Then it exploded.Laughter crashed over me in waves. It started in the front rows, where the high-ranking wolves stood in their tailored black and gold, and rolled backward until even the kitchen staff pressed against the far wall were snickering behind their hands. Someone close by let out a barking laugh that sounded like a gunshot. I felt it hit me in the ribs.“Look at her face!” a girl shouted. One of the younger she-wolves who used to trail after Kieran like puppies. “She actually thought she had a chance!”“Oh Goddess, he said it. He really said it!” someone else yelled.Kieran finally turned to me, a lazy smirk on his lips. He raised his voice so the whole hall could hear every wo
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