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Author: Vane Emberly
last update publish date: 2026-10-17 01:00:47
ELENA

Every time the café door opened, I looked up.

Every time a car slowed outside, my heart leaped into my throat.

And every time I realized it wasn’t Alec, the knot in my stomach tightened.

I sat in the corner with a cup of tea between my hands, watching the road through the window. The tea had gone cold, but I kept holding it because I needed something to stop my fingers from trembling.

Ten minutes.

Alec had said he would come, and I believed him. I had known him long enough to know he wasn’
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  • I Rejected My Alpha Mate, Now He Wants Me Back    [28]

    ELENAThe message arrived shortly after breakfast.I was sitting at the small dining table, reviewing the article I had submitted the previous evening, when my phone vibrated.It was a response from the client.I opened it eagerly, expecting confirmation that the work had been accepted.Instead, I found a request for revisions.I read the message twice.The article wasn’t bad, apparently, but it needed a different approach. The client wanted a more engaging introduction, fewer general statements and a stronger conclusion. They also wanted the revised version submitted before the end of the day.I stared at the screen.It was my first paid assignment, and I had already managed to disappoint someone.I put the phone down and reached for my tea.Perhaps I wasn’t as good at this as I had hoped.For several minutes, I considered whether I should simply tell the client I couldn’t make the changes. It would be easier than spending another day worrying over a few paragraphs.But I needed the

  • I Rejected My Alpha Mate, Now He Wants Me Back    [27]

    ELENABy the time I finished my second cup of tea, I had rewritten the same paragraph six times.I stared at the laptop screen, increasingly convinced that the words were deliberately refusing to cooperate with me.The assignment wasn’t particularly difficult. A short article about maintaining healthy routines while working from home. It should have been easy enough, especially considering that I had spent the last few weeks trying to establish a routine of my own.Yet somehow, everything I wrote sounded either too formal or too obvious.I leaned back in my chair and rubbed my forehead.“Perhaps I should become a professional tea drinker instead.”The thought made me smile, but it didn’t solve my problem.My phone buzzed beside the laptop. It was a message from Tessa.Tessa: Are you alive?I typed a reply.Me: Unfortunately.Her response came almost immediately.Tessa: Wonderful. Get dressed. I’m coming over.I frowned at the screen.Me: Why?Tessa: Because you’ve been indoors for two

  • I Rejected My Alpha Mate, Now He Wants Me Back    [26]

    AIDENThe physician’s explanation should have settled the matter.Aiden sat behind his desk, going through the birth records Dr. Matt had brought for his review. Every document appeared legitimate. The examinations had been properly recorded, the results were consistent, and the child’s bloodline had been confirmed.There was nothing obviously wrong.Yet Aiden couldn’t shake the feeling that he had overlooked something.He returned to the original examination report, stopping at the corrected observation.“Why was this particular entry changed?” he muttered.Dr. Matt had already explained it. The initial observation had been incomplete, and a follow-up examination had provided clearer results. It was a reasonable explanation, one Aiden had no grounds to dispute.Still, he found himself wondering why the correction had bothered him so much.He closed the folder.Perhaps he was looking for problems because everything else in his life was falling apart. Elena had disappeared, the elders

  • I Rejected My Alpha Mate, Now He Wants Me Back    [25]

    ELENAFor the first time in years, my life was beginning to feel predictable.My mornings started with breakfast, followed by my writing assignments or lessons. I attended my medical appointments, kept track of my symptoms, and rested whenever my body demanded it. The treatment Dr. Hayes had recommended was still being monitored closely, and although I hadn’t experienced any dramatic improvement, I was learning not to measure every day by how strong or weak I felt.My writing had also begun to bring in a little money. It wasn’t enough to support me and my baby, but each completed assignment made the future seem slightly less frightening.Alec visited regularly, usually with some excuse that fooled neither of us. Sometimes he brought groceries. Other times, he simply wanted to know how I was doing.I appreciated his concern, especially because he never treated my independence as an insult.That evening, we sat on my porch while he complained about a meeting with the pack’s supply manag

  • I Rejected My Alpha Mate, Now He Wants Me Back    [24]

    AIDENThe boy slept peacefully in Sarah’s arms while Aiden struggled to concentrate on the documents spread across his desk.Three days had passed since the heir announcement, yet the uneasiness he had felt during the ceremony refused to disappear. He had expected the declaration to settle the elders’ arguments about succession. Instead, it had left him with questions he couldn’t explain.Perhaps it was the pressure of Elena’s disappearance. Perhaps he was simply exhausted.Whatever the reason, he was tired of feeling as though he had forgotten something important.“You’re not listening to me.”Sarah’s voice pulled him from his thoughts.He looked up. She stood beside his desk, holding their son against her chest. The boy was awake now, his tiny fingers curled around the edge of her dress.“What did you say?” Aiden asked.Sarah’s expression tightened. “I said the elders want us to arrange a formal presentation for our son before the allied packs. They believe the announcement should b

  • I Rejected My Alpha Mate, Now He Wants Me Back    [23]

    The first thing I learned about treatment was that it didn’t make everything better overnight.Three days after my appointment with Dr. Hayes, I still woke up tired. My wolf remained weak, and the occasional discomfort in my chest reminded me that agreeing to treatment hadn’t magically erased the uncertainty surrounding my health.Some mornings were easier than others. On the difficult ones, I had to remind myself that progress didn’t always feel like progress.That morning was one of the difficult ones.I sat at the kitchen table with a half-finished cup of tea, staring at the writing exercise on my laptop. I had planned to spend two hours practising before searching for remote writing opportunities, but fatigue had made even opening the document feel like work.A knock sounded at the door.When I opened it, Alec stood on the porch with a paper bag in one hand.“You look like you’re about to declare war on your laptop,” he said.“I might. It has been very uncooperative.”“Have you tr

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