LOGINElena Roberts turned twenty with no mate, no confidence, and a father who never let her forget her weight. Then Jason Almond—her fated mate and her school’s golden boy—rejected her in front of the entire student body, calling her a disease and turning her into the school’s biggest joke. So she left. She got stronger, sharper, and completely unrecognizable. When she walked back through those gates, the whole school stopped breathing. Jason wants a second chance. Elena wants nothing to do with him. But the Moon Goddess isn’t finished, because across the ice rink, a hockey captain with a reputation for breaking hearts has just found his mate. And this time, he’s the one who has to prove he’s worth keeping. Rejection made her disappear once, and it won’t happen again.
View MoreHADES POVShe texted back.Three words. Nothing dramatic. Nothing that should have made me grin at my phone like an idiot in the middle of the locker room.Elena: Don't get cocky.That was it. That was the whole message. And still I read it about six times before Alex leaned over and read it upside down over my shoulder."Don't get cocky," he said, in a voice pitched way too high to be mine. "Ohhh, Cap's in trouble.""Get out of my personal space.""You're smiling like you won the championship.""I did not smile.""You're smiling right now."I wasn't going to admit that. I put my phone away and laced up my skates, and Zach paced inside me the whole time, restless and pleased with himself, like he'd personally written the text for her.*Told you,* he said. *She likes you.*"She said don't get cocky."*That's what liking someone sounds like when you're stubborn.*"You'd know a lot about being stubborn."*I would.*I couldn't argue with that.Practice ran long. Coach ran us through drill
ELENA’S POV By lunch, the number on my wrist had smudged into a blue mess. Fine. Whatever. It wasn't like I had it memorized or anything. (I had it memorized. All ten numbers. I wasn't proud of that.) "You keep looking at your arm," El said around a mouthful of fries. "That's the fourth time." "No I don't." "Hayden. Back me up." Hayden said nothing. He suddenly found his water bottle very interesting. "Coward," El said. "I'd like to survive lunch," he said. I pulled my arm under the table and glared at both of them. "Can we not make this a whole thing?" "It's already a whole thing, Lena. A boy wrote his number on your arm in front of the entire school. There's no version of this that isn't a thing." "He's pushy," I muttered. "That's all it means." "Mm-hm." El leaned back, arms crossed, wearing the smug look she always got right before she said something I wasn't going to like. "Is that why you haven't washed it off?" I froze with a fry halfway to my mouth. "I knew it," s
HADES POV“So,” Alex said, sitting down across from me at lunch. He had a big grin on his face. “How did it go with your mate?”“Fine.”“Fine, fine? Or fine like you got told no in a parking lot in front of forty people and now you’re dying inside?”“The second one,” Jeremiah said, not even looking up from his food.I didn’t answer either of them. Zach had been quiet and angry ever since I walked away from her. It felt like a door slamming, over and over, deep in my head.*You left,* he growled. *Why did you leave.*“Because she wanted space.”*She didn’t ask for space. You just guessed.*“She needed it. I could tell.”*Dumb.*“Thanks.”He didn’t say anything else. He just kept pacing inside me, restless, like he’d finally found the other half of himself and now he couldn’t sit still. It felt like something was pulling at my chest, telling me to go back and find her.I hated that I understood exactly how he felt.“Cap.” Alex waved a hand in front of my face. “You’re staring off again.
ELENA’S POVHe didn’t move. Didn’t smile. Didn’t look at anyone else.Just me.My stomach dropped somewhere near my shoes as Hades crossed the lot, helmet swinging loose from two fingers like he had all the time in the world. Every step he took, the crowd parted like he was Moses and they were a very horny, very nosy Red Sea.“Okay, this is not happening,” I muttered.“It’s happening,” Hayden said beside me, voice tight. “It’s very much happening.”El grabbed my arm. “Lena. LENA. Breathe.”“I am breathing.”“You’re doing the thing where you stop breathing and pretend you’re breathing.”I didn’t have time to argue, because Hades stopped a few feet away, and up close he was worse. Unfairly tall. Jaw like it was carved by someone with a personal vendetta against average men. And those eyes — the same ones that had locked on mine across an entire ice rink like a heat-seeking missile.Ria, traitor that she was, went absolutely feral in my chest. *Mate. Mate. MATE.*“Shut up,” I told her.“
ELENA’S POV “Now that you're finally twenty, I hope and wish you find your mate soon,” Mom said, pressing a kiss to my forehead and pulling me into an embrace. Yesss. It was my 20th birthday. And I still didn’t have a mate. Not a damn one. Most people met their mate by eighteen—sometimes even six
ELENA’S POV "Elena?" he asked, and I glared at him."The one and only! What's your problem?"The way he blinked at me like he’d just discovered fire made my skin crawl. Boy looked confused and horny at the same time — a deadly combination of stupidity."When did you become this beautiful?"I almos
Elena’s POV“Is that Elena?”“I wouldn’t have recognized her if not for her face.”“Damn… she looks different.”Yeah, yeah, keep talking, people. That’s exactly what I want. Let them choke on their own jealousy.Lena and I walked through the hall like we owned it. Our steps hit like thunder—every e
ELENA’S POV“Argh, fuck, I feel like I’m losing my mind!” I groaned, my chest heaving up and down, sweat slicking my skin after the relentless jogging Aunt Kate had dragged me through. My legs screamed in protest, my lungs burned, and yet she stood there like some impossibly perfect drill sergeant,
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