Rejected By The Beta, Married To The Alpha

Ruby cried to herself all night, and Alexa made it worse by slyly commenting on how Alpha Kane loved sex and had a high libido. Ruby wasn’t worried about sex; it was just that she wanted to do it with the person she wanted.Her father had dismissed her, telling her to take whatever she could carry, because she was leaving as soon as possible. Ruby didn’t want to take anything that reminded her of this home. She missed her mom; her mom would have been there to comfort her, probably sing her old Mexican songs—Ruby chuckled despite herself. Her mother sang like an angel. Even though Ruby didn’t understand the songs one bit, she still found them endearing and would drift off to sleep.Ruby sighed and cleaned her eyes. She gathered the clothes she needed into a backpack. She needed nothing else. She couldn’t even believe that her father had sold her—yes, sold, that was the right word—to Alpha Kane. From what Ruby knew, he was ruthless. She felt this was a punishment from her father for “ru

Kane pretty much avoided her after the sex session. Ruby didn’t know if she could call it avoid or just keeping her mute, he would see her and not even give the barest hint of a smile. Just give her his smoldering look and turn away.Ruby also knew why he was like that, she had seen through his tough exterior and he didn’t want that. He didn’t trust her with it, he didn’t trust what she would do with that knowledge.He didn’t know she didn’t see him the way others saw him. All Ruby hoped for was a good marriage, one that would work and shock members of the crescent lune pack. Ruby stared at herself in the mirror and held her stomach imagining how it would feel to have Kane children. They would be as powerful as he is. She wanted them to be dark haired like he was and have his smoky green eyes.The door opened and a maid walked in, holding a vacuum cleaner. She nodded her greetings to Ruby.“Do you know where Kane is. I can’t seem to find him” Ruby asked.“At the gardens, inspecting so

Ruby's POV Gloria arrived at my room early the next morning with tea and a determined look on her face. She did not knock and she did not wait for permission. She just walked in like she owned the place and set the tea tray down on the small table by the window."Get up," she said. "We have work to do."I sat up slowly, my body still aching from last night. The humiliation was still fresh and the memory of Kane's cold dismissal burned in my chest like acid. But Gloria was not interested in my pain. She pulled open the curtains and sunlight flooded the room."If you want to survive here, you need to stop acting like a victim," she said, pouring the tea. "Kane does not respect weakness. He never will.""I am not weak," I said quietly."Then stop acting like it." She handed me a cup. "Drink. We have a lot to cover and not much time."The tea was bitter but warm. I wrapped my hands around the cup and let the heat seep into my fingers. Gloria sat across from me and studied my face like she

Ruby's POVI woke alone in my bed the next morning and the space beside me was cold. For a moment, I thought last night had been a dream. That Kane had not actually opened up to me and let me see beneath the armor he wore. That I had not held him while he grieved for a family ten years dead.Then I saw his shirt draped over the chair by the window. He had left it behind and that small detail made my heart skip. It was a sign, however tiny, that maybe last night had meant something to him too.I was pulling on a dress when Gloria burst through my door without knocking. Her face was pale and her usual composure had cracked around the edges."We have a problem," she said.My stomach dropped. "What kind of problem?""The kind with long legs and a history with your husband." Gloria moved to my closet and started pulling out dresses with sharp, agitated movements. "Kane has a visitor. Isabella Blackthorn. She is an alpha from the neighboring Blackthorn pack."The name meant nothing to me bu