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Chapter 33: Rejection

Author: Kati Williams
last update Last Updated: 2025-08-08 00:03:39

Jane

The words left my mouth like a razor blade slicing the center of my tongue open. I didn't reject him, I just told him no. I don't want to be his mate, I can't be his mate. His silence hurts my stomach, but I can't let him claim me.

Shifting back into my wolf form, I rise and lower my leg a few times to make sure I can run on it. I hear the cracking of Alpha Lucas's bones behind me, and I wait for him to walk in front of me. Once he does, his wolf is slow. He walks, instead of prancing as he usually does, and my chest tightens in sadness at the thought.

He doesn't understand. He could never understand that I am not saying no because of him, I am doing it for him. The King of Wolves shouldn't be tied to a mutt like me, even if he sees me as more than that. I am not. I was born a mistake, and I won't taint him with my problems.

Besides, no one would take him seriously if I were queen. I would make him look bad, and the pack, the whole wolf world, would look down on him for acceptin
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