Library
Search
Short
The Mate They Threw Away

The Mate They Threw Away

Short Story · Werewolf
By:  SeptemberCompleted
Language: English
goodnovel4goodnovel
9Chapters
8.4Kviews
Read
Add to library

Share:  

Report
Overview
Catalog
SCAN CODE TO READ ON APP

Synopsis

Plot Twists

Tragic Love

Counter Attack

Alpha

Luna

Bias

Winning Back the Wife

Face Slapping

Regret

When the Blackmoor Alpha heir returned to the capital territory, everyone said he was dying. They said he had caught a vile infection, his wolf was already failing, and he had less than half a month left. The mate had originally been mine. But when the Moon Registry chose my name, Sylvie cried for days until Father altered the record and gave the Blackmoor contract to her. Now that the Blackmoor Alpha heir was rumored to be dying, she cried again, threatened to kill herself again, and begged everyone to make me take back the match she had stolen. My father agreed. My fiancé, Cedric, held her in his arms and said coldly, “The ceremony hasn’t started. There’s no mark yet. It doesn’t count.” Then he looked at me. “You’re the elder sister. Taking her place is the least you can do.” They all thought they were sending me into a grave. So I smiled and picked up the Blackmoor contract. “Fine. Let it be exactly as you wish.” Only later would they learn one thing. The Alpha heir they feared was not the one dying. And the mate they threw away was the one Blackmoor had been waiting for.

View More

Latest chapter

More Chapters

You may also like

Related Novels

New Release Novels

To Readers

Welcome to GoodNovel world of fiction. If you like this novel, or you are an idealist hoping to explore a perfect world, and also want to become an original novel author online to increase income, you can join our family to read or create various types of books, such as romance novel, epic reading, werewolf novel, fantasy novel, history novel and so on. If you are a reader, high quality novels can be selected here. If you are an author, you can obtain more inspiration from others to create more brilliant works, what's more, your works on our platform will catch more attention and win more admiration from readers.

No Comments
9 Chapters
Chapter 1
The moment I handed my ceremonial gown to Sylvie, she ran straight into Cedric’s arms and lifted her face, her cheeks flushed.“Cedric, do I look beautiful?”The admiration in his eyes was impossible to miss.“You do.”“When this was made, I must have had your shape in mind without realizing it. It fits you perfectly. Looks like fate always meant for you to stand beside me.”I froze, then almost laughed.No wonder the bodice had felt too tight when I tried it on. It had pressed so hard across my chest I could barely breathe.Because Cedric had designed it himself, I hadn’t wanted to disappoint him, so I said nothing.I thought I had simply chosen the wrong cut.Now I knew better.The chosen mate he had pictured was never me.Seeing that I had not torn the gown apart, my stepmother stopped glaring at me for once.My father even said, for the first time in years, that I was finally behaving like an elder sister should.The four of them stood there laughing and talking like a real family,
Read more
Chapter 2
Cedric left in high spirits with Sylvie in his arms, full of anticipation for the bond he had stolen.My father, however, refused to let me go. He said that if the elder sister failed to appear at her younger sister’s bonding feast, the whole pack would laugh.As if they weren’t already laughing.The chosen mate had been switched at the last moment. Even in the Alpha Council territory, that was rare enough to become a scandal. Mockery and curiosity followed me the entire night, brushing over my face like insects I couldn’t shake off.Only after the feast ended and my father left to see off the guests did I finally find a chance to leave.Cedric stopped me.“Elara. I know today was unfair to you.”“Without you, I would never have made it this far. Once the Blackmoor Alpha heir dies, I’ll bring you back. I’ll make it up to you. Sylvie won’t object.”For a moment, I only looked at him.Cedric and I had once been academy sweethearts. Back then, before his own pack acknowledged him, he had
Read more
Chapter 3
I had barely left the healing ward when word reached me that Father had already transferred fifteen percent of the pack holdings to Sylvie.That still wasn’t enough for him.He even bought her a new residence near the main estate, saying her future home with Cedric would be too far and that he wanted his daughter close.For days, he and my stepmother busied themselves preparing it for her, as if the whole pack should celebrate her rise.People around us found it endlessly amusing that the dead mate’s daughter could not compare to the mistress’s child.I didn’t care.With all of them away, the house was finally quiet.I was in my room replying to Warren’s messages when Sylvie pushed the door open without knocking.She carried a covered gold bowl in both hands and wore that same harmless smile.She set it on the table beside me, then linked her arm through mine as though we were truly sisters.“I heard you spent two whole nights in the healing ward.”“Cedric kept dragging me everywhere t
Read more
Chapter 4
“E-Elara, I didn’t mean to…”I didn’t even look at Sylvie.I dropped to my knees and scrambled across the floor, gathering the shattered pieces of my mother’s bracelet with shaking hands.Several moonstones had cracked clean through. The gold setting had split. One half still lay in my palm, but the rest had scattered so far that some pieces were already lost beneath the cabinet.I couldn’t even protect the last thing my mother had left me.Something inside me seemed to split open with it. My tears hit the floor one after another.For the first time, something like guilt flickered across Cedric’s face.“Elara…”As if suddenly remembering what part she was supposed to play, Sylvie quickly snatched up the covered bowl from the table and held it out to me.“Look, I even brought you a tonic. They say it helps keep infection away. Drink it, and forgive me, all right?”A foul smell rose from the dark liquid. Floating on top were strips of boiled herbs, ground shell, and thick black sediment
Read more
Chapter 5
Cedric knew that face.The old Alpha of Blackmoor Pack.One hundred and two years old.A sharp, restless unease rose in his chest.He grabbed the mourner standing beside him.“I was told the dead man was the Blackmoor Alpha heir. Why is it the old Alpha?”The other man looked at him, baffled, then let out a dry laugh.“You’re still on that?”“Weren’t we all made fools of badly enough already? The Blackmoor Alpha heir really knows how to play a room.”“Then again, we were the fools for forgetting what day that message came.”Cedric stared at him.What day could he possibly mean?The day of his bonding ceremony, of course.The day he had been meant to take Elara as his chosen mate, until…But the other man clearly meant something else.Before Cedric could press further, the old Blackmoor steward cleared his throat.“Make way, please. The heir of Blackmoor Pack and his mate have come to pay their respects.”Cedric turned sharply.And froze.I walked in wearing a hand-tailored black mourni
Read more
Chapter 6
The moment those words left Cedric’s mouth, the people gathered nearby looked at him with open disgust.“So that’s what this is? He wants to switch chosen mates again?”“That’s foul.”Only Sylvie looked pleased. She lowered her voice, soft and eager.“If there was never a mark, then it isn’t really mate-swapping, is it? Just a misunderstanding. I’m willing to make things right for my sister and Cedric. I can go to Blackmoor instead.”At that, Cedric gave her a long, unreadable look.What he said was one thing. What Sylvie wanted was another.She was far too eager.That alone told him she had never truly wanted him at all.Not the way I once had.I had stayed when he had nothing. Stayed when he was still the bastard no one wanted to acknowledge. Stayed while he clawed his way upward.And in that instant, Cedric found himself absurdly grateful that every time Sylvie had urged him to enter their bond into the Moon Registry, he had delayed, saying he wanted to wait for a better day.The Bl
Read more
Chapter 7
After they were thrown out, Sylvie reached for Cedric’s hand, still sobbing.“I don’t know what kind of spell Elara put on him, but look how bewitched he is. Cedric, you’re the only one who’s ever truly cared for me. Since she refuses to dissolve her bond, then let’s at least enter ours into the Moon Registry—”Cedric shoved her so hard she stumbled backward.When he looked at her again, his eyes were colder than I had ever seen.“You were that young, and already you knew how to work with your mother to destroy hers.”“And the day Elara was burned, that was your trick too, wasn’t it? You staged the whole thing so I would punish her for you.”Sylvie stared at him, stunned.Then she started shaking her head, tears pouring harder.“Cedric, no, listen to me—”“Shut up.”His voice was flat.“You poisonous thing. Why would I ever bind myself to you now?”“Take whatever pain you’ve earned and disappear. If I see you again, I won’t be this kind.”It happened exactly as I expected.That same ni
Read more
Chapter 8
Before long, Father invited that man to a private family supper.He put poison in the wine served to Sylvie, her mother, and the man alike.He drank from it too.Before he died, he transferred everything still in his name to me.As Sylvie’s elder sister, I received what had once been meant for her without challenge.And without me beside him as adviser, Cedric began making mistake after mistake in the decisions tied to his business arm.More importantly, the people who had once formed the backbone of his operations were the very ones I had brought in myself.When they learned I had taken control of the pack holdings and heard what Cedric had done to me, they resigned one after another and came over to my side.As for their contract penalties, the heir of Blackmoor Pack paid every one of them.He said he did not do it for profit.He simply enjoyed seeing Cedric miserable.To keep Cedric from coming after me, he also quietly put pressure on the trade circle around the capital pack.Those
Read more
Chapter 9
Cedric’s hand had been severed clean at the wrist.The heir of Blackmoor Pack cast aside the blade and kicked him so hard he slid across the stone floor.Then he pulled me into his arms and looked me over as if he meant to confirm with his own hands that I was still whole.His voice came out sharp with fury.“Take him to Alpha Council custody.”“Attempted murder.”“I want him buried there until he rots.”As Cedric was dragged away, he was still shouting my name.I did not look at him once.The heir of Blackmoor Pack checked me from head to toe, then forced a scowl onto his face as if anger were easier than fear.“This is why I keep telling you I should pick you up myself.”“You keep saying I’m too clingy. Look what almost happened tonight.”“If I hadn’t come after you, do you know what kind of disaster this would have been?”He was trying so hard to sound annoyed that I laughed.“All right, all right.”“From now on, wherever I go, you go too.”“If you fall even half a step behind, I’ll
Read more
View More
Explore and read good novels for free
Free access to a vast number of good novels on GoodNovel app. Download the books you like and read anywhere & anytime.
Read books for free on the app
SCAN CODE TO READ ON APP
DMCA.com Protection Status