Book 3 -5-

[Rejection]

ARIELLA

What the hell just happened? Did my mate just reject me?

The sensation was so strange that all I could do was watch him until he disappeared around the corner, dragging my thumping heart behind him. I contemplated chasing after him for the first few minutes but decided against it.

“Go after him, please. He needs us as much as we need him,” Bree pleaded, whimpering, and howling her pain for her mate.

“There’s no use, Bree. He practically rejected us. There’s nothing to convince him otherwise of what he felt,” I told her and closed the link.

He was a hunter, and I was the very thing he hunted and killed. That was what they were taught should they come into contact with a werewolf—kill without hesitation.

“El, we need to get going. We don’t know if he left to call in reinforcements,” Bryce stated beside me.

Funny how I had been eager to meet my mate all night, but as he glared at me and threatened to kill me if we ever crossed paths again, I could not conceal