/Selene's POV/"I, Atlas Maxwell, future Alpha of Blue Zircon pack, reject you, Selene Argus Phoebe, as my mate and the Luna of Blue Zircon pack."I woke up gasping. Same nightmare. Always the same words, the same voice, the same sentence that hunts me whether I'm asleep or awake.Growing up, I used to eavesdrop on pack members whispering about mates, how the moment you find yours, everything becomes bliss. Your soulmate is the missing piece the Moon Goddess divided from your heart when she breathed life into her offspring. I was just a child then, wide-eyed and hopeful, clinging to that promise like it was the only warmth in a cold house full of terror.Well, it was. It was the only hope I had left after my parents died.Everyone treated me like trash. I became the pack's slave, and worse, my mate's servant and his personal plaything.When he rejected me, I accepted it quietly. I even went to the Alpha on my knees, begging for permission to leave and start over somewhere else. The Alp
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