Lahat ng Kabanata ng Rejected by her mate-Amelia: Kabanata 1 - Kabanata 5

The air was cold and bitter that morning, but Amelia Miller barely felt it. Hurrying down the path to the packhouse, she clutched the bundle of freshly laundered clothes to her chest. Her fingers were numb from washing in icy water, her cheeks raw and red from the chill, but her mind barely registered the discomfort. She had grown used to it-used to being ignored, used to being invisible.Today, though, was different. Today she turned 18, a day she had hoped would bring change, finally. The day she finds her mate.The pack had always made Amelia feel like an outsider. Her half-sister, Caroline, was the golden child, the favored daughter of Alpha Miller and Luna Hannah. Amelia, the product of a short, regretted relationship before her father had met Luna Hannah, had never belonged. Her father seldom spoke to her, and Luna Hannah treated her with thinly veiled disdain. The rest of the pack followed suit, making sure Amelia knew she was only tolerated and never loved.The idea of finding

She shook her head, too stunned to speak. So overwhelming was his presence, so deeply did he stare into her eyes, it felt like no one had ever seen her before. In her soul, the mate bond tugged stronger and deeper than she'd ever known. This man-this powerful, protective Alpha-was her second chance mate.He reached out a hand, his voice low and soft but resolute. "Come with me. You're safe now."Amelia hesitated, her eyes turning backward on the path from whence she had come, but there was nothing left for her in that direction. Reaching out, she took his hand in hers, and the feel of it was warmth enough to melt the icy despair that had frozen her heart.Out of the window, the landscape was one blurry view as Amelia sat in the Alpha's car, her mind still reeling with the events that had taken place. The cold of the forest and the terror of the ambush began to wear off, replaced by this foreign warmth seeping from her heart. She looked sideways at her rescuer-Alpha Kaelan of the Shado

Amelia was standing at the edge of the Shadow Moon pack's territory; an unbearable sorrow weighed heavy in her heart and only seemed to grow worse with every passing moment. The forest was still in the silent calm of early morning, the first rays of sunlight just starting to pierce through the canopy. This place once had been her haven, a glimmer of hope after what she'd been through. But now, it was a prison, the walls closing in on her with every step.Tormented, accused, and above all squashed by Kaelan's rejection for days, Amelia made her decision: she would leave, quietly and without good-byes. Now, at last, she knew whose fault Lila's death had been: Caroline's and Jackson's. Yet what could she do with that knowledge? She would only bring more pain with her, more heartbreak to the pack if she remained. And with Kaelan's distrust still fresh in her heart, she didn't have the strength to.She turned around one last time, her heart involuntarily twisting with memories of Lila's la