Semua Bab Rejected By My Alpha Mate: Bab 51 - Bab 60

My breath catches in my throat. “It’s an outlawed practice!”“Well, he wants to reintroduce it. Quite a lot of the older males are all for it, but they are in his faction. The problem is that if he manages to do it, then it’s not just ‘spoils of war,’ as he so casually mentioned. None of us are safe. You know how packs functioned when this concept was still alive years ago. No woman or girl was spared, regardless of age. Females left their packs, mothers ran away with their daughters.”I remember reading about all of this. Pack breeders came into popularity during wars that took place centuries ago. To continue such a vile practice makes me want to throw up.“That’s not it.” Jess is pale now. “Duston’s been pushing to stop all female education. He wants our pack females to stay in the den. He wants to remove the ones in our fighting forces, or in our senior positions. And he threatened those who refuse to be mated or haven’t yet found a mate that they will be forcibly mated to already

I look around, and for the first time in a very long time, I feel tired. What am I even doing? All of the people here could have tried to step in, but they chose not to. When did this pack become such cowards? And how long will I have to sacrifice myself for them?“Where is my mate?” I ask suddenly.Raven smiles. “I know you’re referring to me.”“No.” I give her a disgusted look. I turn my attention towards Daston. “Where did you take Seline?”Daston blinks, clearly not having anticipated that he would be caught so quickly, but then he gives me a calm look. “You have been forgetting your priorities. I told you to choose a mate, and you kept delaying it in favor of running to that half breed. So, you have a choice before you. Give my niece the mating mark now, or I will have Seline executed.”There is a cry of outrage as the severity of Daston’s actions are understood.“I’m not completely unreasonable.” Daston smiles. “You can choose to leave the pack and I’ll return your half breed to

He runs towards me, and I know I won’t be able to fend him off. I sink to ground, ready to use my vines to defend myself, but he is fast and I’m thrown across the room. I feel a sharp pain in my stomach, and I look down to see a metal rod protruding from within me. I stare in numb shock at the blood pouring out of me and I stagger back.I hear Austin’s howl as he rushes towards me, and Daston’s laughter.Grayson is closer to me, and I know he’s planning to finish the job. He’s inches away and I close my eyes, only to feel a rush of air in front of my face followed by a howl. My eyes fly open, and I see the back of a cloaked individual.I see several of Loyd’s men fly in the air, being smashed against the warehouse walls, just as the figure takes off their hood.Sam looks over his shoulder at me and I don’t see the gentle-natured man I’ve become friends with. I see a hard-eyed warrior.He rushes to my side as I see scores of warlocks storming the warehouse.“Wh’s goin’ on?” I slur, fee

Once alone, Tammy finishes binding the wounds and sits down across from me, taking my hands in hers. “I know Austin hasn’t come to see you yet, and I know everything that he put you through. I’m not asking you to forgive just yet, Seline, but I do want you to understand. He had to hurt you to keep you safe.”“I know—"“No, you don’t.” Tammy’s expression is grim. “The kind of power the pack elders have held and the state the pack was in were both very deplorable situations. If Austin had chosen you, he would have had to abandon the pack, and he knew that whatever remaining rights the females had, the pack elders would have stripped them of those as well. They wanted power over the pack completely, and not in a good way. Ever since the pack found out about you, you were under constant surveillance. If Austin chose you, the pack elders would have never allowed him to remain Alpha and would have taken over the pack. He couldn’t leave us in the lurch. The other option was choosing an Alpha

SelineThe mating mark does wonders for my healing process, and my first shift occurs during my third month in the pack.It’s while Austin has taken me out for a picnic by the lake.It’s both frightening and exhilarating at the same time, and as the change washes over me, he is right there by my side, murmuring words of encouragement.I had been so busy with despising Austin for everything he did to me that once the obstacles from our path have been removed, I see the quiet man he is. There is a sturdiness to him, a wicked humor that makes me laugh when coaxed out, and a sense of responsibility that defines him. He treats me like I’m the most precious thing in his life which, while endearing, has also caused plenty of fights between us.These three months have been busy, especially when the Black Stone Pack went through a dramatic shift of leadership when their Alpha disappeared. When he visited me, Mayor Hamrington told me that all members of that pack were exiled from the town. When