Semua Bab The Alpha’s Rejected Mate: Bab 11 - Bab 20

All the rest of the day I barely speak. No matter how much Mack tries to talk to me, I refuse to be drawn into any conversation.The offer of lunch doesn’t get a response. I’m too busy thinking about how I’m going to get from the bed and downstairs without breaking my neck.Mack’s suggestion to take me to the garden tempts me for a moment. Not because I’ll be getting fresh air, but because it would make escape easier if I was already outside.But then I catch sight of my gray duffel bag in the corner of the bedroom and I realize I can’t leave here without it. So, I have to make my escape from the bedroom. I can’t leave my clothes and all my cash behind because it’s all I have.It’s only mid-afternoon when my stomach grumbles and the urge to use the bathroom sneaks up on me that I realize I’m being stupid. Going on the run desperate to use the bathroom and with an empty belly won’t get me far. So even though it feels like I’m using Mack—tricking him even, I accept his offer of a meal

After mine and Mack’s near kiss, or whatever it was, the next morning I’m not looking forward to facing the rest of the pack.I know nothing happened, but every time I look at Mack, I can’t help but think something will give my feelings away. Feelings I’m trying really hard not to dwell on, especially after my dreams last night.It’s becoming clear that this isn’t simple gratitude, not anymore. No, my feelings have shifted into something… warmer. Maybe that’s perfectly natural when a man saves a woman for her to have warm feelings for him.But that doesn’t explain you hoping he’d kiss you, or you wanting to put your hand on his chest. Does it?Mack helps me into the bathroom with my face pointed deliberately away from him and my cheeks flushed with remembrance. After I’ve cleaned up, this time without falling, and changed into different gray sweats and another white t-shirt, he carries me downstairs. I blink in surprise at the sight of an empty dining table.It’s not like I wasn’t awa

It’s my first day with the Dacres, and while his pack are loud and boisterous as they crowd around Shane, doing nothing to hide their pleasure at his return, the only one who looks the slightest bit thrilled at my arrival is Shane’s dad, Iain.His soul vibrates with his happiness at the prospect of an heir who could be an alpha and omega, a child that will make the Dacre pack famous and he knows it. With the alpha trait so strong in the Dacre line, and the omega in the Boones, the possibility of producing a child who can be both leader and healer of the pack, the first in recorded history, is impossible to ignore.“Is that her?” I hear someone mutter.“Yeah, she’s a bit… quiet-looking, isn’t she?” The first speaker laughs. “Boring you mean.” “Well, now that you mention it.”I try to ignore it since there are problems big and small in all packs. Sometimes the presence of an omega will unearth the deeper problems buried in the heart of the pack, making it easier for her to heal. It’s a

At the first prickles of a looming headache, I ignore it and pay attention. “—you, Mack, this will not end well,” Bennett grumbles.I frown at my first glimpse of his soul. He’s a tight ball of emotions I’m desperate to read. But if I attempt to peel back the layers like an onion, he will feel what I’m doing and know what I am. He’s too tense and too controlled not to feel me.What are you so desperate to hide, Bennett? And why don’t you trust me?“And I’m telling you that we can’t ignore the fact Aerin needs help.” “Which she can get someplace else. With another pack.”“Bennett…”“She’s trouble, Mack. Big trouble.” “Which you know how?” Mack asks.Bennett falls silent, and I wince at the increasing pounding at my temples.Whatever it is Bennett wants to say, he needs to get to it, and soon. Because maintaining my focus like this? I have a couple of minutes before this headache gets so bad it’ll force me to stop.“Bennett?” Mack repeats, making me grateful enough I could kiss him for

When I was six, I started picking up the emotions of those around me. I didn’t mean to: it felt like people were just leaking emotions everywhere they went. The voices got louder until I couldn’t stand it anymore. It was such a battle to keep them out of my head that I’d run and hide in the forest to get away from everyone.It didn’t help. Well, it helped a little, because although I’d escaped the human emotions that made me feel like I was drowning, I discovered the animal emotions, rawer, but still true, still as loud as humans.Later, my father sent me for training with an omega in another pack. When I look at Adela, I see the omega I dreamed of being. One opposite to my trainer, who was impatient, sharp-tongued, and who had no interest in teaching anyone, let alone a child with endless questions. But at least she taught me control, and now it’s only the strongest emotions I pick up and only when it’s focused right at me. I can tune out everything else.In my dreams, I would be a