All Chapters of Rejected by my mate, Claimed by Alpha Ryder: Chapter 1 - Chapter 5

~ Doris ~Today is the mating ritual, I was still cleaning the room of my twin stepsisters, Vanessa and Veronica, as always. My knees hurt from kneeling on the floor.I scrubbed at a stain on Vanessa’s floor until my fingers burned, but it didn’t come off. I scrubbed harder.They turned eighteen today, and everyone knew they would find their mates and I was nineteen with no mate.I woke up very early, around 5 a.m., to start cleaning and cooking, I cleaned all the rooms, including the twins room. When I got to Henry’s room, I skipped it, as usual, he always told me not to clean it.Don’t worry, sis I’ll clean it myself, he would say.Most times, I never touched his room.I was still scrubbing the corridor when I suddenly remembered it was the mating ceremony day. Before I could even finish, my stepmother walked in.“Doris, don’t tell me you’re not prepared for the ceremony yet, you need to do and leave my house today, I don’t mind if you bring a low level omega as your mate, it’s n

The ceremony hadn’t even begun yet, and my body already felt like it had been dragged through dust.“Doris, hurry up with ironing my dress!”Veronica’s sharp, impatient voice echoed through the house.It hadn’t even been five minutes since she’d dumped the dress on my hands, yet she’d come to check on it at least five times. Not because the dress wasn’t ready, but because frustrating me was the point.She was the only one who had found a mate.Julius Armstrong would claim her today, obviously.When I finished ironing, I carried the dress to her room and laid it carefully on her bed. I didn’t wait for approval, I quickly turned and left her room immediately.“Doris.”Henry’s voice stopped me.“You’re not dressed yet?”I looked down at myself, then back at him. I tugged lightly at the torn gown I was wearing, silently telling him this was it. This was what I had.His brows pulled together in confusion.“Wait… Doris,” he said sl

~ Doris’s POV ~My heart was hammering so hard I thought it might jump out of my chest.I couldn’t believe what had just happened on the field. In front of the entire pack, Alpha Ryder had looked straight at me and said the words no one ever expected.“She’s my Luna.”Me.The one everybody calls “a loser” right in my face.I stayed close to him as he guided us through the crowd, my arms tight around his waist. His body was solid as a wall between me and the rest of the world. Even so, I felt their eyes burning into my skin, no one tried to hide it.“Why her?”“A mute Luna? Seriously?”“She can’t even speak during meetings, how’s that gonna work?”“Ryder must’ve lost his mind tonight.”“Probably felt sorry for her. Charity case.”“Clara Anthony would’ve been perfect, at least she can open her mouth.”Every word stabbed a little deeper, I pressed my face harder against Ryder’s shirt, breathing in the clean smell of vanilla and someth