All Chapters of Rejected by the Alpha, Claimed by the Beast: Chapter 1 - Chapter 5

The night of Elara Nightshade’s eighteenth birthday was supposed to change her life.Every wolf in the Bloodfang Pack knew what the full moon meant for someone turning eighteen. It was the night their wolf fully awakened. The night they found their strength. Their place.Sometimes… their mate.Elara stood at the edge of the clearing, her hands trembling as she smoothed the simple gray dress she had borrowed from the pack house. Around her, lanterns hung from tree branches, casting warm golden light across the celebration grounds. Laughter and music filled the air. Wolves danced, talked, and celebrated beneath the rising full moon.Everyone looked happy.Everyone except her.“She hasn’t shifted yet?” a female whispered nearby.“I heard she’s still human inside,” another replied with a quiet laugh.Elara pretended not to hear.She had spent her entire life being the pack’s disappointment. The girl who was always smaller. Slower. Weaker. While others shifted at sixteen or seventeen, her

That was the first thing Elara felt.Not the cold bite of the forest floor. Not the sharp ache of fear or the hollow pain of rejection.Warmth surrounded her, steady and real, pulling her slowly back to consciousness.She frowned as her senses returned. The air smelled different wood smoke, clean fabric, and something else.Something powerful.Alpha.Her eyes snapped open.She was lying on a narrow bed inside a small wooden cabin. Firelight flickered across the walls, casting shadows that moved gently with the flames in a stone hearth nearby.For a moment, she didn’t move.Then memory rushed back.The forest.The rogues.The burning pain.The strength.The stranger.Elara pushed herself upright too quickly.Pain exploded across her back.She gasped and collapsed forward slightly, her hands gripping the edge of the bed as her vision swam.“Easy.”The deep voice came from across the room.Elara froze.Slowly, she turned her head.The man from the forest leaned against a wooden table nea

Far from the Forbidden Forest, inside the Bloodfang Pack territory, Alpha Kael Draven froze mid-step.The sensation hit him without warning.Sharp.Sudden.Familiar.His hand went to his chest as a strange pull tightened deep inside him an ache that shouldn’t exist anymore.The mate bond had been severed.He had rejected her.He had felt it snap.So why Why did it feel like something was still there?Kael’s jaw tightened as the feeling pulsed again, stronger this time. Not the soft warmth of a normal mate bond.This was different.Darker.Heavier.Powerful.Like something on the other end had changed.“Alpha?”Kael didn’t turn.Beta Ronan stood a few steps behind him in the training yard, watching carefully.“You felt that too?” Ronan asked quietly.Kael’s eyes narrowed.“You shouldn’t have felt anything,” he said.Ronan hesitated.“The air changed for a moment,” the Beta admitted. “Like pressure. The warriors felt it too.”Kael looked toward the tree line at the edge of the territor