All Chapters of Rejected by My Mate, Captured by a Dominating Lycan King: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

The date was actually going well. Which honestly should have been my first warning sign. Nothing disastrous had happened yet. Hunter wasn’t awkward anymore, the food was good, and for once I wasn’t thinking about rejection, heartbreak, or emotionally unstable werewolves every five seconds. I was even smiling. Actually smiling. Hunter was in the middle of telling me some embarrassing story about accidentally setting his chemistry project on fire when something suddenly shifted inside me. Nyx lifted her head instantly. My smile faded. Because I smelled him. Bane. The scent hit me so strongly my stomach twisted immediately. Not faint. Not passing by. Close. Very close. My eyes slowly scanned the restaurant. And suddenly everything clicked together in the worst possible way. The laughter. The scents. The heavy feeling in the air. Almost everyone here was a werewolf. Some from school. Some older. Some from our pack. How the hell hadn’t I noticed earlier? Nyx growled softly inside me. Thi

“What do you mean?” I asked carefully.Caspian leaned back slightly against my headboard, silver eyes glinting with amusement while he watched me unravel in real time. “What do you think I mean, sunshine?”The nickname alone made my stomach flip stupidly. I hated that. I hated how every time he looked at me, my thoughts scattered like frightened birds. The man was unfairly beautiful up close. Brown hair slightly messy from the morning wind, sharp cheekbones, broad shoulders stretching beneath his black shirt, golden tanned skin that looked warm enough to touch for hours.Focus, Livana.I forced myself to look him directly in the eyes. “Well,” I said carefully, “you don’t own me.”His expression barely changed. “I do,” he replied smoothly. “And you’ve known that for three years.”I blinked. “What?”Instead of answering immediately, he pushed himself off the bed in one graceful movement before nodding toward the floor. “Put your shoes on, sunshine. Let’s go."I stared at him in disbelie

Shopping with my mother should have been relaxing. Instead, I was hiding inside a changing room staring at my phone like it had personally offended me. The dress hanging from my body was the fourth one I'd tried on in the last hour, and my mother was already threatening to buy all of them if I didn't make a decision soon. My phone vibrated, and my heart immediately betrayed me. Caspian. Just seeing his name made something flutter inside my chest.Caspian: What are you doing? A smile tugged at my lips before I could stop it.Me: Stripping 😜😜 Three dots appeared instantly. Then disappeared. Then appeared again.Caspian: ? I laughed.Me: Changing room at the mall. With my mom. His response came so fast it was almost suspicious.Caspian: Had I known shopping involved stripping, I would have taken you myself. My cheeks warmed immediately.Me: Perv.Caspian: I've already told you to stop calling me that.Me: Then stop acting like one. There was a short pause. Then another message a

Later that night, sleep refused to come. I lay on my bed staring at the ceiling while moonlight spilled through my curtains, painting pale silver lines across my room. Every time I closed my eyes, I saw Caspian; his silver eyes, his smile, the way he had looked at me when he said I was his erasthai. The way he always looked at me like I was something precious, something worth keeping.I understood why Dad wanted us gone, and I understood why he wanted to leave this pack behind. But every time I thought about leaving, my chest tightened because all I could think about was Caspian, how much I would miss him, and how much I already missed him. I grabbed my phone at least six times to call him. Six times. And six times I chickened out. Pathetic.Eventually exhaustion won. My eyes grew heavier and heavier until I drifted somewhere between awake and asleep. Then cold air brushed across my skin. My window. The window was open. "Caspian," I mumbled sleepily. A soft chuckle answered me. "Shhh,

The moment I stepped through the back door, Mom was waiting. Arms crossed. Foot tapping. The universal sign that I was in trouble."Where have you been?"I froze halfway into the kitchen. "A run."Mom narrowed her eyes. "A run?""To clear my head." Which wasn't exactly a lie. I had gone running. The fact that I'd spent part of that run in a form that definitely wasn't human and definitely wasn't wolf was information she didn't need right now.Mom studied me for another second before Products sighing. "Your friends are here."My mood instantly improved. "Really?"She rolled her eyes. "Yes, really."The smell of snacks hit me before I even reached the living room; fresh cookies, popcorn, fruit punch. Mom never did anything halfway. Aurelia was already sprawled across the couch like she owned the house, Vesper sat beside her, and Kane was busy emptying an entire bowl of chips into his mouth."Wow," I said. "You people move fast.""We heard there were free snacks," Kane replied."You're d