All Chapters of I Rejected My Mate on Mating Night: Chapter 1 - Chapter 9

9 Chapters

Chapter 1

The parking lot was still wet from the rain, puddles everywhere. Under the yellow streetlights, the wedding banners around the Silvercrest pack house hung in tatters.Kieran was pinned face-down in a puddle, two guards holding him there like he was a dog. His face was caked in mud and blood.I walked over in my heels and held out my hand."Come with me. I severed the mate bond with Lucien tonight. Be my mate. I'll help you take back Shadowfang, and you help me get my revenge."Kieran looked up at me.He took my hand and pulled himself to his feet. As he stood, his fingertip dragged across my palm and opened a thin cut. His own palm was already bleeding, and two drops of blood mixed together between us.It was the oldest blood oath between werewolves."Done," he said. His voice was wrecked, but every word was clear.Footsteps sounded behind us. Lucien stepped out of the pack house in the custom black suit he'd worn for the ceremony, the bond-severance papers I'd thrown in his face crump

Chapter 2

The next morning, just before dawn, the wedding lights at Silvercrest's pack house hung torn from their cables. The portico was littered with broken glass and shredded red banners. Every piece of furniture, every dress, every wedding plate had been cleaned out by Crimson Moon's warriors overnight.Lucien stood at the entrance in a wrinkled suit. His face was gray.The omega staff hadn't been paid, so they'd all walked out overnight. So had the driver. Silvercrest's Alpha was driving himself to the Council's morning meeting. He'd kept the windows down all night to stay awake, and his jacket was creased beyond saving.On the way there, neighboring pack Alphas drove past in their own cars. A few of them slowed down deliberately, just to look at him. He pretended not to notice, even waved at the ones who knew him, like everything was fine.In Silvercrest's living room, Vivienne stared at the empty space and smashed the last mug from the previous night against the wall."Lucien, you're real

Chapter 3

The next evening, Lucien brought Vivienne to my house.I had the gate let them in and waited in the Alpha's chair in the main hall.Vivienne wore a long pale-blue dress and a simple chain at her throat. She gripped the doorframe as she came in, moving slowly, like every step cost her something. She greeted me in a soft voice."Nora."Then she lowered her head and laid one hand, casually, over her stomach. She didn't say anything, but she didn't have to.Lucien took a seat across from me and scanned the hall: the Crimson Moon Pack crest hanging on the wall, the territory accord with the handprints of every Alpha in our line, the silver-mounted hunting rifle my grandfather had passed down. The corner of his mouth pulled in something like disgust."Nora," he said, in the patient, generous tone of a man doing someone a favor. "I'm here to offer you a way out."He looked up and met my eyes, then glanced at the Crimson Moon staff standing along the walls."Vivienne's pregnancy has been confi

Chapter 4

The Blood Moon Summit was held in the Council's great hall.Crystal chandeliers above, champagne towers along the walls, a ring of Lunas gathered around them. Every Alpha and Luna of the twelve Northern packs was in attendance. The pack alliance agreement was laid out on the long table, waiting for signatures.Lucien wore a custom black three-piece suit, the silver Silvercrest crest pinned to his lapel. He came in with Vivienne on his arm, in a pale pink gown.The Council had approved his proposal that morning. Vivienne's title of second Luna was a done deal."Alpha King." Lucien lifted a small Moon Goddess figurine carved from moonstone with both hands. His voice carried across the hall. "From my second Luna. May the Goddess watch over you."The Alpha King, seated in the center of the room, gave a small approving nod. "Thank you, Lucien."Lucien bowed his head. "I have a matter to bring before the Alpha King."He hadn't finished when the doors at the back of the hall opened.I walked

Chapter 5

Lucien went still.Kieran pulled a scroll from inside his suit jacket, sealed with the blood mark of the old Shadowfang Alpha line and edged in gold. He handed it to the Alpha King's attendant with both hands."Alpha King. The official statement of Shadowfang Pack. I, Kieran, heir to Shadowfang's former Alpha, have fully awakened my Alpha blood under the witness of the Moon Goddess and the Blood Trial. I offer ten of Shadowfang's ancient territories as a bride-price for Crimson Moon Pack's Alpha-blooded daughter, Nora, to take her as my Luna."The hall reeled.Kieran tilted his chin. "If the Alpha King intends to charge Crimson Moon Pack, Shadowfang's three thousand warriors will level Silvercrest and every pack allied to it before dawn."The Alpha King's fingers trembled, just slightly. Ten ancient Shadowfang territories, plus three thousand warriors at his border. Anyone could do that math.Lucien's face had gone white as paper. His mouth worked, but no sound came out.The Shadowfang

Chapter 6

Deep in the Silver Vault. Damp, cold air. Silver collars clinking. Low, suppressed growling underneath.Lucien had been stripped of the Alpha blood seals at the tips of his ten fingers. A silver collar pressed against his neck, choking off his wolf. He was cuffed to a moon-iron rack, his eyes red and fixed on the Council enforcer in front of him. But without the Alpha mark backing him, the growl coming out of his throat couldn't have scared a grown Beta."I want to see the Alpha King. Nora is going to take Crimson Moon Pack out of the Council and crown herself the second sovereign of the North. If the Alpha King spares me, I'll testify against her. I'll help him strip Crimson Moon of its bloodline completely."The enforcer let out a cold scoff and threw the red-hot silver branding iron back into the brazier. He walked out without a word.The message reached the Alpha King within the hour.In his private residence, two Moon Goddess silver statues were swept off their pedestals. The Alph

Chapter 7

The night before Lucien's blood-drawing execution, the heavy moon-iron door of the Silver Vault swung open.I walked up to his cell.Kieran was half a step behind me. His shadow swallowed me, and even through the silver bars, the Shadowfang pressure he was carrying flattened the hair on Lucien's neck.Lucien heard the footsteps and scrabbled forward on his hands and knees. He pressed his face against the moon-iron bars, tears and snot streaked down his face."Nora. You still feel the mate bond between us. I know you do. You came down here yourself, and that means the mark on your neck is still calling. Help me. It was Vivienne. That Omega bitch used her scent to drag me under. Beg the Alpha King for me. I'll be your Beta. I'll serve you. I'll do anything."I looked down at him."Lucien. One last thing."He tipped his face up. The whites of his eyes were threaded with blood."That baby Vivienne was carrying. It was never yours."Lucien stopped breathing."The Alpha mark on the back of y

Chapter 8

The next day. Late morning. A crowd gathered at the Moon Stone execution platform.I didn't go.Daphne went. She'd left the pack house at dawn, and I didn't stop her. In my previous life, she'd been the one to handle my own marking. She'd buried me in the Crimson Moon ancestral grove. Alone. Crying. Without even a Moon Stone marker over my grave. This time, she could go and watch the other side of it. It was probably good for her.I sat in the living room and went through the pack's accounts and the territory register. Again. Waiting for her to come back.She came back in the afternoon. Her eyes were swollen, and the tears on her face weren't dry yet. She stopped in the courtyard, saw me, and froze for a second. Then she ran to me and pressed her face into my shoulder, her shoulders shaking."Luna." Her voice was breaking. "Luna. Luna."I put a hand on her back. "Go ahead. Cry. After this, Crimson Moon Pack keeps moving forward."She cried for a long time, then pulled in a breath. "Lun

Chapter 9

Half a Blood Moon cycle later, an urgent dispatch came through mind-link to the Alpha King's residence.The new Royal Alpha of Shadowfang Pack had personally led three thousand black wolves to the Council's border. The wolf shadows stretched for miles, and the howls shook the entire northern range. The twelve packs of the Council scrambled. The Alpha King pulled twelve Alphas into emergency session overnight.That year, I'd torn through Crimson Moon Pack from the borders to the bloodline core. The Moon Bank debt was clear. The Silvercrest plants were replaced. The territory accounts were clean. My father's warriors had been re-registered under the blood seal.My father had been Crimson Moon Pack's sharpest fighting Alpha when he was alive, and I'd grown up trailing him. I'd been trained in wolf-form combat, Alpha presence command, and territory defense formations. All the years I'd spent waiting on Lucien's mate bond, I'd broken those edges off one by one. None of it had gotten me any

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