All Chapters of Sold to the Beast Alpha After My Rejection: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

Nerissa POV My knees slammed painfully against the wet ground as another bucket of freezing water hit my back.The women around the wash area burst into laughter.“Look at her.”“She can’t even carry water properly.”I tightened my fingers around the metal bucket while cold mud soaked through my thin dress.“You’re deaf now too, cursed girl?” one of the older women snapped.I forced myself to stand quickly. “I-I’m sorry.”“Sorry?” the woman scoffed loudly. “Your sorry killed your family.”The laughter became louder. I lowered my head immediately.That was how you survived in the Red Claw Pack.The cold morning wind blew against my face as I picked up the bucket again with shaking hands. My wrists hurt badly from yesterday’s punishment, but stopping meant trouble and trouble in this pack always ended with pain.“Move faster!” another woman barked.I hurried toward the water barrels beside the pack house, ignoring the ache in my legs.Around me, pack members moved freely through the tr

Nerissa POV My chest burned like something inside me was being ripped apart.I stumbled backward clutching my heart.The air around me became too heavy to breathe.“oh shit…” I whispered shakily.Across the room, Rowan looked just as shocked.His wolf was reacting too,I could smell it now.Calista’s face was drained of color.“What’s happening?” she demanded.Nobody answered her.Alpha Zayden’s eyes moved slowly between Rowan and me.Then realization changed his expression. Rowan cursed under his breath.“You’ve got to be kidding me.”The words sliced directly into my chest.I stared at him helplessly while my wolf whimpered inside me.Mate,my mate. After years of loneliness… after years of praying…The Moon Goddess had finally answered me.But Rowan looked horrified. Calista grabbed Rowan’s arm tightly.“Say something.”Rowan dragged a hand through his dark hair angrily before looking directly at me with disgust slowly replacing the shock on his face.“There’s no way,the Moon Goddes

Nerissa POVThe doors of the pack house slammed behind me.My feet hit the wet ground and I just ran without direction. The rain started heavily before I even reached the tree line.The forest swallowed me fast. Trees closing in on every side, branches slapping my face and arms, roots catching my bare feet in the dark. The ground turned to mud almost immediately. It became cold and thick, sucking at every step, slowing me down when all I wanted was to move faster.My dress soaked through within seconds and my wolf whimpered inside me.She had barely made a sound in nineteen years but tonight she cried at the back of my mind like she understood exactly what had happened.I kept running until my lungs burned, then I stopped.I grabbed a tree trunk with both hands and bent over and just breathed. Rain hammered my back,mud squeezed between my toes. The sounds of the pack house were completely gone now, swallowed by the storm and the distance.I didn't want to hear any of it ever again.

Nerissa POVThe fortress was loud this morning but not loud the way Red Claw Pack was loud, voices overlapping, laughter, the smell of food coming from the pack house kitchen while I scrubbed floors on my knees outside it.This was different. Heavy boots against stone floors,barking of commands from below. The clang of metal that never fully stopped, training, weapons.I sat on the edge of the bed and listened.My shoulder ached badly but the pain from last night had dulled into something I could breathe through. I moved my arm slowly, testing it. The bandaging held tight. The door opened without a knock.A girl entered carrying a tray,young. Maybe my age. Had dark skin, close cropped hair, a small scar cutting through her left eyebrow. She moved quickly, setting the tray on the table beside the bed without looking directly at me."You're awake early," she said."I don't sleep well in strange places," I said.She glanced at me. "Most people don't sleep at all their first night insi

Nerissa POVMira gave me a task in the morning. Folding and distributing clean linens to the upper corridor rooms. Simple enough that my shoulder could manage it. Boring enough that my mind had nothing to do but notice everything around me and there was plenty to notice inside Obsidian Keep.The fortress ran on discipline the way Red Claw Pack ran on hierarchy. Every wolf had a place,servants kept to the inner corridors,warriors owned the lower halls and the training grounds. The upper floors belonged to Zayden and whoever he permitted near them.Nobody crossed those lines.I carried the first stack of linens down the east corridor keeping my injured shoulder angled away from the weight. Mira walked ahead of me, nodding at doorways as we passed them."Storage at the end of this hall," she said. "Warriors quarters are below us. You don't go down there alone.""Noted," I said."I mean it Nerissa," she said. "Not because of rules but because some of those wolves have been inside this for