All Chapters of Rejected, Then Wanted by My Triplet Alphas: Chapter 1 - Chapter 5

Neva’s POVTomorrow I turn eighteen, and I am cursed to share the day with the three wolves who have made my life a misery.In Nightpine Pack, no one remembers my birthday. They remember the Kane triplets. Dorian, Cassian, and Lucian, the pride of the whole pack, born on the eleventh of November just like me, except the whole world stops for their day and no one has ever once stopped for mine. Tomorrow they turn twenty-one and ascend as our new Alphas. Tomorrow I turn eighteen and shift for the first time. Only one of those things matters to anyone here.I slid out of my cot before sunrise, the way I do every morning. My room is a converted storage closet off the kitchen. The shelf above my head still holds the spare cleaning supplies, because the girl who scrubs this pack house should sleep near her mop.I was nine when my parents went rogue and vanished, leaving nothing behind but a mountain of debt. The Kanes took me in the way you take in a stray you intend to make useful. Food, a

Neva’s POVI should have run. I did not.The masked man stood in the moonlight outside the old lodge, tall and broad and still, and every raw and severed nerve in my body turned toward him at once. His scent reached me through the cold, and my breath caught, because it was one of them. I knew that much. One of the three threads that had been torn out of me an hour ago was standing in front of me now, wearing a black mask, saying nothing.But the bond was broken. Cut clean. And with it gone, I could not tell whose scent this was anymore. The mating pull that would have named him had been ripped away by his own mouth, or his brother’s, or his brother’s. All that was left was a man in the dark and a girl who had nothing left to lose.“You followed me,” I said.“I did.” His voice was low, roughened, deliberately muffled behind the mask. He did not want to be known any more than I did. Two masked strangers in the snow, both pretending to be someone else. “You should not be out here alone.

Neva’s POVDorian’s office had been his father’s a month ago. It still smelled of old leather and cold authority, and now it smelled of him too, coffee and dark cocoa, the scent I had breathed in the snow six weeks ago and could not stop breathing since.I stood in front of his desk with my hands folded and my face blank, the way I had stood in front of this family my whole life.“Shut the door,” he said.I shut it. My heart was slamming so hard I was sure he could hear it.Dorian did not sit. He came around the desk and leaned against it, arms crossed, studying me with those pale, unreadable eyes. For a long moment he said nothing, and the silence stretched until it hurt.“The masked girl,” he said finally. “In the blue dress. The one who left through the north doors after the party.”“I already told Cassian. I don’t know who she was.”“You were the only person in that hall in a blue dress.”The floor dropped away beneath me. I kept my face still through sheer force of will, nine yea