All Chapters of The Rejected Prisoner Who Became the Alpha King's Mate : Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

LYRA Of all the people the Moon Goddess could have sent down that road, she picked him.I stopped walking the moment I saw his face through the windshield.Darian Wolfe.My former best friend. My former lover. The only man I had ever trusted with the parts of myself I kept hidden from the rest of the world.The same man who stood in front of the pack council, looked my father in the eye, and said yes. He believed I was capable of betrayal.His eyes found mine and moved over me slowly.The loose clothes. The leg I was favoring. The brand on my wrist catching the last of the evening light.His expression didn't change once. "Get in," he said.I almost laughed. "I don't need a ride.""It's a long way back." His voice was flat. Decided. "It'll be dark before you make it on foot.""I know these woods.""You knew them three years ago." His eyes dropped briefly to my left leg and came back up. "Get in the car, Lyra."I got in but it's not for him. I pulled the door shut and pressed myself a

LYRA Selene was practically vibrating with excitement. She sat on the edge of the sitting room couch with her hands twisted together in her lap, her bottom lip caught between her teeth, her eyes darting to the door every few seconds like the Alpha King might walk through it at any moment. Even her anxiety was pretty. Everything about Selene was pretty. It was honestly exhausting."What if I'm not his mate?" She turned to Kael with those enormous eyes, her voice dropping into that small trembling register she reserved for moments she needed his complete and total attention. "What if I get all the way to that meeting and he looks straight past me and I'm just standing there like an idiot in front of everyone?"Kael made a sound low in his throat and reached over, covering both her twisted hands with one of his. "That's not going to happen.""But what if—""Selene…." He said her name the way you stopped a child from running into traffic. "There is no one in this pack who comes close to

LYRA "Come to me before tonight and apologize to the families…I mean it." His eyes searched my face. "I'm trying to give you a way back." "You gave me a way out three years ago," I said quietly. "You chose the other direction." His expression hardened. "Because you were—" "Guilty." I finished it for him. "I know…You've mentioned it hundred times you fucking hypocrite!" "Your attitude isn't helping you." "Neither is your hand on my arm." I held his gaze. "Last time…Let go." He let go and I turned toward the door but the shove came from nowhere. One hard flat palm between my shoulder blades with no warning and I stumbled straight through the door behind the buffet table before my brain had finished processing that it was happening. The darkness swallowed me whole and the door slammed shut. The lock drove home with a sound that went straight through me like cold water. I spun around and hit the wood with both palms. "Darian!" I yelled in anger and horror, not expecting he'll

Zaren My fingers trembled from restraint. I had faced rogue Alphas, executed traitors, and walked into battlefields where entire armies bowed before my command without a single shake in my hands. Yet they betrayed me now because of her. I turned her wrist over as carefully as if it were made of glass. Old restraint marks circled the delicate skin and it's not even one but several of them. Layer upon layer, in different widths and depths. Some had healed into pale silver lines. Others still carried the faint purple stain of newer injuries. My jaw tightened. "No..."The word escaped before I realized I'd spoken aloud. Lyra watched me in silence. I slowly pushed the torn sleeve of her dress a little higher. There's another bruise and another cut. My wolf snarled inside me. Mine! T

Lyra“Alpha?”The word slipped from my mouth before I could catch it. I looked from the man still holding me against his chest to the stranger who had come running across the courtyard, then back again. The longer I stared at the two of them, the more ridiculous the entire scene became. A laugh broke free before I could stop it.“I’m sorry,” I said, shaking my head as the sound faded. “Did I hear that correctly? He just called you Alpha.”The man carrying me cleared his throat so suddenly that I almost laughed again. Only moments earlier he had looked calm and steady. Now he looked like someone desperately searching for any way out of the conversation.“You misunderstood,” he said, keeping his face carefully blank. “He’s developed a terrible habit over the years.”The newcomer stared at him with wide eyes.“I have?”“You have,” the stranger who was my mate answered without the slightest pause. “For some reason he insists on calling me Alpha whenever we are together.”The other man bli