Lahat ng Kabanata ng Rejected, Reclaimed -His Rejected Bride : Kabanata 1 - Kabanata 5

Serena's POVThe ceremony was supposed to be the best night of my life.The most wonderful moment in the life of any female wolf. Older wolves would always pull you aside to talk about the mating ceremony.Everything you had ever been through would make sense. Every hard year, every lonely night, every moment of feeling like an outsider because of your low background. It would all make sense, they said.I believed them.I was twenty one years old and I believed every word of it.The pack hall was full. Every member of the Blackthorn Pack standing in their rows, dressed in the formal colors, the candles lit the way they were only lit for ceremonies that mattered. I stood at the front of it in a white dress that someone had pressed that morning and I held myself very still and I did not let my hands shake even though they wanted to.Kael stood across from me.He was twenty five and already Alpha and already everything the pack needed him to be, tall and broad and carrying that particu

Serena's POV"Oh it's just a marble, I thought it was something else" I said, keeping my voice easy and my face easier.Lance looked at me for a half second longer than felt comfortable and then nodded and turned back toward the path we had come from. I slipped the ring deeper into my pocket and kept my hand there as we walked, my fingers closing around the cool metal of it.The Blackthorn symbol.I had grown up looking at that symbol. It had been on the gates of the pack house and on the official documents and on the ring that Kael wore on his right hand, the one that had been passed down through three generations of Blackthorn Alphas. I had looked at that ring enough times to know every line of the design, the specific way the two wolf heads curved toward each other at the center, the small detail at the base that most people missed unless they were looking very closely.But how did it get here, all the way from the blackthorn pack to the border lands or was it stolen from Kael.A q

Serena's POV"You're not strong enough yet, lay down for a while," the healer said, arranging his pillow for him.I stood at the side of the room and watched her fuss with the pillow and the blanket and the small tray of things on the bedside table and I could not stop looking at him.Three years of building a life that did not have him in it, of waking up every morning and making a deliberate choice to face forward rather than backward, of looking at Aria's grey eyes across the breakfast table and finding a way to make peace with what they reminded me of.And now he was here. In a clinic bed in my pack's medical wing, pale and scarred and looking at the ceiling with absolutely no idea who I was.I didn't know yet if I should be happy about that or sad that he couldn't remember who I was."Serena."I blinked twice.Bren was looking at me from the other side of the bed."Aren't you going to ask him some questions?" she said. "For the investigation.""Yes," I said. "Right. Yes."I pulle