Todos os capítulos de Rejected Then Ruined : Capítulo 1 - Capítulo 5

The border smelled the same.That was the first thing that hit her — before she saw a single tree she recognized, before the old stone marker that split Ironclaw's neutral ground from Ashwood territory came into view. Pine and woodsmoke and something underneath it, some particular mineral scent to the soil here that she'd never smelled anywhere else in three years of crossing half the continent for Rurik's contracts.Mira stopped the car a quarter mile from the checkpoint and sat there for a moment with her hands on the wheel, breathing it in through the cracked window, and reminded herself that the girl who used to run through these woods barefoot in summer didn't exist anymore. She'd buried that girl in the training yard at Ironclaw, one broken bone and one bloody lesson at a time.The name on her papers was Rhea Voss. Ironclaw debt collector, five years' experience, no known pack affiliation. It wasn't even a difficult lie — Rurik had built her a whole clean history, references and

Mira spent the walk back to the guest quarters rebuilding every wall Kade Sterling had cracked in that room, brick by careful brick, the way Rurik had taught her — name the fear, set it down, pick up the work instead. By the time she reached her door, Rhea Voss had returned, cool and composed, the terror underneath locked back where it belonged.She didn't get to enjoy the peace for long."You're the new Ironclaw woman."The voice came from down the hall — young, male, careful in a way that immediately made her wary. She turned to find a wolf close to Kade's age leaning against the wall outside her door, arms crossed, dark hair and a face that was almost, but not quite, unfamiliar.Then it clicked, and her stomach dropped.Damon. Kade's younger brother. He'd been fourteen the day of her rejection, all elbows and awkward silence, the kind of boy who watched everything and said almost nothing. He'd cried, she remembered suddenly — one of the only wolves in that hall who had, standing ne