Todos los capítulos de The Alpha Rejected the Wolf Everyone Called Weak: Capítulo 1 - Capítulo 5

Rhys stepped out of Cerys’s reach as his name was called.She had been about to take his hand. Instead, her fingers closed on empty air, and the gathering room erupted around her. Rhys moved to the front to accept the title of Alpha while Cerys stood where he had left her, trying to decide whether he had even noticed.Then he turned, and she forgot to be hurt.He was smiling. Not the controlled smile he gave people who wanted something from him, but the startled, almost disbelieving one she knew. The pack had chosen him. He had worked for their trust, and now he had it.Cerys clapped until her palms stung.“About time,” someone beside her shouted.She laughed, though her eyes stayed on Rhys. He looked taller with the whole room watching him. That was ridiculous—he was already tall enough to make her tilt her head when she kissed him—but she had never seen so many people wait for him to speak.He thanked them. His words were brief, and the crowd liked him for that too.Cerys had planne

By the time Cerys reached hydroponics, the celebration had followed her downstairs.Two of her coworkers were arguing over who had been the first to clap for Rhys. Someone had left a wrapped portion of supper on her worktable. Cerys stood in the doorway, wondering how they could have come back to work so easily. Then she saw the trays waiting for her.“You missed the best part,” one of them said. “Someone tried to make him give another speech.”“He'd have hated that.”“There she is. We were beginning to think the new Alpha had stolen you for the day,” someone said.Cerys picked up the food. She had not eaten since morning. “He's got half the silo waiting to congratulate him.”Her coworker laughed and went back to the growing beds. The joke had landed exactly as she intended. It left her feeling worse.She set the food down unopened.A row of greens near the far wall had begun to droop. Cerys had worried about them yesterday; the damage was small, but it would matter if no one noticed

Cerys left her lunch unfinished after the woman called her the weakest wolf in the pack.The woman had meant to comfort her. That was the trouble. Cerys could have argued that Rhys had no right to be ashamed of her, but the woman hadn't said he was. She had spoken as though leaving Cerys was one more burden the new Alpha ought to be spared.“I have an appointment,” Cerys said.“Shall I come with you?”“No, thank you.”The woman looked hurt. Cerys took her tray back before she could apologize for declining help she hadn't asked for.She was due to see Elis before Wolf Night. Usually Rhys would have been waiting when she came out, asking what Elis had said and whether she was hiding pain from him. Cerys had sometimes told him to stop fussing, then let him walk her home anyway. Today she wanted the appointment finished before he thought to find her.Elis was at his desk when she reached the medical rooms. He looked up from his work and pulled a chair toward her with his foot.“Sit down.