All Chapters of THE REJECTED MATE IS THE MOON GODDESS DAUGHTER : Chapter 1 - Chapter 6

THE REJECTED MATE IS THE MOON GODDESS'S DAUGHTERChapter One — The Girl in the BasementSophia POVI woke up, my back hurts.Not because I slept enough. Not because morning has come. Because the stone beneath me has become too cold to ignore.For several seconds, I don't move. I stare at the ceiling. There's a crack running across it. I've counted it so many times I know exactly where it begins.Above my head, someone walks across the floor. Then another person. Then another. The house is waking.I should get up. I don't. Not yet.For another ten seconds, I let myself stay where I am. The only warm thing I have is the breath leaving my own mouth. My blanket is a piece of torn fabric,used to be part of something better. A curtain, maybe. An old bedsheet. It doesn't matter anymore.I pull it away from my face and sit up. My body aches. My feet are numb. I look at the empty corner where a bed should be.There's never been one.I fold the torn fabric carefully. It's the only thing in this

THE REJECTED MATE IS THE MOON GODDESS'S DAUGHTERChapter Three — The Night of FateSophia POVThe party was too loud.People talked and laughed over each other, pups darted between legs and table skirts, glasses clinked somewhere behind me every few seconds, and the whole hall smelled of wine and roasted meat and too many bodies pressed too close together. Female wolves in beautiful dresses drifted between groups. Male wolves stood in clusters, deep in conversation. Young wolves flirted in the dark corners near the windows, laughing too easily at things that weren't that funny.I felt out of place in every direction I looked.Then the doors at the far end of the hall opened, and the noise changed.It didn't stop all at once. It just seemed to bend — conversations trailing off mid-sentence, heads turning one after another like something was moving through the room and pulling everyone's attention with it. A few soft gasps rippled near the entrance. Someone murmured a name I couldn't qu

THE REJECTED MATE IS THE MOON GODDESS'S DAUGHTERChapter Five — The RejectionDamon POV "I, Damon Trya, reject you, Sophia, as my mate and Luna."The words leave me like something physically torn loose, and for one terrible second the whole ceremonial ground goes utterly silent, like even the wind has stopped to listen.Sophia doesn't move at first. She just looks at me — through tears now, her whole face open in a way that makes it worse, not better — as if she's waiting for me to take it back. As if some part of her still believes I might.I don't.I can't.Something in her expression finally breaks, and she turns and runs, the crowd parting around her like she's something to be avoided rather than someone who needed to be caught.I stand there a long moment after she's gone, not moving, the word still sitting in my mouth like something I can't quite swallow back down. I said it. I actually said it. Whatever I thought I understood about tonight — my duty, my bloodline, the mate my