Todos los capítulos de At 18, My Mate Tricked Me into Exile, So I Rejected Him: Capítulo 1 - Capítulo 9

Before I left Central City, I wanted to return the last few things that belonged to them.So I went to find Holden at the training grounds.When he was 15, he’d pulled his first boar’s tusk during his coming-of-age trial. He’d made it into a pendant and asked me to keep it for him.He said it was the badge of honor he’d earned in his coming-of-age trial. He wanted to give his most precious trophy to the most important person in his life.When I found him, he was dripping with sweat as he set up a heated mattress for Mia.I held out the tusk. “Here. It’s yours.”He blinked, then tossed the tusk into a junk bin without a second thought. “Why are you giving it back all of a sudden? Actually, your timing’s perfect. Mia needs help moving some heavy stuff. You’re strong. Come give me a hand.”The trophy pendant he’d once called so precious had been tossed aside without a thought.I was the only one who’d ever taken those promises seriously.I stayed where I was. “I might not get another chan

A black armored transport stood at the end of the street, snow swirling around it as its engine rumbled.Garrett Shaw, the northern legion’s intake officer, tossed my duffel into the back for me.“Chloe, once you get in this vehicle, you’re bound by the border’s secrecy rules.”He held out a signal-blocking pouch. “From now on, your personal communications and social media accounts will be temporarily suspended. Is there anyone you need to contact before we leave?”I looked down at my communicator.My parents worked on classified assignments and couldn’t come to see me off. When they told me to take care of myself the night before, I could hear how much it hurt them.Holden. Elias. The familiar names flashed through my mind one by one.They’d once mattered so much to me. We’d been so close. But now they belonged to the past.“No one.” I climbed into the vehicle and was about to turn my communicator off.At the same time, the party at Elias’s apartment was just getting started. They wer

Frantic, Elias rushed to the Elder Council’s border dispatch center with Holden.Harlan Pierce, the dispatch officer, regarded them coldly from behind the energy barrier.“And what is your relationship to Chloe?”Elias answered without thinking. “I’m her mate.”Harlan pulled up her file on his holo-terminal, his voice flat. “The system shows that Chloe has unilaterally dissolved her mate bond. Her emergency contact field is blank.”Elias’s expression froze. He swallowed hard.“She’s just mad at me... Please, just tell me which outpost she’s been assigned to.”“Sorry. The Far North Line is top secret. I’m not authorized to tell you.”Holden slammed his palm on the counter.“We grew up together!”Harlan looked up.“Then as her friends, didn’t you know she left the city on the transport this morning?”Neither of them said a word.They hadn’t known.Earlier, while they were tearing through Chloe’s room, they hadn’t even glanced at the transfer addendum sitting on her desk.After leaving th

Life on the Far North Line was harsher than I’d imagined. And a lot more satisfying.My first week in camp, I followed Rowan, the legion commander, out into the storm-lashed no-man’s-land.Daytime temperatures were 40 below. At night, we had to be on constant guard against attacks by roaming rogues. The wind always carried ice and the smell of blood.A female fighter on the line handed me a piece of roasted meat.“Regret signing the blood oath?”I took a bite, swallowed the tough meat, and shook my head. “No regrets.”“Miss home?”I thought about it.“I miss what our kind is really supposed to stand for.”“Nobody else?” she asked.“There’s nobody else.”Six months later, while I was fighting off a massive night raid by a pack of rogues, my wolf evolved.I killed the rogues’ leader and nailed his fang to the trophy wall on the line.Before dawn that morning, Rowan brought out a flask of strong winter brew, clapped me on the shoulder, and laughed.“Chloe, you were born for the far north!