All Chapters of Rejected by my Hockey Alpha, Claimed by His Rival: Chapter 1 - Chapter 5

Sloane.I woke up before he did, sunlight cutting through a gap in the curtains and landing right across his face.For a moment I just watched him breathe, the rise and fall of his chest, the way his jaw looked softer in sleep than it had all night. Then my brain caught up with the rest of me, and I remembered what I had smelled against his throat, and I sat straight up in bed.He is an Alpha. That scent did not belong to a stranger from a bar. It belonged to someone who had a pack behind him, a rank, a reason to hide what he was.He stirred at the movement beside him and opened his eyes slowly, and for a second neither of us said anything. The silence sat heavy between us, thick with everything we had figured out about each other in the same breath, right before things had gone too far to stop."You already knew," I said. It was not a question."I knew the second you got close enough to smell me." His voice was rough with sleep, but his eyes were sharp, watching me the way a wolf wat

Sloane.My wrist still felt warm where his fingers had been, and that made me angrier than anything else that morning.I walked away from Torin fast, the camera bag banging against my hip, my heart slamming so hard I could feel it in my throat. He had no right to grab me like that. He had no right to ask me anything about my life, not after he had thrown me out of his without a single explanation eight years ago."You don't get to be jealous," I muttered to myself in the empty hallway. "Not after what you did."I found an empty corner near the equipment room and stood there until my hands stopped shaking, then I raised my camera and forced myself to work, because work was the only thing I trusted right now.I shot the team stretching out on the ice, sticks tapping in rhythm, breath fogging in the cold air. I shot the coaches shouting drills from the boards. I shot a rookie falling flat on his back and laughing about it, and for a few minutes the anger in my chest cooled into something