Jemmie writes
Vaelira Vespera has been treated as a maid in her home. Her mother, Matriarch Malia Vespera, favoured her sister Elodia above her and made no effort to hide it. The both of them made her life miserable, constantly telling her no one would want her for her large size. Vaelira endured all, hoping that on the appointed day her mate, Alpha Torren, one of the pack leaders, would take her and she would live a good life with him.
At the coming of age mating Ceremony of the Blood-Fang Pack, Vaelira dresses herself up expecting to be chosen. Instead, Alpha Torren publicly rejects Vaelira over her body type, taking her adoptive sister, Elodia, as his new Luna. To completely destroy her dignity, Torren offers her to the crowd, shouting that anyone who wants the "fat, worthless wolf" can take her.
"I formally reject Vaelira!" Torren yelled. "She is a burden to my pack. So I give her away! If any male in this room wants this fat, useless wolf, take her right now! Take her, feed her, or use her as a servant—I don't care! She is worth nothing!"
A stranger in ragged traveling clothes steps forward and offers to take her, but what no one knows is that he is Alpha Malakor, the powerful Lycan.
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