The Alpha Rejected His Bride For Me
She just stood in the center of the kitchen, her arms wrapped tightly around her middle as if she were trying to physically prevent herself from falling apart.
"I'm finishing the stew," I said, moving past her toward the stove. The heat from the burners was the only thing keeping the dampness out of the room. "Sit down. The chair by the window is the sturdiest."
I picked up the heavy lid of the iron pot. A thick cloud of steam rose up, smelling of onions, salt, and the cheap, fatty beef I’d managed to scrape together at the morning market. I stirred the pot, the liquid bubbling in slow, lazy pops. Behind me, I heard the sound of the chair scraping against the floorboards. Then, the heavy lea