Choosing the Outcast Alpha
My coming-of-age ceremony was supposed to be a celebration. My father, the Alpha of Alphas, had invited every powerful pack in the land.
His goal: for me to choose a mate from the land's strongest Alphas.
I chose the most powerful of them all, Alpha Lukas.
But my sister Lyla, my father's bastard, was only allowed a lowly beta. She was slaughtered in the forest.
After her death, Lukas and I crafted 99 soul crystals in her memory.
I thought he did it for me, to honor my fallen sister.
But then he killed me in battle. With his bare hands.
"You bitch! If you hadn't chosen me, Lyla would have been my mate!"
Only then did I learn the truth. He had only ever loved Lyla.
He hated me for stealing the life that should have been hers.
Those 99 soul crystals… they weren't for her memory. They were for my penance.
I died in a sea of despair.
When I opened my eyes again, I was back on the day of my ceremony.
Facing the most powerful Alphas in the world, I walked past them all and chose the one no one wanted.
The half-breed outcast despised by all.
Salome.