I Was Never the Favorite
In Evergreen Pack, turning 18 means awakening, shifting into wolf form, and being marked by your mate.
But on the day of my coming-of-age ceremony, my older brothers and my fiance bring back a gravely injured Omega from the border. They place her in my room, and my eldest brother, Corey Newman, personally put the moonstone pendant my parents left me around her neck.
My fiance, Zachary Russell, who's supposed to mark me, instead takes the Omega, Nora Gates, by the hand. He looks at me coldly and hisses, "I refuse to be your mate."
The pain is too much for my wolf and me. Yet, my other brother, Wesley Newman, only says, "Stop making a scene or get out."
I realize then that they were no longer my family. So, I decide to exile myself and throw myself into ten years of closed research in Central City.
They think I'm just throwing a tantrum, and they even take Nora to see the aurora in Everfrost, something I've always longed to do.
When they finally realize that I'm never coming back, they fall to their knees at my feet, begging me like lunatics to return.