HE REJECTED ME AT THE ALTER
Rule one of surviving a werewolf rejection: don't look back.
Rule two: definitely don't move into an apartment directly below his human ex-girlfriend.
Rule three: under no circumstances allow him to follow you to the human world.
I have broken all three rules in under a month.
My name is Zoya Fennel, and five weeks ago, Casen Wolfe — Alpha of the Silveroak Pack, certified heartbreaker, and the most beautiful man the Moon Goddess ever put together on a Thursday — stood at the end of the aisle during our bonding ceremony and said, in front of everyone I have ever loved:
"She is not my true mate. I reject the bond."
And just like that, the life I'd been planning since I was sixteen years old dissolved in front of three hundred witnesses and one very startled officiant.
So I did what any self-respecting, moderately devastated she-wolf would do.
I walked out. I moved to the city. I got a frankly excellent apartment with a fire escape view and a coffee shop downstairs. I started living my life.
What I did not plan for was discovering — three weeks later, via a very confused text from my sister — that Casen has left the pack, abandoned his Alpha title, moved to the same city, and is currently standing outside my building in the rain.
He says he made a mistake.
He says the woman he thought was his true mate turned out to be nothing of the sort.
He says he's been going out of his mind since the rejection ceremony because the bond he severed — the one he publicly destroyed — is the only one he's ever felt.
I say: that sounds like a you problem.
Except then he gets a job at the coffee shop downstairs.