Rejected By One Claimed By Another Novels & Stories

Four days. Only four days. Otto came forward, his grin lopsided. "What if I won't?" he queried, voice dripping with false innocence. The elders scowled at him. "Then you forfeit your claim to the title," snapped Elder Gregor. "You will lose rank, land, authority. You will leave this pack with nothing." Otto's jaw locked. His fists tightened. But he bowed stiffly. "I accept." I glanced at Damon. He had not moved an inch.

The bond was real. “Yes, he’s your mate,” my wolf repeated softly, “and you can’t run from it.” I wanted to deny it, to push the thought away, but I couldn’t. The pull was there, deep and undeniable. Impossible, never, he can never be my mate. I will never let myself fall for such a person. He would make me look like a fool and even reject me. That was if the bond wasn't one sided.

The bastard couldn't even look me in the eye. Fury and hurt rolled off me in waves as I strutted towards him, not even thinking as the words were coming from my mouth before I could stop them. “I want a rejection.” Unlike other packs, our pack had this law that only the men could reject the women due to certain mishaps that had happened when the women were the ones who took upon themselves the mantle of rejecting their mates, for whatever reasons they had. I can't even tell why the law suddenly sprang to my mind but while I was still in my right frame of mind, I was ready to honour it, even though no one's ever come out to confirm that it was true.

I tried to force a light laugh as I walked past her. “I think you need it, the alpha rejected in front of everyone and he wants me now.” She bragged immediately she grabbed my hands. I stared at her, still shocked and hurt by everything happening, I couldn’t believe she would do this and I didn’t know why she did. “I can’t talk to you right now.” I muttered weakly. My whole body trembled as I made my way home slowly, my mind was spinning. What was actually going on with me? In a span of hours, Nathan rejected me and my ex best friend is kissing and laying claims to someone who was once my mate.

"We have the paperwork right here. Signed and sealed. Aria Blackwood is no longer a member of Crescent Moon Pack and has no claim to Alpha protection." My heart sank. He was right. The rejection had been formal, public, and legally binding. Even if Ronan wanted to take it back now, pack law didn't work that way. "Then I claim her as my mate," Ronan said desperately. "Right here, right now. I, Alpha Ronan Draven…" "Cannot claim a mate you've already rejected," Thorne interrupted. "Really, Alpha, did you learn nothing in your training? A rejection cannot be reversed without Council approval. Which, given the circumstances, you will never receive."

"What do you think is happening to you?" I looked at the patrol report. "The bond," I said. "Yes," he said. "The bond." "It should have faded," I said. "Rejected bonds fade. That's how it works." "That's how it works when both wolves accept the rejection cleanly," he said. "When one wolf rejects and the other accepts under duress in front of a crowd because she had no other choice. Your wolf never agreed. You know that." I stood and crossed to the window.

Caleb tapped the first page. “They don’t have one successor everyone accepts. One group is backing the candidate the older leadership favors. Another says the strongest territorial claim belongs elsewhere. A third refuses both.” “No challenge settled it?” Hallie asked. “No formal settlement anyone recognizes.” Grant leaned back. “Then it stays theirs.” Caleb’s mouth tightened. “I’d prefer that.”

"If one of us had stood on that dais and said, mine, the Seat's contract would have been dead. It could not have taken you without starting a war with three Alphas and the old law itself." She did not move. Her eyes were very bright. "But a rejected mate," I said, "is something else entirely. A rejection is also an act. Spoken, witnessed, and recorded by the Council. When it is done, the bond remains in the blood, but the claim is dissolved. In the eyes of the law she is unclaimed. Unprotected. Free for anyone to take." "Unclaimed by any wolf outside the Principal's approval," Neva whispered.

Julia screamed: “YOU SHOULD HAVE LET ME REMEMBER!” May replied: YES. Silence. No defense. Julia sobbed. Tess spoke softly. “The request was denied.” Julia looked up. “What?” “Continuance refused to exclude Elena’s world.” “Why?” “Because you did not own it.” Julia stopped breathing. Tess continued: “We offered you entry instead.” “The choice you later refused.” Julia stared. Her attempted control had failed. The system had not punished her. It had simply refused authority she did not possess.

Bianca and I were switched before birth. She became the beloved daughter of both families. I became the girl neither one wanted. Every month, I carried a suitcase between two guest rooms while Bianca kept a bedroom, parents, and a place at the table in both estates. Then Bianca was diagnosed with a deadly blood disorder, and both families demanded that I become her stem cell donor. There was only one problem. My donor screening showed that I might be seriously ill too. They refused to read my medical report. They called my nosebleed an attention-seeking stunt. Then they forced me to voluntarily surrender every claim to both families before they would pay for my tests. The next day, I learned