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Chapter 48: Secrets II
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2025-01-25 22:01:16
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Fleeing her Rejected Mate Chapter 49: Nobody.
Raiden reads the letter in the privacy of his office, and I let him read it alone because the death of the person that left the letter is weighing too heavily on me for me to stand there and read it with him.I didn’t know her.I never knew her, yet she killed herself out of loyalty to this pack, and not out of betrayal. Raiden was right to look at me like he couldn’t believe what he was seeing when I was happy at her death.He’s a good Alpha. Has a good head on his shoulders and…. Thanks to Amanda we might have a fighting chance now.That’s if what’s in the letter is what I suspect it is.I head back to my room, but the room feels like the last place I want to be right now. My chest still feels cramped by more emotions than I can identify so I head back out.My mind can’t stop taking me back to the fact that her brother is in the clutches of people who used him as a tool to threaten her.He’s still with them, and I'm scared. Now more than ever. Because I realise how easy it would be
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I go farther into the Tempest pack forests because I won't cry anywhere they can see me.I feel so silly that tears are even dropping from my eyes but I don't understand what’s going on in my heart right now.And maybe it was the mean words about me being the reason someone killed themselves, or the meanness itself, but it’s hurt me.It hurts me with the kind of pain that makes swallowing hard and blurs my vision with tears.Wh…. What have I done to be hated like this?I haven’t even been on bad terms with Mor lately. I’ve done all I can to be a good person to her. To believe that she’s misjudged me and I, her, but the look I saw in her eyes…. like I'm something disgusting, worthless.My child is NOT a bastard. And even if I have nothing, I'm still the daughter of my parents. They might not be here right now, but they loved me. I didn’t come from nothing.Only the goddess knows if she’d be able to stand in front of me if my parents were still alive. She’s literally the mean girl of so
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The strange woman, Irene, doesn’t respond to any more of my questions as to who she is or why I've not heard of her in the duration of my stay here.I’ve lived in this pack for more than a month now and I haven't heard of anyone named Irene.Someone should have mentioned her. Bryce. Mort. Raiden.If they had a mind reading elder in their pack…. they could have used her on me the day i was brought here.”How are you sure they didn’t?”Her smile sends goosebumps skittering down the path of my arm but I shake my head, dispelling the fear that comes with her words and refusing to believe what she’s saying, “If Raiden already knew who I was there’s no reason he’d hide it from me.Raiden wouldn’t do that.”She holds my gaze and I hold hers, letting her see and know that I won't buy into little tricks and lies.If what she’s saying is true then it means all the time i’ve been here, i’ve been living a lie. It would mean Raiden does have another reason for keeping me here. He hasn’t given me a
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Raiden’s pov.My ears pick up the sound of running a few minutes before she slams into me. I’m standing in front of the back door, trying to listen to the wind and my mind so I can truly know what to do next.The content of the spy’s letter to me was something I couldn't have imagined. It makes a little bit of sense now, why the Redstones would be after my pack.My mind was still divided between thinking and letting whichever young couple playing in the woods have their time when Emery bursts forth from the treeline, panic and fear written all over her face as she continues running, only one thought on her mind.To get away.I move before she gets to me and she crashes into my arms. Even when I have my arms around her Emery is still trying to move farther into the room, unintelligible words pouring from her lips and panic dominating her actions.I get her inside first, my eyes scanning the treeline all the while before I shut the door.Emery is breathing fast. Her mind is clearly stil
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My heart skips a beat when Raiden shakes his head.He doesn’t. I fucking knew it!I stare at Raiden, waiting for him to say something more, but he doesn’t say anything. He simply sits there, huge and warm, brow furrowed and lines of thought on his head.He’s thinking?He should be reacting. That woman could read my mind. There’s a possibility she could read anybody’s mind. To have someone like that running around in the pack…..“She could be a potential risk.”Raiden nods, “She could have sent the wolf after you so she could kill you and stop you from reporting her presence to me.”I nod, “Exactly! Someone like that is running around in this pack.”Raiden nods again and this time I can't ignore the calm, balanced posture of his form. I can’t ignore how much when I look at him, I remember what it was like to be sitting beside him.I’m not some touch starved maiden waiting for the affection of a man, but my dreams lately would disagree. Having sex dreams of Nikolai…… that’s a sign of so
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I head back to my room and stay there.My chest is pounding and there's a slight panic in my heart. Okay there’s more than slight panic, because what if he’s with Nikolai.What if the guest he’s brought is none other than his Alpha?And Irene. Raiden said he doesn’t know any woman named Irene.She was something, but her words are what make me pause even more than I would on a normal day.She could be the person Max brought, but I've never known Max to know someone so interesting. I don’t think that woman would have much patience for him, it’s either that or they would have gotten along perfectly fine.”Arghh!”A scream leaves my lips out of frustration, because I can't stay in here just waiting for him to find me out.I could hide in the woods, but there’s the threat of a wolf mauling me if I was to stay there. I could stay in the servant’s quarters, hide out in one of the rooms or halls in the Tempest packhouse.”Emery?”My tongue drops into my stomach but I turn, expecting to see Mo
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“Max!”Mort’s voice crashes down the hallway and my heart jumps in my throat, both of us jolt and now my heartbeat really does begin to race. Because there couldn’t have been a worse time for him to come here.”Max.”Mort comes into the room, looking from him to me and trying to make sense of what he’s seeing. For now I glare at him because he’s definitely not getting things done like he said he would.He said he would keep Max from me. That he would distract Max when he came to the pack, yet he’s only just coming here now.”I… I thought you said you would be at the pack borders. We sent a retinue of pack warriors to escort you here.”Max keeps his eyes on me but still responds, “I got lost. I hope I didn't cause much of a problem.”You can hear his vapid superiority in his tone and I can barely stand it. Maybe being around so many Redstones has made him proud too. There’s a saying that Redstone pride rubs off on people.Mort smiles in the way a mediator would and shakes his head, “It
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At the first crack of dawn, I make my way over to the room where I was told Max is staying.I throw the doors open, hoping I'm not unlucky enough to meet him half naked, or worse, doing the thing he said he would be doing with the woman he brought with him, but no, that can’t be possible. Not after so little time.I know her that well…. and Layla never really liked guys like Max.”Oh my god, Emery.”I throw my arms around her neck the moment I hear her voice. I can’t…. I can't believe she’s here.”You’re really here.”Layla nods, and tears drop from my eyes because the feeling of having her here is strong. Like a livewire being hooked onto my body. The feeling of pain, the feeling of being separated from the only friend i’ve had for a long time now, that feeling comes all at once.And even though I'm seeing her once again, the pain of being without her all this while is also very real.I’m almost embarrassed i’m crying but I can feel the wetness on my neck. Layla is crying too.“I was
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Fleeing her Rejected Mate Chapter 69: Ruin.
“Konstantin and Irene were to each other, one half of the same moon, each half shining brighter than the other.Their love was forbidden because no one knew where Konstantin was from and no one knew his origins, but Irene was a princess of Tempest.She was born of storm and wind.She had power, more than anyone in her time did.”Mor is clearly rushing over the tale and because of that I can tell that Irene wasn’t just any other princess with power. No, her tale was something special in the Tempest pack.Why Raiden said he didn’t know who she was, I don't know.“Did she die?”Mor nods, “Tragically too. But our pack legends say she shed her power into our pack, into every corner of the land and its people, and she became a protecting spirit. The ghost princess of the Tempest pack.”Silence comes afterwards and it takes me some time, but I rift through all I've learned and listen to the things that are not being said.”Why would she appear then?”Mor shrugs, “What did she look like?”I f
Fleeing her Rejected Mate Chapter 68: Irene and Konstantin.
The moment I get back to the house I seek out Mor. When I see her she frowns, I frown too and take a deep breath before approaching her, "We have a problem on our hands.”Mor frowns, because before this she was lounging in the chair and now I'm pestering her. Still she gets up and walks over to me,. grabbing me by the hand and dragging me outside, roughly too I might add.She takes me to the back and we stop at the edge of the treeline, “Look at it.”I’m slightly blown back by the beauty of this place but I don't know if that’s what Mor wants me to see. Still I look at the treeline. The bounty of brown and green, the large trees and spindly shrubs.I take a deep breath and find my heart slowing down. It slows, and only then do I realise my heart has been beating fast.Faster than it normally should, and I didn't notice it at all.”I could hear your heart racing from the door, Emery. Whatever it is, I'm sure it’s not that bad.”For once Mor is being kind, and i do my best not to smile
Fleeing her Rejected Mate Chapter 66: Rejected.
In a few more minutes we’re all settled in. There isn’t that much furniture in the house but there’s enough for people to sit on without knocking knees with each other.Mor has already made dibs on one of the rooms upstairs and Raiden has informed me that I will be having the other one. The boys will rough it out downstairs.It’s a bit late into the day by the time we’re truly settled, but we don’t have that much time here to spend it resting anyways.Raiden and I go out, taking Bryce and Cetus with us. Just a father and mother, and their two teenage sons.We want to see if there’s nothing too peculiar about werewolves, aka, will the humans spot us from a mile away?We get a few stares here and there, mostly from strangers we simply pass by the side of the road.Bryce and his cousin already know the drill. Do not draw attention to yourself. Do not growl. Do not snarl. No flashing eyes. Nothing that marks us as werewolves.Raiden told them this himself, but I think he forgot another
Fleeing her Rejected Mate Chapter 65: Old houses.
A week ago when Raiden came to me with news of the exams Bryce and Cetus would be writing, we went over the college requirements together.The first obvious issue was of course the fact that they’re going to human schools.It’s in a city that’s just at the edge of the werewolf borders, but it’s also one of those cities where there’s no doubt that there has been some leakage over the decades.A human city this close to the werewolf borders will have people occasionally slipping through from both ends. Some come in legally, after going through rigorous vetting and checking at the borders, but others slip in and out like little phantoms in the night. We're not going to be slipping through, but we also aren't going to be going through the normal ways.Mor throws a glare my way as her way of asking, "Are you ready for this?"I can almost hear the thought leaping from her head, but she's not saying it. I don't think she wants me to act as Raiden's wife, but she's doing her best to get cool
Fleeing her Rejected Mate Chapter 64: Concerning behavior.
Raiden doesn't ask me any more questions after that and I'm able to go through the rest of my breakfast in peace.It’s not like he disturbs me. It’s just that up until now, I still don’t know why he left the packhouse that afternoon.The day Max was here they did speak, but they didn’t tell me what they spoke of. Raiden admitted he and Max had a conversation. But if it was concerning me or the pack, i don’t know.He’s refused to tell me why he went off all alone that day, or what was in the letter he read from Amanda.Speaking of Amanda, I turn to Mor and dare asking, “How’s the boy? Julius.”About a week ago, Raiden left the pack and came back with a young boy. About seven or eight. He said the boy was Amanda’s brother, Julius. The pack received him in with open arms and he's been with Julia ever since.She’s been taking care of him, and sometimes I've been changed to see both of them. I think I can say Amanda was particularly drawn to Julia because she reminded her of her brother. N
Fleeing her Rejected Mate Chapter 64: Leaving for college II
”Shouldn’t you be outside, celebrating with your friends too?”Bryce settles in the seat beside me with his breakfast in hand and shrugs, “I already did. Last night.We’ve said our goodbyes, plus everyone celebrating right now is celebrating Cetus. His whole band of soon to be warrior friends will probably try to make anyone else feel bad if they were to celebrate and I don't want to make any noise.”“But you should.”Bryce looks at me and I nod, because while I understand why he doesn't want to overshadow his cousin’s happiness, he has to realise he has a claim to happiness as much as anyone else.He’s grown into a beautiful young man in the past month I've been here. He was striking because of his scar the first time I saw him. But it’s like everything about his features have settled into serenity now.He doesn't look odd. Even the scar looks like something he can’t do without now. His body might have changed but his character didn’t change much.He’s still the weird kid obsessed wi
Fleeing her Rejected Mate Chapter 63: Leaving for college.
~Two weeks later.~“Emery!Emery where are you?!”Mor’s voice grates against my ears but I remain silent. I’m putting the final touches on my look and I need total concentration for that.If I'm going to pull this off, then I need to be unrecognizable. I need to make sure no one who knew me before would know me now.I stare in the mirror and let the moment drag forever. The woman that stares back at me is different from the one that came here.To begin with, her hair is no longer the raven black it had always been. Now it’s a dark gemstone red. It’s not ruby red because I promised Mor I would kill her in her sleep if she made my hair ruby red out of spite.I was fully prepared to cut it if she did me like that.But to her credit, she didn’t. She gave me a red bordering on such black that if I stand in a shadow, my hair looks black, but when I step into the light, the red bleeds through..I’ve put on a bit of weight because the pregnancy is coming along quickly, but not enough that I c
Fleeing her Rejected Mate Chapter 62: My decision and it's final.
I turn my head to the side to look at Max and he’s looking at me too. His eyes hold a firmness that tells me he’s serious about what he’s saying, but I anticipated this.While I was going through the mechanical motions of taking care of the wounded, I thought about this. About what I would say if Max decided he wanted to try and convince me to come back to the pack.He is Nikolai’s Beta after all. No pack’s Alpha has ever had their mate live in another pack. I asked myself what I would do if he tried to convince me to come back, just for the sake of the pack and the man he serves.”What would I do if I went back to the pack?”Max takes a deep breath and proves me right. He’s also been thinking about how he’ll convince me to come back to the pack with him.He has a list neatly set out. A picture in his head. A perfectly male picture in his perfectly male head.I listen as he tells me about the house a little ways into the woods at the edge of the pack. A quaint three bedroom house with
Fleeing her Rejected Mate Chapter 61: Come back with us.
Bernard leaves me on my own for the rest of the day and I try not to let myself think too much concerning what he said.I’ve long ago stopped trying to make myself feel like I might be special in some way. I had enough time in Nikolai’s pack to think and wonder about myself.The long hours spent waiting for Nikolai to come back from work, well when i wasn’t thinking of him, and wetting my panties at the thought of him, i thought of myself, and how i didn’t have a wolf.How i probably won’t ever have a wolf, because no matter how much my parents tried i couldn’t shift.Everyone knows a werewolf that can’t shift into their wolf form is no better than a human. There’s nothing they can do to help the pack. They’re not special in any way. A wolfless wolf isn’t a werewolf. A wolfless wolf is useless.And I tried to make myself feel like there was something else to me than what meets the eye. I tried to find it, but there was nothing there.I had no gifts to speak of. No special ability. No
