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Book 2: chapter 40
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The Alpha King's Rejected Mate Book 2: chapter 41
Maya“Bow your heads,” I whispered to the others as I moved forward.“Excuse me?” Duke snapped. “I will not. She is not my queen.”“She is not a wolf,” I returned in a furious whisper. “She’s the one doing this. She’s a witch and a fucking powerful one, and we’ve wandered into her territory with a magical amulet. Show some respect to her and maybe she won’t kill us with the snap of her fingers.”For a horrible moment, I thought they weren’t going to comply. With the exception of Tessa and Paisley, these were wolves who were used to being at the top, with only Rhyson above them. They didn’t show their necks for anyone else.“I’m not telling you to kneel. I’m telling you to let her know that you aren’t questioning her authority.”Rhyson bowed his head first, and the others followed. Gently, I took the amulet from Rhyson and held it up. “We were told that this was an abandoned but safe way to travel,” I called up to her. “We did not mean to disturb you.”She blinked out of existence and
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RhysonI could feel the panic around me, but I just arched an eyebrow at the man in front of me. “You gave your pregnant mate a flare gun?”“Actually, I keep taking them away from her. She keeps finding more. I haven’t figured out who her supplier is. Honey, let’s not immediately murder the guests Lunessa just dropped off. You’ve been complaining about how she never visits.”“I don’t like him,” Anna said as she rubbed her belly.“Neither do I,” Maya said behind me. “But since he’s the father of my child, I would appreciate it if you didn’t shoot him.”Anna’s eyes flitted to Maya, and she relaxed her arm. “Fine, but you really shouldn’t sleep with wolves you don’t like.”“A lesson I’ve noted for the future,” Maya said smoothly. “My name is Maya. This is Rhyson. Dante. Nash. Juniper. Tessa. Paisley. And Duke is the wolf who is not going to tear out your throat.”Turning my head, I looked as my second practically foamed at the mouth. I nodded at him, and he immediately sat down.“Jax,” t
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“Jax,” Anna said in a shaky voice. “Let him go. He was protecting his mate.”“I’m not his mate,” Maya snapped, and I glared at her. Jax’s hands released me, and he stepped back.I rubbed my neck. “I see that name tends to trigger a lot of people, but we’ve traded her location once for help. We won’t do it again.”“Very well. We can get the information from Lunessa. We offer you our hospitality,” Jax said warmly as he stepped back and put his arm around Anna. “We have enough guest rooms for you here.”How kind of him. He was itching to tear out my throat, and yet he was letting us stay.Keep your enemies close.“We appreciate the hospitality for the night. Any information you can give us on Emerson’s successor will be appreciated, and then we’ll be on our way,” I said diplomatically, trying to let him know that I wasn’t here to challenge him as alpha.He didn’t even begin to relax. “Let me show you to your rooms.”There were enough rooms that nobody needed to double up, but the alpha d
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MayaIt was strange waking up in Rhyson’s arms with his breath heavy in my ear. His arm was slung around my torso, and his fingers twitched on my skin. I held my breath, willing away the images that popped up in my head. I’d meant what I said last night. I would not be the thing that he hated during the day and used during the night.Enough sun came through the window that I knew it was morning, but I’d probably only gotten a few hours of sleep. I was exhausted, but precious minutes were ticking by. If I was going to find the witch to help me, I needed to do it before Rhyson left. I had no doubt that he would drag me away whether I wanted to go or not.That didn’t stop me from taking an extra second to enjoy the moment snuggling against him. As much as I hated it, his warmth and hold made me feel safe. Made me want things. Made me wish for things I had no business wishing for.I shifted, just slightly, and his hand slipped down my body. Freezing, I held my breath. Had I woken him up?
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Maya“She’s not feral,” I whispered as I curled my hands. “She’s doing the best she can. How can you tell?”“My wolf can sense it,” Anna said calmly while she walked ahead. “Come on.”So she wasn’t going to kill me on sight? I debated the decision I’d made in coming here. What if she was leading me into a trap?“You want answers or not?” Anna asked impatiently. “I’m hungry. I’m not going to stand here much longer.”Swallowing hard, I followed her. Anna banged on the front door. “Irene? It’s me. I’ve got company, and we’re coming in, so don’t throw any plates at my head.”“Why would she throw plates at your head?”“The only person who visits her right now is her mate, and he’s the reason she’s so mad all the time,” Anna whispered back.“Wait, she has a mate? Like a werewolf?”“Yeah. It’s complicated. Come on.” Opening the door, she walked in. A tall and slender woman was on top of the fridge. Long silver locks of hair fell over her shoulder, and her eyes glowed purple. I immediately st
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“No you’re not. You’re lying. Tell me, does your skin itch?”“What?”“How long have you been on this land?”My heart pounded in my chest. “Anna,” I said quietly. “I can feel my wolf. How fast can you shift?”“Pretty quickly,” she said easily as she scrambled some eggs. “You like cheese in your eggs?”“How powerful is your wolf?”“I’m bonded with the most powerful alpha on this mountain. I can take you down if I need to. Was that a yes to the cheese?”“Sure. Why not?” Crying out, I hit the ground on all fours.Janelle put her hands on my shoulder, and I started to jerk back, but her touch warmed me. “How long have you been on Jax’s territory?”“Ten hours, maybe? Eight?” I whispered. My wolf shuddered, but she stopped rising inside of me. “What are you doing?”“Nothing,” Janelle said angrily. “She’s there, but I can’t reach her. You are not bonded to your alpha. You don’t have any bonds at all. Why did you come here? Why did the fae send you here?”She moved back, and I took a deep brea
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Rhyson “Rhyson, I am in no danger,” Maya insisted. “There is no need to fight.” Anna cleared her throat. “Jax, back down. Now.” The alpha and I stared at each other. Instinctively, my wolf knew that he was protecting his mate and his territory, but my sanity was hanging by a thread. When I learned that Maya had gone off by herself, I’d lost my mind. We only had a stranger’s word that we were safe here. I don’t know who moved first, but suddenly, we were both in the air, each aiming for the other’s throat. “Roosavier,” the blonde shouted. With a grunt, we both fell to the floor. Grunting, I tried to rise, but there was something invisible pulling me down. I could barely budge an inch. When Jax growled unhappily, I knew he was in the same boat. “Irene,” Anna snapped, and raced to Jax’s side. To my shock, Jax sat up and shook his whole body before glaring at me. “What? I didn’t hurt them, although the spell isn’t all that strong. It won’t hold them for more than twenty or
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MayaMy wolf didn’t just give over control. She sank deep in me, almost as if she were retreating to lick her wounds. Rhyson’s look of disgust had broken us both, and when I emerged, I started to shift. Nobody said a word as someone handed me some clothes.“Is there any way to fix it?” I asked without looking up. “Can you use magic to repair my bonds?”Janelle looked over at Irene and then back to me. “Honestly, I have no idea. There isn’t much information on wolf magic that’s available to witches. I’m not even certain how a witch would have gone about removing them to begin with. Your best course of action is to find the witch that removed them and hope he knows how to fix it.”That didn’t bode well. Even if I could somehow get the information from my father, it wouldn’t do me any good. “Well, thank you. I did think I’d go my whole life never knowing what was wrong with my wolf. Turns out she’s perfect.” I forced a smile. “We were just fucked from the moment we were conceived.”“Maya
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The Alpha King's Rejected Mate Book 3: chapter 46
Knowing she was pregnant would only make that target on her back even bigger.Tess frowned at her. “Are you okay?”Mica struggled to reign in the anxiety that was no doubt leaking into her expression. “Disappointed. A baby would be a welcome beacon of light in these dark times.”She hoped the strange lilt to her voice could be mistaken for sadness. She didn’t have the mental energy to explain everything to Tess, nor did she want to. Not only were these raging emotions making her feel hollowed out inside, but Tess shouldn’t be the first one to find out. Hayden should.Once Hayden knew and they had a plan for moving forward, she could tell Tess the truth. Hopefully, she’d understand.Right now, though, there was so much tension in the splintered pack that if it was known she was pregnant, it might push the pack to no longer wait for the challenge… which was meant to be tomorrow afternoon.“I’m going to rest,” Mica told Tess, managing a small smile. “And you should as well. We’ve been th
The Alpha King's Rejected Mate Book 3: chapter 45
MicaMica didn’t know how she did it, but Tess managed to smuggle in a pregnancy test. Now, Mica sat in the bathroom, staring at the positive result. Her stomach was queasy, and now that she thought about it, she’d been feeling that quite a lot lately. Her body hurt, she always felt tired, and she had chalked it all up to stress.Pregnant.Even though she and Hayden had been having a lot of sex, and she had made the deliberate choice not to use condoms, she still could hardly believe it. Her period had always been all over the place. It wasn’t unusual for her to skip three or four months. She’d always been told it would make getting pregnant more difficult.Counting back, it had been, what, five months? Time passed so quickly that she hadn’t bothered to think about her last period. Before Hayden and the special ops team had returned to the Bluebell Valley pack, at least. So what did that mean? How far along was she?She peeled up her shirt and studied her stomach, looking at it from a
The Alpha King's Rejected Mate Book 3: chapter 44
Hayden“I’m just saying that maybe this ritual is worth the risk,” Maverick said. His arms were folded over his chest, and there was a doubtful look on his face. “What will it hurt to try?”Hayden shook his head. “We can’t risk a demon getting free. We don’t know what will happen. For all we know, this ritual is something the demons put into the world to—”He cut off as Finn shuddered. His eyes widened, and his head snapped around, toward the house. “Something’s happening.”Mica.With a curse, Hayden wheeled around and raced for the house. The team fell in step behind him. The pack looked up from their tasks, startled, but Hayden didn’t give any orders. He threw open the front door and took the stairs two at a time. He kicked open the door leading to the room where Echo was kept.Mica, Tess, and Elin were all inside. Tess rang an old brass bell manically, the clanging echoing through the room. Elin held a lighter in hand, racing back and forth to light candles as Echo spun around in h
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Mica squeezed her eyes shut tightly. Her stomach churned. It was exactly what she thought—they weren’t even going to try to save Echo, too certain in their own knowledge.“It has to happen soon, Hayden,” Ryder said, his voice low, urgent, and… sorrowful. “I can’t keep holding my tongue. You are my Alpha, and I’ve tried to respect your decisions, but the situation is becoming untenable. This is my mother and my sister we’re talking about. I will tell Mica, if that’s what you would prefer.”“No,” Hayden answered.Why? Why did he not want Ryder to tell her? Tears filled Mica’s eyes and she crept away, not wanting to hear any more. Was Hayden afraid she’d let Echo go? Did he think it was up to him as her mate to tell her that he was going to kill her mother?He doesn’t consider it killing Mom, though. He considers it a mercy, freeing her from the demon.It didn’t make Mica feel any better. She carefully opened the kitchen door, slipped through, and softly closed it. Her heart pounded in h
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MicaMica stared at the page. She’d been reading for so long that the words were starting to blur, but if she was right in her interpretations here… She blinked, rubbed her eyes, and focused again. As she reread the section, her heart started to beat faster.“And the demon was taken from its host and trapped in the stone,” she whispered. “Where it was trapped for all eternity.”She scanned the rest of the page. Hope swelled through her, even though she fought against it. It had been so long since this started, she wasn’t sure she could take it if this didn’t work. But there was the ritual all laid out. The way to force an aura-demon from the person it was possessing, and trapping it into an inanimate object. Once in the object, the demon would be trapped until said object was destroyed.Her mind whirled as to what they could use to trap the demon inside of Echo. There was a size limit to work with. A rock would be the best; then she’d put it in a plastic, air-tight box and bury it as
The Alpha King's Rejected Mate Book 3: chapter 41
Monroe laughed. “Spoken like a true female. Completely wrong.”Spencer and the rest of his people burst into laughter as well. They all stalked away, taking their torches with them. A flash of lightning flickered soundlessly in the distance. Hayden turned to his pack. They watched with uncertain gazes.“Two days,” he said loudly. “And then you will know you put your faith in the right Alpha. We will have Bluebell Valley, and things will get better.”He smiled at them reassuringly. As they dispersed, Finn and Blayke sidled over to him. Finn spoke in a low voice.“Spencer is the only one not showing signs of possession,” he said under his voice. “Everyone else is either claimed or at least influenced. It’s spreading.”Hayden nodded once. Finn would prefer they take more decisive, more immediate action. Hayden couldn’t blame him, knowing his history. He had a particular reason to hate demons, seeing how they robbed him of any chance he might have had to have a normal family, a normal lif
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Hayden“Stay here. I’ll be back shortly,” Hayden ordered as he stalked back to the bedroom. As he threw on his clothes, he frowned. Mica was dressing as well. “I said—”“I’m your mate. I’ll stand with you,” she said shortly.Hayden shook his head. “You’ll stay within the property bounds.”Mica huffed at him but didn’t respond. The two of them were ready quickly. Mica swept her hair into a bun as they headed downstairs. Torches lit the night, dozens of Monroe’s pack carrying them as the flames flickered and glowed. Hayden’s wolf snarled at the sight of Monroe, standing with his toes against the PCP piping at the gate.“Ah, decided to join us, did you?” Monroe drawled. “I was starting to think that your little challenge was all talk and no action.”His people laughed. Hayden ignored the low-hanging fruit and stopped just inside the protective barrier. “Are you finally going to accept my challenge, or will you continue to be a coward?”Monroe smirked. “What do you think I’m here for? It’
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“Brother coming through,” Ryder called from outside, then he stepped into the entrance. He grabbed a pair of shorts and yanked them on, carefully not watching Mica and Hayden. Mica kissed Hayden’s cheek. “I’ll be up in a bit.” He nodded, and Mica slipped back outside. It was utterly dark now, and she had to use a flashlight to navigate the camp. Everyone else could simply see in the dark but with her weak human eyes… But nobody brought it up, not like they wouldhave in other circumstances. She headed upstairs once she was satisfied everyone was set for the night. Hayden waited for her in bed, scrolling through the most recent demon research on the laptop. He closed it and set the laptop on the nightstand as he grinned at her. His hair was damp from the shower, the smell of soap mingling with his manly scent. Mica grabbed a nightgown from her dresser and changed. “I don’t like that nightgown,” Hayden told her. “It’s old and worn.” “And comfortable,” Mica snarked. “Yes. Whi
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MicaThe beast-demon stalked along the boundary's edge, snorting as it tested the protections. With Hayden and the rest of the special ops in the forest, Mica had ordered that they let the demon wander and not engage. Hayden had taken all the best fighters with him, meaning her order was gladly obeyed. Nobody wanted to tangle with the beast.Unfortunately, such a sight was getting more common. Even the children who used to scream and hide now ignored it, snuffling around the edges of the property. Its twisted horns glowed in the rapidly oncoming darkness. Clouds shrouded the sky, making it even darker.“Hayden will be back soon,” Mica told Tess as she nervously looked at the beast.“I know.” She shook her head. “Let’s go back into the house. I don’t trust the sources that say the beast-demons are dumb. I don’t want it to report back to Monroe about what we talk about.”Mica nodded. That was the smarter idea. The two headed into the house and went up to Mica and Hayden’s room. With all
