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His Rejected Mate (Game Of Wolves Book 3) /Lindsey Devin
Chapter 1KiraThe all-consuming darkness slowly faded, leaving me confused and disoriented. What was this place, and how did I get here? What had happened? I couldn’t remember anything after seeing Leif break off from the pack of feral wolves. Everything else lay behind a gauzy barrier in my mind.Not knowing who might be around, I pretended to be asleep. Keeping my eyes closed, I focused on the sounds around me and did my best to figure out where I was. I heard bubbling, faint beeps, the scratch of a pen furiously scribbling on paper, and most disconcerting, the soft and disturbed chuckle of a man laughing to himself.In an instant, it all came back. The jungle, Leif, Simon. I’d been taken. A dart or spell or some sort of gas had knocked me out—I couldn’t remember exactly what. The last thing I remembered was Leif dragging me toward the volcano.I was a prisoner. The thought set my heart hammering. It took all my training to keep the placid, slack look of sleep on my face.Speaking
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His Rejected Mate (Game Of Wolves Book 3) /Lindsey Devin
Now that my mind had broken free of the drug he’d injected me with, I could see something was deeply wrong with this fae man. Corruption was my first thought, but he didn’t have the telltale look of pale skin and blackened eyes. Nor did he have the spoiled-milk scent I’d always noticed from corrupted fae. No, something else was going on here. Simple madness, perhaps? Whatever it was, his very aura and presence near my body made me mentally recoil from him.“What’s that?” I asked as I spotted the strange device in his hand.Simon’s eyes widened, as did the freakish smile on his lips. “This?” He raised the device. “A little toy of my own design.”He held it closer for me to see. A leather cuff of some sort, with buckles to strap it to something. On the outside, a few small devices and magic stones were attached to a small mechanism. A long, thin, and flexible hypodermic needle protruded from the inside of the cuff. It looked like a torture device, and cold sweat sprang out all over my s
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His Rejected Mate (Game Of Wolves Book 3) /Lindsey Devin
“You see, I am a bit of an anomaly. A half-breed: part shifter, part fae. My mother had a tryst with a wolf from a random unofficial pack. That was a year or two before she met the man who would be my younger sister’s blood father. The pairing between fae and alpha created offspring.” Simon touched his own chest. “Myself. Quite rare indeed. A one in a million chance, as you well know.”I stared at him, horror-struck. I’d never met someone with that type of lineage. They were whispered about, but rare enough that they were thought impossible. It all began to make sense.I glanced around the lab again, Simon’s purpose becoming clear. “You wanted to access your inner wolf?”Simon snapped his fingers and leaned forward hungrily. “Exactly. And you were the first step in my process. My dear girl, you have no idea how important you were to my research. I’d spent years developing a concoction that would unleash a suppressed latent wolf. A potion that would be strong enough to bend the will of
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His Rejected Mate (Game Of Wolves Book 3) /Lindsey Devin
Pressing my lips into a thin line, I gave him a belligerent look. I hoped he could feel the hate radiating off me. He hadn’t given me a gift; he’d made me think of myself as a monster for years.Instead of taking my silence as an affront, Simon just giggled in that mad way. “I like you! Most of my experiments are overly dramatic.” He rolled his eyes. “All the screaming, the pleading, the begging. Ugh.” He shook his head sadly as if remembering all the terrible moments from his past. “It’s exhausting, listening to it all. I like silence for a change.”The next words slipped from my mouth against my better judgment. “You’re crazy.”Simon’s eyes grew steely and deep, like pools of inky black madness. “Only those who don’t understand true genius call the gifted crazy. We aren’t crazy. It’s only that everyone else is too dense and can’t see our vision.”With that, he stood, his lab coat swishing behind him, and began to hum that awful song again. Near where I lay strapped down, a strange c
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His Rejected Mate (Game Of Wolves Book 3) /Lindsey Devin
“Do not frighten—or feed—on my first success,” Simon instructed them as he pointed at me. “I have a deep and particular liking for her. Without this specimen, none of this would be possible. I’ll be back shortly. Monitor her and the other wolf.” He gestured toward Abel.Without another word, he strode from the room. As soon as he left, it was like a heavy blanket had been lifted. The man had such a powerful, oppressive aura about him.After Simon’s departure, the vampires set about inspecting the devices attached to Abel and myself, noting random things on clipboards. Even with whatever magic-and-scientific hybrid formula Simon had pumped into me, I was more aware of my surroundings than just a few seconds before. My TO training compelled me to study the environment even more thoroughly. Maybe something would give me some clue or hope for escape.Leif’s scent still lingered, but there was no sign of him in the lab. He must have been in one of the rooms off the one they held me in. The
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His Rejected Mate (Game Of Wolves Book 3) /Lindsey Devin
The tip of the dart only confirmed my fears—it was rusty red and smelling strongly of Kira’s blood. Only one person on the island could have done this. Simon.Tossing the dart aside, I moved along, keeping my eyes glued to the ground. Soon, the picture of what happened formed. I came across another set of tracks—adult male. Leif’s paw prints. Kira’s prints stopped, but a dragging track formed, interspersed with the paw marks. Simon’s dart must have held some kind of sedative. Afterward, Leif had dragged Kira’s body to Simon’s lab. The same way he’d tried to drag me.Too preoccupied with figuring out what had happened to Kira, I’d allowed myself to forget that I stood in the most dangerous place on the planet. From my right, a dark figure erupted from the jungle, slamming into me. The thing hit me hard enough for every ounce of breath to burst from my lungs as we tumbled over.Spitting, hissing, and growling, the feral vampire had me at an immediate disadvantage. Unable to draw a breat
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His Rejected Mate (Game Of Wolves Book 3) /Lindsey Devin
Eli placed a calming hand on our chests, gently pushing us away from each other. “We will help you get Kira back,” she said to me. “But rushing into Simon’s lair with no plan and no backup is suicide. We have to think rationally, or it will go bad for everyone. Worst-case scenario? Simon kills her and cuts his losses. Best case? We underestimate him and we all get captured, too.”An irritated wince creased my face. She was right, of course. I knew better than to go off half-cocked. It was the kind of thing that would get you killed on the job. Hell, it was the same thing I’d always chastised Kira for at work.Still, it made me crazy to not search for her. Everything in me—my mind, my inner wolf, my instincts—told me to rush after her.Crew, visibly calmer, nodded in agreement. “I promise we’ll help Kira. The last thing I want is Simon messing around with anyone else. I’m not going to cut her loose to fend for herself, but we have to make a plan before attacking Simon. We’ve tried to f
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His Rejected Mate (Game Of Wolves Book 3) /Lindsey Devin
“Did you find Leif? Is he okay?”Knowing Kira was lost somewhere had put my temper on a short leash. “Yes, dammit,” I hissed at him, unable to stop myself. “We fucking found him and then lost him. We lost Kira, too.”J.D. shrank back a bit as I glared at him. From farther down the hall, more footsteps hurried toward us.“What do you mean you lost Kira?” Zoe asked. Mika, Chelsey, and Gavin trailed behind her.A deep, weary sigh shuddered out of me. I couldn’t talk, terrified I might actually burst into tears of fear and frustration.Zoe, obviously far less afraid of me than J.D., stomped over and shook me. “I said, what do you mean? Where is Kira, Wyatt?”“Gone. Gods almighty, she’s gone, okay?” My voice was strained, on the verge of breaking. My hands shook.“Motherfucker,” Gavin growled, rounding on me. “I knew she wouldn’t be safe with you!” He pointed an accusing finger at me. “This is your fault. If I’d been out there, you could fucking guarantee I wouldn’t have let Kira out of my
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His Rejected Mate (Game Of Wolves Book 3) /Lindsey Devin
This? This was unmitigated rage.“I’m sorry, Ben,” she spat. “But of everyone in this room, of everyone on this entire fucking island, you are the last person allowed to tell me what I can and can’t do. You gave up any say in my life when you turned your back on me on your parents’ porch a few years ago.” She suddenly frowned as though pretending to remember something. “Or wait… was it someone else who rejected me?” Sarcasm coated every word.The entire room had gone quiet as we all watched the argument play out, none of us daring to interrupt.Crew looked like he’d been kicked in the gut. “This… Chelsey, it’s not about—”“Not about what?” she snapped. “Not about ripping my heart out and leaving me to suffer alone?”Crew slammed a fist onto the table. “I have to keep my mate safe. Don’t you understand that?”My jaw dropped. I didn’t know the whole story, but from what Chelsey had explained, this guy had zero right to call her his mate.Chelsey took another step closer, kicking aside a
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His Rejected Mate (Game Of Wolves Book 3) /Lindsey Devin
Maybe I was imagining it, but I thought he gave Zoe a sidelong glance as he said it. It made me think that her volunteering had encouraged him. Strange.“Count me in,” Gavin said, leaning against the far wall.Crew cut his gaze back and forth between me and Gavin. “Are we going to have a problem here? I’m don’t want to have to break up some schoolyard scuffle in the middle of a battle.”Gavin locked eyes with me. After a few seconds, we both nodded. Neither of us wanted to be the cause of Kira getting hurt or put in more danger.“We’re good,” I muttered.“All right, then,” Crew said. “I think that’s enough. Eli and I will go with three other Haven citizens who already volunteered weeks ago when we started putting this plan together. Any more of us, and the team will be too big to move swiftly and quietly. I think if we can get our supplies and final kinks worked out, Wyatt’s plan to go tonight may work.”A shuddering sigh escaped me, and I pressed a hand to my mouth to hide the sound.
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