Rejected By The Alpha, Claimed By The Royal General

three years to repay Alpha Silas for saving my life, s

s mistress Elara to our bedroom, forcin

my side in the Capital. Not

ortured my face with a silver scourge to extract a false confession of a secret lover. Locked in a silver-wired cage on the carriage ri

bastard pup. It deserves

to feed their starving pack, yet they treated me like disposa

ecute my supposed lover-who turned out to be the Royal Army's top Ge

Omega slave" they had tortured was ac

pte

ena

hadowfang Pack castle were c

edroom. The fire in the hearth had

ur tang of unearned authority. Beside him stood Elara, a Beta female. Her perfume, a cloying sw

y ball next week," Silas announced, his voice poss

a Rogue pack after I fled my home, and I had foolishly believed this pack, built on my hidden strength, could become a sanctuary. I had been young and headstrong then-I had quarreled bitterly

as continued, the words clipped and precise. "She has

my clandestine royal connections to drag this impoverished pack in

creaked open. Elder Mother entered. She was

e a piece of spoiled meat. "She cannot even grant you a strong pup. Elara is the true dam of this pack." As she spoke, sh

Elara's jealousy was a palpable, dangerous thing. The acrid scent of wolfsbane-a poison to our kind-curled up from the cup. They did not merely think me weak; they were actively trying t

parchment from his coat. He c

dered. "It is an Omeg

changed. But within a pack, the Alpha held absolute legal authority. He could elevate a lowborn wolf to a position of honor, or strip his own Luna of her title and reduce her

Luna?" I asked, my voice a thin, waveri

e earned," Elara whispered

ears prior. I had muted my rare White Wolf bloodline to re

d iron pen, its point slicing a dark furrow across my thumb until

per away, a flicker o

oyal Capital, find my parents-the Lycan King and Queen. The thoughts were a tangled knot in my mind, urgi

r, but Silas suddenly m

his gaze falling to my bag. "Do you intend to follow us

ntly against the stone floor. My fe

elt, the stone like a slab of ice aga

his heavy leather boot. He brought it d

of white-hot agony shot up my arm as I heard t

eeting second, a mask of fei

ed. "Stay here and heal. I will br

chest. I kept my head bowed and no

il the strok