Rejected Me? I Married the Alpha King!

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g a paper cup of coffee in front of me. "If this one dis

about number

t tried to explain

onate about s

lk." She dropped into the chair across from

route." It was the true

'd stayed in this district for three years. Here nobody cared that I was the daughter of the Whitlock Pack Alpha, or that I carried no scent at all. Here I

el, and the story reached every nearby pack before I'd even crossed the territory line-that I

g when I disappeared. No one did. So I ran until the human district swallowed m

e last one,

room rearranged itself around

shade of ice blue. He didn't move like an ordinary wolf-there was too much control in it, too much power held deliberately still. Conversations

ke. Rain-soaked stone. Wraith slammed against my

a

ain and again, and I could ba

impossible second I thought he might recognize me-and th

polite nod.

es

de a habit of avoiding pack news and business headlines and everythi

I have somewhere to be." She leaned in and breathed, "Don't panic

d a fraction.

scar crossed the back of his right hand; he caught me looking and

came too fast, and his eyes stayed on

th paced inside

us," I told her,

e; I ordered pasta because it was the safest thing on the m

sales reports in a human district, or offer pity when I said I had no rel

s. "A quiet home," I said slowly. "Honest bills. Separate clo

the world, so I said the rest before I could stop my

tightening at the eyes, a shadow

one t

didn't make a single promise he couldn't keep. Outside, in the cold, he asked

made him easy to forget. It didn't. For two days Wraith wouldn't settle, whisperin

ce protected me. So I did what I always did when

while I was folding laundry. I let i

ree next W

hy

e calm certainty he'd used to give

ll over the shir

ble. I respect you. I want a stable l

e met

w it's

st, Cassian. T

ost amusement,

ehead. "Why me?" The question

, and I had the strangest sense that he'd been waiting for this question much longer

quiet home," he said, "and I

roat

u to fall in love

are you a

You don't have to answer tonigh

detergent, and for one whole minute I let myself want what he'd offere

ory. And history was t