Reject Me

parents. However, she didn't know how to. How to process, how to get over everything she saw. The adult

on between the two. His daughter, Aluma, had been terrified of him. Walking on eggshells, wondering what would set him off next. There was no pattern. No rhyme or reason to his anger. That's what Aluma had thought when she was younger until she noticed the bottles that pilled up around the house. Her father, th

Aluma needed them. Back to school shopping had always been hard, and Aluma, over the years, had noticed the guilt in her mother's eyes when Aluma's gaze lingered on something she wanted that was just too much money. Over the years Aluma had attempted to hide when she saw things she wanted from her mother, with little success. But they would both pretend that it worked. Her mother tried her best and did ev

her birthday, but Aluma refused. It was no longer something she wanted to celebrate. Not that she had ever really celebrated the day before her parents' death, but at least then she had her mother attempt to p

n before. Surrounding, suffocating, consuming her. Aluma assumed she was dying, punishment for not grieving her parents. Minutes felt like hours and Aluma felt her body breaking, dislocating, creating a new shape. At some point, Aluma must have screamed, because her door opened. She saw Alpha Nickolas, she tried to speak, to tell him she was dying, joining her parents. Alpha said something Aluma was unable to hear. The pain continued, only getting worse. Until eventually she blacked out. She didn't know it yet, but her blackout was Regan's doing

uainted with Aluma, her human half. Nickolas, ever since that day, was exploring the reasons for Aluma's much too early shift

loser to the orphaned girl. Becoming a sort of fatherly figure for her, to replace the one she never had. His mate, the only other person in the world that knew the truth. One day, whe

s, but never truly acknowledged it. With Alpha Nickolas' acknowledgement of her development and hard work to strive to be the best in her pack. She was training to be a pack worrier and so Alpha Nickol