Rejecting The Alpha Who Hid Our Bond

I spent my days as a lowly Omega scrubbing floors, but my nights

publicly accused me of using dark witchcraft

valuations to banish me to the deadly Northern Border wasteland. Even when they publicly stripped me of my p

bles laughed, while he turned a b

the dangerous woods just to keep his food perf

the strongest warrior in the North be too

e last time, the bone-deep bo

ject you, Gide

bag, and walked out into the winter sno

pte

hia

kitchen was a palpable, breathing thin

casting long, wavering shadows that contorte

f hair from my forehead and bent again over the roa

e lowest rank in o

ng floors and serving thos

plate was

Alpha Gideon, a man whose command was not me

y stained apron, my fingers closing

g for them, my hands raw from digging in

most tender cuts of meat, a small, se

residue, a metal that burned our kind

re his meals wer

meat and the healing he

d a single w

of what happened four months

creator, pairs every w

high altar to accept his tit

nt hi

ing mix of a winter stor

e Scent o

rhythm against my ribs, and my blood

over my wandering soul, a quiet st

wildly in my mind, sc

i

y solitary warrior, his

disputes with the dull sound of breaki

r looke

undeniable pull of our mate bond wo

yest

the damp cellar to

ing from behind the

neaking extra food to the Alpha

s a chance with the stronge

aid scoff

ha only tolerates her because he

closer to m

e future Luna. She is a noble. She

n out, and I could only clutch the coarse burlap of the wheat sa

so hard I could b

ver my cheeks,

sack of wheat, feel

were

m victory and shadow, while I was but a creature of the ten-fo

w. It was the day after I'd overheard them, and the sting of

overed over the plat

k into my apron. Then, with a deliberate quiet, I replaced the pr

, her brow furrowed into a sharp line. She didn't say a

d not even bother to take the herbs from my apron. I s

bumped her hip

s?" Eliza asked, her fiery ey

nt," I whispered

ent for months and he never even nodded at you.

ined s

kitchen door

gure of Alpha Gideon

. Now I would find out if four days of cold r