He Chose First Love, I Chose the Alpha King

ia's

ony!" I was shoved to the ground by a snarling she-wol

en I saw him guide her into the Great Hall for his birth moon celebration, the wolf inside my chest

f the Pack grating like sandpaper on raw nerves. The glow of my phone

his mate before the Pa

fused yours. Return now. Your duty

re Zane stood, his arm locked possessively around a slender figure. Chloe Vale. The whispered leg

ure hostage. Chloe looked. breakable. Ethereal. Her submission was a t

tongue traced my teeth, tast

es, a brash she-wolf from the Stoneclaw Pack had stalked up to Zane.

y warm amber eyes turning cold. That lazy, cruel smirk touched his lips. "Sorry, princess," he'd draw

is raw power, the magnetism of his bloodline. But Mother, Astra Frost, the indomitable Alpha of Frostfang, had forbidden

r: If I could make Zane Thorne's wolf choose me, bind him as my mate,

ow-born omega, seemingly adrift, unconnected. I smothered my Alpha-born aura, masked my strength, played the vulnerable

with drink, swept over my carefully constructed docility, a spark of lazy interest kindling in his wolf-gold eyes.

my eyes downcast, my

ick close. Be my.girlfriend." He didn't offer the mate

ed human cooking to tend to him, nursed him through wounds ripped open

look after my little shadow, yeah?" He'd talked of prov

mate bond should be. After months of wrestling with guilt, my wolf howling for hones

e walked back

A hush fell. A Beta male near me, one with a tongue like a se

pha's fur just got frosty." He shot me a mocking glance. "All that grov

tore us apart. I never dreamed his grief, his wolf's loneliness, would drive him to. seek comfort in an echo." Her gaze swept over my deliberately plain attire, lingering. "It was cruel of him to use you as a

as a stand-in for his True Mate. The insult to my disguise was

me fully. Tonight, I wore crimson

n inconvenience. "Chloe's back. What we had. served its purpose. It's done." He pulled a thick envel

rs offered to a potential mate. He dismissed my devotion, my fragile hope, with the casual brutality of swatting a fl

kept his distance, saving himself for his True Mate, and I, the deluded fo

ow, clear, and stripped of every shred of meekness."Honestly? I'm bored. Your performance on the bed was. mediocre. Lacked the endurance one expects from a true Alpha." I picked up the half-ful

lowness. A slow, dangerous smile curved my lips. "That," I declared, the words ringing with icy

the stunned disbelief radiating from the Pack, I turned.I turned an

e mask was off. Sylvi

or's

a, the silen

's tears! Di

She desecrated th

sand! What life does that m

omentarily quelling the outcry but not the undercurrent of scandalized whispers. "Let the omega run," he snarled, the words bitten off.

ssion seemed to sneer. No Pack, no powe

words chased her into the ni

seen the last of her. He