THE REJECTION

Rania couldn’t believe it. The Moon Goddess must have hated her so much to give him as her mate. This man hated her to his core.

Inside the room, Rania’s focus was on Caden. The source of this intoxicating scent came from him. This strong pull that dragged her painful body was because of him, because her wolf recognized him as her mate.

“No way…” Rania breathed raggedly, her body sank to the floor. She didn’t have any energy to stand up. She was in the middle of her first shift too, everything was in pain.

“I don’t accept this!” Caden snarled. His fists balled tightly beside his body. He seemed to realize the gravity of the situation, and what was going on.

Inside the study room, not only there was Caden and his father, alpha Nicholas, but also there was alpha Xaden and her father; beta Alaric.

They gathered here to discuss about the trespassing that happened last night, but was interrupted when Caden became restless, and Rania entered the room.

For a long second that felt like forever, all of them were stunned to see her, but then when the realization finally dawned on them, they looked shock, because they didn’t expect this, especially the people in this Black Stone pack.

Rania was Caden’s destined mate. Her stepsister was his girlfriend, who ran away from the pack a year ago, and ever since then Caden blamed Rania and made her life miserable.

But now, he found out she was his destined mate.

“No. I don’t accept this.” Once the shock worn down, anger replaced Caden’s demeanor. He felt humiliated, and without thinking twice, he rejected Rania right there and then.

There was no way he was going to accept her as his destined mate!

“I, Caden Black Stone, reject you as my mate. May our bond severe for good!” he said that loudly for everyone to hear. “I don’t accept you as my mate!”

Rania lifted her head, and stared at Caden in disbelief, but then there was no surprise here. She didn’t want to mate with the alpha’s son too.

The bully who gave her life a living hell.

“I accept your rejection,” Rania said weakly, her body collapsed to the ground, as the agony from the rejection mixed in with the pain from her first shift. She thought, she was going to die.

And the last thing she saw was her father rushed toward her with a worry expression. She wondered if he would lash out at her again for ruining their precious meeting…

***

When Rania woke up, she was in her bedroom, in the omega’s quarter, where her father was sitting on a chair next to her bed. Dark circled ringed his eyes, and when Rania regained her consciousness, he immediately approached her.

“How are you feeling?”