😍Click to continue reading<The Runt and the Lycan King>🔞
"So... just a b00ty call? You rage-fk me because your Luna won't take it rough?" I clutched the sheet, covering my bruised body, and stared at Alpha Ethan Kane—the man I'd slept with for three years. "An Alpha willing to fk a lowly slave. What else do you want? Who'd even touch you?" Ethan pulled on his pants, didn't look back, and walked to his Alpha’s coronation. I replayed his brutality over the past three years. "Dam, babe. You like it rough, don't you?" "Yes, Alpha," I answered in a submissive voice. He looked down, devouring me. "Perfect. Strip. Bend over." He shoved me onto the bed. Grabbed me. Gripped my jaw. Kissed my neck. His thumb grinding into me. Fisting my hair. Ruthless rhythm. "Fk, Rachel," he groaned, fingers tightening, driving deep. Minutes later, he pulled out. "When I'm Alpha, I'll announce you're my mate." I believed him. Until today—my 21st birthday—at his coronation. He rejected me out loud. Lydia, his girlfriend and my lifelong bully, burst out laughing. "You half-breed. You thought you'd be Luna?" She leaned in, whispering. "You were just a toy. I'm the Luna he treats gently." The mate bond began to wither inside me. I was in so much pain, I thought I'd die. Then Lycan King Demetrius lifted me. Roared. Everyone froze. "You're far more powerful than me. Accept his rejection," he ordered. "And be my mate." --- I A Ghost in the Woods I stayed face-down in the damp pine needles, the copper taste of blood still coating my tongue. I had just finished my first shift back to being human, and it was horrible. I knew it would be painful the first few times—the elders always talked about the “cracking of the soul”, but this was ridiculous. Every muscle felt like it had been shredded and stitched back together with hot wire. I lay there n8ked in the dirt, shivering as the morning mist clung to my skin, trying to find the strength just to crawl. Most people have someone with them for their first few shifts—parents to wrap them in blankets, friends to
