❌❌❌❌Mature Content❌❌❌❌ "Mave...Maverick?" I say with a smile. I start walking towards him but he stops me. I stop, looking at him confused. Mates usually embrace and rejoice in finding one another unless.... No he wouldn't. He can't. A single tear falls from my eye. "You're going to reject me aren't you? Why Maverick? We're made for one another. You're my brothers best friend. This is meant to be. I dont...I dont..." At this point I'm trying not to fall apart. Tears swimming in my eyes, I look at him in his eyes and I see what looks like guilt, regret, but also determination. And then he speaks those words that I'm sure will send me into a spiralling downfall of depression. "I, Maverick James Welsh, future Beta of the Crescent Moon Pack, reject you Brynn Elaine Carter, as my mate and future Beta Female." ************************************* Brynn Carter is the daughter of Alpha Garrett Carter. She meets her mate, future beta to her pack, Maverick, at the Mating Ball. A rejection isn't what she had planned but since the Moon Goddess takes pity on rejected souls, her second chance mate might just be her true destined mate.