(Highest ranking #17 unwanted)
'I don't know what you think this is but it means nothing. You mean nothing to me.' He said harshly.
Words struggled to come out--He was looking at me like he hated my guts.
'Are we not mates. My wolf is telling me we are. Hey look whatever you think I've done-'
'We're nothing. You haven't done anything, I'm just not looking for a mate and I don't want one.' He said bluntly.
He looked more disinterested now than angry. I don't know which one was worse.
I reached a hand out and touched his arm. Tingles ran on my fingers. How could he not feel that.
'Look Grayson, I think we need to talk about this, its really late, lets meet up tomorrow and we can talk about it properly.' I say gently, peering up at him--hoping he would listen.
He roughly pulled his arm out. 'No, I'm only going to say this once. I don't want a mate. I don't want you as a mate. Now of course we will see each other in the coming days and I think its best we just pretend like this never happened. After these 3 days, I don't ever want to see you again.'
He then walked away whilst my heart fell on the floor, fully trampled on.
18 year old Everly lived a very sheltered life. Being the daughter of an Alpha, she's been protected and had little exposure to other wolves outside of her pack. This all changes when she attends the mating ceremony of another Alpha and happens across her mate, one of the most influential wolves of the northern territories. She hadn't given much thought to finding her mate and actively searching for one like most other girls her age did but when she first made eye contact with him and felt that instant-connection she had wished she looked for him sooner. He clearly did not feel the same. Although he claimed her as is own publicly, this wasn't the case behind closed doors, he treated her as though she was filth and something he longed to be rid of.
A genetically unique but emotionally lost teenager must figure out who she is within her mixed-up, warring world of Shifters and Wolfstalkers.
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It wasn't Maddie's choice to be born a half-breed, half Shifter, half Wolfstalker -- a hunter of Shifters -- and it wasn't her choice to keep her identity a secret. But after trying to attend high school like any normal sixteen-year-old, things quickly spiral south when her Stalker uncle finds out about her and catapults her out of anonymity and into the awareness--or possibly the crosshairs--of The Order of the Wolfstalker. Maddie must think fast and figure out a way to keep herself and her family safe, or risk losing everything. Including her life.
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