Britney didn't trust easily not since that day. a simple misconception, a miscommunication had led to the permanent scars both her and her sister held. A hand unwelcome groping her on the ass. a firm slap and she swiftly made to exit. She had gone there to work on a school project that they had been assigned. Kyle was the partner she had been given to her by the teacher. it was a simple project, should of taken a few hours. She had turned up to the Beta's house, bowing her head in respect he called for his younger brother and left. she hadn't meant to spit the spiteful , hateful words at the Alpha. She had thought it was Kyle, she never would of disrespected the Alpha. nor would she of slapped him, she was running off adrenaline. He called for her to be taken out of there.
His orders were to get her out of there not throw her in the cell. Somehow she ended up on the whipping post, that was never supposed to happen. He had wanted to get her out of there before sorting the boy out, he didn't tolerate disrespect. The words the kid had said were disgusting and degrading. A sense of pride filled him at the sound of the slap. his pack wasn't weak.
He would never be able to ask for forgiveness it had been all messed up one misconception after another that led to the situation at hand.
His mate was scared, scared of him and the males around. She didn't trust the pack she was supposed to help him lead, and because of a misconception she ended up in the cells and not at home. Alpha Celic had never felt his heart stop like that before. Having been just a moment to late, having got caught up in an important meeting. His beautiful mate chained with wolfsbain is a nightmare he continues to have four years later.
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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