The Alpha can't claim what he can't find- especially when she's already escaped him once.
Aria is seventeen, alone, and hiding a secret even she doesn't fully understand. After losing her entire family in a brutal raid at just eight years old, she shifted into a werewolf, something no one ever prepared her for. With no pack, no guidance, and nowhere to turn, she's spent the last nine years surviving in the shadows, believing she's a freak... the only one of her kind.
But everything changes when four mysterious new guys show up at her school. They seem to know who, and what, she is. Worse, Aria's unknowingly trespassing on their territory... and rogues like her aren't exactly welcome.
Then again, maybe they don't want her gone after all.
As the past starts to catch up with her, Aria finds herself at the center of something far more dangerous.
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They looked at him like he was nothing. A dog with not a bit of bark nor a scrap of bite. The feral at the pound set to be put down at dusk. His strength was inconsequential, his wit insignificant. A mutt such as he had no place in their ranks. Regardless of the power he held passed down through his blood, he would always be of little mind.
For lesser followed his name.
He was an heir. One of two. The one destined to die at the hands of his depraved brother.
As the second born, Jackson knew he would never lead the clan. It was his place to receive the death of a challenger once his elder brother inherited the title of Alpha.
But he didn't mind. He would die as he lived. Gratefully.
That's what he thought, at least...
Until he found her.
A sick little human, hidden away from the world. He stumbled upon her, and discovered refuge in her peace. She was an innocent relief from his life of violence and death. A beautiful light in his darkness.
And he began to think,
Maybe death wasn't his destiny after all.
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DISCLAIMER:
There is violence and mentions of some heavy topics in this story, there will be no trigger warnings. This is also a first draft, it will be rewritten upon completion. Please show pity on the poorly written moments.