Stolen Mate (To be resumed in 2023)

(Book 1 of the Rainier Pack series)

Cole is the Alpha of the most powerful pack in the world. It's been years since his mate went missing- snatched away from her pack, family, and mate. He has spent years gaining the land, power, and the numbers he needs. Now, he is going to bring her home.

Elena is an Omega. The lowest of the low- the mistreated slave of the pack. No family, no friends, and no purpose in life, other than working herself to the bone to please a pack that seems to be impossible to satisfy. She's spent her life working to perfect the art of being unseen- it was the only way to avoid a beating.

But then why does the most feared Alpha in the world seem so intent on noticing her? Why do his piercing blue eyes seem so familiar?

Why is he calling her his mate?

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Alpha Cole inhaled sharply. I flinched at the sudden movement, jerking back into the door. This was it. I had said something wrong, some trigger word that incited the violence, and now he was going to kill me.

There was a flicker of anger across his face. "You don't know who I am, do you?"

"You're Alpha Cole. The leader of the Rainier Pack. The biggest pack there is. You're the most powerful Alpha!"

He was shaking his head before I finished. "No," He insisted, his voice softer now. Defeated. "You don't know who I am to you."

This time, it wasn't a question. He looked almost wounded as his eyes met mine, and somehow I found myself unable to look away. Wounded was a very strange expression on the face of a man as powerful and feared as him. It looked wrong.

Why did I even care?

"I'm sorry," I whispered, finally glancing away. For the first time, I felt genuine remorse twist in my chest. I couldn't explain why I was sorry. It wasn't as if I was anything more than an Omega to this man. Maybe I was just, to him, what a cat was to a mouse. He would toy with me, watching my frantic attempts to save myself. And then he would kill me.

That was all I was to him. And I hated myself for it.