"You instantly know who your mate is dear, when you make eye contact with a specific person. Or better yet, THE specific person."
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"Look at me rouge," my Alpha mate roughly snarls. I lift my face up at him whilst avoiding eye contact knowing the scene that would occur if I did, "Look me in the eye!"
"No." I bark.
"Ugh, you're so annoying. You know what? Whatever. I don't care. You're not much of a threat anyways. I mean look at you. You could do great for a maid," he laughs along with his group that's holding me down, "I'll give you a choice, mutt. Join my pack and have a normal life - well, as normal as it could - or, stay as the filthy rouge you are and we'll kill you this instant."
By the look of the guy behind me who's holding my arms, they already knew my answer, "Fine. Whatever." I growled, "But under one small condition," they watch me, "I wish to never make direct eye contact with your sleezy, proud eyes, ALPHA." I spat.
He laughs in a tone that's filled with anything but humor, "I don't give a shit."
Note: Short Story
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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