Rejected Once, Now Claimed By The Lycan
No wolf. No mate. No place in the world.
On the night of her eighteenth birthday, Ava Cole waited for her wolf — and nothing came.
In a kingdom built on strength, that made her nothing. Laughed at, cast out, and abused by everyone who should have loved her — including her own family — Ava learned to survive in the shadows of a world that had no use for her.
Then she met her fated mate.
Alpha Jackson Edgar, the powerful Alpha of Night Howl, took one look at the wolfless girl fate had chosen for him and said the words that shattered what little was left of her: I reject you.
Heartbroken and alone, Ava stopped believing in the moon goddess, in fate, and in the idea that anyone could ever truly want her.
She was done with second chances.
She was done with hope.
Until the Lycan King came.
Sebastian Reynolds didn't come to Night Howl looking for a mate. But the moment his eyes found Ava, the bond was undeniable — fierce, consuming, and impossible to ignore. He wasn't asking her to trust a bond she had already watched destroy her.
He was asking her to trust him.
But Ava has been broken before. And just as she begins to lower her walls, Jackson resurfaces — realising too late what he threw away, and refusing to let another man claim what he now believes is his.
Two powerful men. One wounded woman. And a choice that will change the fate of the entire kingdom.
Will Ava risk her heart again — or will she let fear decide her future?
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Chapter: Welcome to the Lycan KingdomAva's POVThe moment the pack house doors closed behind me, I exhaled.Not a small, careful breath — a real one. Deep and long, like I had been holding it for years and only just remembered I was allowed to stop.I wasn't being chased out this time.I wasn't being hidden, or warned away, or reminded of everything I lacked. I was walking out of my own accord, beside a man who had stood in front of my entire pack and claimed me in front of everyone who had ever made me feel worthless.*My life is finally changing.*I let myself believe that, fully, for the first time.Outside, a convoy of sleek black cars lined the road in front of the pack house. Quiet. Immaculate. The kind of vehicles that didn't need to announce themselves because everything about them already did.The entire pack had spilled out to watch.I felt their eyes as Sebastian walked beside me — some curious, some bitter, some wearing the particular expression of people recalculating how they had treated someone they now ha
Última actualización: 2026-06-29
Chapter: Goodbye, Night HowlAva's POVI was starting to feel lightheaded.Not from the bond. Not from the tension crackling between the two most powerful men in the room. Just from the sheer, impossible absurdity of my life.Four days ago I had been crying into my pillow in a one-room apartment, eating leftovers from the café and convincing myself that being invisible was the same thing as being safe.Now two men were squaring up over me in front of my entire pack.*Is this real?*I pressed my fingers discreetly into my palm just to check.It hurt. So yes. Apparently real.Sebastian's eyes hadn't left me since Jackson grabbed my arm. I could feel the pull of the bond between us — strange and new, nothing like what I had felt with Jackson. That had been desperate, fragile, a drowning person reaching for something solid.This felt like standing near a fire. Warm. Consuming. Impossible to look away from.My body responded to him and I hated that it did. The bond between me and Jackson hadn't been severed yet. It ma
Última actualización: 2026-06-29
Chapter: ClaimedAva's POVNot this again.I heard the words leave Sebastian's mouth and felt the room shift around me like the ground had tilted. My first instinct was almost a laugh — a short, hollow thing that I swallowed before it could escape.Two mates in one week.The moon goddess had a truly terrible sense of humour."I'm afraid you're mistaken, Your Majesty." Jackson's voice was smooth, diplomatic, but I could hear the tension underneath it. He smiled at Sebastian the way people smile when they're trying to control something they can't. "Ava cannot be your mate. It's simply not possible."Sebastian didn't even glance at him.His grey eyes stayed on mine, steady and unbothered, like Jackson hadn't spoken at all."I am certain," he said simply. Then — "Where are her parents? I'd like to speak with them."Something moved across Jackson's face. Something I might have called jealousy if I believed he was capable of it.He ruffled his hair, jaw tight, and left the room without another word.*****T
Última actualización: 2026-06-11
Chapter: The King’s ClaimAva's POVThe music stopped first.Then the chatter.Then everything.A hush fell over the ballroom like a held breath, and I didn't need to look up to know why. I could feel it — that pressure in the air, dense and commanding, pressing down on every person in the room at once.I looked up anyway.Alpha Jackson walked in first, but my eyes went straight past him.King Sebastian Reynolds.Even his photos hadn't prepared me for this. The white hair I had studied on my phone screen was somehow more striking in person — loose, falling to his neck, sweeping across the left side of his face like it had been styled by someone who understood exactly what they were doing. His eyes were grey and cold as they swept the room, cataloguing everything with the quiet efficiency of a man who had never once felt threatened by anything in his life.Around me, every single person had dropped to their knees.I followed, bowing my head, grateful for any reason to look at the floor.Even without a wolf, I f
Última actualización: 2026-06-11
Chapter: The King’s EyesAva's POV"Mate."That single word had undone me completely.For one brief, impossible moment, I had let myself believe it. Let myself feel it — the warmth of the bond, the electricity of his touch, the wild and reckless hope that the moon goddess had finally looked down at me with something other than indifference.I had been so foolish.When Alpha Jackson's hand touched mine, a jolt shot through my entire body like lightning finding the ground. And with it came his scent — rich and full, like a field of flowers after rain. It was the most beautiful thing I had ever experienced.It lasted about ten seconds.Then he opened his mouth and destroyed everything."You will continue to live your life outside the pack house. It will be a thing of shame if anyone finds out about your existence."He didn't even look at me when he said it. Not once. I was standing right in front of him — his *mate* — and I wasn't worth a single glance."King Sebastian will be arriving in a few days. Leave the c
Última actualización: 2026-06-11
Chapter: The RejectionAlpha Jackson's POVFour years.That was how long I had been away from Night Howl. Four years of business, politics, and pack alliances — and through all of it, one thought had followed me like a shadow.Get home. See her.Now I was finally here, and the pack house felt exactly as I had left it. The familiar stone walls. The smell of pine and earth. The warmth of people who had been waiting for their Alpha to return.I walked through the doors and the room erupted.Cheers. Applause. The sound of my pack welcoming me home after too long away. I smiled, shook hands, pulled people close — and for a moment, it genuinely felt good to be back."Son."My father's arms wrapped around me first, tight and firm the way they always were. Over his shoulder I could already see my mother waiting her turn, eyes wet with the tears she was too proud to let fall early."Welcome back." She held me like she was afraid I might disappear again."It's good to be home," I said, and I meant it.Oliver stepped
Última actualización: 2026-06-11
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