All Chapters of Rejected by the Alpha, Chosen by the King: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

19 Chapters

Chapter one : The crush

I had exactly three weaknesses.The first was my mother's chamomile tea on cold mornings. The second was the smell of pine after rain, that deep, earthy scent that made Silvermoon Pack territory feel like the only place in the world. And the third, the one I would never say out loud, not to my best friend, not to the moon herself was Ethan Caldwell.Future Alpha. Golden boy. The most annoyingly handsome man I had ever had the bad luck of growing up around.I was seventeen years and three hundred and sixty four days old, standing at my bedroom window watching him train in the field below , and telling myself I was absolutely not watching him train in the field below.Down in the field, Ethan was sparring with two of my father's senior warriors. Older men, experienced, the kind who had seen everything. He dropped the first one in under five minutes. The second took seven. When it was over he wasn't even breathing hard, just raking a hand through his gold hair and laug

Chapter Two: Birthday Party

The party was already loud by the time I came downstairs.That was the thing about Silvermoon birthday events , they didn't do anything quietly. The main hall had been decorated sometime during the afternoon while I was upstairs trying to calm my nerves. Fairy lights strung across the ceiling. Long tables packed with food. The warm familiar smell of the pack all in one place, that mix of pine and woodsmoke and something that just meant home. Everyone was dressed up and smiling. Several people called my name when I walked in and I smiled back and said thank you and tried to remember how to act like a normal person while my heart was doing something completely different inside my chest. Maya found me within two minutes. That was Maya , she had a radar for me that had been perfected over fifteen years of friendship and had never once failed."You look beautiful," she said, grabbing both my hands and squeezing. "How are you feeling? Are you nervous? You loo

Chapter Three: Chipmunk

The Voss house was never quiet in the mornings. That was just the nature of living with the Voss family . Someone was always moving, always eating, always training in the backyard or arguing about training in the backyard or loudly recounting something that had happened during training in the backyard. Mornings in this house were chaos and footsteps and the smell of whatever Liane was cooking and Leo's voice carrying through every wall like he had never heard of an indoor voice. But this particular morning was different.This morning everyone was standing in the upstairs hallway outside Elara's bedroom door, and nobody was saying anything above a whisper."Chipmunk." Aldric's voice was low. He had his hand flat against the door. "Chipmunk, please. Just tell me you're okay."Nothing.Not a sound from inside the room. Not movement, not a word, not even the creak of the bed.Aldric looked at Liane. Liane looked back at him with her usual calmness although

Chapter Four: Edinburg

The flight was eleven hours long and I slept through none of it.I tried. I had the window seat and I thought maybe looking at the sky would help settle my brain down. It didn't. instead It made it worse. So I watched the clouds and turned Caden's watch around and around on my wrist and tried not to think about anything in particular.Somewhere around the sixth hour I stopped trying so hard and just let myself sit with it. I was scared. I was sad. I was exhausted in a way that had nothing to do with the flight. And I was going to a country I had never been to, to study at a school where I didn't know a single person, and I had done this to myself on purpose because staying had become something I couldn't do anymore. But I had the scholarship. I had my acceptance letter and my student ID and my mother's careful packing and Caden's watch on my wrist. I had a plan.That was enough to work with.I looked out at the clouds and I thought okay. Okay. Let's

Chapter Five: The Alpha

Four years later Four years had a way of changing things. Edinburgh didn't feel unfamiliar anymore. It felt like home. I knew which coffee shop opened earliest and which bus to take to campus and which professors actually replied to emails and which ones you had to show up to in person. I knew the best study spots in the library. I knew that the dining hall pasta on Thursdays was good and every other day was not worth trying. I had real friends. Isla had kept her promise of being an aggressively excellent roommate and four years later she was one of my favourite people. We had moved out of the dorms and into a small flat two streets from campus with a kitchen window that had an actual view. She still made tea for everything. I stopped complaining about it about two years ago.I was good. Not pretending to be good. Actually good. The wound was still there if I really pressed on it. I knew that. But it had healed over the way things do when you stop pi

Chapter Six: Kael

Theo fell asleep somewhere on the road back to the pack. He had tried really hard not to. Kael had watched him fight it for a good twenty minutes, eyes going heavy then snapping back open, head drooping then jerking up, still trying to finish whatever story he had been telling about the branch. Then his body just said no and that was it. Out cold against Kael's shoulder, one hand gripping his jacket, done. Kael shifted him slightly so his neck wasn't at a weird angle and looked out the window. His mind was on the medical student who had looked at him like his presence was something she would deal with when she was ready and not a second before. He hated it. The gates of Blackstone opened as they turned in and the main building came into view. Stone and old and wide, lights on in every window, the training grounds visible behind it. Home. Three thousand people inside those walls depending on every decision he made. He had never wanted anything else. It had also never been e

Chapter Seven : Home

Isla knew before I even closed the door. She was on the couch, mug in both hands, some documentary about penguins playing on the tv that I knew she was not watching, and she looked up at me with that expression she had always had when she wanted to know something. "You're late," she said. "I don't have a curfew." "Twenty minutes." She tilted her head. "Sit down." I dropped my bag, took off my jacket and sat on the other end of the couch because there was genuinely no point doing anything else. Isla had a kind of patience that should really be studied. She would sit there all night if she had to and we both knew it. "Talk," she said. So I talked. I told her about Theo , the mud, the honey eyes, the branch he mostly won against,him running from home . About a group of people looking for him and also his Uncle. I kept it simple. He was tall. Really tall. Dark hair. Green eyes I genuinely was not prepared for. Isla's face had been calm the whole time listening to what

Chapter Eight : Brownies

Tuesday came. I was not counting the days. I had a report to finish, two lectures and Isla had somehow talked me into trying a new recipe on Sunday that took three hours and produced something we both agreed to never speak of again. The week moved fast for normal reasons. I parked outside Glenfield just after one and headed in. Small and familiar now the waiting room, consultation rooms, the little lab in the back that had basically become mine. Margaret at the front desk had biscuits as always. Dr Harlow had left another sticky note on my desk. I settled in and got to work. Two hours passed. I was deep in my fieldwork notes when Margaret knocked. "Elara love, there's some people up front asking for you." I looked up. "For me?" "A woman and a small boy." A pause. "And a man." Another pause. "Very handsome." I closed my laptop. I heard Theo before I saw him. "MISS ELARA!" He came running the second I appeared, both arms going, holding a small plastic container

CHAPTER NINE: Getting ready

Isla was seated on the couch in the living room watching some animal documentary about penguins when I came in. She immediately looked at me and then at the box in my hand."What is that?" she asked curiously."Brownies.""Brownies? Where did you get brownies from?" "At work," I said, dropping my bag and taking a seat next to her. She took the brownie box from my hand and immediately opened it. "Oh this looks good, who made them?" she said, taking one out."Remember that boy I told you about?"She perked up. "Oh, Theo?""Yes, Theo. His mom came to the health center today to thank me and brought brownies as an appreciation gift.""Oh really?" Isla replied, her face already full of brownie. "That's sweet of her." "Also her brother came. Didn't really talk though, just said hi and actually thanked me for helping his nephew , although it looked like it took every ounce of him to do that."Isla, still munching, replied, "Well at least he did say thank you r

Chapter Ten: The Gathering

Finally, after being dragged across the crowd by Lyra, she moved towards a man with brown hair and honey brown eyes standing near the bar. I immediately noticed the resemblance he had with Theo."Babe, meet Elara," she said, then turned to face me. "Elara, this is my husband Cole , Beta of this pack and Theo's dad.""Nice to meet you," he said warmly. "I've heard so much about you from Theo and Lyra. Thank you for taking care of him.""It's not a problem at all," I replied, smiling at them both. After a few minutes of talking with Cole and Lyra, I suddenly heard my name being called. Looking back, I saw Theo running toward me with his arms already open. I crouched down to his height and hugged him back."You came," he said, genuinely excited."I can't miss coming to see my little man, can I?" I replied, still holding him.After a few minutes of listening to all his adventures for the week, I felt the atmosphere shift. Subtle but noticeable , like the room quietly pulled

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