Rejected and claimed by the alpha beast Novel by Paige T

“Ethan is my son.”

Rygan felt the goosebumps on his skin rise the moment he realized what Kyren was talking about; his body had never felt so heavy, and his tongue felt too numb to mutter any words till now.

“Ethan is mine,” he said again, and Elise stiffened in his realization. She dared not turn around and look at him; she couldn’t move and couldn’t breathe.

“I’ll fucking kill you, she warns Kyren, who raised his hands in mocking defeat.

“Do not blame me, dearest; I never told him; he found out on his own; I just wanted to prove my innocence on the whole matter, but you know by my mark you are still mine.”

The words died down on his lips when his gaze finally moved to Elise’s exposed hand. There was no mark; it was gone!

Her gaze turned cruel as ice as she moved her hair from her nape, showing fresh porcelain skin also gaining Rygan’s attention. “I am owned by no one, free from your mind tricks or physical bond,” she said to Kyren, but Rygan felt a punch to his heart, like it was meant to hurt him too.

“And if you have nothing else to say, I have no use for you, Kyren Gurwolf, but you are still marked by me, a mark you forced me to give you, and what did you say again? Only an alpha can reject their intended. Well, I am more than one,” she says to him..

He follows her gaze to the windows to see that Elise is looking at the high moon, and Kyren’s eyes widen in realization of what she’s about to do.

“Remember our wedding day? How didn’t you think twice before you rejected me like filth?”

“You wouldn’t-

“-Try me. I, Elise Hale, reject you, Kyren Gurwolf, as my bonded mate, by blood and by name,” she says to Kyren. He tries to lunge for her, but immediately he feels that unwavering, wicked heat that pushes him down onto his knees, his veins visible from the pain.

Кудап and Taz feel a pulsing power in the air, the Blackmoon wolves can barely move an inch because of how heavy the air has become from Elise’s wrath, showing her powers that flicker toward the surface.

er eyes shone a wicked violet hue the moment Kyren felt that brated spot in his skin, and his mark began to fade. “No!” He

snarled.

“Hurts, doesn’t it? The shame, humiliation, and pain that come with it she channels to him: “This is how I felt when you treated me and threw me away like trash. I hope we never meet again, Kyren Gurwolf, because the next time we do, I won’t be lenient with my mercy after everything you have done to me

She calls, walking out of the room but stopping halfway. “And if I find anything that links you to the Silver Night Pack, I will kill you,” she mutters before leaving. Even as Kyren screams to stop and come back to him, she doesn’t turn around. Not until they were out of his sight, and not until he was left alone.

Taz watched in awe of Elise, she was no longer the female they knew in the past but more powerful than an Alpha. Yet more cruel, too. When she turns to them, Taz feels an overwhelming urge to kneel to her, he could feel she was not his equal.

He stands watching his alpha, who hasn’t moved one inch and hasn’t talked since the realization that Ethan was his son and his love child with Elise. He could see the love and regret swarming in his alpha’s eyes. Taz knew that was his cue to leave they needed to talk. He leaves the empty tent with Rygan, who stays and watches Elise’s every move.

She pushed the hair off her face, pacing up and down before she paused after she felt eyes on her. She tried not to give at glance at him, even as a heavy silence filled with questions hung in the air about everything Rygan had just learned about his son and also Kyren’s rejection.

“You rejected him.”

“That I did.”

“And what about me and our son? How?” he starts.

“Like I said, my mark from you is gone. I was given another chance to choose my destiny, and you made it very clear you never wanted me as a mate.”

“That isn’t true, Elise, and you know it; you know I burned and yearned for you; how every day I woke I thought about you day and night, but my oath to my family to keep the peace and my friendship blindsided me, and I will still pay for that sin as long as I live for losing you,” he called with an intent stare.

Elise could barely breathe as their gaze locked. She searched those eyes that felt like an eternity before he muttered, “You still never claimed me, and he is

‘my son,” she said, and Rygan felt an overwhelming sense of dread fill him.

Elise always thought he would never choose her. “Is that what you think? I never wanted you; I love you, and I would have loved my son too; I just never knew.”

She could feel her lips tremble like her resolve as she bit back those tears that prickled before she cut him off. “And you never have to; you can just pretend like you don’t have an idea about him; you can just forget,” but Rygan marched towards her, grabbing her arm in irritation from how cold she was being

“You don’t mean that,” he says, his gaze studying hers. For a moment, he sees her resolve stumble, but immediately her walls are built up again.

“I do, so let go,” she snarled.

They are both interrupted by another person who walks into the tent; the moment Elise sees him, the memories of her attack all flood back, and Kyrens trusts the assassin. But now, without his mask and dark scarf.

Thanks

His dark brown hair shagged in a wet cut, and a striking mark slashed across his face, almost damaging his left eye. to Rygan’s claws, the wound moved across his lips and wasn’t hard to notice, even with his mangy smirk and a bad limp as his hands were crossed with a small chain.

“You,” Elise muttered. Rygan had returned the same grievance with a sharl as he recalled killing one of the males who had dared attack, Elise. But they both watched as the man bowed quickly to them both. Causing a raise of eyebrows between the pair.

“I come in peace, Luna; I was only acting on orders before, and now my master has told me to help you, and I will. I am here to tell you what I may have an idea about their whereabouts,” he says to them. Elise looks at Rygan, his brows also raised in suspicion; Elise had just rejected him. And now he was willing to help?

“Then talk now that I still have the patience to listen to you,” she snarls to the male, her eyes still unforgiving when she recalls what he tried to do to her.

“My sources around the territory spoke of a new arrival by the human borders: three wolves and two children.”

It must be Ethan! Elise thinks, and hope glistens in her gaze.

“Then we must get there before they try anything.” Elise argues. We must go there now,” she presses.

“The human lands are as vast as they are dangerous, Luna; you must not under any circumstances show that you are a wolf,

and even with the bounty on you now years old, people will still recognize you.” He urged.

“I do not care who dares to attack me; I will kill whoever tries to keep me away from my child,” she snaps back.

“I am well informed of your strength and powers, but it’s for the safety of your child that you are not to be identified, because you could be ratted out to Dexton and the Beddors before you arrive,” he explains.

“You have to act like humans, behave, drive, eat, smile, and talk like them,” he added.

“I am well aware of how they act… I have killed enough to know how they squirm before they die; it’s easy to know that,” Rygan snarled. Elise was stunned by his cold words; she wondered how much he had changed in those years since she disappeared.

“And I and Hayden have made journeys to human towns for our trade, and I very much know how to drive a car, but Hayden isn’t well suited for this mission; not yet he is still winded and the poison.”

“I will go with you; we have to save our son, Rygan says as Elsie turns to him. There is a silence that Elise couldn’t argue against; as much as it hurt, they had to put their differences aside.

“So it’s settled, then you both will be heading to human territory?” The assassin asks, and they both nod in agreement. They spent the whole night plotting their way into human lands; there was nothing that was going to stop Elise from getting Ethan back–nothing at all.

“Those monsters might be hurting my boy before we even get there; I will let them pay in cold blood,” Elise says in anger. “That bastard Dexton might do something, but I doubt Alvira will.”

“She could kill Alana” Elise says, making Rygan freeze. “Alvira killed her. If she could kill the twin sister just to have you, leave me in the woods to be killed off by savages just to have you. I am sure Ethan isn’t safe,” she croaked as a lone tear left her eyes.

Rygan could only listen in pain, recalling when he learned Alvira was the killer. All this time, it was Alvira, and Kaide had helped her cover it up. His friends, whom he’d trusted with his life, had tried to forget it, but he could still feel his blood. heat from the pressure of those words.

His eyes narrowed with a deep intent to kill those monsters; there was no room for mercy as he looked at Elise. As he cleaned that lone tear from her face, his voice filled with promise.

“We leave at first light.”