Rejected and claimed by the alpha beast Novel by Paige T

“What the heck happened back there?” Hayden asked as he pressed the pedals of the truck, making the engine of the car speed off into the night. Elise’s hands were clutched to her chest. Do you know how dangerous that was? You could have called us!”

“I am not a weak woman, Hayden, she snapped. “The males were being disgusting, but yes, I had to start a fight to distract them,” she said to them.

“That was reckless,” Rygan scolded too, and Elise was tired of hearing their nagging and answered with an eye roll.

“I know, I know what I did was dangerous, but I needed to do it, she said to both males who peered at each other before they turned to look at her.

“To do what?” they asked Elise as she reached into her pockets.

“This” she said, raising her hands to show a paper she held with pride. “I overheard them; they were talking about meeting a client by the port and taking a boy as leverage with them, and I’m sure they were talking about Ethan, so we need to head to an east port to get him back,” she said.

Elise’s eyes were shining and desperate, but both males had become quiet and solemn. “What if this is a trap? Doesn’t it feel too easy?” Hayden said, breaking the silence. She could see weariness in his gaze, like there was something he was afraid to admit.

“What? No, I feel we can find something here,” she said to Hayden, who’s hands tightened on the wheel.

“El, you know our source told us to keep heading north, and that was where we were going to find Kaide,” he argued, explaining how she was confused as he had created the line.

“But Ethan might not be there! I have a map, we can find him,” she raged; she felt this argument was getting ridiculous. Her hands were tense on the shoulder of the driver’s seat, and she looked towards Rygan, her eyes pleading

For a second, her and the Blackmoon alpha’s eyes locked, and he turned away from her pleading gaze as he turned to Hayden.

“Why don’t we check out the east ports? Hayden, it could not just be pure luck that she got this map,” he told Hayden. The Calhan alpha felt annoyed to see that short moment between Elise and Rygan agreeing on the same thing.

Hayden sped up on the gas pedal, making the car move faster. Now it angered Elise as she looked at Hayden. “Turn the car around, or I am jumping out of it,” she argued with Hayden.

“El, for all we know, that place could be armed with guards to the teeth, and they might be waiting for you.”

“I said turn the freaking car around!” Elise screamed as she reached for the truck’s door, opening it. The truck immediately came to a halt, and she didn’t look back as she hopped down and began marching back on the empty, tarred road.

She didn’t care if she was cold and still wet as she walked on the barren road. Even a shed heard his voice call back to her.

She

“El” Hayden’s voice rang out as he jumped down from the truck, and Rygan too.

A part of her knew that Hayden was just being protective, he didn’t want to put her in danger, but Elise could go past that risk, and she trained for it. And it was her son involved; even if there was a chance, she would take it.

Before she could take another step, she felt Hayden’s hand wrap around her arm. “I told you I could do this, why won’t you let me? Let me gol” she snarled as his hold tightened on her.

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Chapter 113

“I don’t want you to get hurt, and I am not going to let you out of my side so easily; I have to protect you,” Hayden said with his hands gripping harder against her wrist. Elise winced and tried to tug her hand

away.

“But you are hurting me right now, so let go!” she said to Hayden that she had never seen him like this, like something had shifted ever since they started this journey.

“She told you to let go.” Rygan laid a heavy hand on Hayden’s shoulder. She could see the anger rippling in Hayden’s gaze as he let her go but turned to Rygan

His gaze blazed with anger and dislike for the man, and he shoved Rygan backward with a snarl. “You have no right to come between us or say what you think is the best way to get our son, Rygan,” Hayden hissed, annoyed.

“He is mine, so I do care!” Rygan snapped. And this time, Rygan snarled back. With those deadly canines peeking through. Elise knew a fight was going to erupt; they were literally in the middle of the road.

“Will you both stop?” She shouted. Both alphas stood down, their alpha orbs turning back to normal

as they stared at Elise.

“My son is in danger right now; if there is a chance they would be by the east port, we have to try, and if you aren’t coming with me, then I do not care, but I’m going,” she said, adjusting the backpack.

Rygan snarled, “Then I’m coming with,” he muttered, taking his shirt off and ready to change into his wolf so Elise could ride on him if Hayden wasn’t going to surrender the car to them.

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wait,” Hayden said, stopping her in her tracks. “I’m sorry: I know you want Ethan back more than anything else, but I cannot help but be cautious in this situation, but I am with you all the way.”

Her stoic and strong facade crumbled, and she let her tears fall as she nodded. ‘Good,” she said with a sigh, but as she walked back, she grabbed the key from Hayden. “But I’m the one riding now,” she said, devoid of any argument.

Both Alphas agreed with a quick nod to each other before they got back into the truck. Elise took off at a speed through the dark road. It took almost an hour until they reached the port. Its green old roof spelled out a private boat port with a name that read “Newman’s Port

They turned off the headlights of the car before they stepped out. Hayden glided in with the shadows effortlessly since he was born and trained as a shadow wolf. With Elise by his side and Rygan behind.

Even with his towering height, Rygan was as dark as a black panther, never letting his guard down until they reached behind the open ports.

“Elise’s perk up when she sniffs and takes in the familiar citrus and cedarwood scent belonging to her son. “I can smell a whiff of Ethan; he should be in there,” she said.

Her body was heated with adrenaline. “Seeing this is a boat port, if we aren’t fast enough, it seems they plan to take Ethan through the sea route; we need to destroy it, she channeled.

“I will handle that, so Rygan will head to the second floor and find Ethan, alright?” He said to Elise, whose eyes creased.

“I think I should follow Rygan; I can smell his scent more intensely,” she muttered, For a moment, she saw something shift in Hayden’s gaze, but he wasn’t about to start an argument when they could be surrounded in minutes.

“Be careful,” he warned, giving her a short yet deep kiss on the lips, a possessive part of him wanting to show the Blackmoon Alpha that there isn’t any place for him with Elise. “Please.”

“You too,” she said to Hayden as they both departed. With Rygan and Elise heading to the second floor, the place seemed almost abandoned, with not a whisper of life.

That was what they thought until Rygan immediately backed Elise away from the steps, a second too late, and she should have been spotted by a human male who was patrolling the ground. He brought her in so close that her head was practically laid on his chest as they hid in the small space.

“Be careful. El,” he told her before he headed up, the human could never expect it, all of a sudden Rygan sped to the male with his powers, and before the male could react, Rygan cracked his neck.

That cold, unnerving power swirled in his gaze as he made the way clear for Elise. Getting into the main hallway of the second floor, there were ten locked doors.

*Tve done as much damage as I can to this boat; how are you holding up? Hayden’s voice channeled, though. Elise stepped forward to the first door, opening it to see that it was empty.

“Ethan’s smell is faint, Rygan replied to Hayden instead while Elise went from door to door. A panic began to rise inside her.

If he was close, why wasn’t his scent getting any better? “No, no, no,” she muttered, kicking open another door. That was where she saw Ethan’s pile of clothes on the floor. They were taunting her.

She could feel her stomach churn and her throat lurch when her gaze caught what was next to his clothes,

It was a human finger.