The Tyrant Alpha's Rejected Mate (Five Packs, #1)

by Cate C. Wells

“I’m not your mate. You said so yourself, and you’re the alpha. And I don’t want a ‘with benefits’ kind of thing. Or any kind of thing with you.” “What’s ‘with benefits?’” he asks. “And you’re not in my system.” “Hold up. Go back. What benefits?” “There aren’t any. That’s what I’m saying. You do your thing, and I’ll do mine, and just, just—get off my damn porch.”

“You knew this. She told you she was your mate. You rejected her. She told you I fixed it. You must have found her nest in the woods. I can scent traces of her heat on you. You know all of this. But you’re deaf to it. Because you are getting in your own way.”

When I get my female, I’m tying her to my bed. No wooing. I am alpha. She is mine.

And then he laughs. From his belly. Like I’m genuinely funny. If I had a knife, I’d plunge it into his throat and listen to him gurgle, and then I’d laugh, too. I’d laugh and laugh.

I need to put babies in that curved belly. I need her to smile at me. I need not to have fucked up the best thing that’s ever happened in my life before it even happened.

The alpha is a virgin. Kind of. My mind is boggled.

I flash her a wide smile, and then I do something I’ve never done before. I bare my throat.

She owns me, and that makes her the most powerful wolf in the five packs. And I don’t think she has a clue.

I love you, shy girl.” “I love you, too, mate.”