Rejected By My Alpha , Claimed By The Lycan King

The Silver Thorn pack house had never looked more beautiful, and I had never felt more invisible. Tonight was not just my ordinary birthday like all the past years , but it was Eliakim Vade 's choosing Ceremony. Three hundred wolves packed the great hall, the chandeliers lit, the daughters of Alphas ’s five neighboring packs lined up in silk gowns that cost more than my mother's entire life. And I stood in the servants' corridor in a white dress sewn from an old curtain, holding a tray of champagne. I was not invited. Omegas never are. I was wolfless and worthless. The girl who never shifted at sixteen, seventeen, and today, on my eighteenth birthday, still heard only silence where my wolf should have been. "Abigail, keep your head down," my mother had whispered, pressing the tray into my shaking hands. Her face was bruised from Beta's wife. "Don't let them see you. Especially not today. If Alpha Eliakim finds his fated mate, and it's not you"She didn't finish. She didn't need to. For eight years I had been in love with Eliakim Vade. He was the only one who was ever kind to me. When I was ten and the pack boys locked me in the cold storage because I couldn't shift to stay warm, Eliakim found me and wrapped me in his jacket. When I was fourteen and cried because I couldn't hear my wolf, he sat with me under the oak tree and said, "If the Moon Goddess is smart, she'll make you mine, Abbie. I would rather have a kind Luna than a strong one."I held that promise like a lifeline for four years. The ceremony began. Alpha Robert stood up."Tonight, my son Eliakim, future Alpha of Silver Thorn, will choose his Luna from these worthy daughters. Or, if the Moon Goddess blesses us, he will find his fated mate among us."My heart pounded so hard I thought the tray would rattle. Today is my eighteenth birthday. Today is the day you find your mate. What if ,what if it's him? The doors opened and Eliakim entered. I forgot how to breathe. He was not a boy anymore. He was an Alpha. Twenty-one, six foot three, shoulders broad in a black suit, hair black as night, jaw sharp, blue eyes glowing faintly with his Alpha wolf, Blaze. The power rolling off him made every unmated girl whimper. He walked down the aisle, passing the beautiful daughters. Serena Hale, Beta's daughter, in a blood-red dress that showed everything, reached for him. He ignored her. He kept walking straight toward the servants' corridor towards me. Our eyes met and the world exploded.It was a pine, storm, lightning and mate scent. It was a hurricane inside my soul. My knees buckled. The champagne tray crashed to the floor, glasses shattering. Every head turned, some screaming , but I didn't hear them. I only felt him because he was my Mate and my Alpha. After eighteen years of silence, my soul was screaming one word: MINE. "Eliakim?" I whispered, tears already falling. "It's me."He froze one foot away. His nostrils flared. His blue eyes widened, then constricted. I saw everything cross his face in one second , shock, disbelief, realization and then horror. Pure horror. "No," he breathed. "No, no, no. This cannot be."Serena laughed loudly from the front. "Oh my goddess, look, the little wolfless Omega dropped the drinks! Someone clean her up!"But Eliakim didn't laugh. He grabbed my wrist, his grip bruising, and dragged me into the center of the hall. Into the light. In front of all three hundred wolves, in front of five visiting Alphas, in front of his parents. "Everyone, look!" he shouted, and his voice was not the kind boy from the oak tree. It was cold Alpha command that made the whole hall kneel. "The Moon Goddess has played a cruel joke on Silver Thorn!"He shoved me , within a second i was lying on the shattered glass. My hands bled. "Eliakim, you are hurting me, We are mates" "MATES?!" He roared so loud the chandeliers shook. "You think the future Alpha of the strongest pack in the North, would be mated to YOU? A wolfless freak Omega who scrubs toilets, You don't even have a wolf You are genetically defective!" The hall gasped, then erupted in laughter.Alpha Robert stood up, face red. "Eliakim what are you saying?""I am saying the Moon Goddess is wrong!" Eliakim pointed at me on the floor, bleeding, in my curtain dress. "I, the Alpha of Silver Thorn refuse to accept a wolfless Omega as my Luna , My pack deserves a strong Luna, a wolf not this nobody" Serena walked over grinning and put her hand on the Alpha`s arm. "Eliakim, you don't have to explain. Everyone knows she has been obsessed with you since she was a child. This Pathetic thing."I looked up at Eliakim through tears, my chest tearing apart. The mate bond was already trying to form silver threads visible only to us connecting his heart to mine. It was beautiful. Please, I mouthed. Don't do this. The rejection pain will kill me.He saw the bond too and lifted his hand with his Alpha claws, he sliced it."I, Jax Carter, future Alpha of Silver Thorn, REJECT you, Abigail Stone as my mate and Luna"The words were low ,magic and cursing The silver bond exploded. Pain like my heart was being ripped out, like every bone was being broken at once ripped through me. I screamed, a scream that was not human, that made wolves cover their ears. Blood came from my nose. The glass cut deeper as I convulsed.Through the pain, I heard him deliver the final blow."And as my first act as your future Alpha, I banish you. You are no longer Silver Thorn. You have twenty-four hours to leave this territory or you will be killed as a rogue. Take her mother and throw them both in the omega slums!" I was lying in a pool of champagne, blood, and broken glass, while my mate announced his Luna."Serena Hale, will you be my chosen Luna?"Serena screamed "Yes!" as the hall cheered.That was when the great huge ancient oak doors that had not been opened to outsiders in fifty years blew open by themselves. A cold wind that smelled of winter, blood, and forest so old it had no name, swept in. Every wolf in the hall whimpered and dropped to their knees, including Alpha Robert. Even Eliakim stumbled back, his blue Alpha eyes flashing with fear for the first time tonight. Everyone knew that scent but no one dared to say his name. Iwas dying on the floor from rejection, as i looked up through my tears and saw a pair of glowing golden eyes in the doorway, staring directly at me.