Rejected by the Alpha Who Ruined Me

Serena Vale has spent twenty-two years being called “the empty one.She was born into the Mooncrest Pack on the North Shore of Lake Superior, and she never got a wolf.Her family hides her in the kitchen. Her sister laughs at her. Her mother tells her to keep her eyes on the floor, and Serena has gotten very good at it. Then comes the Alpha Gathering.Damien Blackthorn is the youngest and most feared Alpha in the north, the man who came all the way from Whitefish, Montana, and took three territories before he turned twenty-eight. People say he has never smiled. People say no one has ever won an argument against him.When he walks into the room and his eyes meet hers, Serena feels something she never thought she would. A bond. A pull. A warmth that goes straight to her heart.He is her mate. For one moment, she believes the Moon Goddess has finally remembered her.Then Damien looks at the hundreds of wolves watching, and he rejects her. Out loud. In front of everyone. He calls her nothing, and she feels the bond tear apart like a rope being cut.Serena runs, because there is nothing left for her to stay for.But what Damien doesn’t know is that his rejection did more than break her heart. It woke something that had been sleeping inside her since the day she was born. Something her parents worked very hard to hide. Something that a lot of dangerous people would kill to find. Three months later, Serena walks back into the northern territories under a different name. She is standing next to Adrian Cross, an Alpha with enough power to challenge Damien himself, and she is no longer the girl who kept her eyes on the floor.Damien wants answers. He wants his mate back. And for the first time in his life, the man who never begged anyone for anything finds himself desperate.But Serena remembers every word he said. She remembers the sound of the room laughing. And she isn’t about to forgive him just because he finally feels sorry.Because someone has been working in the dark, pulling the strings behind her rejection. Someone close to Damien. Someone who knows exactly what Serena is, and who will do anything to keep the truth buried.Now Serena has to decide what she wants more: the revenge she has dreamed about every night since she left, or the love she is no longer sure she can trust.Because the woman Damien threw away might be the only one strong enough to bring down everything he has built.And the only one who could save it.Rejected. Reborn. Impossible to ignore.