Page 57 of Rejected Mate's Baby for the Alpha King

The wolf rolled her eyes up and glared at me, but she didn’t move. “Her bonds aren’t there,” Janelle whispered. “Like, they’re not just broken or ripped apart. They literally aren’t there.”

“What are you talking about?” I asked in irritation. “That’s not possible.”

“I’m telling you that she isn’t bonded with an alpha. There isn’t a bond with the human. There’s not even a bond with a land. That’s why her magic is so bright. It doesn’t have anywhere to go.” Suddenly, Janelle’s eyes glowed, and she grabbed my arm.

They were taken.

“Oh my God,” Janelle muttered. “Did you hear that? I think she’s using me as a conduit.”

“I heard,” I said grimly. “Who took your bonds, wolf? How?”

We were a pup, and a man took us. We were scared. Our sire was there, but he did not help us. He spoke to the man. My human and I tried to hold on to each other, but we were ripped apart.

“A witch,” Janelle said grimly. “Only magic could have done this. Her father paid someone to do this? Why?”

I heard his words. I remember them. I was to never have a mate. I was to be his to give away.

Abruptly, I jerked my hand away from Janelle and stared down at her.

She could never have a mate? She couldn’t ever bond with an alpha?

Sick to my stomach, I turned and walked out. I didn’t have any direction in mind. I just needed to get some air.

“Hey!” Jax yelled from behind me. “You can’t just leave a feral wolf unattended in there!”

“She won’t hurt them.” Stopping under a large tree, I closed my eyes. “She’ll give control back to Maya now that she knows there is no danger. She just wanted Maya to understand.”

She wanted me to understand.

“Who the fuck are you?” Jax demanded. “You can’t control someone like that without a bond.”

“Go back to your mate,” I said in a toneless voice. “Or get me the information I need to move on.”

“Or what?”

I turned to face him. “Or I will take this pack from you and get the information myself. I’m done playing. I want to know who fucking killed my brother, and then I want to get off this godforsaken mountain, and if I have to go through you to do it, then so be it.”

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Maya

My wolf didn’t just give over control. She sank deep in me, almost as if she were retreating to lick her wounds. Rhyson’s look of disgust had broken us both, and when I emerged, I started to shift. Nobody said a word as someone handed me some clothes.

“Is there any way to fix it?” I asked without looking up. “Can you use magic to repair my bonds?”

Janelle looked over at Irene and then back to me. “Honestly, I have no idea. There isn’t much information on wolf magic that’s available to witches. I’m not even certain how a witch would have gone about removing them to begin with. Your best course of action is to find the witch that removed them and hope he knows how to fix it.”

That didn’t bode well. Even if I could somehow get the information from my father, it wouldn’t do me any good. “Well, thank you. I did think I’d go my whole life never knowing what was wrong with my wolf. Turns out she’s perfect.” I forced a smile. “We were just fucked from the moment we were conceived.”

“Maya, I know what it’s like to have a shit father,” Anna said gently. “Mine killed his mate, went insane, and basically became a serial killer and forced me to kill.”

I blinked at her. “Wow. That’s shit.”

“It is indeed.”

“What ended up happening to him?”

She glanced out the door. “Jax killed him right before he realized that I was his mate.”

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