Page 1 of Resisting Fate

Prologue

Isaac

Life for me hasn’t really been easy. I wasn’t allowed to live a life of my choosing. I have to put on this fake mask and hang out with people I don’t really care about. I also had to reject my fated mate like she was nothing to me. I had always watched her from afar because there was always this pull I felt towards her. When she hung out with Max and Ryker, I felt an insane amount of jealousy. I wanted to be the one she laughed with. When she looked at Max with starry eyes, I yearned for that look to be directed at me.

I knew why it couldn’t be me. My fucked-up family forbid me to be the one for her.

If only I had one choice in my life, she would be my choice.

There is only one person who was stopping me.

I hate my father more than I have ever hated any person, and my mother would come in as a close second. My life was never mine. One day, I hope to l find a way from under their thumb and live life for myself with who I want to. There has to be a way.

“You will behave tonight, and don’t even think about going anywhere near that human,” my father spits out at me just before we leave the house. His face is already red with anger.

I reluctantly nod my head. “Yes, sir,” I say through clenched teeth.

When I turn my eyes to my mother, she is looking at me with a cold disinterest.

I have no idea why they are like this, and I may never know. They have been like this my whole life.

They had me just so that they could perform their “duty” to the pack. That’s what they had always told me. Now, they only wanted me to be with the alpha’s daughter; my ex-girlfriend, Penelope.

She may be the only person who knows what my parents were really like.

I loved her, but I wasn’t in love with her. I had only tried to make it work with her so that my parents would leave me alone. I kept her close because she was the only person to know, and see me for, who I really was.

I couldn’t and wouldn’t love anyone else but my fated mate.

Not many shifters are lucky to find their fated mate, but I was.

Hailey Weston.

She was human and was Ryker and Max’s best friend. She followed those two around everywhere growing up.

She was one of the few humans who knew what we really were.

Shifters.

I treated her like shit growing up and acted as if she was beneath me because of what my father would do to me.

The couple times that he had caught me looking at her longingly, he had beaten me close to death. Then I was locked up until I was healed enough to be seen in public.

The truth was that I always knew that Hailey was too good for me. She’s ten times better than I could ever hope to be.

I’m blessed that fate has chosen her for me.

Even if I will never get to be with her.

I watch her throughout the evening while she was talking and laughing with Ryker, Max, Penelope, and Calvin.

Fuck, why couldn’t I have been the type to deserve my mate?

The attack on our pack comes unexpectedly. I don’t think of anything else but making sure no harm comes to her.

She needs to be safe.

Hailey

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