Leave Janelle: a Rejected Mates Shifter Romance (Claws and Fangs) by Sarah Spade

Author:Sarah Spade [Spade, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-07-12T16:00:00+00:00

7

Paul is a chatty shifter. He keeps up a steady stream of conversation as he guides us back down the hill. I can sense him resisting the urge to grab my elbow and help me down, and I’m not sure how to take that. He doesn’t just grab me, though, and I appreciate that.

He tells me more about his older sister, Corinne, and her twin pups; a pair of rambunctious boys a year older than Gem. I hear about Marcus, his Beta. Miss Patty, an old, crotchety wolf that is the pack’s surrogate granny.

The Lakeview Pack is smaller than the Western Pack. In the Wolf District, there were at least a hundred and fifty members who lived in the immediate territory. In Lakeview, he has about forty packmates and the way he tells it, they’re all interested in meeting the wolf in the woods.

One thing stands out to me, though. Paul is an Alpha, but if there’s one person that he has mentioned yet, it’s his mate.

Alphas have mates. It’s how it’s done. And he mentioned in his chatter that he’s been Alpha for two years now. So—

“Will I be meeting your mate, too?”

“No,” he says. Before I can ask him why, he adds, “Because I don’t have one.”

Oh.

That’s… unusual.

During the Alpha Ceremony, when a new male is installed as Alpha of the pack, the Luna gives her blessing for his right to rule—and, in my experience, she also passes down the name of the female that will rule at his side as his mate.

It’s how I got paired off with Jack, after all. The Luna said I was his fated mate, he came and got me, and that was that.

“How is that possible? Didn’t the Luna tell you who she is? Your fated mate, I mean.”

“Nope. I’m sure I have one out there somewhere, but I wasn’t interested in an arranged mating so I never asked.”

I can’t believe what I’m hearing. I’ve never heard any wolf act so unconcerned when it came to their mate like that.

“But it’s fate—”

Out of the corner of his dark gold eyes, he gives me a knowing look. “Are you telling me she always gets it right?”

Considering I’ve already admitted who my fated mate is, we both know the answer to that.

“The way I see it,” Paul adds, “it’s pretty simple. I’m the Alpha. Alpha makes rules. Sometimes I decide that an ancient rule is silly and I change it. Forcing me to mate someone just because there’s supposed to be an Alpha couple? Silly rule. Changed it. I’ve always wanted to choose. Now I get to.”

As we continue to walk together, I have to admit that I love Paul’s outlook on things. I guess, when you are the Alpha, it makes sense to change things around. As an omega, I never would dare, but he isn’t wrong. A lot of our traditions and rituals are dated, and maybe if I hadn’t put so much stock into the idea of a fated mate, things would’ve worked out better for me.

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