Mave Fortune: A Rejected Mates Story (Blackstone Academy Book 1) by Elizabeth Dear

Author:Elizabeth Dear [Dear, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Elizabeth Dear Publishing
Published: 2021-04-29T16:00:00+00:00

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MAVE

I watched with satisfaction as those stupid cheating bitches scurried off into the woods after a solid dressing-down from the Ice Man. I'd seen Knox pissed off before since he was pretty much always that way around me, but he'd still always kept that egotistical, almost lackadaisical air about him. After all, he was a prince who was used to always getting what he wanted, and his life was cake.

I'd never seen him so dead serious as he did when addressing Nikka and her friends, so maybe there was a real grown-up Alpha in him after all.

I turned back to face him. He stared at me, looking angry, pale, and frustrated. His betas flanked him on either side, looking about the same. Thad, of course, only had eyes for Ben, and he looked... upset.

"I guess your daddy never mentioned to you where my family came from, Ice Man," I began. "You may know that we came from the South Utah Pack, which we left because it was a backwards, sexist, homophobic cult of wolves. But what you don't know—what the Alpha has decided was important to keep from the rest of the Pack—is that my grandfather is the Alpha of the South Utah Pack, and my family has led that pack for five generations. My dad was the most powerful Alpha Heir of all of his siblings, but he chose to live a life as separate from the Pack as possible, for us, and he had zero interest in taking over as the Alpha. Eventually, we realized that the Pack environment was too toxic for our family, so we left. Dad applied for membership in the NWLA Pack, and we were accepted, under one condition. Can you guess what that was?"

Knox still hadn't quite found his words for me, so it was Mason that responded.

"He gave your family membership as omega wolves. Why, though?"

"First and foremost because we let him," I replied. "We always meant what we said from the beginning—we are just here to live normal lives, away from the Pack and its politics. My parents love their jobs with their human company. Ben and I want to go away to college. We didn't give a fuck about who we were in the Pack hierarchy because it honestly didn't affect our lives in the least, so if omega classification is what made the Alpha content to let us join and leave us be, then that was just fine with us."

"But still," Mason said. "I get that Alpha Monroe was probably not thrilled to have another very powerful Alpha in the Pack, but if it was made clear that your dad had no designs on Pack leadership whatsoever, why all the secrecy?"

"Because he's a petty asshole," Ben retorted.

"Watch your fucking mouth," Thad snapped at him.

Uh oh. Maybe these two have not kissed and made up after all?

"Our guess, Mason," I went on, "is that the Alpha didn't want anyone to know there was a powerful, viable alternative to his own leadership lurking in the Pack.

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