The mate she rejected

Modern

Twenty minutes before the "Wedding of the Century" at The Plaza, I stood outside the Presidential Suite in a fifty-thousand-dollar Vera Wang gown. I was the girl from a West Virginia trailer park about to marry Hugh Maxwell, the golden heir to a billion-dollar defense empire. I pushed the door open only to find Hugh pinned against the bed with my own stepsister, Floy. She was wearing my bridal diamond necklace, and the sounds of their laughter scraped against my eardrums like sandpaper. I didn't scream; I listened as Hugh grunted that once the wedding was over and the trust fund unlocked, he'd dump "that hillbilly trash" on a bus back to the mountains. They weren't just cheating; they were planning to steal my family's land deeds and leave me with nothing. When I set off the sprinklers and exposed their naked bodies to the paparazzi, the Maxwell family didn't apologize. They called me a "greedy peasant" and threatened to ruin my life unless I signed a new deal to save their crashing stock. I realized then that I was never a bride to them. I was a transaction, a rounding error in a ledger to be used and discarded. They thought my poverty made me weak and my silence made me a victim. "If we don't have a marriage certificate by midnight, the bank freezes thirty percent of our liquidity," their lawyer warned. So, I gave them exactly what they wanted. I used a loophole in their hundred-year-old family covenant and married the only other direct heir available. I didn't marry Hugh. I walked into the ICU and married his uncle, Fleet Maxwell-the legendary war hero who had been in a vegetative state for months. Now, I am the matriarch of the Maxwell dynasty. I've suspended Hugh's executive powers, exiled my mother-in-law to the Swiss Alps, and taken control of the family vault. They think I'm just a gold-digger waiting for a "corpse" to die so I can collect a fifty-million-dollar widow's payout. But last night, as I lay beside my comatose husband, the man they called a vegetable gripped my hand back.

Werewolf

In the powerful Silver Moon Pack, Astra Wynter has always been the golden daughter, beautiful, respected, and destined to stand beside a strong alpha mate. She expects nothing less. But when the moon reveals her fated mate as Lysander Blackwood, a weak, unshifted omega from the lowest-ranking f

Romance

Riley Jordan thought office romance was safe, until she caught her long-term boyfriend with his pants down. Tangled between her boss's legs. In the company conference room. One wild night meant to drown her heartbreak ends in a hotel suite, with a cold billionaire whose drink, like hers, had been s

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Luna Scarlett, mate to the dying alpha of the Mooncrest wolf pack has been given leadership over the whole pack earning unspoken murmuring and grudges from the wolves around. What happens when a Luna suddenly came to be the leader of the Mooncrest pack when her mate and Alpha died in war in her ow

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In the heart of the Ice-crest wolf pack, Naomi must make a difficult decision: either she marries the repulsive head warrior Lucas, serves him as a personal maid, or abandons her home completely. However, Naomi refuses to be a pawn in someone else's game. With confidence in her heart, she sets off o

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My legs were shaking and my heart was beating so fast as I entered the chambers. It was a little dark inside and I could hardly see anything. "Ly..Lycan..you sent for me.." I said with a shaky voice. That familiar scent hit my nostrils, making me grow excited and assaulting my smenses. I could fee

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Book 2 of 'His Scarlet Queen Luna' "You are mine chiquita no one else's and I won't leave this place without you" he growled lowly making me flinch but I quickly recomposed myself. All Victoria Chlicton Ponce ever wanted was to be a big time Hollywood actress, get married and have a family to call h

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Carly has been a rejected and hopeless orphan, never knowing her true parents or lineage. Traded to the most dangerous and principled pack in Ramone, she accepted her fate as a homeless orphan after losing her parents at a tender age. Alone and struggling, Carly's life takes a dramatic turn when an

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Life for Jessie Miller really couldn't get much worse: being born an Omega, tormented relentlessly by her half-sister, and rejected by her Alpha mate. Up until this point in life, she had lost hope. But fate still did have some pretty big plans laid out for her. When her second-chance mate, the migh

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Candles were lighted, beautiful scented flowers were well decorated in my house and even ribbons were tied at various places on that day. Soft music played in the stereo whilst people drank, ate and made merry. Sounds of laughter rang and everyone's faces were filled with smiles until tragedy stru

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"She is a murderer!" Everything changed for Anaiah Ross when she inadvertently killed someone following her first unexpected Shift into her wolf. Now hated, abused, and mistreated by the members of her pack, her fated mate, Alpha Amos, rejected her instantly and ordered her thrown into the dungeon

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Claire is a young lady who unintentionally marries a werewolf for economic purposes in a dangerous and mysterious European environment. She is caught up in a web of lies, rejection, and fatal machinations. Claire begins to doubt her value and role in her husband Lucas's life as he conceals his actua

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Lilac was bullied in the pack. Not only they bullied her but her mate which is supposed to be the Alpha of the pack was rejected her. Due to a lot of pain and hatred, she left the pack and start a new life. After two years she came back and everything change since she step back to her old pack.

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Elena lived her whole life dreaming of the day she'd meet her fated mate, the one destined to stand by her side. When the powerful and commanding Alpha Fenric locks eyes with her across the crowded hall, she knows her dream has come true. But her world shatters when, instead of acceptance, he utters

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If you are looking for a serial book of this one, please check CAPTIVE OF THE COUNT. *************************************************************************************************** "What is your name?" He asked. "Nyx." "Nyx what?" "Nyx Evander." "Good." He hummed, "I am going to reject you." He

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Leila Stone's world shattered when she was rejected by her mate, **Alpha Carley Nightpaw**, the night their pack was attacked. Fleeing with a broken heart and a shattered soul, she vowed to never return to the pack that had once been her home-until a blood moon rises, and fate forces her back. Carl

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Warning: This story containes explicit scenes. Intended for those above 18... ******* Aria Blackwood has spent her life trapped beneath her father's iron rule. When she is paraded through the glittering halls of the Grand Moon Hall, offered as a prize to unite the powerful Twelve Houses, she belie

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"Will you reject me?" I asked lowly, ignoring the huge lump that had formed in my throat. I could only fight back my tears as they burned my eyes. His green eyes were like orbs of ice, piercing into my soul. It was glazed and cold, yet seemed to have a lot of secrets hidden in it. "Reject you?..I am

Werewolf

Magnus, shattered by Audrey's rejection and a false treason accusation, faced humiliation and exile from the Brown Pack. Three years later, fueled by revenge, he returns, dethroning Alpha Lucas with Jaxon's help. Audrey becomes his mistress, but their love story is entangled with secrets, betrayals,

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The Millennium Wolf King of all Supernatural was killed mysteriously and his throne was wanted by every King's and Queen's of supernatural but they couldn't have it because he has a legitimate child. A child none of the king's and Queen's has seen before. All they know is that the Millennium Wolf K

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Dwayne is next in line in the Alpha title. He rejected his mate because she was just a human. But as soon as she accepted his rejection his whole world crumbled. After a month they met again but it was not a simple encounter it turns out that his human mate is connected to the royalties of werewolve