Rejected By The Alpha Hockey Captain And Then Claimed By His Brother

lie'

ng in. My lips brushed his cheek, warm a

and kissed me b

e line in the ice, but then he stopped and loo

me...we need

your stomach floats up into your throat for a second. I forced myself to n

h, s

banging on the glass as he joined the rest of the team. I just stood

d I still get this terrifying feeling whenever he says

less laugh at myse

edule, or his family, or literally anything

did he sound like that? He never uses that specif

r yesterday, or last week, searching my brain for any litt

to blur a little bit because I am getting too worked up

am, practically planning our breakup in my hea

brate the win, so I just sat there in the silence, waiting and when he finally walked t

wkward silence stretching between us, pressing d

'd i

he repli

e's tired, might as

d, my voice sounding a little too desperate to break t

ng at literally everything else but me. It was so incredibly awkward

more," I went on, my hands squeezing together. "We will

, "I need to rest, can we

re in my chest. He didn't even acknowledge wha

roat go tight as tears st

up through the heartbreak. "Easton," I called out, my voice crackin

s tense, his whole body stiffening as if he was physically hol

for me," he said finally, "

tire body went

at place. It was notorious, dangerous, a pl

y. "You could just send the guards? Or Owen?

t to hold the information that is

started fiddling with the fabric of my dress, my fingers twisting the mater

iral all over again. "The rogues, the terrain, what if something happens?

again, shutting down my panic like it was not

o. He was my future alpha, my boyfriend of two years, and he was just looking at me w

three whole days, maybe even more, just to go b

he needed someone he could trust and he trusted me. If he need

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d ready by the door before I even fully woke up, w

g and deserted, just endless trees and gray ski

ike days and days had passed, like I had been traveling for a lif

reamed from behind u

rain could even process the words or underst

The wind was completely knocked out of me as I scrambled to sit up, gasping for air, my eyes went w

ife, but I was just sitting there in the dirt... useless. I couldn't channel my wolf,

t here in the freezing cold, and Easton wouldn't even be here. I squeezed m

erything went quiet. I forced my eyes open, and my stomach completel

over and towered right above me, blocking out the sky. I shrunk back into t

he tears burning my f

"Oh a lady? Why don't we just have our way with her fi

re he could step closer, the man standing in the mi

d, "We need her to p

t down in front of me,

and gently brushed a stray piece of hair away from my face. His han

whispered, his eyes locked onto

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s, leaving me behind in the snow. Only one of my guards had somehow surv

lready the middle of the night. My body was aching, my clothes

n him, to tell him that these monsters were coming for him, and I needed to tell

ching in my throat, but as I reached o

ched female giggle drifting right

y head, thinking my brain was just playing tric

es wide as I leaned in to look t

aw Easton tangled up in

before in my entire life.

ting sideways. I took a sharp step back, my boots heavy against the floorboards, and I clutch

, the word barely a

strike, the realization hit

ds, the notorious

ctly what w

why he se

, he didn't send me because he trust

killed off so he