A Twisted Rejection

by BBB Publishings

  “You know that I don’t think of you that way. I just thought that maybe we could get you to settle down to and the best way to do that is if you aren’t dressed like the pack slut.” She says while sticking her tongue out at me.

  “I have to do something to stand out. Not all of us can be glorious wolf shifters.” I reply trying not to let my own comment bother me. When I was a baby, someone had left me in the woods by the river and my adoptive mother had found me. So here I was surrounded by amazing shifters of all kinds and I was a measly human.

  “Nobody thinks any different of you though, Mira. You know the pack accepted you a long time ago.” She whispers before coming over to hug me. I take a moment to sink into it before shrugging her off.

  “I am fine just the way I am. Don’t go soft on me Jessica. Now, time for me to go get my hooker clothes on.” I giggle and sashay out of the room and down the hall.

  Jessica and I were the same age and even though we were total opposites we were inseparable. From what mom said we had always been that way, from the moment she brought me home. Of course, when Jessica decided she wanted to come to Galeford College to get her Veterinary Degree. I had to come with her and thank god I went in the same major as her because I would be flunking if she didn’t let me copy her work.

  The packs always needed more members with a medical background so in my eyes it was a way to be useful. No one had to know just how much I wanted to fit in because it was so easy to hide behind my not give a fuck attitude that I had adopted since the first kid picked on me for being a human in a wolves world. I would show them.

  Twenty minutes later, I was changed and raring to go. While I loved to party, I had made sure to never party with any shifters. I could drink most men under the table but being that vulnerable with a horny male wolf was not my idea of a fun time and any that got close enough to realize that I was human was never interested anyway.

  As Jessica and I walked through the door, lots of yelling and loud music filled the air. Standing by the stairs was the Incredible Hulk not really, but he could have easily been his non-green twin. The guy was huge with beautiful sandy blonde hair and the greenest eyes I had ever seen. His face, while striking, was marred with a sneer. He clearly wasn't happy about being here.

  “Dude, stop drooling you’re making a mess.” My sister’s stupid voice snapped me out of my daydream just in time to see her ass disappear into another room.

  I struggled to catch up after throwing one last glance at the man. Ah well, I wasn't here to find a wolf anyway. Even if I did go talk to him, he would just reject me like every other wolf had. I would just find some drunk frat boy when I got home to take care of me.

  “Here she is, finally. Nate, this is my baby sister Mira. Mira, this is my mate and Beta of the Devils hide pack, Nate Ryans.” The look my sister gave me as she introduced us promised death if I wasn't nice.

  He was cute enough, definitely her type. She had always gone for the smarmy preppy boys. His eyes stayed on my face, which was really the only thing in his favor. I couldn't put my finger on it, but something about this man was off. Maybe it was my overprotective sister gene but I didn't trust him at all.

  “Nice to meet you, Nate. Hurt my sister and they will never find your body.” I slide in close to him as I speak, making sure to enunciate each word to prove my point. Not giving anyone a chance to reply, I turned and walked away as if I hadn’t just threatened the beta from one of the most powerful wolves in the pack.

  I knew there would be hell to pay when I got home because Jessica was pissed. Her eyes sparked as her wolf got close to the surface, but I couldn’t help it. I really didn’t get a good vibe from him.

  Before she could come after me I all but ran to the kitchen. I needed something to take the edge off. Throwing back drink after drink, I knew I would regret this in the morning but I was so out of my element, that I just didn’t care. What is the worst that could happen?

  Groaning, I roll over in bed to go back to sleep as my head feels as though it’s been run through a wall multiple times. The hangover that was currently hitting me was no joke.

  “If you are awake, you can go at any time.” A masculine voice startled me as I opened my eyes and came face to face with the gorgeous Hulk from last night.

  “Wait, what?” I gargle out as I try to piece together the events from last night.

  “Please don’t get needy, I only told you that you were my mate to get you into bed. It was fun, but if you can not tell anyone that it happened that would be great. I don’t want anyone knowing that I slummed it with a human.” He growled out at me. What a fucking douche! I could tell from the tenderness of certain parts that we had in fact been intimate. My first time with a fucking wolf and I was too drunk to fucking remember it. You have got to be kidding me.

  “First off, you are lucky I slummed it with you. And second, fuck you.” I replied as I got out of bed to find my clothes.

  “You weren’t so fiery last night when you were pathetic enough to think you were my mate. You were so easy, I almost didn’t go through with it, but you threw yourself at me and what man can resist that.” He spat back at me as I dressed.

  “Fuck you!” I yelled, slamming the door to his room as I left. Where the fuck was my sister? Even if she was pissed at me, I can’t believe she left me here. Either way, I wouldn’t be coming back here.

  Chapter One

  Seven Years Later

  “Mom! Mom! You will never guess what happened today.” Kaiden yelled as he ran into the house after getting off the bus. He was always so excitable, it was hard to keep the smile off your face when he was around.

  “What happened, bubba?” I asked leaving the kitchen and heading to the entryway of our small two-bedroom house. Only to stop in shock when I saw him, my small seven-year-old son now spouted two clawed hands which was an indication of the fact that he was going to be an alpha.

  “I shifted some, Momma. Those boys in class were being mean to me like they always are and they called you a bad word. I just got so angry that my hands changed. I really am a wolf, Momma!” He ranted his excitement when all I felt was dread. I had always known that this moment could come one day, but it was only a fifty percent possibility.

  “That is great, bubs. Can you get them to go away now though? We don’t want you shredding anything in the house.” I tried to keep the panic out of my voice, but I could hear it quiver as I spoke.

  “I’ll try, Momma. I’m going to my room to meditate. That is what the bus driver said.” He took off running after he finished talking and slammed his door to his room.

  As soon as the door closed, I felt myself fall against the wall and sink to the floor. I would never make my son feel bad about what he was, but I had been hoping so hard that he would be a human like me. Now I was going to have to introduce him to the pack and if I didn’t tell his parentage, he would be seen as less from the pack. Even with his Alpha abilities, he would never be allowed to become one. Unless he went off and started his own pack, but until then he would be disgraced. Which was something I couldn’t allow, even though the thought of seeing his father again made me wanna take him and run even further than I already had.

  When I found out I was pregnant, I told my mom almost everything, by this point, Jessica was never around. She was so far up her mates ass that she didn’t have time for me. Mom told me that everything would be okay, that she would help me. I just needed to come home and the pack would welcome me and the baby. I never told her that the baby could possibly be a wolf though. Wolves never intermingled species so she never even had the thought that it was possible.

  Now everyone in the pack would know because Dan, the school bus driver, was the biggest damn gossip I had ever seen.

  Fuck! I thought as I banged my head against the wall. This was going to suck.

  Pulling out my phone, I dialed my mom’s number.

  “You have a lot of explaining to do. You will never guess what Karen told me.” She started as soon
as she answered.

  “Was it that Kaiden is a wolf shifter and not a human like me?” I asked, knowing full well that she had already been told. I couldn’t help the attitude though I had wanted to be the one who told everyone.

  “Why the hell didn’t you tell me, Mira? We could have had him with the pack for all of pack runs. He would have been more accepted. Everyone in town is talking about it now. Nobody, including myself, can figure out why you kept it a secret.” She said making my heart clench.

  “I didn’t know until today. He has never shown any signs that he would take after his father.” I sigh knowing this is going to make her start her usual twenty questions about his dad. No one but me knew who he was and it drove everyone crazy. “Before you ask, no I won’t tell you who it is yet. I have to go tell him first.”

  “He doesn’t even know? How could you not tell him, Mira?” She yells at me. Which just makes me more upset because there was no way I could explain my reasons to her unless I told her who the dad was.

  “Ugh...Will you watch Kaiden for a little while? I have to see if I can hunt him down. I have to warn you though, there is a good possibility that he won’t accept him. He rejected me really easily so I don’t have a high opinion of him.” I ask, knowing that she will, but I like to ask either way.

  “Of course, I will. Just bring my little munchkin over on your way out of town.” She replies, her voice lighting up. Son was the apple of her eye and she had loved him unconditionally the moment he was born.

  “Love you, Mom.” I said, hanging up before yelling, “Bub, come here. I am going to drop you off at Grandmas for a little while.”

  “Okay, I got my claws to go away. I can’t wait to show Grandma. She is going to be so excited.” He practically yells as he skips down the hall past me as I grab the keys and head out the door. I was so excited for him, I knew how much it sucked to not fit in, but I would never be ready to talk to his father.

  It had been seven years, and I still couldn’t remember exactly what had happened on our night together. He had called me his mate, and I had fallen for it like the idiot I was at the time. That next morning he had been such a dick, and if he could act that way towards me then, how would he act when he found out that he had a son and I had kept him from him.

  “Mom, you are about to pass Grandmas,” said, shaking me from my thoughts as I pulled in to my Mom’s house.

  “Sorry, bubs. I was just thinking about some stuff. I love you though and you have fun. Don’t eat too much candy!” I yelled knowing good and well that he wouldn’t listen to that last warning.

  Waving goodbye to them, I backed out of the drive and headed to do one of the hardest things I ever would. Tell an asshole alpha that he had a son and hope to hell he wouldn’t try to take him from me.

  Chapter Two

  I was not ready for this. Chickening out, I headed to my sister's house on the packs land instead. A part of me hoped she would have my back and I wouldn't need to face the Alpha alone.

  Realistically, I knew she would be pissed that I had kept Kai a secret from her. Why wouldn’t I though? She had practically ghosted us after she moved in with Nate. Which tells me that her loyalty would be to her new pack and not to me. A few weeks after she left the only communication she had with us was one phone call a year on my mum’s birthday and that was only ever a few minutes long and a letter with some pictures of her new home. Never did she ask about me or my dad, it's like she had forgotten about us.

  After asking a few people where the Beta’s house was, I finally was headed down the right road. When the house from the pictures finally came in to view a horrible feeling came over me. I didn't know why but something felt wrong. Before the car had come to a full stop, I slammed it in park and jumped out.

  Running to the door, I noticed that not only were there three windows that were broken, but the front door was also broken. Too afraid to make much noise, I slowly opened the front door, that by some miracle didn’t creak or groan.

  The inside of the house was in just as much disarray as the outside. Faint sobbing could be heard getting louder as I reached the stairs. Running up them, I came face to face with what could only be described as carnage. Furniture was broken and knocked over, glass littered the floor, pictures and paintings had all been knocked from the wall. Worst of all was the tiny bloody handprints on the immaculate white door in front of me.

  Gingerly pushing open the door, I am drawn up short as nothing in the world had prepared me for the nightmare that was in this room. Blood covered everything, there was even specks on the ceiling as my eyes made their way to the bloody unmoving form of my sister, and a small child laid on top of her.

  “Jessica?” I whispered as the sight caused my breathing to pick up and my heart to race even faster.

  When there was no answer, I fell to my knees and slowly slid over to their prone form. Terrified and heartbroken, I reached down to Jessica’s neck and tried unsuccessfully to find a pulse. A sob tore its way through my throat as I went to do the same with the child. There’s no way I would be able to handle it if the child was dead too.

  As soon as my fingers touched its small throat, it jerked up and said, “Mama?” Causing me to scream. I wasn’t prepared at all for that. Relief filled me as two little blue eyes looked up at me.

  “What happened hun?” I say in the calmest voice that I can muster.

  “Mama sleeping, not wake up.” The child said causing my already broken heart to shatter.

  “Everything is going to be okay. I am your mom's sister, which makes me your aunt. We are going to go get help.” I replied looking around for a phone only to spot a gun on the nightstand. With all the blood I couldn't tell if it was all Jessica’s or if her baby was hurt too.

  Picking up my niece or nephew, I grabbed the gun and stashed it into my pants. I didn’t know what had happened here, but I wanted to be prepared just in case whoever came back or followed me when we left the house.

  “Dada hurt Mama again.” The child said drawing me out of my thoughts. Nate did this? He had killed my sister.

  Red hot rage consumed me as I ran with the little bundle in my arms down the stairs and out the door. He and his stupid Alpha would not get away with this. God, if he hadn't rejected me, I could've been dead too. There was no way in hell I would tell him about Kaiden now.

  “What's your name little one?” Trying to keep my rage in check, I focused on the terrified child in my arms.

  “Mika. I named after my aunt.” His words threw me a little. Jess hadn’t forgotten me. God, what had happened to her.

  “Are you hurt?” I asked as I moved the hand that wasn’t holding him over his body to check for injuries.

  “Mika okay. Just sad Mama won’t wake up and play.” He said not a clue in the world that the events of today had changed his life forever.

  Putting him in the car, I made my way toward the house that the party had been at. I was too enraged to let the memories engulf me. All I saw was red as the anger pulsed through my bones. Checking the backseat, I saw that Mika had fallen asleep, poor boy.

  I tried to look past the cloud of anger that I was feeling, but it was impossible. All I could think about was getting revenge for Jessica and Mika.

  After what felt like hours I finally saw the Alphas house, and that fuking piece of shit Nate was there. Parking my car in the driveway, the man who had kept my sister from me for the past seven years’ eyes widened in surprise as he realized who I was. Or maybe it was the fact that I was covered in his dead wife’s scent and had her blood all over me.

  Opening my car door, I made eye contact with Nate and his smirk told me everything that I needed to.Not only did he know exactly who I was he didn't care that he had killed the mother of his child, his mate, my sister. Before I could even think about what I was going to do, I pulled the gun out and shot him right in the stomach. Everyone around stopped what they were doing in shock, and only stared as if that was the last thing they could have imagined someone doin
g.

  “This is for Jessica,” I said as I shot him again over and over until I was finally tackled and the gun was snatched from my hand. Running footsteps and loud voices filled the air as the last man I wanted to see appeared.

  “What the fuck is going on?” Asked the man I had hated for the last seven years and the father of my son. I knew he needed an answer, but the only thing I could do was stare up at him. When his eyes finally met mine they turned as black as night. Then suddenly the body on top of me was gone and I was in Lucas’s, my son’s father, arms and the man who had tackled me was on the ground cradling his arm. Lucas’s eyes were still black and I had been around enough wolf shifters to know that he was lost to his wolf.

  I was going to just stay here and let him get it out of his system until I heard the small cry of Mika in the backseat. Without thinking, I lifted my knee as hard as I could and kneed him in the balls and took off running to the car. Fuck this shit! I needed to get home. All I wanted to do was tell this guy he had a kid and shit had gone downhill from there.

  Making it to the car, I put it into reverse and haul ass out of there. I just needed my mom. The sound of howling seemed to follow me all the way home.

  Chapter Three

  By the time I made it back to my mom’s house, she was already outside. I had no idea if she could smell me or if that asshole had called and told her I attacked another packs Beta. Before the car had even come to a complete stop, she was there her hands frantically running all over my face as if feeling for injuries.

  “Baby are you okay? What happened? Why do you smell like Jessica, death and blood? Is my baby okay? Please tell me she's okay.” Tears were streaming down my moms face and my heart broke again. Yes, I had lost my sister, but she was about to find out her only biological child was gone.