Not every wolf is lucky enough to be born into a pack.

Some had the misfortune to be birthed by rogues.

Banished from the shifters society, Rogues are branded as criminals and treated as less than. Cut off from their packs, most barely last a few years before losing their minds as well.

Rogues-borns are different. Born to savage creatures with no humanity left in their cursed souls, they have no family to mourn, no sins to repent, nothing to lose.

Alpha's decreed all Rogue-borns to be killed on sight, for the protection of the packs.

But Rain isn’t a threat. She was just born unlucky.

Forced into the life of a scavenger on the streets, begging for food from human scraps and always searching for a place to call home.

Until one day, she wanders too far into the forest on the edge of the city.

There, she meets the Ashwood Pack and their Alpha, Orion.

Mate, he says.

But that’s impossible.

When It Rains is created by Rhys McGinnis, an eGlobal Creative Publishing signed author.

When it rains

As he approaches, her aching heart beats in her chest like a jackhammer. And then Orion was next to her, kneeling on the ground beside her. 


“You know, this used to be my favorite hiding spot,” he says. 


She looks over at him, stunned. His eyes are on the river. He’s somewhere else, distant as he tells her things she isn’t sure she wants to know. 


“I started training to be Alpha when I was six years old. Whenever the training got too tough, this is where I’d come. It was always peaceful, a way to escape from the pressure.” 


Rain stared down at the water, her imagination running wild. 


A boy with blue eyes, so tiny and young running to this river, hiding from the world. It was hard to imagine the powerful man beside her could ever present such a sad sight. 


His voice knocked her from her thoughts, turning to look at him. She met his sorrowful gaze. 


Chapter 13: Hiding Spot