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

The only thing that can hurt you is your own expectations.


When she first arrived here, Rain expected nothing. She knew how they would treat her, she knew what they thought of her and as such, nothing they did could harm her. 


She was immune from their insults because she simply didn’t care. She had no expectations for them. 


But somehow, along the way, that changed. 


Was it when Orion had treated her with his own hands? 


Or when Accalia tried to give her a shower, never once giving up no matter how hard it was? 


When she tasted Ice cream for the first time?


When Vikas taught her with all his heart, no matter how many sarcastic remarks she threw his way? 


She had dared to expect kindness and received malice. She had dared to expect compassion and received suspicion. 


In the end, the only one hurt is herself. 


Chapter 17: Expectations