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

Regret came only hours later, once she’s calmed down and those pesky tears had dried. Regret, as she learned, was like a heavy stone. It sat at the bottom of her stomach, feeding her shame and fear in a cocktail of disaster. 


She didn’t have much experience with regret. She’d never had time to worry about such things when she was always fighting for her life. Death always looked over her shoulder, waiting for its moment to strike. 


But having experienced it, she can say with certainty, she didn’t like it at all.


She laid in bed for hours, hoping it would all go away. Even ignoring Accalia’s knock and offer of food. Blasphemous, that she would turn down food but the thought of eating when she’s already swallowed her pride only brought pain. 


She wasn’t surprised though when the door opened. 


“Go away, Accalia,” She called out from where she’d curled under the covers, hoping she would melt into them never seen again. 


Chapter 24: One Step Forward