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

Rain dug her back claws into the wolf's stomach as she threw her own head into his gaping maw. 


The wolf reeled back, and Rain threw her own weight towards him, throwing him off her smaller form. 


Rain scrambled to her feet, panting after the near-death experience. 


The two wolves stare at one another across. 


Something is familiar about this wolf, something she can’t put a name to but she knows he isn’t like the other rogues. 


The enemy wolf stares at her, his green eyes lit with not anger or threat to kill but something deeper. As she looks into his eyes, she noticed the gold tint to them for a brief second. 


Something inside of her grows warm, almost a burn but not quite. 


She shivers as something connects. Like feeling two puzzle pieces finally rejoining after lost for so long. Something is different. 


Chapter 29: Last Words