"Hi, yes you aren't dreaming, it's the chubby Kelly," I say inwardly as I see the unhappy face expression of Jason who is disheartened. 

The guests laugh at us. They call our couple all sort of names. "The prince charming and the pancakes' eater Kelly" is one I can sadly remember."

"I, Jason Bentley of the South pack, reject you Kelly Thompson as my mate and the Luna Queen," he declared fiercely.

***
Kelly Thompson, an eighteen-year-old curvaceous and wolfless she-wolf, has been quietly admiring Jason Bentley, the heir apparent to the throne of the dominant South pack, for a number of years.

Unfortunately for Kelly, she doesn't get the same attention in return from Alpha heir Jason, as the handsome daughter of his old father's Gammas, Betty Nord, is already the love of the pack's future Alpha. But, the plump Kelly has an advantage over the skinny Betty because of a strong vow made by Jason's father, the Alpha King Don Bentley, that his son will marry the daughter of his Betas who gave their lives two years ago in a fight against the North pack's fiercest adversaries in order to preserve the life of the Alpha heir.

But clearly, nothing goes as smoothly as Kelly imagines.

The Rejected Curvy Luna Queen

The hologram girl’s eyes are mine, but her smile is a stranger’s—sharp and surgical. She tilts her head, pixels glitching at the edges, as the scientist’s voice drones on. **“Subject K-7 shows no adverse effects from Echo’s DNA graft. Proceeding to cognitive integration.”** 


Echo traces the hologram’s face with my finger, starlight bleeding from her touch. **“They named you after a failed experiment. How quaint.”** 


Jara shatters a cryo-pod’s control panel with her rifle butt. **“Enough nostalgia. Where’s the kid?”** 


**“Patience,”** Echo purrs. **“The Verse buried their sins deep.”** 


The lab’s fluorescents flicker, revealing a vault door hidden beneath layers of ice. Eden presses his palm to it, frost melting under his scars. **“She’s here. I can feel her.”** 


The vault opens into a garden of flesh. 
