Seraphina

Aria Calloway’s life has one golden rule: stay invisible. It’s the only way for an omega like her to survive, especially since her father’s death in a pack war still wakes her up screaming. 
So, it's baggy clothes, fake glasses, and sticking to the shadows, because the last thing she needs is attention from someone like Lucian Monroe.
 He's the Head Alpha’s son, all dangerous charm and campus royalty, basically everything she’s not. 
But a literal collision in the hallway is just the start, and then he even, bizarrely, defends her from his own crew. Things really spiral at her friend Caleb's party. How do you go back to being invisible when the most powerful guy on campus just branded you with a lie, and what happens when the aftermath of that "mistake" is something neither of them can ignore?

The Alpha’s Rejected MATE

Chapter 138: A Protector's Promise, A Rival's Unseen Pain


I leaned back against the soft leather seat of Kaelen's car, his jacket still wrapped tightly around my shoulders. My heart had finally stopped racing, but the memory of Lucian's cold eyes and cruel words lingered like poison in my veins.


Four years. Four years I'd spent in the Iron Fjord Pack, rebuilding myself piece by broken piece. Four years of learning to breathe without feeling like I was drowning. Four years of becoming Florence, respected designer and confident woman, rather than the rejected, broken Aria.


And beside me sat one of the main reasons I'd survived at all.


I glanced at Kaelen, his profile strong and sharp in the dim light filtering through the tinted windows. The feared Alpha. The man everyone called the "biggest bad boy" - worse than Lucian had ever been. The man who had just carried me to his car with such gentle care that it made my heart ache.
