Bruised

Ava Carter is a seventeen-year-old orphan. A member of the Crystal Blue Pack, she's treated like the punching bag of the pack, and her packmates walk all over her—literally. She's the weakling, the outcast, the loner who no one ever bothers to get to know. Until her eighteenth birthday, when she overhears a conversation that leaves her with no other choice but to run away and never look back. She has never been outside her pack's territory, so she has no idea what's lurking in the woods. Luckily, she runs straight into the most handsome man she has ever seen, and he utters the one word (four letters) that changes her life forever: "Mine." Jayden King is the alpha of the North Pack. The most feared alpha, he's often referred to as the Alpha of all Alphas. No one who trespasses on his land ever lives long enough to tell the tale. He is content with his reputation as a cold and heartless alpha—until he runs into someone he had long ago lost hope of finding. But instead of being the mate that Ava always hoped for, Jayden ignores her...