THE ALPHA'S SMUGGLED MATE

"I reject you." The words left my mouth before I could stop them, slicing through the air like a blade. I expected him to rage, to shift into that terrifying white beast that had snatched me from my bedroom window. But Kael just stood there, his icy blue eyes shattering as if I’d physically gutted him. "I reject you," I whispered again, trembling. It didn't. Instead, a searing pain exploded in my ribs, dropping me to my knees. It felt like my soul was being ripped in half. "You don't understand what that word means, Adam," Kael growled. He didn't let me leave. He scooped me up, his hands burning against my cold skin. "You think you can just walk away? The Moon Goddess tied you to me. You are mine." I woke up days later in his bed, surrounded by his scent—pine, smoke, and pure power. My body ached, not from the rejection, but from the desperate need to be near him. He was sitting there. "You're safe here," he murmured, leaning over me, trapping me against the mattress. "And I'm never letting you out of my sight again." ****** Adam thought he was just a broken boy with a mysterious illness, living in a home that despised him. But when the powerful Alpha Kael recognizes him as his fated mate, Adam's world shatters. He rejects the bond, only to find himself dying from the separation. Forced into the Alpha's care, Adam discovers a horrifying truth: he isn't human. He is a weapon, suppressed by drugs for eighteen years, and now his true nature is waking up. With a rival pack hunting him and his own body turning against him, Adam must rely on the man he tried to push away.