Fated to the Wolf King - Rejected Mates Warrior Wolf, #1

He's the king who could destroy me. I'm the broken omega who might just bring him to his knees.

They call it The Alpha Summit. I call it my worst nightmare.

I'm a scientist. A researcher tucked away in my cozy lab in the Silvermoon Pack territory, upstate New York. My life is exactly how I like it—simple, quiet, safe. Just me, my research on werewolf bloodlines, and my two best friends living our best unmated lives.

Then the mandate arrives.

Every unmated wolf on the entire continent. Summoned to the Pollis packlands in the frozen north. By order of the High Council. No exceptions. No refusals.

I'm an Omega—the lowest rank that exists. I can barely hold my wolf form for sixty minutes before I collapse from exhaustion. While other wolves shift in seconds, I need ten minutes and end up shaking. There's no chance in hell of me finding a mate at this circus. Just public humiliation in front of ten thousand powerful wolves who'll see exactly how weak I am.

Then everything goes wrong.

I step off the bus, and he's there.

Tall. Brutal. Beautiful.

Power radiates from him like heat from a furnace. His eyes—ice-blue and predatory—lock onto mine across the crowded arrival area, and the air leaves my lungs. My wolf, who's been quiet and small my entire life, suddenly surges forward with a hunger I've never felt.

No. Not him. Anyone but him.

Because I recognize him instantly. Everyone does.

Aiden Blackthorn. Alpha King of the Northern Territories. The most feared wolf on the continent.

He's ruthless. Powerful. Dangerous. The kind of Alpha who ends disputes with blood and doesn't ask twice.

And he's looking at me like I'm his next meal.

Then things get worse. So much worse.

My wolf goes absolutely feral. The magic I've always had—weak, pathetic, barely-there magic—suddenly erupts. Power I've never possessed floods through my veins. Wolves around me stumble back. Some even submit.

What the hell is happening to me?

Before I can figure it out, he moves. Closes the distance between us in three strides. Leans down until his lips brush my ear.

"Mine," he growls.

And every cell in my body screams yes even as my brain screams run.

But here's the problem nobody warned me about:

The mating bond isn't just pulling us together. It's killing me.

Every hour apart, my body weakens. Every moment together, phantom pain tears through my chest. The healers are baffled. The elders are whispering. And Aiden? He watches me with those cold eyes that promise both salvation and destruction.

They say the only way to survive is to complete the bond. To let him mark me. Claim me. Make me his Queen.

But completing the bond means exposing every secret I've buried.

My research that could change everything we know about pack hierarchies. The truth about my bloodline that I've hidden since childhood. The reason I can suddenly wield power that should be impossible for an Omega.

And Aiden has secrets too. Dark ones. The kind that start wars.

His pack is built on blood and ruthless tradition. His enemies are circling. And the wolves in his own territory are already whispering that an Omega Queen will be their downfall.

They might be right.

Because someone is hunting Omegas. Someone powerful. Someone who wants me dead before I can complete this bond.

Now I have an impossible choice:

Trust the brutal Alpha King who makes my wolf howl with need but might destroy everything I am?

Or walk away from my fated mate and die slowly, painfully, alone?

Tick tock. The full moon is in three days. And time is running out.