Rejected, And Became A Heiress

Chapter 0001

Cara.

My Fate Mate is proposing to someone else, in the rose garden I had arranged with my own hands. But all I can do is watch.

Alpha King Alaric and her lips meet and it's like time stops.

I don't want to watch, but somehow, I can't look away. It's like my lungs have forgotten how to breathe and my legs forgotten how to move. "NO!!!"

My wolf, Lucy, howls mournfully in my mind.

As a beta, I always do my best to fulfill every command of the Alpha King. This romantic rose garden, is the perfect setting for the Alpha King to finally put an end to being single and propose to the she-wolf who will become Pack DarkWood's new Luna. But it won't be me. All I can do is hold my breath and watch them kiss.

It won't be me, even though I showed enough promise as a Beta to be promoted to "Agent Luna" to cover the Luna's responsibilities for the last three years. Even though we've had so much amazing sex in the last three years. Even though I want so badly to be his. Even though he and I are Fate Mates.

But no one can know that part. The Alpha King has demanded that information stay secret.

An Alpha King deserves a noble-born bride, not an orphan like me. No matter how hard I work, no matter how many promotions I earn, I'll never be a noble. I'll never be good enough for a King.

I try to explain everything as usual, as a beta I need to do this calmly, but the fact is I almost unable to control myself from starting to cry, painfully realize the reality...

...Over the past three years, in Alaric's eyes, I might just be an office lover, ready to spread my legs for his calling!

I look down at my feet, needing to get a grip on my emotions. I take a deep breath and look back up at the happy couple, a polite smile on my lips.

"All of this is unusual!" My wolf, Lucy, says in my head. She's having trouble coming to terms with the Alpha King's proposal decision.

"I asked you to please be quiet while I'm working," I remind her internally. Thankfully, Lucy goes silent.

I quietly step back, finally able to get my feet to move. I'm not sure how much longer I can take watching my Fate Mate kiss another.

"Cara," I suddenly hear the Alpha King's voice call to me. "Bring me the ring."

I unsure that I've heard him correctly. But Alaric is staring at me expectantly, and I realize that, to him, this is just another part of my job. Even though it almost killing me.

ring in a locked briefcase at the edge of the garden, and tremble place the

"Lilia,"

to one

and take your rightful

from her eyes as she

blocks out the sound of

head starts to pound, and I feel dizzy. I move quickly to the stairs at the back of the hotel, feeling

mind. In some ways, I've never felt like I truly belong in

was adopted into the Pack DarkWood house and grew up under the hostile glares of the pack nobles who thought me unworthy.But I

showed the pack how hard I can work. No one

King. Alaric showed me the harsh truth: my low-born status is not

Alaric's Beta,

light female voice shakes me from my

up to see Lilia, the red headed she-wolf newly engaged to Alaric. Her eyes are filled with an uncomfortable

""You're..."

Alpha King's Agent Luna, keeping the duties covered until the pack has a true Luna." I extend my hand to shake hers in a greeting.

be needed any more. And I do mean all of

him never telling anyone. The sense of humiliation pricks at

something directly

it, realizing after a few blinks that it's a

that someone with as good a reputation as you could be bought for money. I told Alaric that $10,000 would be more than enough, but he insisted on $1 million. Take it and consider yourself lucky, Beta." She sneers at me. Money?! Is that what they thought? That I've been doing this for

what you're

gold-digging whore when I see

she turned and walked away, leaving me rooted to the spot in shock. I couldn't believe what I had just

fill my chest. In the corner of the hallway, I'm so distracted I nearly run straight into Alaric's

"You've been crying?"

looks a

hesitated to comfort me, "...Don't worry, you'll always be

very well, this is already the

reach my hand up to wipe a falling tear. Somehow, the bank card Lilia threw at me is still in

it's just that "I