Shifted Fate by Alicia S.Rivers

Is a mistake from the Moon Goddess 299

She glared at me but I held back. "Cat's got your tongue?" crossed my arms, but my mind was spinning. Verity was obviously related to Aurora. She was probably a cousin or something. She obviously had magic like them. The entire family had set their sights high for their mates. Aurora wanted my father. Amara nailed Beck, which I wasn't sure if they were goddess blessed mates now that I think of it. And now Verity, setting her sights and claws into Rowan. "I have to hand it to you. Out of the twins and you, you aimed higher."

"I deserved more than my sisters." She snarled and then seemed to catch herself.

I felt my eyes narrow. "Sisters? Interesting. But you had different last names. Probably different sires." I tossed my head back and forth. "I can only assume since your grandmother helped them you came first, and you were the mistake."

She snarled, charging at us. "I was not a mistake." She screamed. "They were weaker than me in every way." She spun and started to pace. "No one ever sees it."

I glanced at Toya, but she was already smirking. "How could they see what isn't there?" She looked down at her hands. "You were the mistake. You were the pup made outside of the mate bond, right?"

"Shut the fuck up. You're just like them, like everyone else. My father was powerful." She snarled, and caught the crazed look in her eyes. "My mother should have been grateful she was selected."

"Selected?" Toya's brow furrowed.

But I had a sinking suspicion. "You mother must have been gorgeous enough to be chosen as a brood mare for an alpha."

only thing she had, that and her magic." She spun to

your mother should

ten. He accepted what happened because he was as weak as she was. She could have become

her mate. The bond isn't a choice.". I said. "And the fact that you would rather your mother suffer and be forced

don't get to look down on me." She growled. "I am a daughter of

from bonded mates. And you are the trophy of a man who abused his power. Yet somehow you idolize him instead of viewing him exactly as he

"My father is ten times the man that your fathers are. And bonds are a choice." She looked into my eyes. "Obviously, since Rowan chose

"Did he?" I felt my eyes narrow as I glared at her. "Or is it more likely that it's just

be honest. At first, I used magic to keep him away from you. As he wouldn't look at anyone else but you, and I was frustrated. I have been next to him for years, and he never even glanced my way. But when he started dating the selected women, he started at the list the council gave him, the one I was on. He said he would see their choices before he moved to his own list,

Chapter 299

he looked at me once he gave me a shot, he was a goner." She smiled widely, but I could see something behind that she was hiding. But I wasn't

at Verity with my thumb. "She is so happy that she

"She obviously doesn't know you." She shook her

her face. "What the