Chapter 1

Chapter 1: The Wolfless Deviant of Blue Ridge Pack

Lyla

You’d think not having a wolf is the worst thing that can happen to anyone, a cruel game played by the moon goddess that marks you as different, weak and unwanted … because it is a constant reminder that you’re incomplete.

But, have you tried enduring an endless, intense monthly heat cycle – a nightmare that begins when my body betrays me every month, turning me into a walking beacon of arousal – Try putting yourself in my shoes every month when my body would scream for a mate that doesn’t exist, with a scent so thick and sweet that it makes everyone around me turn their heads in disgust – except the humans who think I look really beautiful at that time.

My monthly heat cycle wasn’t just unbearable, it was a curse that earned me a well-deserved title of a ‘Wolfless deviant’.

Do you know what is worse? My parents… the very people who should care, protect and guide me – have cut ties with me and they look at me like I was a stain on their perfect family portrait – a punishment, a defect they can’t erase.

A deviant they wish they could forget.

So, if you think you’re going through the worst of luck … try living with this fire burning brightly inside you: alone, unloved, unwanted and a walking embarrassment.

Then maybe, just maybe, I might listen to your complaints.

But until then… My name is Lyla Woodland – the first-born daughter of Alpha Logan Woodland and Luna Vanessa Woodland of Blue Ridge Pack and this is my reality.

Every.

Single.

Month.

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I jolt awake, my body is drenched in sweat, with the sheets on my bed tangled around my legs like vines.

A familiar fire coursed through my veins, pooling sweetly at the lower part of my abdomen.

I felt my woman core clench and release, sending courses of oxytocin all over my body and I knew instantly what was happening…

My heat, again!

I lay there, gasping for breath as frustration and helplessness – emotions I was familiar with tease at the edge of my already frayed sanity.

“Not again,” I muttered, staring up at the ceiling.

At only 19, I’ve suffered 3 years of being abandoned by my family and I should be used to it but on days like this, I miss them.

Another wave of desire surged through me, making me moan – unable to stop myself.

“No, no, no,” I muttered, stumbling out of bed.

“Not now, please, not now.

But my body didn’t listen, it never does.

I stumbled into the bathroom and caught a reflection of myself in the mirror, barely recognizing the girl staring back at me.

Wild, dishevelled hair, framed a face with flushed cheeks – a stark contrast to the composed, controlled, daughter of an Alpha was supposed to be.

But this is what I always become during my heat – a creature of want and desire.

“I’m not really a werewolf, am I?” I whispered to my reflection, failing at an attempt to make a joke out of my situation.

“Not without my wolf.

sharp and patient cut through my haze

late

Again.

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man or a woman passed me, I would feel a strong urge to run after the person and demand they

the time I arrived at

warm juices were flowing down my thighs, sipping

eyes on me as I hurried through the

they were confused by their sudden attraction

few werewolves I passed, wrinkled their

what was

felt like a trek

my pheromones seeping into the air, the scent of my heat thick and sweet, impossible to

to remember the classes I

slammed the door of my locker, almost missing

was Marissa

a gamma’s daughter

but she slammed it back, forcing me to stare at

the decency to stay home when you’re like

learn, do you?”

hoping someone will put you out of your misery?” she added

some poor idiot take pity on

want trouble, Marissa,” I said quietly, my gaze fixed on the ground, my

today’s test and be on my

in this nasty smell of yours? Who do you think you are, Lyla?”

my locker, closed the door and started walking away quickening my pace, but the snickering followed me, growing louder

of the hallway and had successfully opened the door when without warning, a cold splash hit

a bucket of ice

water

into laughter as everyone brought out

standing in a corner with satisfied smiles on their

Marisa shrugged,

might need cooling off… a lot

there, dripping

me, clashed violently with the chill of the water, my clothes sticking to

tears I

all I could do was stand there,

that ice would drown out your stupid scent… but I was wrong, Perhaps,

you?”

Lyla,” she responded with a smirk “You never should have been

”.

of sizzling, hot

heal fast, if I allowed her to pour the hot coffee on

her eyes filled with amusement, just as she raised her hands to empty the liquid on

had died down and the air in

heart pounded as my father, Alpha Logan Woodland, came

from Marissa and threw

faltering when she

you

to intervene much less someone

“What’s it to you?”

his eyes flashing with annoyance “I’m her father and I won’t tolerate anyone treating my

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