Rejected and claimed by the alpha beast Novel by Paige T

Warning: This chapter depicts notes of self–harm.

The moment Elise heard those words of doubt come from Rygan, she stood up and slapped him right across the face.

“How dare you accuse me, Rygan?” She whispered out in disbelief. Her heart was breaking with each word.Belongs to NôvelDrama.Org - All rights reserved.

“I’m not, and I never will, but Alvira had testified to the Elders that after she talked to you, when she saw you talking with Kyren, another female servant said the same thing.”

Elise couldn’t believe it was Rygan who was saying this; he didn’t believe her.

“Rygan…” She felt like she couldn’t breathe–no, she couldn’t at all. Rygan noticed it with wide eyes as he came forward, and she felt Rygan’s hands wrap around her shoulder.

“You’re having a panic attack; I need you to breathe for me.” She pushed his hands away, shoving them at his chest. “Stay the hell away from me!” She called out in pain.

“Our alpha doesn’t trust us; our alpha doesn’t trust us!” Her wolf whined in distress.

Rygan’s eyes widened in realization and horror at what he’d done to her. What he just said. Especially after how he slept with Alvira and didn’t recall anything, now he was being such a bastard. “I’m sorry, El–I…”

“Do not touch me!” She called, pointing a hand at him, the same hand where Kyren’s marked bite showed, and Rygan’s gaze was on. She felt so dirty and disgusted that she reached for the door and ran out of the study.

She marched up the steps, feeling numb all over as tears threatened to fall, but then paused momentarily when she heard her friend Vienna’s voice, demanding to be let in by one of the servants. She rushed past the servants, seeing Elise distraught.

“What happened? Taz had rushed out of my house this morning after Kaide had called him in distress about something that happened at the moon house. What was going on?” She asked Elise.

For a moment, she heard the door to Alpha Rygan’s study open and saw the distraught look on his face and how Elise turned away from him. It confused her.

“V–Vienna,” Elise stammered quietly. “I don’t want to be here, please,” she begged her friend. Vienna had taken off the cloak she was wearing. The moment she smelled Elise’s scent sour in anxiety, she wrapped the cloak around Elise, covering her head with the hood as she entwined her hands together.

“Alright, I’m here; let’s go,” she whispered, taking Elise out of the moonhouse. Words of command from her alpha to take care of Elise were sent through Vienna’s mental barriers as she took her away. “Please take care of her and tell her I’m sorry,” Rygan’s voice called.

The minute they were in Vienna’s cottage, Elise took off the coat from her body, her eyes lined with silver, yet her stare was empty. She didn’t fight as Vienna took her to the couch to sit her down.

“El, can you tell me what happened?” She called to her friend quietly, and she reached to tuck the hair behind Elise’s ears. For a moment, it seemed like her touch scared her as she flinched away from the healer.

It took a while for Elies to calm down her hamk were quivering from how nervous and broken she felt as she explained what had transpired

Vienna sat down, listening to Elise, each word increased the rage in her as Vienna’s eyes were wet with tears. As Elise muntered, “Rygan doesn’t believe me, Vienna, I don’t know what to do, Kyren messed it all up, this was his plan all along,” she cried

Vierma couldn’t hold back her tears as she pulled her friend into a big hug. “I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry I wasn’t there. I’m so sorry I was preoccupied with Taz. Oh gods, I’m a horrible friend she muttered, crying.

“No, you aren’t. No one knew that this could happen or that Kyren could be in my bed. But I don’t remember anything.”

“You were drugged; it’s not your fault.”

“I feel like Rygan and the others don’t believe that,” she muttered with a sniffle.

“Rygan looked so sorry to you; yes, he is a bastard for saying that to you, but I don’t think he believes what he says,” she muttered to Elise,

“I just want to rest,” she muttered tiredly. She didn’t bother to think about Rygan, Kyren, or anyone else, and Vienna nodded in understanding before leading her to another room.

“Of course you can,” she told Elise; no other words were spoken as Elise climbed onto the covers, blocking the lights from the doorway and windows.

That was the start of an agonizing first few days. She could barely get out of bed, and the day she did to have her bath Vienna found her with scratches on her delicate skin from trying to get Kyren’s scent off her.

She hated to see her friend wither away, hardly touching the food she cooked and not coming out of the room. Rygan had come many times, pleading by the door to be let in, but Elise made no move.

“El, love, please, it’s not your fault; it never was, and I was a fool to say that. I hate myself for it. Fuck, I’m sorry, El.” Rygan’s voice echoed at the door for the third day. He always came for hours, even with Vienna telling him there was no chance; he always came.

“Go away, Rygan, please,” she croaked out. Right now, Elise was just counting the days she had before she would be forced to go to the DarkNight pack or war would break loose, and she could not bring that burden on this pack.

She had woken up so many times from vivid nightmares of her mother getting killed while Kyren and her father, Chief Dexton, laughed.

For several days, she’d been waking up in a cold sweat, and Vienna had been kind enough to give her the spare bedroom that was practically hers at this point given how much time she’d spent here.

There were days she would dream of herself in Rygan’s arms, a happy life with no one but them, but then she woke up with tears in her eyes, knowing that could never happen again.

She wakes up one evening after a nightmare, feeling the sick feeling of a twist in her guts. She runs to the bathroom and throws up; her head feels like it’s spinning around, and she needs to cool off.

She quickly takes a cool bath, wearing a simple dark blue sundress she got from a wardrobe that Vienna filled with clothes for her.

For the first time in a long time, she has little strength to move to the little sitting room area of the cabin. She sees a fresh batch of cookies that Vienna keeps warm for her, but there is no sign of the healer.

After nibbling on the snack for a while, the silence in the house started to feel eerie. She looked at the metal tongs used to make firewood and how they glistened red by the fireplace.

Elise didn’t know what dark thoughs had made her stand up, walk to the fireplace to pick the scalding red metal up, and look back at the bite Kyren had given her.

Rygan wouldn’t want you anymore! You’re dirty; you are weak! You are the one who made Kyren come here! You are to blame!‘ the dark thoughts swarmed her.

With a bite to her lips, she places the iron tongs on her wrist crying out in agony at the smell of flesh burning before the throws the tongs back into the fire. Her knees hit the ground in a painful cry as the watched her barned flesh begin so heal back to perfect skin, yet his bite was still there. It made her feel like the walls were closing in

“What the hell are you doing, EP” She whispered to herself

She needed an escape, she needed someone she could turn to. And the only person that came mind right now was Kaide; he might know how to help! She needed him to find a way to get her out of this, and she wondered if he’d agree to take in a broken wolf like her.

She rises with a newfound purpose as she goes out the front door. She leaves the cottage with a doak on her body on a mission to Kaide’s cabin.

Meanwhile, Vienna is at her clinic, tending to the sick wolves, when she hears the tone of a familiar beta who walks into the room. It’s Taz who leans on the door after he shuts it

“Hey,” Taz mutters.

“What are you doing here?” She says it with a cold tone.

“You’ve never sought me out after that day; I was worried and came to check on you, and how is Red doing?”

This time, Vienna slams her palm on the table beside her as she turns to Taz. “Do you know what you have done to that girl? She can barely sleep, and you all left her in that mental state. What the hell, Taz?” She screams.

“I’m sorry, right now I’m the only one that is sane right now; Kaide had been a no show, and Rygan, gods, Rygan had been out of his; he’s been intoxicated for days looking for a way out for El; we have no other way around this Vienna, not when the Elders refuse to let her stay,” he explains to her.

“You three are the leaders of this pack; find a way; you always do, and she needs our help; she has no real support system, and the people she thought were her family are giving up on her. She continues. “You know Elise will go back to that man if it means that no harm will come to this pack, this pack that wants nothing to do with her?” She cries, wailing in frustration for her friend.

Tazmin walks in fast strides, taking Vienna in his embrace, holding her tight as he whispers, “I’m sorry, I’m sorry. I will find a way, but I need to talk to her right now. Can you help me?” He calls, caressing her face.

“I don’t know if she’d want to talk to you.”

“If she isn’t up for it, I’ll leave; I swear it,” he says with a serious tone. Vienna nods in understanding. She leaves her apprentices in the clinic as she and Taz head to her home.

“El? I’m back,” she mutters, with Taz trailing behind her. It feels like no one is around as Vienna makes her way to Elise’s room. She knocks, but there is no answer. She opens it to find no one there.

She comes back out, noticing the plate of half–eaten cookies and milk next to the fireplace that looks disarrayed as she begins to panic. She looks back at Taz, confused, and says, “Elise is not here.”

Where the hell could she have gone? One thing Vienna was sure of was that she didn’t have a good feeling about this.