Rejected and claimed by the alpha beast Novel by Paige T

“They took him,” Hayden says.

Those words ring like a cold iron bell as Elise stays frozen by his words, her face contorted into one of confusion and horror. She can barely make a word out as she pulls back her hand and caresses Hayden’s face.

“W–What?”

“I ont–agh!” He groaned, his next words blocked by another spill of gray blood sputtered from his lips. But Elise could barely think at that moment. Not when her son was taken by the enemy.

“Elise, look at me!” Rygan cuts in, “I have sent words to my troops, but we need to get Hayden out of here; it’s not safe!” Rygan’s voice echoed until it broke her dark thoughts. Elise felt his hands touch her wet face, and that’s when she realized. she was crying.

“I need to look for Ethan and my baby, Rygan. He can’t have gone far.” Elise stands up, she feels lost as she begins to walk towards the tall trees, staggering with her thoughts all over the place and her vision blurred. Her thoughts were reeling with desperation, but until she felt Rygan hold her back.

“El, wait.”

“Let me go, Rygan!” She screamed.

“This was a planned attack, they took your son, but we will get him back, I assure you, but right now to save him, you need to follow me,” he says, even if those words caused him great pain. He needed her calm; even though his wolf was on edge because of it, he was the only sane one right now.

She looked back at Hayden, who was watching her, his eyes barely open, still healing from the overdose of deadly poison that was so deadly. What was she doing? She needed to help Hayden.

With one careful nod to Rygan, Hayden is pulled up, and with both his arms plopped on their shoulders, they help him off, the ground and back to the moon compounds that have been salvaged

The hallways and rooms were filled with the injured as they walked in. They immediately saw Taz, whose gaze immediately calmed with relief when he saw Elise and Rygan were alright.

Jax and another beta helped Hayden to a bed while Elise stood and watched as Hayden grew unconscious again. She barely said a word, as her small frame looked so pale and lost. Rygan wanted nothing more than to hug her small, shivering frame from behind and tell her it was all going to be alright.

“Rygan,” Taz muttered, gaining his attention. “Thank the moon; you are alright, Luna Elise,” he said carefully. Elise then turned to the beta; she knew she’d acted coldly to Taz ever since they met again, and he could do nothing but walk on eggshells around her till she forgives them

But Elise did ething that stunned him; she returned his greeting with a hug, one that Taz immediately reciprocated with deep relief. “They took my son, Taz; those monsters took him,” she says calmly yet with a deep sense of hate in her tone. Taz stiffened in shock; he couldn’t believe it, not till he looked towards Rygan, who nodded in response to what she said. “I’m so sorry, Red; we’ll get him back,” he says in response, hugging her tighter.

“I need to go look for him.”

“Luna, wait” Jax had walked back out of the tents being set up for Hayden, his eyes wide with panic, when he heard Elise’s decision: “We can’t let you go, our troops are already on the way, and I and Michale are ready to set out soon.”

“This is my son you’re talking about! You are expecting me to do nothing!” Elise snarls with fierce wrath.

“I’m sorry,” he said, “but we cannot lose another ruler to an attack; you will need to lead our people, and Hayden will never forgive me.” They called with a plea to Elise.

Her hands were folded into fists till her nails drew blood from her plan, and a lone tear slid down her eyes as she looked to Rygan. “One word, and I’ll do whatever you want,” he said to her But she pushed past him and headed straight to the tent instead.

They all head into tents that have been set up immediately after the attack. Plans were immediately put into place to secure the whole territory and find more humans, while Elise busied herself with doing all she could to help the gravely injured wolves on the spot. Anything to put her mind away as Jax and Michale lead the search.

Taz had gone back to check the fallen compounds to see if there were any other survivors, including his ex–friends, but what confused them most was that Kaide and Alvira were nowhere to be found in the compound.

Knowing they must have devised a way to slip out during the attack so they won’t face Rygan’s wrath.

Elise barely had time to think of them, not when she had a plethora of people to heal. Rygan watched in awe of her sacrifice. She didn’t care what pack anyone was from; she helped everyone she could until she was maxed out,

To their luck, Hayden had regained consciousness by the coming noon, and Elise was immediately by his side. He could see from her heavy and tired gaze that there was still no news about Ethan yet. “I’m so sorry, angel. Fuck. I need to go search for him,” he groans.

“Not in this state; you need rest, and I do not want you dying on me, but you have to tell us everything that happened,” she mutters, combing a hand through his sleek white locks.

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He nods in answer: “When I met Ethan for our run, we raced to the gardens; the outer meadows felt like a safe bond with him, but then I felt this weird shift in the air. I couldn’t get to anyone, like my mental shields were being blocked by someone, but then hundreds of arrows rained down on us; we were out in the open, and there was no way else that 1 could shield Ethan with anything”Content property of NôvelDra/ma.Org.

“So you used your body.” Elise finished his words, her hand entwined in his, giving him a tight squeeze.

“The thought of them using random never occurred to me; I only wanted Ethan to be safe,” he says, “and after that, I could barely move; the poison was instant; I fought as much as I could, and with the blurred vision, I watched those monsters snatch our son away from me. I’m so sorry,” he says again.

From his gaze alone, Elise knew Hayden was feeling an agony of regret that she couldn’t forget. She hugged him and hugged her husband, who never hesitated to protect them, even if it cost him his own life.

Rygan watched quietly, feeling that burning tug within his wolf and jealousy turning his gut, before he cleared his throat and marched forward, interrupting them.

“I took those arrows back with me; they seemed so familiar with their markings, and from what I know, humans have well evolved from using poison–laced arrows; they target with guns instead, and I have a feeling I know where these are from,” he says, handing one to Elise.

Something like recognition flashed in her gaze too as she looked up at Rygan. “These are silver night arrows,” she said to

them.

“A perfect revenge for what you did to Chief Dexton by taking his arm,” Hayden says. “It could be him–but–Elise does not listen to anything else; her eyes are focused as she marches to the Silver Night Pack chief quarters that were supposed to be used as a holding cell.

The only part of the compound was ‘coincidentally‘ left safe, with no explosions destroying Dexton’s chambers.

Elise kicked the door down and was immediately met with space; he was nowhere to be found, but there was something else in the room and a letter that had been stroked with a bloody knife; it read “a flash for the flesh.” Elise felt bile rise to her thro

She felt this overwhelming shock in her guts; she couldn’t breathe anymore, and her vision blurred as the room spun. She was about to lose her ground when she felt a hand on her waist.

It’s Rygan. “Stay with me, his voice boomed. “Elise! he called, and she leaned on his chest. A cry broke out of her, and she let out a quivering scream.

“That monster, that monster, I’ll kill him!”

“What are the odds that Kaide and Alvira disappear at the same time as Dexton?” Taz says this darkly by the door, and Elise whirls swiftly to him, her eyes blown wide as she looks at both males.

“You don’t mean…

“It could be possible; no, those bastards might have joined Dexton.” Another deathly wrath rushed into her blood; they were going to pay.

“First of all, we need to go after the only person who might know Dexton’s coordinates right now, Kylern,” he says, and Elise doesn’t care if she is going to meet the monster that took advantage of her, she just wants to know where her son is.

She clears her tears. Her jaw clenched, forming a determined line. Her eyes, narrowed and focused, held a glint of steel as she stared at the two back–moon wolves. “Let’s go,” she called fearlessly, ready With every fiber of her being, she was ready to conquer anyone who stood in her way.

(Somewhere between the moon city and the south outskirts)

A car was waiting in dark shadows as two cloaked bodies trudged forward. Under the cloak was Alvira, who lay with their daughter, who had woken up, a testament to the lies against Elise.

But it was all part of the plan from the beginning–to bring all the attention to them before the attack so both Rygans and Elise would be distracted.

As they near the car, another man comes out of it, his wicked face upturned in an eerie smile as she raises his only good arm. “Welcome,” Chief Dexton says. “I am glad you made it beta, Kaide; I have to say your plan was flawless,” he calls to Kaide.

“I kept our side of the bargain and gave you an escape and what you wanted,” Kaide says, and they move to open the trunk to see the small unconscious boy lying inside. It was Ethan.

“Indeed,” Dexton calls with a wicked chuckle.

Alvira’s eyes widened when she saw the boy in the truck as she turned to Kaide in a harsh whisper, “What have you done? Isn’t that Ethan Elise’s son?” She says it with desperation.

“I have given us leverage for our safety,” he says to Alvira. Dexton chuckles at her bewilderment before he turns back to Kaide.

“You owe me for this,” he says as they all get into the car, its engine roaring to life as they all head away from the wolf realm

their new destination, a place to lay low and in plain sight.