Forsaken by My Mate, Chosen by the BeastCHAPTER ONE

They say fate is carved into our bones before we even take our first breath. If that’s true, then I was destined to suffer from the very beginning.

My father had once been a powerful Alpha, respected and feared. But when betrayal struck, he lost everything. Some claimed he had conspired with rogues, others whispered of a crime so grave it warranted exile. Whatever the truth was, he vanished, and my mother—loyal to the end—followed him into the unknown.

I was left behind, an unborn child carrying the weight of his sins.

From the moment I could walk, the pack saw me as a burden. I wasn’t just an orphan—I was a disgrace. And when I failed to shift at sixteen, the whispers turned to open mockery.

"An Alpha’s daughter who can’t even shift? She’s nothing but a weak Omega."

I learned to live in the shadows, to lower my head, to expect nothing.

Then, on my eighteenth birthday, the impossible happened. I shifted.