Rejecting My Five Female Mates

Caine was an orphan, scavenging scraps at the edge of a battlefield. Ten years ago, he saved Alpha Marcus of the Blackfang Pack. Marcus took him in as a foster son, promised he would succeed him as Alpha, and said he could pick one of his five daughters as his Luna. Caine spent ten years protecting Eva, Violet, Lily, Daisy, and Rose, believing they were his destined mates. Then Seth, a wounded rogue the sisters brought home a year earlier, changed everything.

Seth played the victim. The five sisters turned on Caine, defending Seth against him at every turn. Three days earlier, Caine caught all five fawning over Seth. He stopped wanting to marry any of them. Instead, he agreed to a marriage alliance with Sylvia, princess of the Silver Moon clan, and asked Marcus to keep it quiet.

The sisters escalated. They demanded Caine hand over the Moon Guard Armor, a sacred armor bonded to his bones, so Seth could wear it. Caine refused. They forced him to strip it anyway. The removal left him badly hurt. Seth staged his injuries and framed Caine. The sisters pressed Caine for his Alpha blood to heal Seth. Eva offered to marry him if he saved Seth. Caine refused. The sisters threatened to die with Seth. Caine gave in. They drained him until he could barely move. Then he told them the protection was over.

Marcus returned from the border and brought an engagement gift from Sylvia. At Caine's Alpha Ascension ceremony, the five sisters smelled the mate bond. All five were Caine's destined mates. They still chose Seth. The sisters attacked Caine for hurting Seth. Marcus threatened banishment. The sisters chose banishment over Caine.

At the ceremony, Caine spoke the words that ended it: "I reject all five of you as my mates." He severed the fated bonds. The sisters who once protected him had stripped his honor, his armor, and his blood.

Sylvia's alliance and Caine's greater destiny remained ahead.