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He tapped a fork against his wine glass as he stood up, gently setting the silverware and the glass down on the table where it previously laid and holding a hand up to keep the crowd silent. "Now that Ariceli is twenty, we plan to further her growth as future queen by sending her off to live with the packs under our rule, to live with and train with the alphas of those packs over the course of the next four years, Alphas if you will please step forward at this time." twenty or so alphas and alpha pairs neared the stage and turned to look at the crowd and Ariceli, before bowing down in front of her. ... He stared at me a moment longer like he was fighting against his wolf before charging at me and pinning me against the brick wall behind me, hands resting against the cold stone next to my shoulders. "I am your mate, now reject me." He spoke strongly but his eyes said something different, they showed pain and sorrow. I stood there shocked, his hot breath against my face sent tingles down my spine, I was a princess yet this stranger before me made me feel so weak and vulnerable. "W-What?" I stuttered out. "Why would I reject you?" I felt so confused and my wolf was both shocked and hurt by his comment "Does he not want us?" she spoke weakly in my head. He simply laughed at this. "Reject me like everyone else in my life has, I am a reject and I don't want to ruin my perfect failure of a record ruining your probably too good to know what bad is record," he spoke bluntly, no longer showing the pain his eye once hid. I continued to stare at him unsure of what to do before speaking quietly "You don't even know who I am."
Chapter One: Her Reign (Ariceli's)
