A Curse of Fate

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>I'm a shifter who can never bond with a pack. Not if I want to live.</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The day I watched my mom's pack destroy her was the day I knew I had to run from the shifter cities.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Mom and I share the same designation which means we'll share the same fate.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>For ten years I hide from the cities and the alphas who control them.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Until my luck runs out.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Dragged to Golden Claw against my will they charge me as a rogue. I'm facing death until one of the strongest alphas in the city scents me as his match.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Scents me... and </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>claims</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> me.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Even worse? He's part of the most powerful pack of alphas the cities have ever seen.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I have to reject them. It's the only way to avoid my mom's curse of fate. And my own.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Except these alphas have never been rejected a day in their lives and they're definitely not about to start now.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>