The Pack Rules, Partie 2 : Taken by the Alpha

Résumé

Every 20 years, the Shadow Pack arrives in the small desert community of Bleed City, Nevada. To honor the pact made 150 years ago with the werewolves, the town offers up their eldest daughters for the Choosing—a ceremony where the shifters pick their virgin brides. Like most werewolf packs, the Shadows need human females for mating and breeding so they can replenish their werewolf bloodlines.

Arabelle "Belle" Winton, willing or not, has been chosen by the Shadow Pack’s alpha as his mate. Even though alpha Greyson Burke made certain every werewolf within Bleed City’s borders knows without question that Belle belongs to him, she still has to go through the ceremony of the Choosing.

It’s not that she minds the ritual so much as what will happen afterwards: The alpha will take her. Her virginity, to be exact. Her husband-to-be has let her know that their first mating will be nothing short of animalistic. She doesn’t know if that terrifies her—or thrills her.

If being mated to the alpha wasn't life-changing enough, Arabelle must also deal with a vindictive new enemy, Neela, the leader of the pack enforcers and Grey's former lover. And things go from bad to worse when newly mated Belle is accused of murder...