He Rejected the Clerk

He rejected his mate on the record. His rival said mine. Gia Holt is the pack clerk, not the bride. On claiming night Rhys Tanner calls her leftover, names a new Luna, and waits for her to cry into the stamp pad. She stamps REJECTED so the reject cannot be unspoken. Vale Keene — the Alpha Rhys ruined last winter — claims her in front of the floor, catches her wrist, and takes the only service elevator that still moves in a lock-down drill. The first screen is public humiliation and an irrevocable file. After the fold the heat is clothed and unfinished: jaw, pulse, wall, no entry. Rhys can freeze her brother's enrollment. Vale can keep her in the night-shift vault until the bite is a fact. Her body answers the second claim. Her mouth will not un-stamp the page. She will not be a trophy Luna and she will not recant for the man who made her leftover. The window will read HOLT.