Unwritten Daughter — The Silent Pack Link

I, Cain Drexter, reject Windhale as my mate. I felt the bond snap like a rib. I went down on one knee on my own birthday floor, and the hall was so silent I could hear the candles burning.

Here's the part I still can't explain. Nobody moved. Three hundred people watched an alpha's daughter get discarded, and my family stood there like a row of statues.

I woke the next morning and the house had stopped speaking to me. Not cold. Cold would have been a relationship. I walked into the kitchen and my mother looked directly through my forehead head like I was a window with a nice view morning mom nothing dad do you need

me at the nine o'clock his office door closed and when I reached for the mind link the thing every wolf in this house is born into the warm crowded hum of five voices that had been in my skull since I could walk I found a wall they cut me out of the pack link do you understand what that is it's not silence

months. It's being buried alive inside your own head while everyone you love talks over the top of your coffin. Then it was a bad month. Then it was 200 breakfast alone at a table set for six. I broke a mug at my father's feet once on purpose just to see if he'd look up. He stepped over the pieces. That was the night I stopped being their daughter