The Dragon King's Rejected Mate
READING AGE 16+
Wren Calloway has spent thirteen years making sure no dragon ever looks twice at her. Every morning she drinks the ash-tea her dead mother prescribed — because she isn't dulling a scent. She's hiding the lack of one.
To every shifter in Ashvale, the nineteen-year-old kitchen girl smells like nothing at all. Unscented. Safe. Invisible. Exactly how she wants it — because the thing she is hiding would get her killed.
At the annual Choosing, the last person anyone expects is the King himself. Kael Ashbane — the Black Dragon, eleven years unmated — walks past duchesses and beauties alike… and stops in front of the Unscented kitchen girl. Before two hundred witnesses, he says one word: "Mine."
But claiming her in public and wanting her are two different things. Under pressure from a Council that would rather see a "proper" queen, Kael denies her — and lets the court believe the Choosing was haste.
She is the last of the phoenix bloodline. Her fire is waking. And the Dragon King who rejected her will have to grovel for the mate he threw away.
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The slot in the execution cell door opened at first bell, and the turnkey pushed bread and water through without looking at me.
"The council sat at midnight's end," he said to the wall. "The seal moves without the King now."
"And the King?" I said.
"The King kept his silence," he said. "The council kept the seal."
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