Scorned

By Jennifer Snyder

Shelby Killin may have lost the Ordeal to Tessa Morganton, a half-blood werewolf, but she’s never been one to go down without a fight. She’s determined to reclaim her rightful place next to the new Alpha of the pack. No risk is too much, even if that means begging the most powerful witch in New Orleans to assist her.

Jace and Tessa have no idea what’s in store for them, and that’s the way Shelby would like to keep it. Both of them are about to learn a woman scorned is a dangerous creature to cross.

Scorned is a Marked Duology Novelette, which takes place AFTER Changed. Also included are two bonus point-of-view swaps from Jace's perspective. One from Marked, and one from Changed.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jennifer Snyder
• Release date: Mar 11, 2016
• ISBN: 9781311572721

Jennifer Snyder

Jennifer Snyder lives in North Carolina where she spends most of her time writing New Adult and Young Adult Fiction, reading, and struggling to stay on top of housework. She is a tea lover with an obsession for Post-it notes and smooth writing pens. Jennifer lives with her husband and two children, who endure listening to songs that spur inspiration on repeat and tolerate her love for all paranormal, teenage-targeted TV shows.To get an email whenever Jennifer releases a new title, sign up for her newsletter a https://jennifersnyderbooks.com/want-the-latest/. It’s full of fun and freebies sent right to your inbox!

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Scorned

SCORNED

A MARKED DUOLOGY NOVELLA

JENNIFER SNYDER

SCORNED

A MARKED DUOLOGY NOVELLA

© 2016 by Jennifer Snyder

© 2017 Cover Art by Cora Graphics

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Editing by H. Danielle Crabtree & Running Ink Edits

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To all those who loved to hate Shelby.

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Prologue

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

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PROLOGUE

It is said there are three main emotions: Love, hate, and fear. Some people proclaim it’s from these three emotions all others stem. Their reasoning is they are the most crippling emotions to a person’s soul. They hold the power to conquer a person, to make them do things they normally wouldn’t, and to break them into a million tiny pieces.

While each of these emotions have touched me at some point in my life, I think those who coined the three as a person’s main emotions forgot to add one into the mix:

Anger.

To some, anger and hate might seem similar, but I’ve felt them both enough to know the difference. Anger is linked to rage and blind furies. Hate is linked to disgust and revulsion. Anger is more powerful and destructive than hate.

Anger can make a person do things they normally wouldn’t. It can also conquer a person, and break them into a million tiny pieces if they let it. Whoever sliced emotions into three categories was wrong. They should have created four, because anger is deserving to be in a category all its own.

Since the Ordeal, anger has been my driving force. In fact, I thought it was the only emotion I was capable of feeling, until I saw Jace and Tessa together.

Whoever came up with the names for each emotion needs to create one more so I have a label for what I’m feeling—a mixture between love, hate, fear, and anger. Labeling might help me cope, but then again it might not. There may be nothing to help me cope with the way things have turned out.

CHAPTER 1

My right eye twitched as I stared at Jace standing beneath the large white archway. He looked handsome dressed in his solid white tuxedo with his hair perfectly sculpted and a smile on his face. The sexy smirk I loved so much twisted at his lips. My muscles tensed as the reality of the situation wormed its way through my mind. In seconds my blood was boiling because I knew his smile wasn’t meant for me. It was meant for her. I could feel her presence, but I had yet to glance at her. Instead, I watched Jace. His eyes were glued to her as she sashayed her narrow hips toward him. There was a meekness about her that irked me. Jace needed someone strong willed, someone fierce in all aspects, someone who challenged him. Jace needed me. He didn’t need a tame kitten; he needed a freaking tiger.

My teeth ground together. This was a nightmare. I felt like a wild animal trapped inside a tiny cage, thrashing and howling to be let free. The cage was my own skin though, making it utterly inescapable. Why were they making me go through with this? Wasn’t it bad enough I’d been disgraced by Jace when he renounced me? Or how about when I was forced to go up against Tessa in the Ordeal and lost? Now I had to bear witness to their eternal love?

Where was a shotgun when I needed one?

My eyes narrowed on Jace. I watched as he leaned toward Tessa and whispered something to her. I couldn’t make out the words, but from the blush that spread across her cheeks I assumed it was something sickeningly sweet in regards to the way she looked. I shifted my gaze, unable to stomach the sight of them together any longer. Unfortunately, it landed on my mom. Her normally soft and beautiful features were hardened. Her lips had pressed together into a thin line, and she appeared as disgusted by the sight of them together