Not His Mate

By Jade Marshall

When a wolf shifter finds their fated mate their entire world changes. There is nothing on earth they wouldn’t do to keep their mate by their side. But what happens when your fated mate is already mated to someone else?

Calum Beckett, Beta to the Katu wolf pack, has finally found his fated mate in Talon Quinn. The only problem is that she already has a mate. Trying to stay away from Talon is pulling him apart and driving his wolf to the brink of insanity. But what choice does he have?

Talon has moved to the Katu Pack with her mate Parker, but Parker isn’t her true mate, but someone she was forced to mate by her previous Alpha. When she finds her fated mate her life is thrown even further into chaos. Difficult choices lie ahead, and no matter which path she chooses, pain is inevitable.

How much pain are you willing to cause? How will either mate react to choices that Talon makes? Can anyone have their happily ever after?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Evernight
• Release date: Oct 29, 2021
• ISBN: 9780369504401

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NOT HIS MATE

Katu Wolves, 2

Jade Marshall

Copyright © 2021

Prologue

Talon

The Hatcher pack might be one of the worst places in the world to grow up since our Alpha left. It used to be a safe place where we lived in harmony, and everyone was happy to be here. But Slade has taken the reins of our pack and has changed it into something that is barely recognizable to most of the original members.

He has brought in wolves from other packs, lone wolves, and even wolves that had been excommunicated by their packs. The pack has grown restless with time, and many of the original families have left.

My father chose to stay, stating that he was loyal to the pack. He wanted to believe the pack made the Alpha but that simply isn’t true. But my father has since passed and left me alone in this pack.

I am almost certain if I weren’t close to coming of age that Slade would have put me out into the world. He has done it to many other young wolves, especially males. I think he may be afraid of letting them grow up in the pack to challenge him eventually.

But today is my birthday, my eighteenth to be precise, and I don’t want to think about Slade, or the pack drama, or the way that Parker Grayson has tracked my every move since he got here just a little over six months ago.

Parker is kind of attractive in his own way, and I’m sure that somewhere there is a girl that would be happy to have to him. But I am not that girl. I watched my parents all my life and saw the love shared between a mated couple. Since I can remember, I have wanted to find my fated mate and live happily ever after.

But that might not be in the cards for me. Parker is one of Slade’s close men, and my greatest fear is now that I am what the pack views as an adult woman, he might want me. Slade has forced some of the unmated females into mating with his men, his inner circle. It seems to be a reward for their loyalty toward him. Loyalty isn’t what I would call it, rather coercion.

Making my way toward the borderline of our pack compound, I can’t wait to be among the trees, breathing in nature. My name is called from somewhere behind me but I simply speed up. Letting my wolf take over for the first time in my life, I feel the shift come over me. My wolf takes full control as we hurtle toward the treeline. For the first time in my life, I feel the true freedom that comes with letting my wolf out.

In the distance, I hear my name being called again, but I don’t look back. It never crosses my mind to stop or return, so I just keep running.

Chapter One

Talon

The Hatcher pack is no more. Since Slade died, fighting to claim someone that wasn’t his, the pack has slowly fallen to shambles. I recognize that my father’s heart would be broken seeing that the pack he loved has been brought to its knees by pure arrogance.

Slade believed that he deserved to be the Alpha of the Hatcher pack and ruled it any way he saw fit. The problem was that he wasn’t a true Alpha and was merely hurting the members of the pack instead of growing our pack to our strengths.

That has brought us to where we are today. Everyone is gathered in the main dining hall waiting for news. What will happen to our pack now that we no longer have an Alpha. Nico enters the hall with slumped shoulders as he heads to the front of the room. He and

Reviews for Not His Mate

[Kourtnee Jayyde · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Love the authors way of combining characters throughout the Katu Pack books 1-3 I’ve noticed Hadley in book 2, which is also in The Wolf. I’ve loving how she incorporates all characters from all books and entwined them all together.

[Crush · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This book 2 of this series. And finding a mate isnt easy when shes already mated. She must break her force mating And mate Calum. But her ex will have to be delt with.