The Wild Wolf's Rejected Mate

The Five Packs, Book 5

By: Cate C. Wells

Narrated by: Natalie Eaton, Scott Rose

My mate called me weak and walked away.

Annie

I try not to think about mating the wild wolf from the Last Pack. It happened. He left. The witch sorted me out and life kept going.

I’m anxious all the time—every moment of every day—but I’m not worried about him. He hates me, and he’s not coming back. He made that perfectly clear.

I should have worried.

After all, everyone like me knows the first rule of anxiety—if you don’t worry about something, it will happen.

And the mate who left me is now trespassing on my pack’s territory, and this time, when I run, he chases.

Justus

My mate is damaged.

She’s beautiful, but she smells wrong, and she’s messed up like all the other wolves who pretend to be human.

Our mating was a disaster. I left her, but I couldn’t keep away.

And now—things have changed. I can’t keep my distance anymore, but she’s still as skittish as a rabbit.

She thinks I’m a monster, and catching her isn’t enough—

I have to figure out how to make her stay.

The Wild Wolf’s Rejected Mate is a shifter romance about fated mates finding their way back to each other. No cheating. HEA guaranteed. Intended for adult listeners only.

©2024 Cate C. Wells (P)2024 Cate C. Wells

Supernatural Schizophrenic

I liked the female character near the end of the story. The male storyline was much better and engaging . The narrators were good and helped to make some parts easier to continue listening

The back story of the lost pack and their love story

Loved all of it, great way to end the series with a complete history of the all the packs

It’s all in the writing

As usual, Cate C. Wells' writing is absolutely enchanting. I read this "5 packs" installment in some kind of bittersweet delirium. I don't always love this author’s plots or characterizations, but from a technical perspective she is the best romance writer currently on the market. This book was full of pack lore, the trauma of the main characters, rejection (of course) and an HEA. Although IMHO the rejection didn't sting as much in this one as the four other books. And (although opinions may differ) I think it was a rejection role reversal. The h (Annie) was the one who rejected the H (Justus).

This book is about the 'Last Pack' (which is kind of a pejorative term used by all the other packs). As in: the last uncivilized pack. THEY call themselves "the First Pack" because they were the pack all others broke off from, and they call everyone else 'the lost packs'. They are the only pack who never left the dens, and have remained as close to their intrinsic wolf natures as their ancestors. You’ll remember them from the end of ‘Tyrant Alpha’ book 1 (when some Quarry Pack traitors aided an attempted 'female stealing' by Last Pack).

Anyway, this h and H meet when they're 18, which is when the rejection occurs. Then they meet again when they are 24. And the rest of the book takes place over a 3 or 4 day period when they reunite, and work their way toward what fate already knew. Justus is the first Alpha we've seen in this series who is just plain goodness ♥️ through and through. Still flawed, but SO decent. And Annie is a bundle of anxiety and toxic negative self-talk due to trauma. Brace yourself, the voices in her head are same level of intrusiveness as a schizophrenic or person with bipolar disorder. The spice in this book is very low.

This was not my favourite couple of the series, but I was still riveted by this deeply insightful glimpse into human/shifter nature.

Rejected Mates is superior

This series is superior to any other fated mates series. Cate writes exactly what I want to read. I’ve read all the books but this is my first audio of them and it was perfect.

Own them all!

I have listened repeatedly to the first three and was waiting for this one. it was worth the wait.