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Mate abandoned by Alpha: A Rejected Fated Mate Secret Pregnancy Paranormal Romance (The Forsaken Mate Saga Book 1)
I showed up at my mate’s private villa to tell him I was pregnant…
only to catch him shirtless, holding a woman wrapped in his blanket—calling her “my Luna.”
And when she turned around, I froze.
It was Liv.
only to catch him shirtless, holding a woman wrapped in his blanket—calling her “my Luna.”
And when she turned around, I froze.
It was Liv.
The woman the entire pack thinks I pushed off a cliff.
The woman my mate mourned for six months.
The woman he now swears he “always loved.”
Elias didn’t deny it.
Didn’t explain.
Didn’t even look surprised.
He just tightened his arm around her and said the words that shattered me:
“Let’s divorce. Liv is the one I should’ve chosen.”
Fine.
If the Alpha wants freedom so badly, I’ll give it to him.
I walked away with nothing…
Except the secret he’ll never forgive me for hiding:
I’m carrying the future Alpha—the miracle heir a Lycan bloodline can produce only once in a generation.
I swore I’d disappear forever.
I swore he’d never touch my child.
But when Liv’s “return from the dead” triggers a new wave of hunter attacks…
and Elias discovers the real traitor has been beside him all along—
he comes searching for me.
This time not as my mate…
but as the Alpha whose entire pack will die
unless he gets back the woman he threw away.
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by Keith Claydon
I loved this book, it was tragic it was gripping and a wonderful happy ending. Julie not Keith. He used his name when he made my account 😂
by jetplane
*sigh* 😔
I have some issues with this book. (Possible spoilers ahead)
This is going to be a long rant that jumps all over the place because the book did too.
First off, this H was NOT redeemable. What he put this h through- there was no coming back from that. 😩
Also, I’m not a fan of the heroine giving up their kid.
So years ago, when H was a child, H was kidnapped by vampires and was locked in a cage. Some mysterious little girl saved him and helped him escape. She disappeared afterwards.
The book starts where H and h are already FATED mates and “married.”
H treats her like absolute garbage because he thinks that 6 months prior, she threw Liv (OW) off a cliff. All the evidence leads to h. The whole pack treats h like garbage. She’s basically kept prisoner in the mansion. H is with women every night, and their pictures are always in the news (even though we know from H’s POV he hasn’t actually slept with any of them) h is led to believe he is. Women even come to h telling them they are pregnant with H’s baby.
h lives in a small, cold room. Barely has any clothes. She’s supposed to be LUNA, but everybody, especially her husband, treats her worse than a servant.
*backstory on OW, Liv*
H dated and loves Liv, but she wasn’t his fated mate. That didn’t matter because he planned to marry her anyway….until h showed up. h was his fated mate. OW, naturally, was extremely jealous and she is insane. H and h started to develop real feelings for each other as they got to know each other. h is basically his doormat. Total Stepford’s Wife.
There was a traitor in the pack, and the night OW was “killed,” h was blamed.
Some of H’s thoughts/quotes about OW:
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“Before Serenity appeared, I had planned to take Liv as my mate. It was what Liv wanted, and whatever she wanted, I was willing to give”
“I love you, Elias.”
“…I love you too, Liv”
“She led me to you, but the one who truly belongs to me is Liv. Now that she’s back, I’m going to correct that mistake.”
“I’ll mark her and make her my Luna. Even if it takes a year or two to conceive, or ten, or eight, it’ll happen eventually.”
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So, back to the present time- h just finds out she’s pregnant. At the same time, H finds a woman in distress…….dun dun dun- it’s OW. 😱 She’s back from the dead! For ONE WEEK, H stays with OW, nursing her back to health. She has amnesia 😂 and the only thing she remembers is saving a werewolf boy years ago who was kidnapped by vampires. H is soooooo happy to finally find the girl who saved him all those years ago. (I was snort laughing at this point) H is in love.
Poor h spends a week trying to reach him to tell him about the pregnancy. She finally tracks him down and sees him with OW. *heartbreaking* The things H says to h are just….ugh. He doesn’t love her; he loves OW. He wants a divorce and plans on making Liv his LUNA. He tells h that the moon goddess made a mistake making h his fated mate. h gets out of there before H can reject her (she’s worried about a rejection hurting the baby)
h goes to H’s dad and tells him about the baby. She agrees that if he helps her leave, when she has the baby, she will give the baby to them and leave forever. He helps her leave.
H is a little mad she left (he still doesn’t know about the baby), but he decides he’ll be a decent man and still give her money on her account. LIv is now his PA, and she offers to help him. 😂😂 ofc, Liv has all h’s money cut off. She’s a total cartoon villain. Nobody with two brain cells would ever believe this woman.
We get H’s POV during this time, and he’s conflicted about his feelings. We start to see that the little things OW is doing are annoying him.
H’s dad has h committed to a mental ward until the baby comes. When she has the baby by cesarean, they take the baby and leave her bleeding. h finds a phone and tries to call H, but OW answers 🙃🙃.H suddenly feels his “mental link” with h surge like something major is wrong with h. Ultimately, he ignores it and has a dance with OW. Then the terrible pain hits him when the bond snaps.
H’s dad shows on a big screen that H’s son was born. Surprise. H is shocked. He even questioned if it’s his son. He makes his dad tell him where h is. H makes it there and finds blood everywhere, but h is gone. The blood trail ends at a cliff. h died????
*sidenote* I’m going to admit that I started skimming at this point. I already knew what was going to happen because I’ve just read this plot before. I read the same plot a few weeks ago.
So yeah, h does give her baby up to H for her freedom.
Now, 4 years later. 😬😬🤨
We find out h was with a human family who helped her. They have a son (OM) who is a deadbeat. The family helped her learn the bakery business, and now she’s running a bakery. The human family died and left the business to her. OM is sniffing around her.
A 4-year-old boy walks into her bakery. It’s her son. 😱 He came to find his mama. A 4-year-old hitchhiked? 😂😂 come on! That’s so ridiculous
We also find out H is a terrible dad. He ignores his kid.
Then H comes to get him, and he’s reunited with h. Kidnaps her and forces her into his car- which she tries to wreck with the kid inside. lol
H now knows OW is not good. He has discovered some of the things she’s done. She is the traitor. Finally, after years and years, he starts investigating OW. Why did he wait years to investigate?
H wants h back. He loves her.
h wants to leave. He decides to do the right thing and lets her go back.
OM is a bad human. He was engaged to h and the day of the wedding, he sold her out to the hunters. He was mad his parents gave her his inheritance…..and he hates werewolves. H comes to save her and gets sh*t with silver bullets.
Finally, we end with H discovering h was actually the one who saved him when he was a kid- and that OW was the traitor all along. H self reflected and realizes he was a tool and treated his wife terribly. He groveled by giving her a divorce and custody of their kid. Then he worked in her coffee shop for months. Months later, they decided to “date” and then later they married. The whole pack now worships her and feels so awful that they treated her badly. 🙄🙄🙄
I probably would have rated this a little higher if the H was at least redeemable. There’s no coming back from the things he thought, said, or did to h.