#Chapter 22 Rejection Ritual

Rachel POV Garden of Our Blessed Goddess LUST provided a limo which accommodated all of us: Tyler, me, Dylan Roberts, and Ethan. I had thought I would be forced to endure a rejection ceremony with Jenny in attendance, but Tyler had simply dismissed her as if she were no more than the hired help. Humans weren't usually welcome at wolf ceremonies. I doubted Tyler told Jenny to leave for me as much as to save face for himself. No Alpha wanted to be rejected and the ceremony worked both ways in I was rejecting Tyler every bit as much as he was rejecting me. My part had already been done, but the formal ceremony required a blood exchange. We left the car with the driver in the parking lot of the garden. I was grateful Ethan held my arm to help me walk because my shoes weren't very practical for the grass and Tyler was moving at a hurried pace since seeing my pregnancy report. Once we reached the shrine itself, Tyler bit his thumb to bring forth blood. Alpha blood had an en