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My Place, My Fate
My Place, My Fate
My Place, My Fate
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My Place, My Fate

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When all she has known for the better part of her life is pain and betrayal, she finds light in the most unexpected of places. But The Fates had been cruel to her. And they were not just done with her yet.

Follow Amelia on her pursuit of finding her place in a world where she thought all was lost. As she finds happiness in the most unexpected of places and falls prey to the cruelty of the fates once again.
"I have faced death. I have faced betrayal. I have faced heartache. And none more final than at this moment. This man stood in front of me was not that man. This man was different. This was a man who had stood by as another accused, judged and was more than ready to execute. This was a man who had not been grieving over a mate, but was revelling in the promised future of having his mate beside him. My soul was gone, and my heart in ruin. My body was dying, and the wolf within me dead. What more was I going to lose before I finally conceded defeat? " - My Place, My Fate

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PublisherAwelst Grey
Release dateMar 10, 2018
ISBN9781370424511
My Place, My Fate
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Awelst Grey

Awelst is the pseudonym I chose after spending a good amount of time on Google trying to find a name that doesn’t scream fake. How I struck so far out the mark! But I like it. It caught my eye and resonated with my personality. I am a lover of the world. A dreamer. And someone who’s first true form of love came when I truly understood the meaning of freedom. I first got the literature bug in high school where I read my first full-length novel 'Twilight'. Since then, my love for literature has spanned through various genres, with my favourites being; contemporary, historical and paranormal. I wrote my first book on Wattpad, and from the great response, I chose to share my work here. I am a new author, but I am willing to stumble along in this path. I cannot say much about myself without giving away my identity, I hope you share my enthusiasm, and enjoy my work!

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  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
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    I didn't want to leave a star rating, because the book was filed under the wrong genre. But Scribd requires one before posting.

    This is not a romance. There is NO HEA.

    That being said, it was well written. I was invested in the FMC. I was invested in the story.
    I looked around trying to find any continuation of the story, certain it couldn't really be left the way it was.

    I mean, it had an ending. Just. Whew, boy! That got dark, quick. Like, uber dark. And with there being no follow up novels... guess the author meant to write it that way.

    So, there is no romance here. Nothing is ending in roses. Unless those roses died 8 weeks back, hit the compost pile and are being eaten by maggots.

    If this were a romance, I'd hit follow on this author and eagerly await anything else that came out. But, it's not, so this isn't my genre.

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My Place, My Fate - Awelst Grey

My Place, My Fate

Fate Series, Book One

By Awelst

Copyright 2016 by Awelst

Copyright

©2016 by Awelst

All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the author except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

Dedication

For all those who think they are unable to reach the stars, live in a shroud of self-doubt, and struggle to find themselves.

Embrace the different and believe in your strength.

"I just give myself permission to suck. I find this hugely liberating." –John Green, Author of the Fault In Our Stars

Table of Contents

Copyright

Dedication

Prologue

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

About The Author

Prologue

The pain was crippling.

An endless ache in my chest, serving as my eternal reminder of what I had, would have been, and could have been.

The pain intensified, bringing me to my knees while my lungs fought to take in what little air they could. The cold sting of the moonless night was long forgotten as I sought to cling onto what little sanity I had left.

Giving in would mean defeat, yet not succumbing meant a life of endless torment. The former fate had never looked as tempting as now as I clutched my chest willing the pain to an end.

I would close my eyes and imagine a place filled with endless possibilities- cling onto that place and for just that short span of time, everything would be okay.

The words, once spoken by my mother, flitted through my mind- almost as a whisper through my mindless fog.

The words were spoken to her by a long-lost stranger, who had found her in her time of need, as encouragement. She had vowed upon the power those words had had on her then, allowing her to hide away from the stifling world around to a much calmer place where demands were nothing but a rumour.

Up till now, I had never once put her advice into practice, having never sought the need of such a fantastical place before. Now though, I needed that place more than ever.

Shutting my eyes, I willed myself to such a place.                       

Away from the silent woods and agonising pain.

Away from the cruelty of this world, and heart-wrenching memories.

From the aching sense of loss that seemed to follow me like a shadow.

Away from my source of this blinding agony.

My mate. 

Chapter 1

'All great changes are preceded by chaos’ – Deepak Chopra.

I jumped back narrowly missing being sprayed by the dark murky water on the sidewalk. The car made no effort in avoiding the puddle regardless of the pedestrians walking about. Simply because he had a fancy car, he thought his rights far outweighed everyone else's.

The ass.

You would think after having lived here for the better part of a year I would be used to the blatant disregard of the common folk by the rich. A common occurrence in this small sea-side town nestled by the ocean and surrounded by an abundance of forestry.

The sheer beauty of the town was what made me look past all the bullshit.

It was the closest place that bore a resemblance to my place and made everything else more tolerable.

Waking up to the view of the ocean on one end, and the plush woods on the other, was enough to bring that tiny spark of light in my otherwise gloomy existence.

I was content- at least for now, and that was all I could ask for with the crap hand fate dealt me.

The wind increased the last couple of minutes, a telltale sign of a coming storm. If last night's was anything to go by, I sure as hell did not want to be caught outside by this one.

I barely got any sleep from the howling sound of the wind against the windows, or the one-year-old toddler that clung onto me like a boa clinging onto its prey.

Safe to say, my prospects of getting any sleep tonight looked bleak.

The day-care came into view as I rounded the block. Parents and guardians filtered through the centre collecting their children. I made my way through the crowd and into the centre spotting my charge.

Sophia Rose Thompson.

Her light auburn hair made her distinguishable amongst the room full of kids.

She was sitting near her teacher playing with the teddy bear I gave her for her first birthday; face all scrunched up in concentration as she tried to manoeuvre the small tea cup towards her bear.

My heart swelled at the sight; an emotion that only sparked in her presence.

I glanced at her teacher who waved in my direction before bending towards Sophia catching her attention and pointing to my direction. The little girl followed the direction showed by her teacher her green eyes lighting up once they spotted me.

Mama! She squealed before toddling towards me, her teddy clutched underneath her arm- tea party long forgotten.

I bent scooping her into my arms raining kisses all over her pretty face.

She was and would always be my light.

I met her when I lost all sense of life, living in a world shrouded in darkness that sanity seemed like a faraway illusion.

It was two towns before this when I found her. I wandered into pack lands and was running through the busy city streets trying to shake the wolves off my tail.

I had stumbled into an alley when I caught the scent of a wolf nearby; I turned ready to bolt out of the alley when I heard the cry.

Confused, was my first reaction, then curiosity, followed by shock when I came into contact with tear-filled emerald green eyes, then recognition as I realised the scent was the infants.

Abandoned, was putting it mildly.

She had been dumped so callously that I hadn't thought twice when I took the child in my arms and bolted for the nearest bus station, all the while cursing her parents to an eternal life of endless torture.

In that simple act, I became a mother.

As I gazed down at the bundle in my arms, some darkness gave way. 

I had felt an emotion long imagined lost.

I had felt love.

Sophia's hand on my cheek brought me out of my musings. Her little teeth were in display as she smiled up at me.

Mama, kie, she said in her beautiful child-like voice.

I smiled at her shrunk version of the word 'cookie'. She had spoken in her tenth month and has since built her vocabulary. Cookie became her new favourite word since she had her first taste a few weeks ago. Now, she has mastered the art of incorporating 'kie' in all her sentences. Her sweet and subtle way of letting you know what she wants.

When we get home sweetie, I said, earning a wider smile.

I slung her bag over my shoulder and bundled Sophia up before venturing out of the centre with her in my arms.

I rarely conversed with any of the other parents or guardians, making our exit quick and unriddled with pointless chatter. Include the fact that I lost another umbrella to the unrelenting wind, I was not up to getting my daughter, or I soaked.

Home was a quaint one-storey house by the beach, with the edge of the woods serving as a backyard. Finding such a house, at such a location, had been sheer luck, mainly thanks to the run-down state it was in.

No one saw the need to buy it.

I, on the other hand, did not think twice on spending what meagre savings I had on the property.

It was my place reincarnate, and I saw no better place to start my new family.

We stayed at the local inn for the first month as renovations were done on the house. It had not been the most ideal of situations, what with me totting along an infant and all, but walking into our newly renovated home was well worth it.

The once ramshackle excuse of a house was transformed into an actual home, with a wrap-around porch. The house was a two-bed roomed with one and three-quarter baths, with a living room area, and kitchen adjoined to a dining room area. The décor was in simple hues of white and beige- something to complement rather than take way from the surrounding beauty. 

Walking through the front door, I set Sophia down, unbundling her, and letting her play with her toys. I made my way into the

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