Sister Stole My Mate, I Got the Dragon King

At the mate-selection ceremony, Grant publicly refuses Mara and gives her place to her younger sister, Brenna, insisting the arrangement will last only temporarily. Yet the decision carries a deadline: Mara will turn twenty-two in three days, and tribal law says an unmated woman then loses her right to choose. Her father is expected to prevent the consequence, but Mara does not fight the decree assigning her to the dying Dragon King. Three days later, Grant arrives to bond with Brenna, believing the matter is settled. Instead, one hundred dragon guards appear at the Hale gates to take Mara away. As she leaves to become the Dragon King's future queen, Grant's rejection turns into a struggle over the choice he assumed he could control. The drama pairs a broken mate selection with Mara's new position and her chance to answer Grant on her own terms.