CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY SIX

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• ALPHA THANE'S TWISTED REJECTION    CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY NINE

  THANE'S POV Ever since my mother awoke from the antidote's effects, she hadn't spoken much to me. Her silence carried weight…a sharp, cold disapproval that pierced deeper than any words could. Every time she looked at me, I could see it in her eye disappointment, Disgust and perhaps most painful of all, heartbreak.I sat in my study, my hands clenched into fists on the table. The room was quiet except for the faint rustling of paper and the murmurs outside. The news had spread throughout the pack…They all knew.They knew I had rejected Tyla.They knew she had been pregnant.They knew she'd vanished, possibly hurt or worse.I could feel their eyes on me when I walked through the pack lands. Eyes that once looked to me with pride and loyalty now brimmed with judgment and suspicion. Whispers followed me like shadows."The Alpha rejected his pregnant mate.""Can you imagine the disgrace?""How could he do that to her?"I didn’t blame them as it was all my fault and I deserved whate

• ALPHA THANE'S TWISTED REJECTION    CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY EIGHT

  TYLA'S POV "There’s something... someone... you need to see.”I tried to find out more information of who it was that wanted to see me but all I got was silence.The silence in the corridor was thick as the guard led me through dimly lit stone hallways. My fingers were numb, and though my feet moved, my thoughts remain frozen on the words the Beta had spoken: "There’s someone you need to see."The guard didn’t say a word as we walked away. I tried asking him questions again but he remained tight-lipped, only gesturing with his chin for me to follow.Eventually, we reached a thick iron door guarded by two men. One of them gave me a curious look before unlocking the door. The hinges groaned as it opened, revealing a small cell lit by a single torch mounted on the wall.Inside sat a man…old, with a scruffy gray beard and deep lines etched into his dark skin. His eyes, however, were anything but old. They sparkled like twin moons, alive and knowing.He looked up the moment I steppe

• ALPHA THANE'S TWISTED REJECTION    CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY SEVEN

  TYLA'S POVI didn't scream.I didn't cry.Not even a tear rolled down my cheek as the healer softly muttered those terrible words."I’m sorry, Tyla... Your baby didn’t make it."The world around me blurred Her voice became an echo drowned out by the pounding of my own heartbeat. My hands instinctively gripped my stomach, where not long ago a heartbeat fluttered with hope. Now, only silence remained.I nodded slowly, as if acknowledging the end of something that hadn’t even begun. I didn’t trust myself to speak... I couldn’t.Was this what numbness felt like? It wasn’t just emptiness….it was like everything had been scooped out of me, leaving nothing but a hollow shell.The healer, with gentle eyes, reached for my hand, but I didn’t respond. Her palm was warm, but mine remained cold."You need rest," she said gently.I stared at the ceiling. "I need nothing."Moments blurred into hours and maybe even a day.Then a guard arrived. "The Alpha wishes to see you."I blinked slowly.

• ALPHA THANE'S TWISTED REJECTION    CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY SIX

  THANE'S POV The vial was warm in my palm, too warm, like it held the weight of every sin I had just committed. Alpha Hyperion had handed it over like a god bestowing judgment and I'd accepted it not because I trusted him, not because I respected him, but because I was desperate.Desperate for my mother.Desperate for the only family I thought had my back and was about to stop Hyperion.I didn’t look back once as I left his cursed territory. I couldn’t because If I did, I’d see her again…Tyla…my mate.The woman I had just shattered with five cruel words."Tyla Niver, I reject you as my mate."I didn't want to do it and the more I thought about the look on her face after I rejected her, the more I hated myself and everything I stood for.Even thinking about it made my chest ache.My wolf had been eerily silent since I spoke those words, and I knew he was mourning just as much as I was.I clenched my jaw as I entered the pack borders. The guards saw me, but none dared ask questions.

• ALPHA THANE'S TWISTED REJECTION    CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY FIVE

  TYLA'S POV The moment I heard those whispers outside my door, my entire body tensed."She doesn't know yet.""Not yet…It’ll only panic her." "What if it’s already too late?"My heart thundered inside my chest. What didn’t I know? What were they hiding? My first instinct was to swing the door open and demand answers, but my better judgment…perhaps Lyra’s calm influence….held me back.Instead, I pressed my ear closer to the wooden door, straining to hear more but the footsteps were already fading, swallowed by the thick silence of the hallway. I clutched my belly protectively, a sinking feeling growing in my gut.“Lyra?” I whispered into the stillness of my mind. “Did you hear them?”Silence again but in the midst of that silence I felt it like Lyra was trying to tell me that something was wrong with my pup.“What do I do?”At that moment I was so confused and alone and I didn't know what to do or who to talk to.I decided to just stay alert and listen while carefully observing thin

• ALPHA THANE'S TWISTED REJECTION    CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY FOUR

  TYLA'S POV The dungeon was everything you’d imagine it to be.It was cold, damp, and heavy with despair. The stone walls felt like they were closing in with each breath I took, and the air reeked of mildew and old blood. Chains clinked in the distance, some from other prisoners… others, I wasn’t sure.The guards didn’t say a word as they dragged me down the winding stone steps. I begged, pleaded, screamed… until my voice turned hoarse and my legs gave way.“Please…” I whispered, “I’m not a threat…I’m carrying a child.”But they ignored me. One of them shoved open a rusted iron gate and tossed me inside like I was a sack of trash. I hit the stone floor with a cry, my arms instinctively curling around my stomach.The door slammed shut behind me, echoing like a final judgment.I lay still for a while, trying to calm my breathing as Pain radiated through my side and my head throbbed, but it was the silence from my wolf, Lyra, that hurt the most.“Lyra,” I called softly. “Please ta