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Chapter 24: Gone
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Beneath the cursed moon:The Alpha Rejected Mate Chapter 24: Gone
ELIAS'S POVDraven found me just before midday.He came quickly which meant what he had found was not small. He handed me a folded document without a word and I read it standing in the corridor outside Kael's office.By the third line I already knew.Maren. Real name is Maren Voss. No relation to Damien by blood but connected to Ironveil pack for seven years as a covert operative. Trained specifically for infiltration. Three confirmed assignments in that time — all of them involving extracting information from rival packs without detection. Never failed a single one.The dissolved northern pack story was completely fabricated. There was no dissolved northern pack.I folded the document.Draven was watching me with that steady expression of his that meant he had already drawn his own conclusions and was waiting to see if mine matched."Where is she now?" I said."That is the thing," Draven said. "We cannot find her."I was already moving toward Kael's door.KAEL'S POVI read the docume
Beneath the cursed moon:The Alpha Rejected Mate Chapter 23:Cracks and Shadows
LYRA'S POVI woke up with the elder's words still sitting in my chest.He is your fated mate Lyra. Not an arrangement. Fated.I lay there for a moment staring at the ceiling and told myself very firmly not to think about it.Selene said nothing.Which was somehow more unsettling than if she had said something. Selene always had something to say. Her silence felt like the particular kind a person did when they already knew how something was going to end and had decided to let you figure it out yourself.Selene, I said.Good morning, she said pleasantly.That is all you have to say?It is a good morning, she said. The river sounds nice. You should go outside.I sat up.The bond. That was the thing I kept circling back to. I had felt it from the beginning — that pull toward Kael that I had been telling myself was gratitude or circumstance or simply the relief of being somewhere safe for the first time. But it wasn't any of those things and I had known that for longer than I was willing t
Beneath the cursed moon:The Alpha Rejected Mate Chapter 22: Truth Between us
LYRA'S POVAfter a while I wandered to the playground.I don't know what pulled me there exactly. Maybe I just needed somewhere quiet that wasn't actually quiet — the kind of place where noise existed but none of it was about me.I sat on a low stone wall at the edge of the yard and watched the children running around. Chasing each other. Tumbling. Laughing at things that didn't need to be funny to anyone else. A little girl was trying to get her younger brother to stop eating grass and he was absolutely refusing and she looked so frustrated and so devoted at the same time that I had to press my lips together to stop smiling too wide.I wondered what that felt like.Growing up with space to run. With other children to chase. With grass under your feet and nobody telling you to be smaller or quieter or less.I had grown up with a curtain between my bed and my mother's and the sound of the tin bath being filled on the stove. I had never had a playground. I had never had siblings to be fr
Beneath the cursed moon:The Alpha Rejected Mate Chapter 21: Temptation all around
Lyra's POVThe next morning after waking up I recalled what happened last night between me and Kael. But what I was looking at wasn't his manly built structure — when I looked down I saw his little man standing straight in front of me.I wondered how his wolf would also look like since I didn't see him clearly yesterday because it was dark. But seeing him yesterday he was huge and big with veins all around it and the thought of just remembering was making me feel hot and intense.To make this feeling go away I headed to the bathroom to take a bath.I sank into the warm water and closed my eyes and told myself very firmly to stop thinking about it.Selene laughed.Not out loud. Inside. That quiet ripple of amusement she did when she found something funnier than she was willing to admit.Stop, I said.I didn't say anything, she said innocently.You were thinking it.I was simply observing, she said, that you have been in this bath for seven minutes and have thought about absolutely nothi
Beneath the cursed moon:The Alpha Rejected Mate Chapter 20:Pains and Relief
Three maids came at sunset they were , carrying dresses and pins and small pots of things that smelled like flowers and warm oil. They came into the room Sera and I were sharing like they owned it and immediately started pulling things out and laying them on the bed and talking over each other in fast cheerful voices.Sera sat up from where she had been lying and looked at everything spread across the bed and her face broke into the first real smile I had seen from her since she arrived."Oh," she said. Simply. Like that one word was enough.I understood completely.The dress they picked for me was deep blue. Simple but the fabric was soft in a way I had never felt before, then I touched it just to make sure it was real. One of the maids did my hair with quick practiced fingers and pinned it up in a way that left small pieces falling around my face and I stood in front of the small mirror when she was done and barely recognised myself.Sera appeared beside me in deep green, her dark
Beneath the cursed moon:The Alpha Rejected Mate Chapter 19:The girl at the border
LYRA'S POVKael found me after breakfast.I had been sitting by the Dawnridge river for an hour, the letter folded in my pocket, the old woman's words still turning over in my head. The water was cold and clear and moved with the particular confidence of something that had been going in one direction for a very long time and had no intention of stopping.He sat down beside me without askingWe were quiet for a moment. After a while"Lyra," he started."I know about the letter," I said.He went still."My mother's handwriting but steadier than I have ever seen it." I kept my eyes on the river. "She wrote it years ago. Someone in this pack has been holding it since before I ever set foot in Ironveil." I paused. "Your father left instructions."The silence that followed was very long."Yes," Kael said finally. Like he had been carrying the word for so long it came out with no weight left in it."How much do you know?" I asked."Everything," he said. "I have known everything since before
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