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CHAPTER 13
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2026-07-16 21:00:20
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FAT, BARREN, AND REJECTED CHAPTER 91
ELLA’S POVI drifted in and out of awareness through what felt like an endless stretch of time, fragments of sound and sensation reaching me through a fog that made distinguishing dream from reality increasingly difficult—monitors beeping steadily somewhere nearby, the low murmur of medical staff conferring in careful, professional tones, occasionally Jason’s voice, rough with exhaustion and fear, speaking words I couldn’t fully process but somehow found deeply comforting regardless.I understood, in whatever fragmented awareness I retained, that we’d survived the extraction. Sherwood’s grip, the desperate struggle, the terrifying uncertainty of that locked room—all of it had somehow resolved into this current, hazy stability, though the specifics remained frustratingly difficult to fully grasp through the exhaustion and medication clearly working through my system.I fought, in whatever way my compromised consciousness allowed, to hold onto awareness, some instinct insisting that re
FAT, BARREN, AND REJECTED CHAPTER 90
JASON’S POVI saw her first, pressed against the far wall, tears streaming down a face gone alarmingly pale, and every careful strategic thought I’d maintained throughout the extraction operation dissolved instantly into pure, overwhelming fury the moment I registered Sherwood’s hand still gripping her arm.“Get away from her.” My voice carried a rawness that barely resembled my own, my wolf surging forward with a violence I made no effort to restrain.Sherwood released her immediately, stumbling backward with his hands raised in some belated, useless gesture of surrender, though I was already moving, crossing the distance between us with a speed that left him no genuine opportunity to defend himself before I had him pinned against the wall, my forearm pressed hard against his throat.“You put your hands on her again,” I said, my voice low and absolutely lethal, “after everything else you’ve already done. After the wedding, after this kidnapping, after whatever you’ve allowed to happe
FAT, BARREN, AND REJECTED CHAPTER 89
ELLA’S POVI woke to unfamiliar hands working over me, disoriented panic flooding through me before I fully registered the woman who’d been bringing my meals now pressing what appeared to be makeshift bandaging against me, her expression carrying genuine alarm rather than her earlier careful detachment.“You’re awake,” she said, relief evident in her voice despite her continued focus on managing whatever medical crisis had overtaken me. “Good. I need you to stay as still as possible.”“The babies,” I managed, my voice weak and thin, though the desperate need to understand their fate overrode whatever exhaustion currently gripped my body. “Are they—”“Still there,” she said, though her careful phrasing offered less reassurance than I desperately needed. “I don’t have proper medical training, but the bleeding’s slowed considerably since you passed out. I’ve done what I can with what’s available here.”I lay there absorbing that fragile reassurance, understanding with grim clarity that w
FAT, BARREN, AND REJECTED CHAPTER 88
JASON’S POVThe proof of life arrived less than an hour after Cross’s ransom letter, delivered through the same anonymous channel, a single photograph accompanied by no further written communication.I opened the image with hands that trembled despite my every effort to maintain composure, and felt whatever fragile control I’d been managing throughout this exhausting ordeal shatter entirely the moment I registered what the photograph actually depicted.Ella, clearly captured recently given the wedding gown still visible beneath a hastily added coat, her face pale and drawn in a way that carried none of the composed determination I’d watched her maintain through every previous crisis. She sat propped against a wall, one hand pressed against her stomach, and even through the photograph’s imperfect clarity, I could see enough to understand that something considerably more serious than simple captivity was currently threatening her.“Aldric.” My voice came out rough with barely controlled
FAT, BARREN, AND REJECTED CHAPTER 87
ELLA’S POVThe room they’d brought me to carried an unsettling contradiction I hadn’t fully anticipated—comfortable, even elegant in its furnishings, though the locked door and barred windows made unmistakably clear that whatever comfort had been provided served practical rather than compassionate purposes.I’d been held here for what I estimated to be nearly two days now, my sense of time growing increasingly unreliable given the windowless interior and the careful, deliberate isolation my captors maintained. A woman brought meals at what I assumed were regular intervals, though she offered nothing beyond the barest necessary communication, and I’d seen no sign of Cross himself since arriving, only the occasional glimpse of Sherwood passing the door’s small window during infrequent security checks.I spent the isolated hours cycling between desperate fear and grim, determined resolve, understanding that whatever eventual confrontation awaited me, I needed to preserve as much strength
FAT, BARREN, AND REJECTED CHAPTER 86
JASON’S POVI convened every available resource within the hour, the ceremony hall’s wreckage still being cleared around us while I coordinated a response considerably more ruthless and absolute than anything I’d employed throughout this entire ordeal.“I want every ally this family has ever cultivated contacted immediately,” I told Aldric, my voice carrying a cold, focused fury that left no room for the careful diplomatic consideration I usually brought to inter-pack relations. “Every favor owed, every alliance built over generations, I want it called in now, regardless of whatever inconvenience or cost that demands.”“That’s considerable political capital to expend simultaneously, Alpha,” Aldric said carefully, though I could see him already preparing to execute the order despite his measured caution.“I don’t care about preserving political capital right now.” My voice hardened further. “I care about finding my wife and my children before Cross manages to disappear them entirely in
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