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CHAPTER 75

Author: Victoria.c.
last update publish date: 2025-12-06 19:07:36

The Trial of Power

Elena

The Council chamber felt like a graveyard. Ancient stone, frozen torches, walls painted with long-forgotten wars. And those eyes—cold, weighing, hungry for a mistake.

They weren’t here to test me.

They were here to destroy me.

My pulse pounded in my throat as I stood alone beneath the moon sigil carved into the marble floor. A symbol of power… and judgment.

“Bring in the accused,” a voice announced from somewhere above, echoing like thunder.

Accused. Not Luna. Not even
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  • HIS REJECTION, ANOTHER'S CLAIM,MY TWINS,MY POWER   CHAPTER 147

    The One Who BetraysThe camp had not slept.Not truly.Even as the wounded were tended and the fires burned low against the cold night air, there was a tension that refused to dissolve. It lingered in every glance, every silence, every breath taken too carefully. The shadows beyond the treeline no longer advanced, but their presence had not vanished either—it remained, watching like something that had learned patience.Elena stood apart from the others, near the edge of the firelight where warmth barely reached her skin. The twins slept nearby, exhausted from the strain of the past battles, their powers finally quiet but never truly absent. Damien remained seated a short distance away, his posture rigid, his gaze occasionally drifting toward her as if he was afraid she might disappear if he looked away too long. Zephyr kept to the opposite side, his shadows subdued but restless, like something in him no longer knew how to settle.And between them all—A fracture remained.Not visib

  • HIS REJECTION, ANOTHER'S CLAIM,MY TWINS,MY POWER   CHAPTER 146

    The Mate Bond CracksThe presence at the edge of the forest did not advance further, but it did not retreat either, and that alone was enough to keep every nerve in Elena’s body taut with tension. The camp remained frozen in a fragile stillness, as though one wrong movement would shatter the thin line between survival and destruction. Elena stood at the center of it all, her attention divided between the looming darkness and the twins whose power still flickered in uneven pulses. Damien remained close at her side, his presence quieter than it once was, yet steady, while Zephyr lingered just behind, his shadows restless and sharp despite his injury. And yet, in the midst of all that pressure, something else shifted—something far more subtle, far more dangerous.It started as a whisper.Not a sound, but a sensation.A thread inside her chest pulling… loosening… slipping.Elena’s breath caught as her hand instinctively pressed against her sternum, her fingers curling slightly as if she

  • HIS REJECTION, ANOTHER'S CLAIM,MY TWINS,MY POWER   CHAPTER 145

    The Crown RefusedThe shadows did not attack.They stopped.Just beyond the broken line of trees, where the battlefield ended and the unknown began, they lingered—watching, measuring, waiting. The air remained thick, heavy with a presence that pressed against every instinct Elena had, yet no strike followed, no immediate violence came.It was worse than an attack.It was restraint.Elena did not move, her arms tightening instinctively around the twins as their power flickered uneasily beneath her touch. Damien stood at her side, his presence quieter than it once was, but still solid, still unyielding, even as the strain showed in every breath he took. Zephyr shifted slightly on her other side, his shadows weak but restless, reacting to the presence like a warning they could not silence.“They’re not here to fight,” Zephyr said under his breath.“No,” Elena replied softly.“They’re here to see.”The realization settled cold in her chest.The Council had retreated.But something else ha

  • HIS REJECTION, ANOTHER'S CLAIM,MY TWINS,MY POWER   CHAPTER 144

    The End of the CouncilThe strike never landed the way the shadow intended.Because the twins did not break.They adapted.At the exact moment the darkness surged forward to consume them, the golden and silver light did not resist—it shifted. Their powers twisted together, no longer separate forces clashing for dominance, but something unified, something instinctive, something born not from fear—but from decision.Elena felt it.The change.Not hers.Theirs.The twins stepped forward as one, their small hands lifting in perfect synchronization as their energy flared outward in a blinding wave that did not push the shadow back—but cut through it.The battlefield split with light.A sharp, violent rupture tore through the darkness, forcing the shadow to recoil for the first time, its form distorting, unraveling at the edges like something that could no longer hold itself together.A sound followed.Not a roar.Not a scream.Something deeper.Something that carried anger.And then—It with

  • HIS REJECTION, ANOTHER'S CLAIM,MY TWINS,MY POWER   CHAPTER 143

    The Twins Decide The battlefield was littered with shattered trees, scorched earth, and the echoes of battle still ringing in the night. The twins moved with synchronized precision, their powers resonating in a golden-silver pulse that seemed to bind the chaos around them. One twin knelt beside Damien, placing hands over the deepest gash in his side, energy flowing from their touch, knitting muscle and skin together. Damien gasped and clutched at the wound, but his eyes never left Elena’s, a mix of pain, pride, and unspoken gratitude flickering in their depths. Even as he stabilized, a tension lingered, the shadows around them shifting with a predator’s patience.The other twin hovered above Zephyr, who lay battered and half-conscious, his wolf growls quieted by exhaustion. Silver light poured from the child’s hands, curling around Zephyr’s wounds, pulling him back from the brink faster than anyone had thought possible. Zephyr blinked, strength returning in flickering pulses,

  • HIS REJECTION, ANOTHER'S CLAIM,MY TWINS,MY POWER   CHAPTER 142

    The Shadow’s WoundThe silence did not last.It shattered.The moment Elena turned, the presence behind her did not reveal itself fully, but the pressure of it collapsed the fragile stillness like glass breaking under weight. The battlefield, already fractured by war and power, seemed to recoil as if something unseen had stepped into it without permission.Elena’s breath caught.Not from fear.From recognition.This was not the hunter.This was something else.Something older.Something that did not need to show itself to be felt.The shadow stretched longer across the ground, bending unnaturally as if the light itself refused to touch it. The twins stiffened in her arms, their small bodies going rigid, their earlier cries replaced by a terrifying, absolute silence.Behind her, Damien stirred weakly.“Elena…” His voice was barely a whisper, but there was urgency in it now.She didn’t answer.She couldn’t.Because the shadow moved.Not forward.Not backward.It shifted, like a living thin

  • HIS REJECTION, ANOTHER'S CLAIM,MY TWINS,MY POWER   CHAPTER 100

    The Alpha’s ArrivalThe forest was a dark, twisted maze of shadows and whispers. My breath came in ragged gasps as I pushed through the underbrush, the weight of the twins pressing against my chest like a leaden burden. Every step felt heavier, not just because of the growing life inside me, but b

  • HIS REJECTION, ANOTHER'S CLAIM,MY TWINS,MY POWER   CHAPTER 99

    Blood in the ForestThe night was too still.Even the usual rustle of the forest seemed to hold its breath, as if warning of the storm to come. The Moonborn camp lay nestled in the dense woodland, flickering torchlight dancing against the towering trees. Rogues, outcasts, and misfits had gathered

  • HIS REJECTION, ANOTHER'S CLAIM,MY TWINS,MY POWER   CHAPTER 98

    A Forbidden CeremonyThe moon did not rise gently that night.It climbed the sky like a burning eye, swollen and silver, watching the forest with ancient judgment.Elena stood at the center of the clearing, her twins sleeping against her chest, wrapped in enchanted furs. The air felt heavier than u

  • HIS REJECTION, ANOTHER'S CLAIM,MY TWINS,MY POWER   CHAPTER 97

    Council SpiesThe forest never truly slept.Even at dawn, when mist curled between the trees and the Moonborn camp stirred with cautious life, I felt eyes on me. Not the familiar watchfulness of my people. Not the quiet presence of Zephyr lurking at the edge of our borders.These eyes were cold. Ca

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