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104. LUCAS

Penulis: Raji
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It was strange, how silence could be heavier than anger.

I expected rage. From him. From myself. Expected the bitterness to rise like bile the moment our eyes met. But when I saw Xavier standing at the edge of the training yard, watching the horizon with that haunted expression I knew all too well — the only thing I felt was tired.

Tired of the past.

Tired of the guilt.

Tired of carrying around so many unfinished words.

I walked up to him slowly. No posturing. No Alpha energy. Just… me.

He didn’t move when I stopped beside him. Just gave me a glance, enough to show he knew I was there.

“Didn’t think you&r

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  • His Rejected Mate   104. LUCAS

    It was strange, how silence could be heavier than anger.I expected rage. From him. From myself. Expected the bitterness to rise like bile the moment our eyes met. But when I saw Xavier standing at the edge of the training yard, watching the horizon with that haunted expression I knew all too well — the only thing I felt was tired.Tired of the past.Tired of the guilt.Tired of carrying around so many unfinished words.I walked up to him slowly. No posturing. No Alpha energy. Just… me.He didn’t move when I stopped beside him. Just gave me a glance, enough to show he knew I was there.“Didn’t think you&r

  • His Rejected Mate   103. LUCAS

    There were nights when I couldn’t sleep. Nights when I’d lie awake staring at the ceiling, wondering if there was a version of this life where I didn’t mess up so catastrophically. Where I didn’t reject her. Where I didn’t ruin the one thing I had no right to want — Ariana.Tonight was one of those nights.The moonlight bled through the window and pooled over the floor, pale and cruel. I sat at the edge of the bed I never warmed, hands tangled in my hair, trying to shut off the thoughts that refused to leave me. But they clung like ghosts — every word, every moment, every look she had once given me, and the way it slowly stopped being mine.I should’ve been happy for her.That’s what I told myself.

  • His Rejected Mate   102. SHANE

    Sometimes we don’t care enough about others. People who have given up everything for us.But I’ve always known better. Some of the worst wounds aren’t the ones bleeding from our skin — they’re the ones buried beneath layers of silence.I saw Xavier sitting on the bench near the training yard where no one else would come. Not anymore. The same spot where we’d once sparred under sunlight. Where I had taught Ariana how to twist her wrists to avoid injury. The very place she had once whispered to me, wishing he was here.And now, months later, that same man sat hunched over — not as a vampire, not as a warrior, not even as a threat.Just as a man carrying more weight than his shoulders should have ever been asked to bear.

  • His Rejected Mate   101. XAVIER

    I stood in front of the council, in the court,my hands handcuffed in the front.I didn’t expect them to forgive me.Not truly.Forgiveness wasn’t something you could demand — it had to be earned, scraped together piece by piece, even if the hands that reached for it were stained with blood. I had those hands. I had that blood. No matter the intentions, no matter the fight I turned against Nerissa… the truth was undeniable.I had killed. I had led them. I had worn the crown of monsters.Now, I stood among the people I had once called family — people who flinched when they saw my face, who stiffened when I passed them, who lowered their eyes not out of respect, but revulsion.

  • His Rejected Mate   100. ARIANA

    I was just a mother today. Maybe even a wife. That was all I was. My children, me and my husband. Us. My family. The moment soaked in me that I forgot everything around me.The soft rustle of the blankets stirred beside me as I watched Ryan curled up against Xavier’s chest, his tiny fingers grasping the fabric of his shirt like he’d known him forever. And maybe, in a way, he had. Maybe, in those long nights when I would sing to my belly and whisper stories, Ryan had known Xavier’s name before his voice.Xavier sat still, almost too still, as though the slightest movement might wake the sleeping infant. But his eyes weren’t calm. They shimmered — bright with emotion, brimming with tears he wasn’t ready to shed.My fingers reached out instinctively, brushing through his messy hair.

  • His Rejected Mate   99. XAVIER

    The new space they’d moved me to wasn’t freedom. But it wasn’t a cell either.The air here didn’t stink of mildew and blood. It smelled like cedarwood and freshly laundered sheets. The sunlight filtered in through barred windows, and while the guards outside the room never left, they no longer looked at me like I was an animal waiting to snap. I had a mattress. A table. Books. Clean water. Warm food. It was more than I’d had in months.Still, the silence ached.Even when the wind brushed against the wooden walls, or the branches knocked gently against the windows, the silence inside me was louder. It was what I deserved. I had made peace with that. After everything — after the things I had done, the blood I had spilled, the lives I had ruined — this quiet was a mercy.

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