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88. ARIANA
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2025-06-02 13:50:57The dream was a nightmare. I woke up gasping, clutching my chest, the weight of it still pressing down like a phantom hand. My heart raced. Sweat clung to my temples as if I’d run through fire. I shut my eyes tightly, trying to wipe the images from my memory — but they refused to leave.
The scent of lavender and old blood. A smile that felt too familiar. A pair of warm hands tracing my waist. I had leaned into it. I smiled.
And when I turned to kiss him — it wasn’t Xavier.
It was Lucas.
My stomach twisted.
I forced myself to breathe, to focus on the present. Slowly, I opened my eyes. A soft light filled the tent, filtering through the thin canvas walls. The pain was dull now, like an old bruise just un
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His Rejected Mate 92. XAVIER
It started with laughter.Soft, gurgling laughter that danced around the corners of my mind like sunlight through lace curtains. A baby’s laughter — pure, wild, untouched by sorrow. I didn’t know whose it was at first. I only knew it made my heart lurch like it had found something it had lost long ago.And then, I saw her.Tiny feet pattering across a sun-drenched wooden floor. Golden strands of hair bouncing as she ran, her chubby arms outstretched toward someone behind me. Her giggles echoed through what looked like a kitchen — white walls, plants by the window, a basket of fresh herbs on the counter.“Aurora,” I breathed.I didn’t remember stepping forward, but suddenly I was kneeling. Her little arms threw themselves around my neck and she squealed, “Dada!” like it was the most natural thing in the world.I didn’t want to blink. I was terrified the dream would end if I did.Her tiny fingers pulled at the chain around my neck — the one Ariana had given me the night she told me she
His Rejected Mate 91. ARIANA
Hearing his sob broke something in me. Every breath I took pressed against my ribs like I was inhaling memories instead of air. Shane walked beside me in silence, her presence comforting, but I couldn’t look at her. I didn’t know how I managed to stay still until we crossed the prison and came back to the packhouse. Lucas had some Alpha duties and he left to attend them. We had just returned from the prison.From him.Xavier.I still couldn’t say his name without it splintering something inside me. Not because I hated him. But because I didn’t. Because I still loved him in ways I shouldn’t. And because when he looked at me with those guilt-ridden eyes and trembled at the word son, I felt the last few months of pain crawl up my throat and settle there, like thorns.I had thought I’d be fine. I’d told Lucas I was strong enough. That I deserved closure. That I had a right to confront the man who had shattered and saved me in the same breath. But I had barely lasted a few minutes in that
His Rejected Mate 90. LUCAS
I didn’t want her to come.She had barely woken up yesterday, still bruised and shaken. Her skin was paler than usual, her steps slow and uncertain. And yet, here she was — standing beside me with fire in her eyes, her jaw clenched in defiance as we approached the dungeon that held the very man who had nearly destroyed everything.Xavier.“You need rest, Ariana,” I said, for the fifth time since we left the infirmary. “You’re still healing. The doctor said—”“I’ve rested enough,” she cut in, her voice cold, final. “I need to see him.”She didn’t say his name. That stung more than I expected.&ldquo
His Rejected Mate 89. XAVIER
Three days.No light. No sound, except for the occasional clink of metal or the distant footsteps of a guard who never spoke. The cold stone pressed against my back like it was trying to fuse with my bones. I lost count of time when the first night blurred into the next — but someone had whispered it was day three.No one had come.Not Ariana. Not Lucas. Not even a pack warrior to spit in my direction.And yet… I understood. I’d torn into their world like a monster. I was a monster.The silence clawed at me — not the kind that soothed, but the kind that screamed everything I didn’t want to rememb
His Rejected Mate 88. ARIANA
The dream was a nightmare. I woke up gasping, clutching my chest, the weight of it still pressing down like a phantom hand. My heart raced. Sweat clung to my temples as if I’d run through fire. I shut my eyes tightly, trying to wipe the images from my memory — but they refused to leave.The scent of lavender and old blood. A smile that felt too familiar. A pair of warm hands tracing my waist. I had leaned into it. I smiled.And when I turned to kiss him — it wasn’t Xavier.It was Lucas.My stomach twisted.I forced myself to breathe, to focus on the present. Slowly, I opened my eyes. A soft light filled the tent, filtering through the thin canvas walls. The pain was dull now, like an old bruise just un
His Rejected Mate 87. LUCAS
It had been three days since Ariana collapsed.Three days of agony.Her body remained unconscious on the healer’s cot, tangled in sheets soaked with dried blood and dark poison. Her chest rose and fell — shallow, but steady. A thousand things could go wrong still. The doctor had warned me that her powers, unstable and still evolving, had begun to tear her apart. The shift into her true form — Sora — had pushed her beyond what any werewolf had ever survived. And yet… she lived.Barely.The battlefield was behind us, but the war within hadn’t ended. Not for her. Not for me.I stood outside her tent for hou
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