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His Rejected Plus-Sized Secret Heir Chapter Seventy-eight
CamilaThe council's reaction reached me within the hour, carried by a maid too eager to share gossip to notice how carefully I schooled my expression while she spoke."They say Elder Renwick nearly shouted at the King, my Lady. Something about the bloodline never being diluted this way before.""And the King's response?""He silenced the entire room, my Lady. Told them he'd remember who supported him and who didn't."I dismissed her and sat alone with the news, feeling something crack open inside me that I had spent months carefully sealing shut.An heir. Elma would give him an heir, and the council, however outraged it pretended to be, would eventually fold beneath the weight of a King's determination the way councils always did, because power respected only itself in the end, and Xander had more of it than any of them combined.I summoned Derrick immediately, unwilling to wait through the passage's usual careful timing."You've heard," I said the moment he arrived."I've heard.""T
His Rejected Plus-Sized Secret Heir Chapter Seventy-seven
XanderThe council chamber had gone quiet in the particular way that told me the news had already traveled ahead of my arrival, the elders seated with their hands folded and their expressions arranged into the careful neutrality of men waiting to see which way the wind would blow before committing themselves to a position."Your Majesty." Elder Wraithe rose first, as he always did, his bow shallow and precise. "We've heard rumors this morning that require your immediate attention.""Say them plainly.""They say Lady Elma is with child."I had known this moment would arrive eventually, had spent the better part of two days preparing myself for it, and still the sound of it spoken aloud in this chamber, stripped of any warmth or context, landed harder than I expected."The rumor is true."The room erupted before I had finished the sentence, voices rising over one another, some outraged, some merely alarmed, a few, I noted, carefully silent, watching the chaos unfold without adding to it
His Rejected Plus-Sized Secret Heir Chapter Seventy-six
CamilaThe rumor reached me through my own maid before it reached the wider court, whispered nervously as she helped arrange my hair, her hands trembling slightly against the pins."My Lady, I don't know if it's true, but the kitchen staff are saying Lady Elma has been asking for different meals lately. Simpler things. Things that don't turn her stomach."I kept my expression perfectly still in the mirror. "Turn her stomach how?""They say she's been ill in the mornings. Only briefly, and she recovers quickly, but it's happened more than once."Something cold slid down through my chest, settling low and heavy where fear always seemed to gather first before my mind had fully caught up to name it."That will be all," I said, and she left quickly, sensing the shift in my mood before I had even fully allowed myself to feel it.I sat alone at my dressing table for a long while afterward, staring at my own reflection, turning the pieces over with the same careful precision I applied to ever
His Rejected Plus-Sized Secret Heir Chapter Seventy-five
XanderI did not sleep that night, though not for the reasons that usually kept sleep from me. I lay awake beside Elma long after her breathing had evened into something peaceful, staring at the ceiling and turning the same impossible fact over and over until it began to feel almost real.A child. My child. Growing inside the woman I had once dragged here in chains, certain she had murdered my own blood.I rose before dawn and found Marcus already awake in the corridor, as he so often seemed to be, as though he had simply stopped sleeping the same year I had."My King. You look like a man who hasn't slept.""I haven't.""Trouble?""Not the kind you're imagining." I hesitated, weighing how much to share even with him, though I knew the news would need careful handling regardless of when it finally reached the wider court. "Elma is carrying my child."Marcus's expression shifted through several things in quick succession, surprise, something that looked almost like joy, and then, immedi
His Rejected Plus-Sized Secret Heir Chapter Seventy-four
ElmaI carried the secret for three days before it began to feel less like something I owned and more like something that owned me, pressing outward from beneath my ribs every time Xander looked at me a moment too long, every time he asked why I'd left my food untouched or noticed the particular pallor that came and went across my face without warning."You're hiding something," he said on the third evening, setting down his cup with the deliberate care of a man choosing not to raise his voice. "I've watched you hide things before, Elma. I know what it looks like now.""I'm not hiding anything.""You flinched when the kitchen brought up the stew tonight. You've flinched at that same dish three times this week.""I don't care for the spices they've been using lately.""Elma."I set down my own cup, unable to hold the lie steady any longer under the particular weight of his patience, the way he simply waited, unwilling to press further but equally unwilling to let the subject drop entir
His Rejected Plus-Sized Secret Heir Chapter Seventy-three
Elma"You're carrying a child," the healer said. "Perhaps two months along, by my estimate, though I'll want to confirm that further as the weeks pass."The words landed somewhere far away from me, as though they belonged to someone else's conversation entirely, someone else's body, someone else's terrifying, impossible new truth."That isn't possible," I said, though even as the words left me, I already knew how foolish they sounded."It's entirely possible, Lady Elma. And by every measure I can find, it's already happening."I pressed both hands against my stomach, feeling nothing different beneath my palms, no proof at all beyond his careful, certain words, and yet something in me believed him instantly and completely, the way I had believed the ache in my ribs before the bruises even fully bloomed."Does anyone else know?""No one. I wouldn't share this without your permission, not even with the King."Something in my chest loosened slightly at that, gratitude threading through th
His Rejected Plus-Sized Secret Heir Chapter Four
Elma"Treason!""Stone her!""Tear her apart!"My head throbbed with a blinding pain. I blinked, my vision swimming as the blurry shapes around me sharpened into terrifying focus. I was lying on the floor of a steel cage."What... what am I doing here?" "Please.""She's finally awake," a deep, c
His Rejected Plus-Sized Secret Heir Chapter Three
ElmaThe rough bark of the boundary tree scraped against my bare back as the two guards violently hurled me onto the wet, muddy ground."Stay on that side of the line, Elma," the taller one spat, tossing my torn shoes into the dirt beside my head. "If you cross back onto Silver Moon territory, we w
His Rejected Plus-Sized Secret Heir Chapter Two
Elma“Wait, Liam, what are you”The door slammed shut, cutting off my words.A mistake.Panic and a sickening wave of betrayal forced me into motion. I scrambled off the bed, my hands shaking so violently I could barely pull the torn fabric of my dress over my curves. I didn't bother with my shoes.
His Rejected Plus-Sized Secret Heir Chapter One
ElmaThe drums were vibrating right through the soles of my shoes.The Moon Festival was always beautiful, but tonight felt different. It was supposed to be a celebration. Tonight, the entire pack gathered to watch Liam take his rightful place as Alpha. For the first time in years, the harvest was
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