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Rejected But Elevated Chapter 103
Chapter 103Cassie's POV"What do we do first," I said.Sorin looked at me for a moment before he answered. Like he was measuring how much I could hold right now and deciding to give me all of it anyway, because he knew I'd want that more than he'd want to protect me from it."We are stabilizing him tonight," he said. "His body has been working too hard for too long. Whatever reserves he had, he burned through today." He moved back to bed and looked at Lark with that careful clinical attention. "He needs rest. Proper rest. Not the kind he's been allowing himself.""And after tonight?""We manage it carefully." He pulled his hands together slowly. "There are herbs. Treatments. Things that won't reverse what's happening but will give his body more time to work with." He paused. "How much time depends on how well he cooperates."I almost laughed at that. Lark cooperated after being told to slow down.Lark accepted accepting that his body had limits he couldn't push past by sheer will! Mo
Rejected But Elevated Chapter 102
Cassie's POVThe female omegas were gathered in the east hall when I found them.Seven of them, ranging from the youngest, who couldn't have been more than fifteen, to Mrs Mina, who had been managing pack domestic affairs longer than I'd been alive.I'd called the meeting myself that morning. Winter is fast approaching, so we needed to prepare for it.Store inventory, resource allocation—it was a kind of work that didn't stop because everything else was falling apart.I stood at the head of the table. “Famine is approaching,” I paused. Their mouths dropped like I delivered bad news.Technically, famine is bad news, but it's something that can be avoided and that was the reason for this meeting.How to avoid famine."The grain stores need to last us through to late spring at minimum," I said. "Which means we cut the current weekly distribution by one-third starting next week."Mina looked up from her notes. "The younger omegas won't like that.""The younger omegas will like starving in
Rejected But Elevated Chapter 101
Lark's POVFor the umpteenth time, I tossed round the bed, the duvet was already off my skin.The birds hums chirped, destroying all my hope of sleeping.It was a new day.I didn't sleep well.I had lay there long after Cassie's breathing evened out, staring at the ceiling, turning everything Mark had said over in my mind. The border. The stores. The cold season creeping in while we bled resources we didn't have.It wasn't just the pack crisis keeping me awake though.It was the way Cassie had looked at me when I came back from the meeting. That quiet steady look she gave things she was trying to figure out. She hadn't said anything. Neither had I. We'd just existed in the same room carrying our separate weights and pretending the other one couldn't feel it.That was new for us. That distance.I didn't like it.By the time grey light started coming through the curtains I'd already made up my mind. I sat up carefully and swung my legs over the side of the bed. My right hand started alm
Rejected But Elevated Chapter 100
Lark's POVMy hand was shaking when I woke up.Not violently. Just enough to be noticed when I reached for the water jug on the bedside table and I had to use both hands to keep it steady. I set it down carefully and sat on the edge of the bed for a moment in the grey morning light, willing it to stop.It stopped eventually.It always stopped eventually. That was the part I held onto. It always passed. The shaking, the dizziness, the pressure that gathered behind my eyes some mornings was like something pushing from the inside out. It came, and it went, and I functioned in between and nobody had to know.Cassie was still sleeping. I watched her for a moment before I stood up. She looked younger when she slept. She'd been watching me since we left Vale Pack. I knew she had. I could feel it, those small sideways glances she thought I didn't catch. .I got dressed quietly and left before she woke up.Mark found me in the courtyard before I'd even had a chance to settle back into the
Rejected But Elevated Chapter 99
Cassie's POVWe left Vale Pack just after sunrise.Jamie stood at the gates to see us off. He looked better than he had when we arrived. Still not fully himself, but the fog was gone from his eyes. He stood straight for the first time since we'd gotten there.He looked at me for a long moment before I mounted the horse.There was so much sitting in that appearance. Years of it. Things that probably deserved to be said out loud and never would be.A lot is better left unsaid."Thank you," he said finally."Take care of yourself," I told him.That was all.I took the reins, steadying myself. A gentle squeeze of my legs set it moving.I didn't look back.The ride home was quiet.Lark set the pace. Steady and unhurried, moving through the tree line where the morning light came through in broken pieces. I rode beside him without talking. I didn't have much to say, and he seemed to feel the same way.I was too busy watching him when he wasn't looking.It started with his hand. The one hold
Rejected But Elevated Chapter 98
Cassie's POVI didn't sit.Neither did she, after a moment. She had realized that sitting across from me like two people having tea wasn't going to work. She stood by the window instead, arms loose at her sides, looking out at the Vale Pack grounds like she owned them.Maybe she thought she did.I stayed near the door.Not blocking it. Just close enough that I knew exactly how many steps it would take to reach it if I needed to move fast. Old habit. The kind you develop when you've had to run before.The silence stretched.I wasn't going to fill it. That was her job. She called this meeting.She turned from the window eventually. Looked at me the way you look at something you've been thinking about for a long time and are finally seeing up close."You look like her," she said. "Our mother. Around the eyes."Our mother? What on heck is she trying to do? I said nothing. She smiled slightly. Like my silence was the answer she expected. "You didn't know her long enough to remember t
Rejected But Elevated Chapter 37
The first the wind spoke, Cassie was harvesting late plums in the orchard, shaking her hands.It wasn't the wind that startled her but the song. Light at first, as the buzzing of bees among the branches. Then layered, as a chorus of a dozen voices singing through the leaves in a strange language.
Rejected But Elevated Chapter 36
The cottage was far down in the lost hollows of the Greyer lands, a solitary figure set among mist and pine. Within, firelight warmed rough stone walls and weathered wood beams, casting golden halos upon everything—save the woman in the rocking chair, holding a child to her breast.Daisy hummed a s
Rejected But Elevated Chapter 35
Cassie stood at the woods' edge, shivering as the cold winter wind wrapped around her cloak. Her fingers clasped the twisted trunk of a tree, holding her, standing her up as the pine and earth-swaddled snow smell rolled around her. Greyer Pack lands. Lands she had sworn to herself she would never s
Rejected But Elevated Chapter 34
The snow started falling once more.It crept in slow whirls from a bruised sky, wrapping the woods in a hush of silk. The woods that surrounded Cassie's ramshackle hut had apparently gone to sleep. The birds too had fallen silent, as if they were conscious of something which would burst the tenuous
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