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Chapter 10: Lukas

작가: Katherine Jaynara
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I sat motionless upon the ancient throne, carved from the heartwood of the first tree that grew in these lands, if the legends were to be believed. My back never touched its support—a king does not rest during judgment. Below me, the throne room hummed with the barely restrained excitement of the assembled crowd: nobles, warriors, and visiting dignitaries who had arrived early for this evening's ball, drawn by the promise of blood and justice dispensed by their Alpha King's hand. Their hunger f
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  • Rejected By The Beta, Claimed By The Alpha King   Challenging the Alpha Queen #62 - Lukas

    I was halfway through pulling my shirt on when the sound of breaking glass jerked my head up. One moment of stillness, enough to confirm the direction, then I was moving, abandoning my half-dressed state to sprint toward the bathroom. My heart hammered against my ribs, Ares already pushing forward with predatory focus. ‘Mate,’ he growled within me. ‘Danger.’The bathroom door stood ajar, steam still curling into the bedroom from the hot shower. I pushed it open with more force than necessary, scanning for threats before my eyes found Amelia. She stood with her back against the wall, a towel clutched around her, water dripping from her copper hair onto bare shoulders. Her eyes were wide, fixed on her reflection as if it had betrayed her. Shattered glass littered the floor at her feet, the remnants of what had been a water glass.“Amelia?” I kept my voice deliberately soft despite the panic clawing at my throat. “What happened?”She turned at the sound of my voice, somethi

  • Rejected By The Beta, Claimed By The Alpha King   Challenging the Alpha Queen #61 - Amelia

    I jolted awake with my heart hammering against my ribs, a scream trapped in my throat. Sweat plastered my hair to my forehead, the sheets tangled around my legs like restraints. For several disorienting moments, I couldn’t remember where I was or what had woken me, only that something had terrified me so badly my body refused to calm down.The other side of the bed was empty, sheets cool beneath my searching hand. Morning light streamed through the windows, painting our bedroom in soft gold. I dragged myself upright, my muscles aching with a fatigue that sleep hadn’t touched. The balcony doors stood open, sheer curtains billowing in the breeze, and beyond them, I could make out Lukas’s silhouette, broad shoulders outlined against the dawn sky, his stance rigid with tension.I must have made some sound, a gasp or a whimper, because his head snapped around immediately. In the space between heartbeats, he was inside, crossing the room with swift strides, ice-blue eyes scanning

  • Rejected By The Beta, Claimed By The Alpha King   Challenging the Alpha Queen #60 - Amelia

    I clawed my way back to consciousness through layers of dense fog. Each thought felt sticky, difficult to grasp, like trying to catch smoke with bare hands. My mouth tasted like metal and ashes, my tongue heavy and uncooperative. Light pressed against my closed eyelids, too bright, too insistent. Somewhere nearby, a machine beeped in steady rhythm, matching the throbbing in my temples. Athena stirred within me, a low, furious growl rumbling through our shared consciousness. ‘Drugged,’ she snarled, copper fur bristling with indignation. ‘Someone drugged us.’Memory returned in disjointed flashes; the blood moon celebration, the toast, the wine that tasted wrong. Then nothing but fragmented images: a meadow that opened before me, a voice speaking of destiny, cold liquid silver climbing my legs...I tried to lift my hand to rub my face, to wipe away the cobwebs clinging to my thoughts. My arm jerked to a stop, metal biting into my wrist. My eyes snapped open, blinking against h

  • Rejected By The Beta, Claimed By The Alpha King   Challenging the Alpha Queen #59 - Lukas

    I counted her breaths like prayers; each rise and fall of her chest a small mercy granted by whatever gods might be listening. An hour had passed since Elara had left to test the wine, and still Amelia lay unmoving, her copper hair spread across the white pillow like spilled blood.I held her hand between mine, her skin cooler than it should have been, her fingers limp and unresponsive. The IV dripped steadily beside the bed, clear fluid flowing into her veins that would hopefully flush whatever poison they’d given her from her system. Ares paced within me, a caged predator unable to fight the invisible enemy threatening our mate.“Come back to me,” I whispered, brushing my thumb across her knuckles. “Whatever battle you’re fighting in there, win it. Come back.”I reached through our bond for the hundredth time, searching for Athena’s copper warmth, for any sign that my mate was fighting her way back to consciousness. The connection felt muted, distant, like trying to se

  • Rejected By The Beta, Claimed By The Alpha King   Challenging the Alpha Queen #58 - Amelia

    I floated in darkness, consciousness slipping away like water through cupped hands. The celebration, the toast, Lukas’s concerned face; all faded into a swirling void of nothingness. Then, slowly, light began to filter through. Not the warm glow of palace lanterns, but a strange, silvery illumination that seemed to come from everywhere and nowhere at once. I tried to remember how I’d gotten here, but my thoughts scattered like startled birds whenever I reached for them.My feet touched ground that hadn’t been there a moment before, soft, yielding earth beneath bare toes. When had I lost my shoes? The crimson dress still clung to my skin, but the fabric rippled like liquid, responding to winds I couldn’t feel.Before me stretched a meadow of impossibly tall grass, silver-tipped and swaying in perfect rhythm, like dancers following music only they could hear. There was no path, and yet as I took a hesitant step forward, the grasses parted, creating a walkway that hadn’t existe

  • Rejected By The Beta, Claimed By The Alpha King   Challenging the Alpha Queen #57 - Lukas

    For one treacherous moment, I allowed myself to relax. The toast had gone well, the crowd returning to their revelries with renewed enthusiasm. Amelia stood beside me, a vision in crimson, the blood moon forming a halo behind her copper hair. I even permitted myself a second sip of wine, savouring its rich sweetness as I scanned the courtyard. No threats. No signs of the Voice or their agents. Perhaps we had overestimated the danger of this night.“Lukas,” Amelia murmured, her brow furrowing as she stared into her goblet. “My wine tastes... odd.”I froze mid-sip, lowering my own glass. “Odd how?”“Bitter underneath. Like...” She frowned, taking another tentative taste. “Something metallic?”I reached for her glass, bringing it to my nose. The sweet aroma of blackberry and oak hit me first, but beneath it lurked something else, sharp, astringent, chemical. My blood turned to ice.“Don’t drink any more,” I ordered, but her eyes had already glazed over, pupils dilat

  • Rejected By The Beta, Claimed By The Alpha King   Challenging the Alpha Queen #30: Amelia

    I had barely reached the palace's ground floor when I heard the whispers. Two guards, heads bent together, voices hushed but not enough: "the King shifted right in the courtyard—tore off running into the forest like hellhounds were after him." The second guard nodded. "Five of the royal guard fol

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  • Rejected By The Beta, Claimed By The Alpha King   Challenging the Alpha Queen #22: Amelia

    I woke at 4am, my eyes snapping open in the darkness as if Athena had flipped a switch inside me. The wolfsbane's burn had receded to a dull throb, no longer spreading fire through my veins but leaving its bitter memory etched in every muscle. Beside me, Lukas slept fitfully, his face troubled ev

    last update최신 업데이트 : 2026-04-04

  • Rejected By The Beta, Claimed By The Alpha King   Challenging the Alpha Queen #25: Amelia

    I lowered myself onto my throne with deliberate grace, refusing to show even a hint of the fatigue that still lingered in my bones. The wolfsbane's poison might not have killed me, but its ghost remained, a dull ache that Athena's accelerated healing hadn't fully conquered. She stirred within me,

    last update최신 업데이트 : 2026-04-04

  • Rejected By The Beta, Claimed By The Alpha King   Challenging the Alpha Queen #26: Lukas

    I watched Amelia rise from her throne with regal grace, her spine straight, her chin lifted in that way that still took my breath away after all these months. There was nothing of the servant girl left in her now—only the Queen, the Alpha female, the mate who had fought through poison and treache

    last update최신 업데이트 : 2026-04-04
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