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Chapter Nine: The Cost of Wearing a Crown
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Rejected Luna, Claimed by the Alpha Who Regretted Chapter Fifteen: Declared Gone
They erased her name before sunrise.The decree spread through the Silver Fang Pack like smoke, quiet but suffocating, carried by messengers who did not meet anyone’s eyes. Elara of no pack. Elara has no claim. Elara, declared rogue.Kael heard it without reacting.He stood at the edge of the council ring, hands clasped behind his back, face carved into calm. The words slid over him, sharp and cold, and he let them pass. That was leadership, he told himself. Absorb the blow. Do not flinch.“She abandoned pack law,” an elder said. “Crossed forbidden boundaries. Refused summons.”“She endangered us,” another added. “The child, especially.”Kael lifted his gaze. “The child is not ours to endanger.”Murmurs rippled. Approval from some. Discomfort from others.“So you agree,” his uncle pressed smoothly. “She is a rogue.”Kael held the silence long enough to remind them who stood where. “Yes.”The word settled, heavy and final.Somewhere deep inside him, something tore again. Not the bond.
Rejected Luna, Claimed by the Alpha Who Regretted Chapter Fourteen: The Silence He Chose to Keep
The silence hit Kael harder than the pain ever did.It arrived without warning, hollow and complete, like the world had stepped back and taken something with it. He stood alone at the edge of the broken boundary, chest rising too fast, fingers curled tight as if they could still grab what was gone.The bond did not scream anymore.It did nothing.Kael straightened slowly, ignoring the looks from his beta and the warriors gathered behind him. No one spoke. No one dared. They felt it too, even if they could not name it.“She crossed,” someone whispered.Kael said nothing.The urge to run after her burned sharp and wild, a command screaming from somewhere deep and old. His body leaned forward before his mind caught up.Stop.He forced himself to stay still.If he chased her now, he would admit too much. To his pack. To the watching lands. To himself.“She made her choice,” Kael said finally, his voice steady enough to convince anyone listening. “We don’t pursue.”His beta stared at him.
Rejected Luna, Claimed by the Alpha Who Regretted Chapter Thirteen: Where the Bond Broke Its Teeth
Pain struck before the ground ended.Elara staggered as if the world had slammed into her chest, her breath tearing out in a sharp, helpless gasp. Her knee hit a stone. Her hand scraped rock. The scream stayed trapped in her throat, vibrating instead through bone and blood.The bond had found the boundary.Mira cried out, clutching Elara’s arm as the air itself seemed to shatter. “Mama!”Elara forced herself upright, every nerve burning like it had been flayed open. The invisible line between pack lands pulsed beneath her feet, ancient and unforgiving.She had crossed it.The bond did not forgive that.It screamed.Not sound. Not voice. Pure sensation. A tearing, wrenching force that pulled backward while her body moved forward, as if something inside her refused to let go.Elara bit down hard, tasting blood. She would not fall. Not here. Not now.“Breathe,” she told herself. “Just breathe.”Mira pressed against her side, shaking. Elara wrapped an arm around her without looking, groun
Rejected Luna, Claimed by the Alpha Who Regretted Chapter Twelve: Before the Sky Learned Her Name
Elara packed nothing that would slow her down.She moved through the dim hall while Frostveil slept uneasily, the stone floors cold under her bare feet. The lamps were low, shadows stretching long and thin, like they were trying to hold her back. She ignored them.Dawn had not broken yet. That was the point.She stopped once, only once, to listen.No alarms. No horns. Just the quiet hum of the land, alert but not panicked. Frostveil had survived the night. That meant she could leave without blood following her steps.Mira slept curled on the narrow bed, dark lashes resting against her cheeks. Elara knelt beside her and brushed a hand through her hair.“We’re going,” she whispered.Mira stirred, as if she had been waiting for the words.“Now?” she murmured.“Yes.”Mira sat up without complaint. No questions. No fear. She wrapped her arms around Elara’s neck, small and warm and solid.“You’re quiet,” Mira said sleepily.Elara swallowed. “So are you.”Mira nodded. “Quiet means we don’t g
Rejected Luna, Claimed by the Alpha Who Regretted Chapter Eleven: The Choice He Never Denied
Kael said it without raising his voice.“I chose power.”The words landed harder than any shouted confession ever could.Elara stopped walking.They were alone on the narrow path above Frostveil, the one that curved away from the watchtowers and sank into quiet stone and wind. Mira had been taken inside by Rowan moments earlier, the child sensing tension before anyone asked her to leave.Elara turned slowly.“Say it again,” she said.Kael faced her fully now. No armor. No banner. No audience to perform for.“I chose power,” he repeated. “Not love. Not you.”There it was.Clean. Undeniable.Elara felt something settle inside her chest. Not pain. Not shocked. A strange, steady clarity.“So I wasn’t imagining it,” she said softly. “All those years of being ignored. Of standing beside you while you looked through me.”Kael swallowed. “No. You weren’t.”The bond stirred between them, restless, aching. It did not argue. It remembered.Elara let out a slow breath. “You know what hurts most?”
Rejected Luna, Claimed by the Alpha Who Regretted Chapter Ten: What the Bond Cost
Elara did not wait for permission.She stepped into Kael’s command tent as if it had once belonged to her, because in some ways, it had. Guards stiffened, hands half-raised, then froze when Kael lifted a single finger.“Leave us.”They hesitated.“Now.”The tent cleared quickly. Canvas settled. The space felt smaller with just the two of them, thick with things unsaid.Kael did not turn at first. He stood over a rough map spread across the table, hands braced against the wood, shoulders rigid.“You rode in with banners,” Elara said calmly. “That sends a message.”“It was meant to,” Kael replied. His voice stayed controlled. Too controlled.Elara took another step closer. “To whom?”“To every pack watching,” he said. “Including the ones who want what you’re protecting.”She laughed softly. Not amused. “You don’t get to frame this as strategy after years of silence.”Kael finally turned.The bond flared instantly. Not pain this time. Recognition. Heat. A pull that made the air feel tigh
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