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Chapter 52
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Rejected by the Alpha Hockey Captain And Then Claimed By His Chapter 55
Rosalie's POVI hadn't planned to tell him that night. I hadn't planned to tell him at all, if I was being honest with myself the version of the story I'd given him weeks ago, back at the cabin, had felt sufficient at the time, complete enough to explain the broad shape of what happened without requiring me to relive every specific, humiliating detail out loud.But we were lying in the dark, the fire long since burned down to embers, and Elias had asked, quietly, whether I ever thought about that night anymore, and something about the particular gentleness of the question no pressure in it, no expectation, simply an open door I could walk through or leave closed exactly as I chose made me realize I was tired of carrying the edited version alone."I think about it more than I let on," I admitted, staring up at the dark ceiling rather than at him, finding it easier somehow to speak into the darkness than to his face. "I've given you the summary. The broad strokes. But I don't think I
Rejected by the Alpha Hockey Captain And Then Claimed By His Chapter 54
Rosalie's POVThe weeks that followed the game, the archive discoveries, the elders' unsettling inquiry, settled into something I hadn't expected to find inside these walls at all: quiet.Not the hollow, waiting quiet of those first days at the cabin, when every silence between us had carried the weight of things neither of us was ready to say. Something gentler. Ordinary, almost, in a way that felt strange to name given everything still hanging unresolved around us Magnus's silence about the bloodline, Easton's unraveling, Brenda's careful maneuvering through the elders. But underneath all of that, something small and steady had taken root in our own quarters, and I found myself, more days than not, simply living inside it rather than bracing against whatever crisis might arrive next.It started, I think, with the chores.Neither of us discussed it directly. There was no formal conversation about who would handle what, no negotiation over responsibilities the way I imagined other ne
Rejected by the Alpha Hockey Captain And Then Claimed By His Chapter 53
Elias's POVThe arena was packed tighter than I'd seen it since my own childhood, banners hanging from every rafter, the particular electric hum of a crowd that understood exactly how much was riding on tonight beyond the simple matter of two points in the standings. Cameras lined the boards in numbers I hadn't expected, broadcast crews from three different territories jockeying for position near center ice, and somewhere above the noise I caught snatches of commentary drifting down from the press box speculation about the coronation, about the Avalanche's new roster addition, about whether the exiled prince's return would prove to be exactly the story everyone hoped it would be.I'd told myself, lacing my skates in the visitors' locker room an hour earlier, that I wouldn't let the noise touch me. Six years of border discipline had taught me how to compartmentalize far worse chaos than a hockey crowd, however loud, however invested in turning tonight into spectacle rather than simple
Rejected by the Alpha Hockey Captain And Then Claimed By His Chapter 52
Elias's POVI told Rosalie everything that evening, exactly as I'd promised her in the corridor Herron, the suppression theory, the fragmented account of a bloodline connected to violent, delayed manifestations. She listened without interrupting, her expression carefully composed even as I watched the implications settle into her, and when I finished, she simply nodded and asked me to keep digging, to bring her whatever I found next instead of carrying it alone.I went back to the archive room three days later, restless with the promise still fresh, determined to find something more concrete than an old man's careful theories and half remembered fragments.The genealogical section sat in the same neglected corner I remembered, shelves thick with the particular dust that accumulates only in places nobody bothers visiting anymore. I worked methodically, cross referencing Herron's vague description of the bloodline against whatever maternal lineage records the archive still preserved, h
Rejected by the Alpha Hockey Captain And Then Claimed By His Chapter 51
Rosalie's POVThe second summons came a week after the first, this time extended to Elias as well, and I took what small comfort I could from not having to walk into that chamber alone again.The room had transformed since my last visit. What had been a bare table with three elders and a stack of clinical notes was now buried under an entire archive's worth of material, cracked leather ledgers stacked in uneven towers, loose parchment spread across every available surface, ink-stained fingers belonging to a fourth elder I hadn't seen during my first interrogation, bent low over a passage he was cross-referencing against something in a considerably newer file."Sit, please," the woman from before said, gesturing toward two chairs positioned closer together than my previous solitary seat had been, though still carefully separated from the table itself, the physical distance a small but unmistakable statement about whose side of this conversation we occupied.I settled beside Elias, clos
Rejected by the Alpha Hockey Captain And Then Claimed By His Chapter 50
Rosalie's POVThe summons arrived three days after the awakening, delivered by a stone-faced messenger who gave no indication whether I was in trouble or simply being consulted, and I spent the entire walk to the council chamber turning that uncertainty over like a stone in my palm, unable to smooth its edges into anything reassuring.Three elders waited inside, none of whom I recognized from the earlier hall gathering, older, formal, seated behind a table arranged with the same clinical precision I remembered from every dreaded appointment with healers as a child, the kind of arrangement designed to make the person on the other side of it feel smaller before a single word got spoken."Please, sit," the woman in the center said, her voice pleasant enough on the surface, though something clinical underlay it that set my nerves on edge immediately. "We won't take much of your time. We simply have a few questions about the incident three nights ago.""The incident," I repeated carefully,
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