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Chapter 55

작가: Brandi Rae
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By midnight, Elara’s name had overtaken every major territorial feed. Not just because of Kael’s containment request. Because of Darius. More specifically, because of the clip.

Elara discovered that she was sitting in Nightfall’s upstairs lounge with a borrowed tablet balanced against her knees and a blanket pulled loosely around her legs. Rain tapped steadily against the tall windows while muted news panels rolled silently across the mounted television near the fireplace.

“This is humiliating,
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  • Rejected by the Prince, Claimed by the Alpha   Chapter 78

    Elara didn’t touch the sketchbooks for two days. Not because she didn’t want to. Because she did. Too much. The supplies remained stacked neatly on the desk in her room while she found increasingly creative ways to avoid looking directly at them.Which was ridiculous.They were pencils.Not emotional warfare.Unfortunately, her nervous system disagreed. By the second evening, even Darius had started noticing.“You’re avoiding them,” he said casually from across the kitchen.Elara nearly choked on tea. “I’m sorry, are you monitoring my artistic behavior now?”“You keep staring at the desk upstairs as it insulted you personally.”“That’s circumstantial.”“It’s repetitive circumstantial evidence.”The kitchen windows now reflected darkness, the mountain completely swallowed by evening snow clouds again, while soft instrumental music drifted quietly from somewhere deeper in the lodge.Elara sat curled on one of the counter stools with a blanket around her shoulders while Darius attempted

  • Rejected by the Prince, Claimed by the Alpha    Chapter 77

    By noon, the lodge had mostly returned to normal. Or whatever counted as normal anymore.The generators were functioning again. Patrol rotations resumed. Several Nightfall wolves spent the morning repairing storm damage along the western trail roads while others cleared snow from the upper vehicle paths.The house itself settled back into its familiar rhythm of quiet movement and low conversation.Which should have helped.Instead, Elara spent the entire morning aggressively aware of Darius.Not in a dramatic way. Worse. In a constant way.The memory of waking beside him lingered irritatingly beneath everything else she tried to think about. Every time she caught sight of him across a room, her brain helpfully supplied: shared blankets, a sleep-rough voice, a hand on her waistDeeply unhelpful behavior.She escaped to the library after lunch in an attempt to regain psychological stability. It did not work. Mostly because Darius appeared twenty minutes later, carrying two mugs of coffe

  • Rejected by the Prince, Claimed by the Alpha   Chapter 76

    The power still wasn’t back by morning.Elara discovered this when she woke on the couch to pale gray sunlight filtering through the windows and someone arguing passionately about batteries somewhere near the kitchen.For several disorienting seconds, she forgot where she was.Then the warmth against her side registered.She froze. Darius was asleep beside her. Not exactly close.But close enough that sometime during the night, the second blanket had slipped half across both of them while his arm remained stretched loosely along the back of the couch behind her shoulders.Elara stared at the fire for a solid ten seconds while her nervous system completely failed to behave normally.Okay.Right.That felt significant.The sitting room was quiet otherwise. Most of the Nightfall wolves had apparently drifted off to actual beds sometime before dawn, leaving abandoned mugs and blankets scattered around the room.Snow still covered the windows in uneven white drifts while weak winter light

  • Rejected by the Prince, Claimed by the Alpha   Chapter 75

    The lodge lost power just after midnight. One second, Elara was half asleep, reading on the couch in her room. The next, darkness. Complete and immediate.Outside, wind slammed hard against the mountain, while downstairs, a backup generator clicked twice unsuccessfully before dying.“Well,” Elara muttered into the dark. “That feels terrible.”The silence afterward felt enormous. Just unfamiliar enough to make Elaras' chest tighten automatically.She stood carefully, setting the book aside before moving toward the window. Snow whipped violently through the darkness outside, almost completely obscuring the forest below.Another storm. Perfect.A faint beam of light moved through the hallway beyond her door.Then a knock. “Elara?”Darius. Relief hit so quickly that it annoyed her.“Yeah.”The door opened a second later, flashlight glow spilling warmly across the room. Darius stepped inside wearing dark sweatpants and a thermal shirt beneath an unzipped jacket, hair slightly disheveled, l

  • Rejected by the Prince, Claimed by the Alpha   Chapter 74

    The problem with realizing other people had theories about you was that suddenly everything felt suspicious.Elara became aware of this approximately three hours later when one of the kitchen staff handed her tea with an expression that looked far too knowing for a woman distributing chamomile.It got worse at lunch. By dinner, Elara was actively considering fleeing into the forest.“You’re spiraling,” Darius observed from across the library.“I’m being observed.”“You’re imagining things.”“I am absolutely not imagining things.”Darius sat in one of the armchairs near the fire with a tablet balanced against one knee, reading glasses low against his nose again. The sight should not have become comforting this quickly. Unfortunately, it had.Elara paced slowly near the windows overlooking the snowy valley below. The storm had finally passed completely overnight, leaving the mountains bright beneath pale winter sunlight. Snow glittered across the trees in long silver sheets while distan

  • Rejected by the Prince, Claimed by the Alpha   Chapter 73

    By the time the storm finally eased, the lodge felt strangely crowded with silence.Not uncomfortable silence.Accumulated silence.Days of shared rooms and late-night conversations and accidental routines settling into the walls around them.Elara noticed it most the next morning.She wandered downstairs, expecting the usual quiet kitchen, and nearly collided with Darius in the hallway outside the stairs.Both of them stopped automatically. The awareness hit instantly.Darius had clearly just come back inside from somewhere. Snow dusted the shoulders of his dark coat while cold air followed him faintly into the hall.“Elara.” His voice still sounded rough from sleep, or lack of it.“You’re covered in snow.”“Observant.”“You say that like I solved a murder.”“One step at a time.”The corner of her mouth lifted before she could stop it.Darius removed his gloves slowly while looking at her with that steady attention she still hadn’t figured out how to survive comfortably.It was too

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