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037: Chained Border
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2026-03-28 14:16:23
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Rejected by the alpha, claimed by his brother 87 — Everything I Never Said
Selene’s POVFor a long moment, there was nothing.No sound.No movement.No breath.Only the two of us suspended inside a silence so heavy it felt capable of crushing bone.The air in the chamber was thick, still warm from the steam that had followed me out of the bathroom, yet cold along the edges in the way only ancient pack castle walls could be. Damon sat at the edge of the bed, shoulders slumped forward as though the weight of the Moon Crown, past, present, future, had finally settled onto him all at once. His eyes, usually sharp with Alpha discipline or shadowed by guilt, now looked dark. Hollow. Empty.He was waiting.For an answer.For a truth neither of us had dared speak aloud for six years.And I stood there wrapped in a towel, damp hair clinging to my shoulders, my skin still flushed from the scalding water I had used to erase the evidence of a man who was not my mate.But even beneath the heat, I felt cold.The kind of cold born from years of loneliness.Years of hoping
Rejected by the alpha, claimed by his brother 86 — What Remains of a Heart 2
Selene’s POVMy chest twisted painfully.The truth was too massive to ignore: he was the Alpha King’s eldest son. Duty would always come for him. Bloodlines would always own him. There was no universe where he could burn down the entire pack hierarchy for me. No reality where he could abandon the family that had shaped him into who he was.He couldn’t choose me.Not in the end.Not when everything finally settled.But I didn’t say any of it.I didn’t want him to think I doubted him. I didn’t want to break him apart with a truth he wasn’t ready to face.So I stayed silent.“I’ll see you again,” I whispered softly. “We’ll talk again. I promise.”He looked at me as though the promise itself wounded him.Then he kissed me.A desperate, aching, consuming kiss.One that burned.One that begged.One that spoke every forbidden thing he couldn’t force himself to say aloud.It felt like a beginning…And like the ending of something sacred.When he finally pulled away, my legs felt weak beneath
Rejected by the alpha, claimed by his brother 85 — What Remains of a Heart
Selene’s POVTime moved differently when Aric held me.Not slower. Not faster.Just… elsewhere.It was as though the abandoned pack chamber carved out its own pocket in the universe, a sliver of existence untouched by anything beyond its crumbling stone walls. The world outside didn’t just fade, it ceased to matter. The Alpha Council became a distant, irrelevant machine. Ivana’s poisonous words and the crushing burden of the Moon Crown dissolved into nothing. Even Damon, his grief, his desperation, his slow unraveling, felt like a faraway echo I couldn’t afford to hear.There was only Aric.His arms around me.His breath warming the side of my neck.The familiar scent of pinewood and midnight rain clinging to his clothes like armor.I hadn’t realised how starved I had become for safety until the moment he pulled me against him. It was physical, this hunger I’d carried without understanding. The kind that became painfully real the second his body surrounded mine, the second my cheek re
Rejected by the alpha, claimed by his brother 84 – Only For The Moment
Cassandra’s POVMy body trembled in Arden’s arms, a shiver that had nothing to do with the chill seeping from the stone walls of this forgotten room. My heart hammered against my ribs, each beat a frantic warning—I shouldn’t be here, in the dark with him, where every shadow could betray us.The palace slept beyond these doors, but danger lingered in every creak, every distant footfall.Richard’s wife. That was what they called me. A title that bound me tighter than any iron chain ever could. And yet here I was, slipping through corridors like a ghost, drawn to Arden as though he were the only light in this suffocating world.His scent reached me first—earthy from the road, laced with that faint, warm spice that always made my knees weaken. It wrapped around me, pulling me under, and my body responded before my mind could stop it.Heat bloomed low in my belly, a traitorous ache pooling between my thighs, urging me closer despite the fear clawing at my throat. And in that quiet press of
Rejected by the alpha, claimed by his brother 83 The Heart I Couldn’t Stay Away From
Aric’s POVThe rest of the drive felt like a war being waged beneath my skin.Every red light was an enemy.Every slowing car ahead was an obstacle.Every passing minute felt wasted.Every breath felt like salt rubbed into an open wound.By the time the driver pulled into the palace grounds, my heartbeat was pounding hard enough that I felt it in my throat, in my fingertips, in the very center of my skull.I didn’t go near Damon’s wing.I knew better.Provoking him would only create another battlefield we didn’t have time to fight on. And this, what I was about to do, wasn’t about him.It was about her.I slipped through the quieter eastern corridor, footsteps echoing off stone, and pushed open the door to the room Selene had once been imprisoned in.It looked the same.Cold.Forgotten.A space designed to strip warmth and hope from anyone who entered.The kind of room used not for comfort, but for containment.A cage dressed as accommodation.I moved to the window, standing where the
Rejected by the alpha, claimed by his brother 82 The Heart I Couldn’t Stay Away From
Aric’s POVSleep didn’t come.Not even for a moment.I lay awake the entire night, staring at the ceiling as the hours crawled by with a heaviness that pressed into my bones.Every time I closed my eyes, I saw Selene’s face the moment she must have seen the broadcast—her expression crumpling, her heart breaking all over again.Did she cry?Was she shaking the way she does when she tries to hold pain inside?Was she staring at the screen in disbelief, wondering if I had chosen someone else?If I had lied to her?If she had been nothing more than a fleeting distraction?Or worse—Was she making up with Damon out of spite?Out of heartbreak?Out of wanting to forget me because I had hurt her in the most public, humiliating way?The thought made something dangerous coil inside my chest.I turned again, restless, suffocating.Not knowing was killing me.I kept replaying the moment my father whispered in my ear during the ball, threatening Selene so casually, so coldly, as if she were nothi
Rejected by the alpha, claimed by his brother 010: Rumors and Roses
Selene’s POVFour moons.That was how long I’d been gone from the packhouse. Four moons since I’d walked out of the Alpha’s wing and left behind the life everyone believed I would crawl back to.And for those four nights, my communicator crystal hadn’t stopped pulsing.Damon called at dawn, dusk, m
Last Updated : 2026-03-17Rejected by the alpha, claimed by his brother 011: the king Hand
Selene’s POVThe moment I stepped into the Bloodmoon Throne Hall, the air shifted.Conversations died mid-sentence. Music stumbled. Wolves who had spent their lives mastering composure forgot how to breathe.For a heartbeat, the entire room—the nobles, the Elders, the ranked wolves, the courtiers—s
Last Updated : 2026-03-17Rejected by the alpha, claimed by his brother 006: let the pack crumble
Selene’s POVLuna Ivana never broke her promises.And that was the problem. Her promises were never gifts, they were traps, wrapped in silk and sealed with poison.The next morning, she summoned my parents.They arrived with stiff backs and tighter expressions, every step echoing their shame. My f
Last Updated : 2026-03-17Rejected by the alpha, claimed by his brother 008: Exile in silk
Selene’s POVThe engine’s low hum filled the night, steady and hollow like a heartbeat in a crypt.“Where to, Luna?” the driver asked, glancing at me through the rearview mirror. His tone was careful—deferential—but I caught the flicker of pity in his eyes.Where to?For the first time in my life,
Last Updated : 2026-03-17
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