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The Alpha's Rejected Mate Chapter Fourty
Milrac's povI woke before dawn with Ava still asleep against my chest and three urgent knocks at the door.Calla's voice came through the wood. "Alpha. You need to see this."Ava was already awake. The bond had delivered the urgency before the sound did.We dressed in under a minute and found Calla in the hallway, face tight, a folded note in her hand."Scout found it pinned to the southern gate post," she said. "No scent. No tracks."I unfolded it.Single line. Council script.One of your forty-three is not yours.---Ava's povI read it twice. "A spy.""Or a warning designed to make us turn on our own people," Milrac said. He handed the note back to Calla. "Tell no one. Post additional watches on the southern approach. Wake the two senior healers and have them report to the war room."Calla left at pace.Milrac looked at me. Through the bond I felt the cold calculation running, but underneath it something sharper. Personal."They're trying to fracture the forty-three from the insid
The Alpha's Rejected Mate Chapter Thirty nine
Milrac's povThe gathering took less than an hour.We told them everything. Soren and Mira. The Council's game. What the full moon would demand. When we finished, nobody left.Calla spoke first. "We hold our own minds. Feel you both, but stay ourselves.""Exactly," Ava said.A young wolf near the back raised his hand. "What if it gets too loud? What if I can't separate my thoughts from yours?""You come to us immediately," I said. "We can quiet it without severing anything."He nodded. That settled it.The forty-three dispersed. Watches set, doors latched, fires banked.---Ava's povMy mother caught me on the stairs.She pressed her palm briefly to my cheek. "You did well today."It hit somewhere I hadn't armored."Rest," I told her. "We need you sharp."She looked past me toward Milrac, then back. "He's a good man. I didn't expect that."Gone before I could answer.I stood there a moment, feeling the bond hum. Feeling Milrac's awareness brush mine from across the hall. Not a thought
The Alpha's Rejected Mate Chapter Thirty eight
Milrac's povThe book in Ava's hands was older than the mansion. Older, possibly, than the pack itself.I watched her read, the bond carrying the exact moment each passage landed in her, a flicker of recognition, then the sharp tightening that meant something had frightened her and she had decided not to show it. She was getting better at managing her expressions. The bond made that irrelevant. I felt every word hit her as clearly as if I were reading over her own shoulder.Which, given that I was reading the second book simultaneously, made the room feel very loud in a way that had nothing to do with sound.The previous bonded pair had been named Soren and Mira.That was the first thing I learned that I had not known before. The Council's erasure had been thorough, no pack songs, no elder stories, no grave markers. But whoever had preserved these books had been careful to leave the names intact, as if they understood that removing them entirely would be the cruellest cut of all.Sore
The Alpha's Rejected Mate Chapter Thirty Seven
Ava's povBy the time the last of the departing wolves disappeared through the gates, the courtyard felt like a mouth that had lost half its teeth.Forty-three wolves remained.I counted them without meaning to, the bond doing it automatically, cataloguing each pulse of loyalty like a heartbeat I had not asked to learn. Forty-three out of what had been nearly a hundred. Warriors, two healers, a handful of servants who had nowhere else to go, and a small cluster of young wolves who had never known any alpha but Milrac.He stood perfectly still beside me, watching the gates close. From the outside he looked carved from stone. Through the bond I felt what he was actually carrying, the specific weight of each name that had walked away. Not anger. Not surprise. Something quieter and harder to bear.Grief, dressed up as composure.I laced my fingers with his. He did not look at me, but his grip tightened immediately.My mother broke the silence first. "We need to move. The full moon is six
The Alpha's Rejected Mate Chapter Thirty six
Ava’s povDawn broke cold and gray over the courtyard. Every wolf in the mansion had been called. They stood shoulder to shoulder in tight ranks, warriors, servants, healers, even the youngest pups held by their parents. The air was thick with tension and the faint, restless hum of the bond reaching toward them all. Milrac and I stood on the wide stone steps, the silver rings on our fingers catching the weak morning light. The second dagger rested safely in its cloth wrapping at his belt.No one spoke. They simply watched us, eyes wide with questions they had not yet dared to ask.Milrac’s hand brushed mine once, a private anchor. Through the bond I felt his steady resolve, the same resolve that now lived in me. We had agreed to hide nothing.He stepped forward, voice carrying across the silent courtyard without shouting.“Last night the Moon Council came to our gates. They did not come for war. They came because our bond has grown beyond anything the old laws allow. It is no longer o
The Alpha's Rejected Mate Chapter Thirty-five
Ava’s povThe guard’s words hung in the war room like smoke that refused to clear. The entire eastern patrol was connected now, not just hearing voices but sharing thoughts, feelings, even fragments of will. One man had refused a direct order because it felt wrong in his chest, as if the bond itself had whispered against it.Milrac’s hand remained locked with mine, but I felt the shift in him through the link, a cold, calculating tension that matched my own. The spreading was no longer a distant threat. It was here, inside our walls, moving through our people like blood in veins.“Bring the affected patrol to the inner courtyard,” Milrac ordered, voice low but carrying the weight of command. “Keep them separated from the rest of the pack. No one speaks to them until we arrive.”The guard saluted and left at a run.My mother stepped closer to the table, her face drawn. “This is accelerating faster than I feared. The bond is not just reaching them. It is rewriting how they think. If it
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