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Chapter 55: Lies Disguised as Promises

Author: Samantha Leoni
last update publish date: 2026-04-30 06:41:23

**Rowan**

For several days now, the rumors had been piercing my ears like knife stabs. Every word, every whisper, fueled my anger with an unhealthy fire.

Mikail, the great leader, Lyra’s supposed protector, was not only turning his back on her like a coward, but he was planning to name her Luna.

The gala was approaching, and everyone spoke as if it were a blessing. But I didn’t believe it.

I had also heard the most recent rumor, the most poisonous one: Mikail had signed an agreement. One that n
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    “What are you doing here?” I managed to ask, my voice hoarse with emotion.He raised an eyebrow.“It’s simple. Answers.”That was enough to make all my sins come flooding back:The image of Lyra running away. Her crying. My cowardice. Fear disguised as resolve.“I have nothing to offer you,” I said. “Only mistakes and a great deal of regret.”Aiden didn’t look away.“I didn’t come to ask for forgiveness or to grant it,” he replied sharply. “I came to look at the man who gave me life… and perhaps to understand why he chose to abandon us.”My mother sobbed harder. I clenched my fists until they hurt and my hands went numb.“There’s no valid excuse,” I admitted with a sigh. “I was weak. And I paid for it. Probably for the rest of my days.”I looked at him closely. He was powerful. You could tell from his posture, from the energy contained beneath his skin. I thought of Lyra. Of how she must have grown. Of how she could have let him come. I had no right to question it… and yet, seeing hi

  • The Rejected Mate Returns   Extra 2: Belated Regret

    **Eloísa**Years ago, my world was torn in two in the great hall of Silverbane.I remember the murmur first. Then the tense faces. After that, the words no one ever wants to hear about a child.“Mikail will be banished,” announced the elder. “For his crimes against the pack.”I heard nothing else. The floor tilted, and the air left my lungs.I woke up with the metallic taste of fear in my mouth and Severino’s voice calling me.“Eloísa… my love… look at me.”“Agata?” was the first thing I asked. “Where is my little girl?”Severino didn’t answer right away. And that silence was worse than any sentence.“She’ll be in the Alpha King’s dungeon,” he said at last. “For a long time.”I screamed. I don’t remember how long or how. I only know that something inside me broke forever. Mikail banished. Ágata imprisoned. Two children lost on the same day.The days that followed were pure chaos. Severino took command of Silverbane while Mikail fled like a wounded animal, but the pack no longer truste

  • The Rejected Mate Returns   Extra 1: The Curiosity of Knowledge

    **Lyra**Happiness has a weight of its own. It is neither light nor naive. It is a deep, hard-won peace, like the one I feel every morning when I wake up next to Tharion, the Alpha king who chose me not only as his queen, but as his entire life. Being loved by him, in that devoted and fierce way, gave me something I never thought possible: peace. Wolvencrest ceased to be a refuge and became a home.Tharion loved us with absolute devotion. Me. Aiden. Each of our children, without distinction, without hierarchy. He looked at us as if we were the most precious things in the world, and I returned that love with the same intensity. Our legacy was not just power or territory, but a united family. But even in the deepest happiness, the past knows how to reclaim its place.Aiden was sixteen when the truth caught up with him.It was a quiet afternoon. Too quiet.He entered the living room with tense shoulders, a clenched jaw, his eyes ablaze with a determination I didn’t immediately recogn

  • The Rejected Mate Returns   Chapter 142: Bonds That Cannot Be Broken (Epilogue)

    **Lyra**The land breathed with me as the last trace of dark magic faded away.I felt it beneath my bare feet, as if Wolven Crest were exhaling after a war that had gone on far too long.There was no lightning or screaming. Just a gentle, deep warmth that cleansed the earth without harming it. This is how it had to end: without violence, without blood.I thought of everything we lost to get here. I thought of the fear that ruled me for so long… and how, even so, I kept going.Because I trusted Tharion, because no matter how broken I was, I decided to trust in love and destiny one last time. And I wasn’t wrong. Because in the end, it was all worth it.The elders watched me in silence as I took that final step forward. There was no accusation in their eyes. Nor fearful expectation.“Lyra,” said the eldest. “We recognize you as queen.”I felt a lump in my throat and something tightening in my chest.“You were not a weapon,” said the elder, bowing his head. “You never were.”“You were a m

  • The Rejected Mate Returns   Chapter 141: The Home You Choose

    **Lyra**Seeing Rowan where I least expected him was a shock to me.I turned to Tharion questioningly, and he hurried to explain.“It was an uneasy alliance,” he admitted with a sigh. “A necessary one. He gave us the route when no one else could. I don’t trust him… but today he delivered.”I nodded slowly, processing it all. There were too many questions hanging in the air, too many truths just laid bare.“There will be time to talk,” he promised me, squeezing my hand. “To clear everything up. Right now, the only thing that matters is this.”He looked at our son. Then at me.“You’re safe. And you’ll stay safe. I swear it.”I held his gaze. And for the first time since this war began, I could truly feel at peace.The silence that followed Calista’s capture was thick, almost suffocating.My pulse was still racing, as if my body couldn’t quite grasp that I was no longer in danger. Aiden was behind me, small, clinging to my clothes, and that simple gesture anchored me to reality.We were

  • The Rejected Mate Returns   Chapter 140: The Fall of the Masks

    **Mikail**It wasn’t the physical pain that stopped me.It was the certainty.I took just one step back when I realized there was no way out. The chaos of the battlefield still hung heavy in the air, the smell of burnt magic and blood mingling with something thicker: defeat.I turned, searching for an opening, the slightest chance to flee, but a hand clamped down hard on my shirt and knocked the wind out of me.“Where do you think you’re going?” Krimson’s voice sounded too close, laced with a sarcasm that sent a chill down my spine.He yanked me toward him. His smile held no humor; it held judgment.“Krimson…” I swallowed hard. “For what we were. For what we swore when I was your Alpha… let me go.”My words sounded pathetic even to me.Krimson tilted his head, watching me as if he saw something that no longer deserved either respect or hatred.“That bond is dead,” he said coldly. It died when you made Lyra suffer. When you used her son as a bargaining chip. My loyalty now lies with th

  • The Rejected Mate Returns   Chapter 89: The Truth Between the Lines

    **Tharion**I watched as Lyra exploded and her eyes flashed with fury.Her ragged breathing, the biting tone in her voice, the trembling in her hands… It was all a clear manifestation of her pain, her disappointment… and her anger.“What did my poor phone ever do to deserve this?” Krimson muttered,

  • The Rejected Mate Returns   Chapter 86: Mine, Even If He Doesn’t Know It

    **Lyra**I hadn’t expected that response from Tharion.I had just stood there staring at him, unsure if I’d heard correctly.Was he really not going to stop me? Wasn’t he going to tell me it was crazy to talk to Mikail and Rowan in the middle of a war?Because it was. Totally crazy.I was pregnant,

  • The Rejected Mate Returns   Chapter 85: Broken Crowns, Living Promises

    **Mikail*The battlefield was drenched in blood, smoke, and defeat.The Moonfang pack had crumbled before us, unable to sustain their attack much longer.I seized the advantage, just as I knew I would. They didn’t know our lands as well as we did. And Rowan, arrogant as ever, failed to foresee that

  • The Rejected Mate Returns   Chapter 84: The Reason for Everything

    **Tharion**I arrived just in time.When I saw her on the ground, curled up, her hands shielding her belly and her face contorted with pain, I felt my heart stop.I had imagined the moment I would see her again many times… but not like this. Not trembling, not wounded.Not with the threat of death

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