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26 - North
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2026-01-05 08:00:36[CW - this chapter contains references to abuse and to infidelity. Please take care of yourself while reading this chapter.]
Ariadne picked up North and smoothed his hair.
“Ready to help mama with a stealth mission?” she whispered to her infant. He cooed and flapped his arms. She took that as a yes. Ariadne kissed North’s forehead, making him make happy
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The Wolf Star: A Rejected Mates Story 64- Escape route
“Right,” Eli said, spreading the map on the ground. “Now we need to move.”Nobody argued with that.The map was old and imperfect and had been folded and unfolded so many times that the creases had started to wear through. Eli pressed it flat with their palm and anchored the corners with a boot, a waterskin, and the hilt of Archer’s sword, which he’d surrendered without being asked. Peggy sat cross-legged on Yonus’s back. Ariadne had North in her arms and was standing slightly apart, bouncing him gently. Archer was looking at the map with the focused expression of a man trying very hard not to look like he didn’t understand the map.“We’re here,” Eli said, tapping a point in the south. “We need to get here.” They moved their finger a significant distance northwest. “Out of Lycan territory, out of range of Kurnich’s scouts, and preferably somewhere with a bed and a door that locks.”“Agreed on all counts,” Peggy said.“The problem is getting there.” Eli traced the route with one finger
The Wolf Star: A Rejected Mates Story 63- Getting the message across
Father Sace-Dote was in his office, as he usually was in the evenings, carefully relabelling a collection of small prayer vessels. He didn’t look up when Thea came in.“I don’t know anything,” he said pleasantly.“I know.” Thea shut the door behind her. “I just want to talk.”He glanced up at her over his spectacles. She watched him take in the expression on her face.“Ah,” he said. He set down the vessel he was holding. “Shut the inner door too, would you?”She did. He waited until she turned back to him before he spoke.“I am… aware that there has been some information,” he said carefully,
The Wolf Star: A Rejected Mates Story 62- Kurnich heard of it
[CW- This chapter contains violence, implied domestic abuse or sexual assault, and threat to life. Please take care of yourself while reading!]Thea had learned very quickly that there were two kinds of days in Kurnich’s castle.Days when he was occupied elsewhere, and days when he was not.Today was the latter.She moved along the corridor with her back pressed close to the wall, her arms full of folded linen, her ears flat against her head. She didn’t lift her gaze from the floor. None of them did anymore. Looking up was a risk. Looking up meant you might accidentally catch his eye. Catching his eye meant he’d remember you existed.It was better not to exist.From the east wing came the sound of something shattering. Thea froze. The linen trembled in her arms.Silence. Then a woman’s sob, which the walls quickly swallowed.Then silence again.Thea started walking.The castle had been bad before the queen left. Bad in the way that a tooth that needed pulling was bad. There was always
The Wolf Star: A Rejected Mates Story 61- Timber!
[CW- Body horror, violence, and gore. Please look after yourself while reading.]CREAKThe statue tottered, leaning awkwardly back and forth. Then, seemingly in slow motion from Peggy’s point of view, the statue fell. The head tipped over the base, falling down into the dirt below. A scream went up from the crowd around them as dust and sand flew into the air, marring the opalescent statue with red and brown. A lycan man ran toward the statue, only to be pulled back by several people around him. The body of the statue started falling. To Peggy’s horror, it started falling toward the crowd of people.Shouts rose in a language she did not recognise.THUDBlood, viscera, bones cracking.Peggy’s heart thudded in her chest, and she held North tightly. People had been crushed under the statue.The rogue growled and lunged toward the people who were crushed under the statue. Peggy felt air leaving her lungs as she screamed at the people, even if it would be fruitless, some part of her wanted
The Wolf Star: A Rejected Mates Story 60- Statue
[CW- Body horror in this chapter - not as gory as in previous chapters. Please look after yourself while reading.]A warm wind blew over the red sands as Yonus walked Peggy and North around. Through the mind link, Peggy could feel the warm sand between his paws, his ears flicking slightly as the sand in the air annoyed him. North was slowly settling in her arms, and she was rubbing gentle circles on his tummy, making him let out little burps and murmurs. After a moment, she picked him up and held him so his head was leaning against her shoulder, and she rubbed little circles into his back. She felt him get slightly heavier in her arms.“Are you doing ok now?” she murmured to him.“Mmm…” North mumbled against her shoulder. His little hands shifted into fists on her shoulder.“Good, then-”Yonus suddenly stopped, nearly sending Peggy forward. “Yonus, what-?”Turpentine filled her nose, and she looked back toward the statue. North tensed in her arms as they both saw the large, shambling
The Wolf Star: A Rejected Mates Story 59- Bitten
“He bit me!” Archer cried out.“Uh-huh,” Eli said, using their magic. Their hands glowed as they used magic on Archer’s wound.“He’s a baby! Are they even meant to have teeth at this age?!” Archer fumed.“I don’t know,” Eli said.“Do you even care I was bitten?” Archer scoffed.“Archer,” Eli looked up at him. “I care you were bitten. I’m not surprised you were bitten, though.”“Huh?”“Ariadne is North’s mother,” Eli said, like explaining something to someone very slow.“...Yeah?”“You and her were yelling at each other,” Eli said.“And? North shouldn’t understand words yet.”“He understands intention, though,” Eli sighed, wrapping Archer’s arm with bandages. “But-”“Even when we first met him, you seemed to pick up that North could at least understand intentions even as a young baby,” Eli said, looking up at him. “I’m not saying that Noth has a perfect understanding of the theological debate you were having. I’m saying he knew that his mother was being yelled at by a grown man. Now,
The Wolf Star: A Rejected Mates Story 56- The calm before…
“Yes, it’s weird, isn’t it?” Ariadne said, her fingers tapping on the table. “Weird is an understatement!” Peggy burst.“So you’ve seen them?” Archer asked. “Not just reports of them?”“Yeah,” Ariadne nodded. “One climbed up to North’s window. It was like it was watching him-”“Not possible,” Arch
The Wolf Star: A Rejected Mates Story 55- The next day
[CW- References to abuse recovery and the effects of gaslighting/unreality. Only reference, not graphic.]Peggy watched the scene for a moment, her heart hammering in her chest. Some part of her knew that she was being silly by covering for North; there was no reason not to be honest with Ariadne a
The Wolf Star: A Rejected Mates Story 52- Nieve Pt2
Ariadne watched the wolf, expecting a mental response.None came.He just watched her from the floor, keeping all four paws on the floor and his soft eyes on her. The silence unsettled her. From what she remembered of the night, Song had spoken to Archer immediately upon meeting him. This wolf bein
The Wolf Star: A Rejected Mates Story 51- Nieve
Ariadne watched Archer run up the stairs after the group. She kept North close as she opened the door to their room in the inn. Even watching him now, her mind still couldn’t convince her that he wasn’t the boy she used to know. She ran through her normal nightly routines, trying to settle North, w
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