All Chapters of The Alpha's Reject: Craving his Wolfless Luna: Chapter 181 - Chapter 190

Irene's POVThe war table looked like a butcher's diagram.Red lines for enemy positions. Blue for ours. Arrows showing attack routes, retreat paths, kill zones. Hours of argument and strategy had produced this—our best chance at survival, sketched out in colored ink on worn paper."It's settled then." Karson's voice cut through the murmur of exhausted commanders. "Main forc

Irene's POVThe venom worked fast.Cold spread through my veins from the wound. My arm had gone numb, blood still streaming down to the stone floor in thick rivulets.I stumbled backward. My legs felt wrong. Unsteady. Like they belonged to someone else entirely.

Irene's POVBeing bedridden was its own kind of torture.Three days. Three days of staring at the same canvas ceiling. The same wooden beams. The same crack in the corner that looked vaguely like a rabbit if I squinted hard enough.The healer visited twice daily to check my progress. The poison was leaving my system, she said. Slowly. Stubbornly. Like an unwanted guest who refused

Irene's POVThe front lines were worse than I'd imagined.Bodies littered the ground. Ours and theirs, tangled together in death. The smell hit me first—blood and smoke and something else, something wrong. A sour, burnt odor that made my wolf recoil.Blood magic. I could smell it on the enemy wolves. Could see it in the way they moved—too fast, too strong, their eyes g

Irene's POVSomething was wrong with Lexie.Not just the madness in her eyes or the hatred twisting her features. Something physical. Chemical. Her movements were too fast, too strong, too everything.Blood magic alone didn't explain it.She threw me off befor