Semua Bab Hunted By My Rejected Mate: Bab 121 - Bab 130

Chapter 123|| ELINDA'S POV ||"You did the right thing, dear," my mother breathed, smiling up at me as she tucked behind my ear a loose strand of hair, her voice warm and pleased. "Alaric is honorable, dependable, and his folk are well-rooted in tradition. This marriage will restore all that we have lost."I smiled. Or at least tried to.Those same four words "right decision" echoing themselves in my head like a curse. Marrying Alaric was the smart thing. The royal thing. The safe thing. But as she kissed my forehead and floated out of the room whistling happily, all I could feel was nothing.A hollow space where my heart should have been.I looked at myself in the mirror—my face set in white silk and gold ornaments, the symbol of royalty. But I was not looking at a bride. I was looking at a deceiver. A woman masking her feelings under coats of duty and expectation.I stayed awake on the eve Alaric proposed. I went without meals the next day too. But still, I smiled. For my mother. F

Chapter 125|| ALEXIS'S POV ||The hospital corridors were too quiet for my peace of mind. The scent of medicine lingered in the air, sharp and heartless, as all else in my existence had been of late. I had not left the building in three days. I did not work for Elinda anymore. There was no palace, no order,just Alberto, lying asleep in a bed, and I, here, allowing time to slip away like sand between my clenched fists.I leaned forward again against the private ICU room's wall, arms crossed, gaze locked on his slowly expanding chest and then contracting again, as if mechanically. He looked peaceful. But I knew. There, he burned with the wolfbane poisoning that had turned his veins into chains, entrapping him in his own brain.He had saved me once, when I broke. When I didn't even believe in myself. When I was nothing. It was Alberto who gave me the funds to start my first shipping business. When everyone else mocked my ambitions, Alberto wrote a blank cheque and handed it to me and t

Chapter 127|| Elinda's POV ||I froze. My breath got stuck between my chest and throat as my eyes found their way to the one person I had not expected to see here, now—Alberto.He was supposed to be recovering.Yet there he stood, chest pumping with wild rage, eyes blazing not soft and brotherly now, but with fury and betrayal. The kind of betrayal that burns your heart before it reaches the surface."Alberto—" I whispered, barely able to push his name out. But I never had the opportunity to continue.Before saying a word, before even taking one step towards him, he pounced.I screamed as he grabbed Alexis by the collar, dragging him with a strength I could scarcely believe was contained in the same man who had been comatose a few days earlier."You lied to me," Alberto snarled, his voice low and vicious, yet loud enough to shake the room. "You betrayed me."Alexis didn't struggle.I had to run, to insert myself between them—but my feet wouldn't move."You think I wouldn't recognize

Chapter 129 || ALEXIS'S POV ||I didn't mean to walk in. I promise, I was going home.Rain was pouring outside when I stepped out of the bar. I smoked a cigarette, trying to suppress the pain in my chest. But Alaric's words echoed in my head. His voice, greedy and superior, had called Elinda a burden, a spent royal with too many scandals. Had declared that he'd "tame the Lycan Queen like a dog.".My surroundings dissolved. My heart pounded. Something inside of me broke.I turned and strode right back inside.The bar was still packed with noise, music thumping low under the slurred laughter of drunk voices and shattering glasses. Alaric stood with a smirk next to the booth and the same woman hanging off of him.I did not bother.I stormed.My fist came down on his jaw before he'd even seen me coming. He staggered backward, into the table, spilling their cups. The woman screamed and retreated. Alaric flinched, bringing his hand to his mouth, already bloody."What in the world, Alexis?"

Chapter 131|| Elinda's POV ||I didn't bring a bag. I didn't notify anyone. I didn't even look back at the palace as I slipped out through the side gate in civilian attire and hood. I could not stay there—not with Alberto looking at me as if I were something to be ashamed of and Mother reminding me of all the weight I carried. I was no longer a Queen. I was merely a woman who loved the wrong man at the wrong time—and still longed for him above all else.It was night when I came to Alexis's territory. His guards stuttered at my sight, and I knew I had broken rules. But care now was of no use to me. I insisted on seeing him—no, I requested him. And when he appeared, his feet froze and heaving for breath, as though he had been running merely to get to me—my heart broke and reformed all in a single moment."Elinda?" His voice cracked like the world had been torn open.I stared at him, fighting to remember how to breathe. "I don't want to run anymore."He didn't say anything. He just ste