Forbidden Love: The Alpha Rejected Luna Second Chance のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 91 - チャプター 100

Darius's POVThe flatline tone slashed through me like a knife, a high-pitched electronic wail that proclaimed the thing I dreaded most. Lily had gone lifeless on the med table, her heart no longer beating as alarms started screeching all over the wing."No," I gasped, lunging across the bed towards her as Dr. Matthews and his crew sprang into motion around her motionless frame."Clear!" shouted the doctor, placing the defibrillation paddles on her chest. "Everyone back!"Her body convulsed as the current surged through her, but the monitor stayed flat. Dr. Matthews felt her pulse, then geared up for another attempt."Again! Clear!"I was treated to a front row view of what should have been mine and Storm’s future and tumbled into the deep freeze each time they failed and death settled ever more deeply into my bones. I felt it through the incompletely mated bond, felt her grow dimmer with each second.“Let’s go Lily,” I whispered in desperation. "Don't you dare leave me now. Not when,

Darius's POVThe subterranean chambers underneath the castle had not been used for the purposes of interrogation in serious depth for decades, but their stone walls still reverberated dreadful cries from the confessions I had been relieved to leave behind. The man that was left from Lily’s exodus remained; he was chained to a chair in the middle of the room, his head a bandaged mess, his eyes still alive with the sharp fear that came from having your life in a tight balance.”I’ve told you everything I know,” Marcus Blackwood said for the third time, his voice a husk from hours of questioning. “We were contracted to snatch the girl, make it look accidental. That's all.""By whom?" I never got an answer and repeated my question while stalking him back and forth with predatory patience. The half-shift I'd done in the forest still hung on the fringes of my awareness, which kept my canines a bit longer than normal and my eyes flamed like glowing coals when the light hit them just right.“

Darius's POVThe dungeon cells had been modernized with contemporary security features, but there was no escaping the centuries of confinement and despair that they held in their depths. Selene was in her cell, on her bunk, which this time she did not refuse to accept, her long platinum blonde hair was all a mess and she had thrown away her elegant dress to accept the rough brown-issued to the people who had still to go trial- prison cloth.Her head rose as I drew near, and her bright blue eyes contained none of the sly charm that had left me deceived for so long. Now there was only surrender, the empty face of a man who had drawn his last hand and staked it all."Come to gloat?" she inquired, rather brusque for her. “Or have you come back for further confessions from your vanquished foe?”“I’m here for the truth,” I shot back, sitting down on a chair that had been arranged outside her cell. "All of it. No more games”“I’ve admitted to attempted murder countless times over,” she said

Darius's POVMy study door opened, no knock of course, and Beta Marcus slunk in like one serving a wounded predator."Alpha," he whispered, "You've been inside here for eighteen hours. The pack is wanting you for the night brief."“Get rid of it,” I said, my eyes still on the papers. “I’m hardly in the mental state to give you all my thoughts.”I turned my eyes up to him at last, this man who had been loyal to my family for over thirty years. "Did you know, Marcus? Did you have a sense of what was happening to her?”For a long moment he was silent, his weathered face engaged in the tussle.“I had a feeling something wasn’t quite there,” he finally confessed. “The case against Miss Lily was too neat, neatly played towards what would help the Luna-to-be most. But I didn't have any evidence and calling the future Luna out on that would be...""Would have been what? Honorable? Brave? The right thing to do?"“That would have been career suicide,” he added bluntly. “And I’ve got a family to

Malik's POV“An inconveniently timed visit,” noted my beta, Stefan, as we neared the primary palace. “With the shaken political situation they’re going through.”“That’s why I’m here,” I said, looking at the palace where the servants seemed to be moving with an unusual animation. “Instability is opportunity, and I’m interested in what opportunities there may be.”"Alpha Malik," Marcus greeted formally. "Welcome to Moonshade territory. Alpha Darius himself will be with you shortly. He's busy on some urgent pack business.""No rush," I replied easily. “I’m glad to see your evening habits while I have been waiting. Seeing how other packs do things is always informative.”Marcus had been reluctant to have a visiting Alpha wandering around in the middle of such a chaotic time, but protocol required him to honor most of what one's guests ask for without question.“Very well. Perhaps you’d like to attend the evening feast? It begins in an hour in the great hall.” Perfect. Public gatherings w