Forbidden Love: The Alpha Rejected Luna Second Chance のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 111 - チャプター 120

Lily's POV"Lily," she said warmly. ”Alpha Darius had requested that you met him here. He thought you'd be curious about your heritage and that I could answer better than he could.”Of course. He had sent someone else, leaving me space and yet with the information I needed. Doing so was kind and maddening."You know about my mother?" I asked carefully.“Caroline was my friend,” added Miriam, seating herself upon a prostrate tree. “Not much, but I was aware of what she was. She succumbed to the wasting sickness that can attack Snow Wolves who hold in their nature too long.”The words struck me as a physical punch. “She died because she was hiding who she was?”“She was killed because she never truly awoke,” Miriam gently corrected. “The blood was there, latent, putting pressure on her body she couldn’t comprehend. Had she known, had she fully awakened, perhaps she would have lived."I collapsed to the grass, my legs turned to jelly. That my mother died because she was never able to fin

Lily's POVThe rogues fought in eerie synchrony, their attacks not intended to kill, but to entrap. I had already known, too late, that I was being steered away from the main defensive positions, from the other warriors who might have shielded me.My black wolf was intoxicated with power, I smashed another down and my jaws bit through bone as my newfound strength made ending their lives all too easy. The Snow Wolf powers Miriam had said I would be able to use were all working in full force now--This was literally it; my bite wounds closed up almost immediately, I'd been running faster than I had thought possible, and fighting as if it was someone else doing it instictually as never before.But there were too many of them.As I whirled around, three Rogues lunged forward at the same time and I killed two while dashing under the third. My fur was clotted with blood, the taste of iron filling my mouth as I waged a defensive war. My muscles ached from the effort, my lungs searched for air

Lily's POVI was dead. That understanding nestled in my brain, without fear or shame. The poisoned blade had done its deadly work, and I was gone beyond the wall that separates life from whatever is next.I could be here, I thought. In this empty stillness where no one could ever hurt me again. So simple to just let go, to welcome the end and take what remained that I'd missed in life."Is that really what you want?" a voice asked, female and very old, ringing through the darkness like silver bells.I turned—though I had no body to turn with—and beheld light condensing out of emptiness. It coalesced into the form of a woman, tall and haughty, her hair white around her like liquid moonlight. Her eyes were red, the same shade of crimson that tinted my wolf’s stare, and power emanated from her aura in waves large enough to make death seem tiny."Who are you?" I called out, my voice belying the stillness around me."I am the First Snow Wolf Queen," she said mildly, her smile kindly and wi

Darius's POVThe silence in my chambers was oppressive after all that battlefield clatter and I closed the door. I pressed my body against the wood, with legs that felt as if they’d collapse any second with the rush of adrenaline.She was alive. Raised up by power I’d read about only in ancient texts.Instead of gratitude, I felt emptiness.She was watching her emotions closely, but I would catch glimpses — exhaustion, confusion, profound sadness. She was absorbing all of this, and I’d vowed not to intrude.The desire to see her was intense. Everything in me was urging me to make sure she was actually still alive. The unnatural nearness only made the feelings stronger.But I'd promised. I had promised to honor her limits.I pulled off blood stained clothing, hands trembling as memories flickered by — the sense of the blade cutting her heart when it had gone into mine and not into fus face, the mad run to get there in time, finding her eyes losing focus, knowing what emptiness there w

Lily's POVThe days that followed his departure for Malik turned into a routine of loneliness and self-discovery. I arose early, exercised with Marcus in the grounds until my muscles ached, read ancient volume after ancient volume covering Snow Wolf Queens in the library, and spent my evenings meditating as I tried to control the powers that tingled under my skin.Malik’s token to me lay on the bedside table, catching my eye as I went in and out. A reminder of options, of possibility, of a future that could be had that wasn’t predicated on forced bonds or painful history.I should have felt it when he kissed my hand goodbye. Should have felt a spark, or a tug, something that indicated my heart was responding to his evident adoration. He was everything I’d want, kind and respectful, offering me freedom and a clean slate.But I'd felt nothing. Just appreciation and camaraderie, but no romantic tug.Occupying that reality was difficult for me during my training. Was it their forced bond