All Chapters of The Alpha's Beta: Once Rejected, Now Desired: Chapter 81 - Chapter 90

Elora’s POVThe moment I started throwing my questions, Darius may have thought I had prepared like his councilors.What he didn’t know, however, was that I did better.Before now, I’d devoted every spare time I had, reading how every hearing and trial was handled before my father’s demise.I knew every experience by heart, and I knew every trick that those facing trials, especially the ones who are used to the environment could play.Right now, he just used the badgering playbook, and I knew why.He was avoiding the question I threw at him, and I had anticipated the action, not through my psychic abilities, but by studying and anticipating actions that might just happen at any time during trials as I fired my questions.Elder Rhys had just diverted the attention of the trial to a part I’d reserved to make my biggest move just yet, but it's okay. I still got this.If I spin the thread the right way, I’ll be fine. I prepared for this. I’d seen all the moves coming, like a chessboard pi

Elora’s POVThat evening, I was leaning against the railing of the balcony of my room, taking in the evening breeze.Surprisingly, just leaning there and letting the wind caress my body and rustle my hair felt refreshing.The sky was a moonless one, with a few spots of stars scattered across.The air was damp with an aftertaste of a drizzle, the kind that clung to your skin and caused goose bumps at the caress of heavy wind.I wasn’t wearing a jacket, and I didn’t want to. Rather than cold, the air was soothing.Zeke wasn’t back yet, and I guessed why.His attendance at the council today would make his devotion to Charlotte incomplete, so it would make sense if he were taking actions to make up for it.Not like I really cared. At that, a thought struck me. Zack and Zeke were sitting together at the council meeting today.I didn’t catch them talking, but they both sitting together was something.What exactly is going on between those two? Could they have known each other? And why the

Elora’s POVI laughed at Kael’s question, memories of my childhood coming back.My father thought it was crazy for their girl child to beat up street boys to a pulp.I’d lost how many times I got grounded growing up, simply because I defended myself and stepped up to defend the bullied. And to crown all of that, I never learnt it.“I just take my stance, and let my moves come to me,” I said my thoughts aloud.Kael, for the first time since I met him, genuinely smiled, his eyes narrow in the yellow lights of the cabin. “Now, child, is how you fight. It’s the way you were born to fight.”I blinked. “What do you mean?”He leaned forward. “Mages don’t learn how to fight. They learn how to control their magic. Their magic does the fighting for them.”“So, you’re saying…you’re openly admitting that I have magic?”He hesitated, his face going tender. “And I suggest you lean into it.”I shook my head, leaning back, his words ringing in my ears and making me weak. What was he talking about? “

Lloyd’s POVI stood before a large field, glancing around the enormous expanse of greenery, the smell of pine and the aftermath of rainfall filling my nostrils. The cold plucked the hairs on my skin and plucked my spine like a guitar string. It appeared that I was back on the ancient warrior ground again, and it seemed like I was waiting for someone, but I didn’t know who. Rustling of leaves came from behind me, and I glanced back. Nothing.I pressed my trouser pockets for my phone, and I didn’t feel it. Crap! Where did I leave it? I tried to think of the last place I went to before I came here, but nothing was forthcoming to me.“Lloyd?” I flipped my eyes open to the rough jerk of Xavier. His eyes were narrow, as if he was trying to find a spot on one corner of my eye. I blinked and sat up straighter in my seat, wiping my face briefly. “Xavier?” I looked at him, keeping my face as normal and straight as possible. “I’ve told you to knock before you get into my study.”He frowne

Lloyd’s POVElora was onto something fishy. I may not have figured it out, and Xavier may not have noticed, but that doesn’t negate the presence of it there. Something had gone wrong. Something was going wrong. Because it doesn’t make sense that she’d just show up out of the blue, requesting her dad’s journal, when we both know that she lives with a suspected sorcerer—or at least, someone who has been corrupted by sorcery.I stood at the top of the stairs beside the entrance, arms folded, drumming my fingers against my biceps occasionally, while I watched. Betas, omegas and every other werewolf moved about, eyes intent on their businesses. It was close to 1 pm, and Elora hadn’t shown up at the Alpha house, at least to know what was going on.Was telling her to leave the alpha house a good idea, as Xavier suggested? Because right now, I can’t keep tabs on her. All of the strange things I began to notice about her began when she left the house for her husband’s house. Telling her t