Rejected By MY Alpha ~ Claimed By His Beta のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 251 - チャプター 260

KARI'S POV The lock jangled as the door was slowly pushed open.I remained huddled on the edge of the bed, the heavy coat Luca had draped over me days ago, still clutched around my shoulders like a shield.Luca stood there, and I stubbornly refused to look at him, or acknowledge him.But my curiosity soon won over, and I lifted it gaze to study him, immediately noting the food tray in his hand.His wound had healed, of course. Vampires are known to heal even faster than werewolves.Today he wore a doublet of midnight blue so dark it was almost black, with silver embroidery at the cuffs that caught the dim light in the room.He looked like an honourable lord, but I knew there was not a single drop of honour in his veins. And neither was he a lord.“You look like you're preparing to get executed,” he finally said, his voice light, almost amused. He moved closer and set the tray down on the low stool. On it sat a bowl of thick broth, a heel of white bread, and strangely, a small, wood

TITAN’S POVThe forest shouldn't be this quiet.Mmm.Something's off. I can sense it.I had ridden through battlefields, through burning villages, through the kind of silence that follows a massacre. But this??This was definitely different.This silence was intended. Somewhat watchful.Like something big was holding its breath, waiting to see what we would do next.I pulled my horse to a stop at the edge of the tree line, raising my fist to halt the men behind me.Viktor drew up beside me without being asked, which already annoyed me.“Fucking bastard,” I uttered.“We are being watched,” he murmured, his eyes scanning the darkness between the trees.“I know,” I said flatly.Sadly, I can sense it too.“BlackRiver scouts,” he added. “At least four. Two at your nine, one directly ahead, one circling from the east.”I didn’t ask how he knew. The fact that he did only irritated me further.Urghh.Alan nudged his horse forward on my other side, his voice low. “Do we engage?”“Not yet.” I k

TITAN’S POVI had imagined this moment a hundred times since leaving Wilder Pack.In some versions, Kari was calm while in others, she was pissed.In one part of my mind conjured up during a sleepless night on the road, she simply looked at me with those eyes and said nothing at all.Nothing could have prepared me for this.Gosh, she's so unpredictable.She burst through the treeline like something was chasing her, which, I would later get to know what it would be.Her hair was wild and tangled with leaves, her feet were bare and bleeding, and her dress was torn.And she was pregnant.It felt like a sharp knife was pierced in my heart.I knew. Viktor had told me. But knowing and seeing were two entirely different things, and the sight of her, rounded with a child, running through a dark forest with nothing but desperation written all over her face hit me somewhere deep and unforgiving.She stopped the moment she saw me.We stared at each other.It felt like the earth stopped spinnin

TITAN’S POVShe looked completely different.For some reason I felt chills run through my spine and I barely let anything or anyone make me feel intimidated.She looked like a ghost because she was standing right in front of me and I still couldn’t make myself believe she was real.Zoya.My sister.Alive??.She's actually alive.Damn.The last time I saw her, she was on the ground. Her black hair was fanned out around her head, her eyes were open but empty, and not a single breath was rising from her chest. I had held her body for hours, screaming out her name until my voice was gone and Alan had to physically pull me away from her body.I had buried her.I had stood at her grave and felt something inside me die alongside her.And now here she was, standing in the forest at midnight, smiling at me and for some reason, I couldn’t move. Couldn’t speak nor do anything except stand there with my sword hanging uselessly at my side like a man who had completely forgotten what hands were fo

VIKTOR’S POVI felt it before I could hear it.A sudden absence.My wolf felt it first, something is definitely wrong.Kari.I stopped my paws tearing up the earth as I spun around, giving up the pursuit to corner Zoya without a second thought.Zoya could wait. Zoya could have the whole forest if she wanted it.At this point, I could care less about her.Nothing else mattered.My woman comes first.I ran as fast as I could. I found her on the ground.She was on the ground, half hidden by the root that had caught her foot, one hand braced against the floor and the other pressed flat against her stomach. Her hair had fallen across her face and her shoulders were shaking with the effort of trying to push herself upright.I covered the distance in seconds, dropping to my knees beside her.“Kari.” My hands held her immediately, one at her back and one at her arm. “Talk to me. Where does it hurt?”“I’m fine,” she said in pain.“Kari.”“I’m fine, Viktor, I just..” She pushed the hair from