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Rejected By MY Alpha ~ Claimed By His Beta의 모든 챕터: 챕터 261 - 챕터 270

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Chapter 261

VIKTOR’S POVThe howling didn’t stop.It kept increasing, wolf after wolf, the sound kept layering on top of each other until the sound was less.I had Kari’s arm over my shoulder and my arm around her waist, moving as fast as she could manage toward the treeline where my men were waiting with the horses.“Viktor,” she said, breathless. “Something is happening back there.”“I know.”“We should..”“Should what??“We should get you to the horses,” I said firmly.“Urghh, Viktor”“Kari.” I stopped walking and turned to look at her. “You fell. You are bleeding from both feet. You have not slept properly in weeks. And you are carrying my child.” I looked at her. “Please. Let me get you safe first. Then I will go back.”She looked at me for a while. Then exhaled. “Fine. But you will come back.”“I always come back.”Mmm.. well you did come back for me so I guess that's okay.She didn’t look entirely convinced, but she let me move her forward.Cael was up between the trees ahead of us, his

Chapter 262

TITAN’S POVThe parchment came like a shock.I read it a third time, because apparently my brain needed three attempts to process information that should have been simple.Indira had escaped Zoya’s dungeon.Indira had returned to Wilder Pack.Indira had walked into my throne room, stood before my council, and declared herself Luna In my absence.And my council, my own council, the men I had fed and clothed and elevated with my own hands, had let her.I squeezed the parchment in anger.The rage that moves through me was far worse than any other emotion I've felt today. “How?” Viktor asked from beside me, reading the parchment over my shoulder without asking permission, which I didn’t have the energy to address right now.“Anar,” I said.“It had to be Anar. He was the one keeping her in that cell.”I looked at Zoya. “You left him in charge of her.”Zoya’s expression was unfazed. “I left him in charge of many things.”“Did you know he would let her go?”“I was in labour, Titan,” she sa

Chapter 263

KARI’S POVThe river crossing felt cold, dark water moving fast over smooth stones, with a narrow wooden bridge spanning the gap that looked like it had been built by someone who was either very brave or very stupid.Emphasis on the word “stupid.”Cael had found a fallen log on the bank and sat me down on it, which I appreciated more than I was willing to admit out loud.He had also produced a pair of thick wool socks from somewhere inside his saddlebag and handed them to me.I had put them on.I was not entirely successful.Now I sat with my feet wrapped, my hands folded over my stomach, and my eyes fixed on the treeline across the river, watching for movement.While waiting, the baby shifted, a slow rolling movement that pushed against my ribs from the inside.“I know,” I murmured.“I’m waiting for him too.”Cael was standing a few feet away, his back to me, giving me privacy I hadn’t asked for but was grateful for. The other men were posted at intervals along the bank.The forest

Chapter 264

VIKTOR’S POVThe cottage was two miles east, just as Zoya had said.It looked like the most peaceful place in the world.Which was deeply ironic given the circumstances.Zoya stopped at her house.She knocked twice. As she was about knocking the third time, the door opened, and a small, round-faced woman came out.She looked like she had been expecting the visit.She stepped aside without a word, and Zoya went inside.I stayed on my horse.Kari’s mare was beside mine, close enough that our knees were almost touching. She had been quiet since the river crossing, which wasn’t alarming in itself. Mmm..i wonder what could be troubling her.Kari had always been comfortable with silence, it was one of the things that had drawn me to her early on.But this silence felt different.“How long did you know?” she asked finally, her eyes still fixed on the cottage door.“About the child?”“Yes.”“I didn’t,” I said. “Not until tonight.”She was quiet for another moment. “And if you had known? B

Chapter 265

VIKTOR’S POVThe words made me scream.Bianca.Kari made a sound beside me that I felt in my chest before I heard it. I was off my horse before the rider finished speaking.“Who took her?” I demanded, grabbing the man’s bridle to steady his exhausted animal. “Who attacked Silvermoon?”The rider was still catching his breath, his hands shaking on the reins. “We don’t know the pack, my lord. They came from the west before dawn. Small unit, maybe thirty wolves. Fast and coordinated.” He swallowed. “They went straight for the main house.”Thirty wolves. This wasn’t a raid.This was planned.“Indira,” Titan said from behind me, his voice flat and certain.I turned to look at him.He was furious.“She knew Bianca was there. She knew Silvermoon was vulnerable without you.” He paused.“She’s sending a message.”“She’s taking a hostage,” I corrected.The distinction mattered.A message you could ignore. A hostage was leveraged, and Indira knew exactly how to use leverage. She's fuckimg sm

Chapter 266

ALAN’S POVI had made a mistake.Indira.I thought about her sitting in that throne room, yunno the way she had straightened my collar and looked up at me with those blue eyes of hers.My equal.My Beta. I was not a foolish man. I had survived years as Beta to one of the most volatile Alphas in the territory through a combination of intelligence, careful observation and the ability to know exactly when to speak and when to stay quiet.Mmm…something feels off.And right now, everything in me was saying stay quiet.But what if I was wrong to keep mute?Because somewhere between the clearing and this road, I had looked at Viktor pulling Kari carefully onto her horse.All I see is a man who would burn the world down for one person.I had looked at Titan, riding beside the sister he thought was dead, he looked more human than I had seen him in years.And I had thought about Indira, alone in a throne room that didn’t belong to her, with a plan that ended in blood.Oh boy!!.My hands tighte

Chapter 267

INDIRA’S POVThe morning came quietly.Grey light crept through the throne room windows, washing the gold out of everything and leaving it all looking pale and slightly tired, like a painting left too long in the sun.I had been awake since before dawn.I didn’t feel anxious. Anxiety was for people who hadn’t planned thoroughly enough, and I had been planning this for longer than anyone in this pack would ever know or credit me for.I stood at the window looking at the main courtyard, a cup of warm tea in my hands.Mm.. it tastes nice to be honest.Traders were setting up their stalls. Children running between the market posts. Wolves heading to the training grounds.They moved differently today.I could sense it.I noticed, because I had always noticed everything, it was the gift that compensated for everything else I had been denied.There was a hesitation in them. A slight, collective uncertainty that showed itself in the way they glanced at the throne room windows and looked aw

Chapter 268

KARI’S POVShe was heavier than I expected.Not in a bad way though.Lyra looked up at me with those wide, dark eyes that already seemed to hold more understanding than a newborn had any business possessing, and I looked back at her and tried to find the anger I was entitled to feel.I couldn’t find it.But still.“She’s beautiful,” I said. And I meant every word which surprised me a little.Zoya was very still beside me. “Yes,” she said quietly.I kept my eyes on Lyra, watching the way her tiny fingers flexed and curled against my arm, her whole body engaged in the serious business of existing. “She has his eyes,” I said. “Viktor’s eyes.”“I know.” Zoya’s voice was somewhat neutral. “It’s very irritating.”Urghh.I glanced at her sideways.She wasn’t looking at me. She was looking at her daughter.“Zoya,” I said.She turned to look at me, and I could see her preparing herself.“I’m not going to pretend that what you did was acceptable,” I said. “Because it wasn’t. It was terrible and

Chapter 269

ALAN’S POVThe thing about secrets was that they had weight.Weights that might kill if things are not taken care of.I had been carrying this particular secret since before we left Wilder Pack, and somewhere between the forest clearing and this road, it had gotten very heavy.I rode at the back of the column as I had been doing since the river crossing, maintaining the same careful distance I always kept when I needed to think without anyone reading my face.Titan was at the front, riding beside Zoya with the posture of a man who had made a decision and was now moving toward its consequences at a controlled, deliberate pace.Viktor and Kari were in the middle, close enough that their horses occasionally touched, that small, unconscious proximity of two people who had stopped noticing they were doing it because it had become entirely natural.And I was at the back.Watching all of it.Thinking.The problem with Indira was not that she was ruthless. Indira didn’t have that line.She h

Chapter 270

CHAPTER 270TITAN’S POVThe outer wall of Wilder Pack still looked the same.I had ridden through those gates hundreds of times. Returning from hunts, from council meetings, from border patrols that stretched for days.I had ridden through them as a boy on my first horse, too small for the saddle and too proud to admit it. Gosh, those memories were priceless.Those gates had always been mine.Looking at them now from the tree line, torches burning on either side in the grey afternoon light, I felt something I had never felt approaching my own home before.Resistance.Fear??.Nah.Not fear. I wanted to be clear about that, at least to myself. It was not fear.“The guard rotation is wrong,” Viktor said quietly beside me.I looked at the gates more carefully.He was right.Someone who knew enough about security to make changes that looked correct but were actually optimised for a different purpose entirely.Not keeping threats out.Managing who came in.“She’s been thorough,” I said.“

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