All Chapters of His Rejected Mate, His Obsession: Chapter 11 - Chapter 17

Chase.She was here.Kiara was here.Alive.Not dead.Not missing.Not even a rumor.Right there. Standing in front of me in that black dress with her measuring tape, like the past didn’t exist.Like she hadn’t shattered everything.The second I saw her, everything slammed back into me. The room. The bed. The betrayal. The rejection. The look on her face when I said the words.I’d tried so hard to forget.I really thought I’d buried her.I thought she was gone. I let myself believe it. Told myself over and over that she didn’t exist anymore.And now—Now she was standing here like nothing ever happened.She looked tired. Smaller than I remembered.Yet still beautiful. God, still beautiful.And that pissed me off more than anything.How dare she still look like that?How dare she still stir something in me just by standing there?She held the measuring tape like it was the only thing keeping her steady. Her eyes glanced over my body, slow, calculating.“Could I help you out of the jack

CHASEI walked into my bedroom, numb, my mind all over the place. I hadn’t expected to see Kiara today. I hadn’t even expected to ever see her again.I thought I was done. I thought I had buried the past. I thought what she did to me didn’t matter anymore.But the second I saw her face, everything I’d locked away for six goddamn years exploded in my chest like it never left.She betrayed me. She humiliated me.And now what? She had a kid?A kid. Which meant she might be married. Living her life. Doing just fine while I was stuck in this limbo.It was like none of it ever meant anything to her. Like I never meant anything.I sank into a chair, gripping the edge, trying not to let the thoughts drown me, but they were louder than ever. The image of her holding that little boy. His eyes. His smile. That kid didn’t just exist. That kid belonged to her.The woman who once begged me to love her. Who once looked at me like I was the only one.Now she had someone else. She’d moved on.And I fe

CHASEI sat across from Keagan Farkas. Kiara and Kylie’s father. I hadn’t been expecting him at all today, hadn’t even wanted to see anyone, but he’d shown up unannounced, saying he had something urgent to talk about.The moment he sat down and looked at me with that fatherly seriousness, I already knew what this was about.But still, I waited. Let him say it. Let him be the one to bring it up.“Alpha, I apologize for showing up like this without prior notice, but I couldn’t wait any longer. This is about my daughter. I need to clear a few things up,” he said, voice calm but heavy.There it was.The second he said daughter, I knew exactly where this was headed.“It’s no problem. What do you want to talk about?” I asked with a polite smile, but I wasn’t interested. I already knew what he was going to say, and I was already tired of hearing it.It was the same thing. Over and over.“Well, actually… you and Kylie have been engaged for six years now. I didn’t say much before because I und

KIARASix years ago, I almost died. If Chavez and Summer hadn’t found me when they did, if they hadn’t taken me in, helped me, believed me, then my son and I… we wouldn’t be alive today. Not like this. Not breathing. Not surviving.“Please be careful in whatever you do, Kiara. Don’t let yourself get hurt again,” Summer added softly.I nodded, even though the weight in my chest was already pulling me under. “I’m going to be careful,” I promised her.But even as I said it, I knew it was a lie.……Because I couldn’t stop thinking about Chase. No matter how much I told myself I would be careful, I couldn’t shut my mind off. I couldn’t stop being curious. I couldn’t stop wondering what his life had been like. What he’d been doing. Who he’d become.For six years I stayed away. Six years I buried every question, every thought. I never tried to find out anything about him. Or my parents. Not a word. I didn’t let myself.But now?Now I was cracking.He looked fine when I saw him. Better than f