All Chapters of Owned By The Rogue Alpha : Chapter 131 - Chapter 140

LAYLA Three months later.Peace.That used to sound like a joke. Some far-off fantasy I didn’t dare believe in. But now it was real.There were no more whispers behind my back. No icy stares in the hallway. No fake smiles hiding daggers. Just quiet. Warmth. I had peace and it was all that mattered. I stepped into my garden.I held a small, fancy basket as I picked fresh, sweet scented white and blue flowers.Simple. Peaceful. I even caught myself humming — like actually humming. I hadn’t done that in years. Everything connecting me to Drake was gone and I had forgotten all about the fear and sufferings.The garden looked alive. Blooming. Full. Just like the pack.Del had kept his promise. Honestly, I didn’t expect him to do it all, not like this. But he did. He fought for me. For all of us. He rebuilt what they tried to destroy. The court? Cleaned out. The snakes? Gone. The people? Laughing again. Kids ran by the riverbanks, wolves hunted without fear, and I breathed again, I had pea

DEL MORINO I stood by the window, overlooking the pack house and my thoughts millions of miles away. I had woken up even before the sun did and stood here thinking, a tumbler in my hand, the amber liquid burning my throat as I gulped it all down.Last night was everything I wanted and I still wanted to lie beside her, really wanted to but unease lies the head that wears the crown and I needed to be done with all of this pack issues once and for all and go for that vacation she nagged me about.I set the glass down very hard but not enough to wake Layla then I turned and left. There was tension rising in the South Eastern packs and we need to do something about it real quickI took the stairs too at a time and passed the guards stiff at their positions. They bowed when they saw me coming.I was followed closely behind by ten guards, each armed and ready. We took the stairs to the big building where all pack related matters were held and as I pushed the door open, as expected all eyes

LAYLA It was painful and heartbreaking to watch him choose another.I told Nira I felt sick. I said I had a headache, I even tried lying, said I had a fever, maybe the flu, maybe worse. Something that would let me disappear for a day, just one damn day.“The pack will start talking, they will call you wicked and jealous.” She said, “Please, just go. Be in attendance.”Because no matter what Del did, no matter how far he pushed me aside, how much he distanced himself, I was still his mate.Not by court title, not in name.But by bond, by history, by pain and fire and everything we’d clawed through together.So I got dressed.Nira helped me into a light blue gown. It used to be my favorite. Pale as the morning sky. Flowing, soft, gentle on the skin. I used to feel beautiful in it.Now?It just felt tight at the chest. Like it was choking me. It was too heavy around the shoulders, too fragile around the waist. Like a costume meant for someone else.My hands were shaking the entire time

LAYLA I didn’t go to the garden.For like… two days. Maybe three?I lost track, honestly. Everything just blurred.After the ceremony, after that moment, Del stood there beside her, smiling like I didn’t exist… like I was invisible… something inside me just broke. Or maybe it had already broken and that was just the final snap.I couldn’t eat.I couldn’t cry either. I drove all my maids away and prepared my sauna bath myself and stayed on the floor, crying myself to sleep Thinking absolutely nothing but feeling everything.Nira came in at some point. Dropped some clean towels on the table. She didn’t say a word. Didn’t look at me.Or maybe she did. I don’t know. I wasn’t looking at her either.I think people get tired of comforting someone who always loses.This morning, though... something felt different.I don’t even know what changed. The sun was coming in through the window, like it always does. But for once, it didn’t feel like it was mocking me.I stretched. My bones ached. My

AURELIA Dinner went fine, I guess.Del was polite. Sat beside me. Nodded when I spoke. Poured me wine once, which was okay, it was something.But I don't know if he is pissing me off or what because tell me why his face was as hard as concrete and he kept looking straight ahead like he was slowly going crazy. But he smiled once when I told him that I was very good at archery.So yeah. That’s progress, right?Layla didn’t show. Obviously. After the whole garden scene, she was probably hiding in some corner, crying or writing poetry or whatever she does to make people feel sorry for her.Del didn’t say her name or try to tell me some silly story about their love or even ask the maids why she wasn't at dinner and that was the best part. Like, maybe he’s finally seeing me. Not her. Me. His Luna even though I still had the concubine title on me.And the council? They already noticed me and they were watching us. Nodding and approving. Like we made sense. Like I belonged there beside him.