All Chapters of The Rejected Plump Mate Was Pregnant : Chapter 101 - Chapter 110

Raven's POV I stayed at the school library longer than I meant to that evening. I had a paper due at the end of the week and I had been so focused on everything with Jake and Alaric that I had barely touched it, so I sat there until the librarian started turning off the lights in the back section. That was when I packed up and headed out. It was dark outside, but not completely dark. The kind of evening where you can still see everything clearly, but the sky has gone that deep grey color that means full dark is coming soon. The street lamps were already on along Birch road which was the route I always took, because it was the most direct way back to the Thorne house. I had my bag over one shoulder and my phone in my hand. I was thinking about the paper and about whether Alaric had eaten because he had a habit of skipping dinner when he was deep in research mode. I was going to text him when I got to the corner, but I didn't get to the corner. I heard it before I saw it. Even then,

Raven's POV The first thing I noticed was the ceiling. Then the smell and the dull heavy pull low on my stomach told me something had happened to my body while I was out. Whatever it was, it was not small. I turned my head slowly and the room came into focus. White walls, a window with pale light coming through it, a monitor beside the bed making a soft, steady sound. Right next to the bed was a bassinet, and inside was a baby wrapped in a white blanket. He was breathing and he was real. I stared at him for a moment because my brain needed a second to catch up with what my eyes saw. My son. He was here and he was okay. I felt something in my chest loosen slightly because of that. Then I looked around the rest of the room and that was when I saw Dante. He was sitting in the chair across the room with his legs crossed and his hands folded in his lap. He was watching me with an expression I couldn't quite read. Not warm exactly, but not cold either. Somewhere in the middle like h

Raven's POV I spent most of the next morning watching the door and trying not to make it obvious, but every time footsteps came down the corridor, I looked up. Every time it wasn't the young nurse, I looked back down at my son and told myself to be patient. Dante came at ten, like he had the two mornings before. He brought coffee for himself, sat down, and talked to me for a while about the baby's feeding schedule and what the nurse had told him about my recovery progress. I let him talk because engaging with him took energy I didn't have to spare right now. He left before noon and about twenty minutes after that, the young nurse came in, but she didn't say anything straight away. She just checked my monitor and adjusted the IV. Then she leaned closer and said quietly, "He got the message." I felt something in my chest shift. "When." "This morning," she said. "My contact passed it through last night and Lord Thorne responded within the hour." "What did he say?" I said. She s

Alaric's POV I had not slept properly since the night they walked me to the border and I was not going to pretend otherwise. Every time I closed my eyes, I thought about Raven in that hospital and my son in a room full of people who had no real reason to care about either of them, and that thought would not let me rest for longer than an hour at a time. My father had been working through his contacts since that first night. I had been building my own list alongside his, going through every warrior I had a real relationship with. It wasn't professional courtesy, but actual loyalty. The kind that held up when things got complicated. Men who understood what it meant to choose a side and stay on it. By the third day, I had a group of eleven men who had quietly confirmed they would follow my lead when the time came. I was on the phone with my father that morning when his contact inside the hospital passed word through that Raven was being discharged. She had arranged her own exit th

Luella's POV I heard about the ceremony from my mother, who heard about it from one of her contacts in the pack. She came into my room, stood in the doorway, and said, "He announced it this afternoon." I was sitting on my bed. I looked at her and said, "What did you say?" "Dante announced a mating ceremony with Raven," she said. "One week from today at the pack hall." I stared at her, and she stared back. Neither of us said anything for a moment. Then I said, "He can't do that." "He already did," she said. She left after that and I sat on my bed for a long time. Now Dante was going to stand in a pack hall in a week to make Raven his mate, while I sat under pack arrest in my mother's house. I went to Jake the next morning through the same contact who had let him in to see me before. I sat across from him and said, "You have to help me stop this." Jake looked at me with that expression he always had, where you could never tell what he was thinking. Then he said, "What exactly d