All Chapters of Rejected By The Beta, Claimed By The Alpha King: Chapter 181 - Chapter 184

I paced the length of my office, claws tearing into the carpet with each step. Ares paced with me, his obsidian presence so close to the surface that black fur rippled across my hands, canines pushing against my bottom lip as I fought to maintain even partial control. Three days. Three days since Amelia had run, since I’d watched her disappear into the forest with tears streaming down her face. And now, the night of the second blood moon, we still had nothing.Not a trace of Amelia. Not a single lead on Sera or Sam. Nothing but empty rooms, hollow explanations, and the growing certainty that every second we wasted in the palace was another second Amelia spent in the hands of the Voice.I slammed my fist into the wall, plaster cracking beneath the blow. Pain lanced up my arm, a momentary distraction from the fear that had been eating me alive since I’d watched Amelia’s copper hair disappear between the trees.

We found her in a clearing less than two miles from the palace, kneeling in the soft earth with the blood moon directly overhead. For one terrible moment, I thought she was dead; her body too still, her copper hair hanging in a tangled curtain around her face. Then Ares’s senses caught the faintest rise and fall of her chest, the barest whisper of her heartbeat, and my world narrowed to a single, desperate point.Amelia.My mate, my queen, naked and alone in the middle of a forest clearing, her skin painted in bruises and cuts that made something in my chest twist with protective rage. She knelt perfectly still, not even shivering despite the cool night air, her arms limp at her sides, her head bowed as if in submission.I shifted back, running before the transformation had fully completed, crossing the clearing in desperate strides that ate up the distance between us. Behind me, I heard Dominic bark orders to the guards, establishing a perimeter, calling