All Chapters of Rejected By The Beta, Claimed By The Alpha King: Chapter 81 - Chapter 84

I stepped through the massive doors into the throne room, feeling hundreds of eyes turn toward me. The space stretched before me like a midnight river—obsidian floors reflecting silver banners, crystal chandeliers casting prismatic light across ancient stone walls. At the far end stood Lukas, resplendent in his ceremonial attire, his crown catching light as he watched me begin my approach. Beside him, High Priest Edmundson waited in his traditional purple robes, his ancient face solemn with the weight of ceremony. The gathered crowd rose as one at my entrance, wolves who had once looked down on me as a servant now standing in respect as I walked the path to my coronation. Athena stirred within me, her presence warm and fierce. 'Our time,' she whispered. 'Our destiny.'Each step carried me farther from the girl I had been—the orphan rejected by her adoptive pack, the servant who had scrubbed these very floors on her hands and knees. I kept my chin high, my gaze focused on Lu

The dust had hardly settled from my coronation before another celebration loomed. Four days since I'd knelt before the kingdom, accepting the crown not as Luna but as Alpha Queen, and already the supermoon – the wolf moon – was upon us. I hadn't even realized its approach until Lukas mentioned the preparations over breakfast, his fingers tracing casual patterns on the back of my hand as he outlined the traditional festivities. My life had become a blur of ceremonies, judgments, and adaptations, each day bringing new challenges that the servant girl I'd been mere months ago could never have imagined facing."The wolf moon celebration?" I repeated, watching steam rise from my coffee cup. "That's tomorrow?"Lukas nodded, his ice-blue eyes crinkling slightly at the corners. "The first supermoon of the year. It's... significant." He hesitated, studying my face. "Normally there would be weeks of preparation, but with your coronation—""Everything got compressed," I finished for him. My coro