All Chapters of Rejected By The Alpha, Claimed by His Billionaire Brother: Chapter 81 - Chapter 88

The tear in the sky did not close.It widened.Not quickly.Not violently.Inevitably.Like a wound that had decided it no longer wished to pretend it could heal.Silver fire bled downward in slow streams, dripping from the Veil like molten starlight. Each drop that struck the ground didn’t splash.It hissed.Reality rejecting what didn’t belong.The courtyard had gone completely silent.No wolves spoke.No wind moved.Even the air felt suspended between heartbeats.Aria stood beneath the rupture, silver light still wrapped around her like a living crown that had learned to breathe.And she felt it.The pull.Not outward.Upward.Something on the other side of the Veil was aware of her now.Not curious.Not cautious.Interested.That was worse.“Aria,” Damien said again, quieter this time.Closer.He had moved beside her without her noticing.Not because she was distracted.Because the Crown had begun rearranging the way she felt the world.His presence didn’t anchor her anymore.It b

The forest had changed again.Not in the way storms changed landscapes, leaving splintered trees and raw earth. This change was quieter. Subtle. The kind that slipped under your skin before your mind caught up.The air felt thinner.Not cold, not warm. Just… wrong.Lena noticed it first. She stopped walking so suddenly that Kael nearly ran into her.“What is it?” he asked, his voice instinctively low.She didn’t answer immediately. Her eyes scanned the trees, not searching for movement but listening. Feeling.“The forest isn’t breathing,” she said finally.Arin frowned. “Forests don’t breathe.”“This one does.”Silence settled around them, thick as wool.For the first time since they entered the Veilwood, there were no birds. No insects. No rustle of hidden animals shifting beneath leaves. Even the wind had gone missing, as if it had decided this place was none of its business.Soren exhaled slowly. “That’s not good.”Lena nodded once. “We’re close.”No one asked close to what.They a

Arin couldn’t feel his hands.They were there. He could see them. Fingers slightly curled, trembling just enough to betray the storm inside him. But sensation had vanished, like his body had decided this moment was too sharp to touch.The forest pressed in, silent and listening.Kael’s words hung in the air between them, fragile and irreversible.Like it would recognize you back.Arin stared at him, searching for the punchline. The correction. The moment where Kael would shake his head and say he’d misspoken.It didn’t come.Instead, Kael just stood there, guilt heavy in his posture, like armor he couldn’t remove.And that hurt more than anything.---“You knew,” Arin said.The words didn’t come out loud.They came out hollow.Kael flinched like he’d been struck.“I knew pieces,” he said quietly. “Not everything.”“That’s not what I asked.”The forest felt smaller now. Like the trees were closing ranks, hemming them into a place where lies couldn’t breathe.Arin swallowed hard.“You k

Arin didn’t remember falling asleep.One moment he was staring into the fire, watching the embers pulse like slow heartbeats.The next, he was somewhere else.And he knew instantly this wasn’t a dream.---There was no forest.No fire.No night sky stitched with distant stars.Only fog.Thick, colorless, endless.It pressed against him from every direction, cold and damp, clinging to his skin like something alive.He turned slowly.Nothing.No Lena. No Kael. No Soren.Just silence.But not empty silence.Breathing silence.---Arin’s pulse spiked.He didn’t know how he knew.But he knew.The Hollow.---“Not yet,” he whispered, voice thin against the vastness.The fog didn’t respond.But it shifted.Subtly.Like it had heard him.---He took a step back.The ground felt wrong beneath his feet.Too smooth.Too still.Not earth.Not stone.Something older.Something that had forgotten what it meant to be touched by sunlight.---Then he heard it.A sound that wasn’t quite sound.A low,