All Chapters of Killed and Reborn: My Alpha’s Obsession : Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

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CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE _ The Alpha’s Weakness[Part 1]

*Aria*The map felt heavier than paper should.It sat folded and hidden in the seam of my dress, a quiet weight against my hip as I moved through the manor, an awareness that tugged at my thoughts every few steps.Border. River. X.Future.I’d barely slept after finding it. My mind had spun too fast—north, cabin, witch, Nightfang, Lucian’s face when the curse punished him for even trying to say where it began.By morning, the decision had settled in me like a stone in a riverbed.I was going to that cabin.I didn’t know when. I didn’t know how.But I knew I would.The house hummed with a different kind of tension today. You could feel it in the clipped way servants spoke, in the restless pacing of warriors outside, in the low burr of voices coming from behind the closed council room doors.Something had shifted.Rogues at the border. A cursed Alpha losing control in the heart of his manor.People were afraid.And people who were afraid talked.I had halfway intended to go straight t

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO_ The Alpha’s Weakness[Part 2]

Which are you choosing?” he asked.“Today?” I said. “Beside you, I think. Maybe a step in front of the elders if they get too smug.”The corner of his mouth twitched.“I’d have paid gold to see Maera’s face,” he murmured.“She called me an anchor or an anvil,” I said. “I wasn't sure which.”He snorted.“She would,” he said. “What did you tell her?”“That I’m your Luna,” I said simply.Silence stretched between us for a long, charged beat.He exhaled slowly.“You are,” he said. “More than I deserve.”The map in my dress crackled faintly as I shifted, the reminder of my secret plan a small, sharp sting.Deserve had nothing to do with any of this.We were long past deserved outcomes.I dragged my focus back to the reason I’d come here.“Last night,” I said, pulling the extra chair nearer to sit across from him instead of hovering like a visitor. “We need to talk about what happened.”His shoulders stiffened.“Which part?” he asked. “The part where I almost tore my room apart, or the part

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE _ Letter to a Devil[Part 1]

*Aria*Maps were liars.On parchment, the distance from Blackmoon Manor to the northern border was a handful of inches, a neat curve of river meeting a thick black line, a cluster of little inked trees and a tiny XIn reality, it was miles of forest and patrol routes, scent lines, and unspoken rules. Wolves on constant watch. Elders who liked to know exactly where the cursed Alpha’s Luna was at all times.I stood in front of the big wall map in Lucian’s war room, fingers hovering just shy of the ink, and felt the lie of those inches like an itch under my skin.Alone, I might have slipped out.In my old life—the one where I was more shadow than person—I’d learned all the quiet paths in and out of my parents’ estate. Which floorboards didn’t creak, which windowsills were narrow but passable.Here, though?I had guards now. Not officially assigned, but always there all the same.Eyes that followed me down corridors. Warriors who “happened” to be at the foot of the stairs when I wanted ai

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR _ Letter to a Devil[Part 2]

I’ve got patrol in an hour,” she said. “I can swing north, close enough to make this look standard perimeter. I’ll slip it into the hollow and be back before anyone whose opinion I about asks questions.”“Anyone whose opinion you care about,” I repeated. “What about the ones you don’t?”She grinned, fierce.“They’re welcome to spar with me about it later,” she said. “I could use the practice.”“You’re going to get yourself in trouble for me,” I said.“Wouldn’t be the first time,” she replied. “This one just has more ink.”She clapped my shoulder, a brief, grounding touch.“Stay close until I get back,” she added. “If this goes sideways, I want you where I can find you.”“Sideways how?” I asked.Her expression turned briefly, brutally honest.“If Lucian realizes his Luna is sending secret notes to the border, he’ll start howling,” she said. “And the elders will use that to paint you as a traitor.”My stomach lurched.“I’m not betraying him,” I said sharply.“I know that,” she replied

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE _ Tempting Fate[Part 1]

*Aria*By morning, the forest had new eyes.You could feel them in the way the air pressed against the windows, in the restless pacing of the warriors outside, in the tight way everyone held themselves—as if expecting something to lunge out of the shadows at any moment.I woke from a thin, fractured sleep with my heart already pounding, the memory of charcoal on stone vivid behind my eyes.A circle. Three lines through it. The mark of the witch.Nightfang had answered.Not with words.With a symbol.An agreement.An invitation.An I see you.Rhea had not come back yet when I finally pushed off the blanket and sat up. Judging by the color of the sky at the window—pale gray, clouds like dirty wool—it was early, but not obscenely so. The manor was already stirring.I washed quickly, dressed faster, fingers fumbling once over the seam where the map usually lay. I left it hidden in the bottom of my chest instead. Taking it with me today felt like tempting fate twice.The corridor outsi

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX _Tempting Fate[Part 2]

The words sank into me like hooks.Hot, heavy.My heart slammed against his hand.“Lucian,” I said, not sure if it was a plea or warning.His eyes were molten now, gold rimmed in shadow, focused entirely on me.“You think this curse is my only weakness,” he said. “It’s not. You are. You make it quiet. You make the elders listen when they’d rather sneer. You walk into my nightmares and drag me out. And then you go and write letters to wolves who would love to see me on my knees.” His thumb brushed higher, along the edge of my jaw. “What am I supposed to do with that, except try to keep you where I can see you breathe?”I swallowed.“You’re not the only one who’s afraid,” I said, voice so soft I barely heard it. “Of them. Of the witch. Of… you.”The last word came out on a whisper.His hand tightened slightly on my neck, not enough to hurt, just enough to anchor.His eyes darkened with something like pain.“I will never intentionally harm you again,” he said, each syllable like a vow ca

CHAPTER TWENTY‑SEVEN _The Wolf at the Border

*Aria*The manor felt like it was holding its breath.Wolves moved through the halls quicker than usual, their voices pitched low, and their ears tuned north. Trays rattled faintly in servants’ hands. Every open window seemed to inhale and exhale the same thin, cold air from the border.I knew before anyone said a word that something had shifted.By the time I reached the training yard, Rhea was already there, blade in hand, moving through a slow series of cuts that looked more like meditation than attack. Her focus was turned inward, but the tight set of her mouth gave her away.“Rhea,” I called.She finished her strike, held the final position a beat too long, then relaxed and turned.“Luna,” she said, wiping sweat from her brow with the back of her forearm. “You’re up early. Nerves?”“Yes,” I said. “And no. What happened?”Her eyes flicked toward the manor, then to the tree line beyond the yard, then back to me.“You heard something?” she asked.“I heard scouts muttering about bein

CHAPTER TWENTY‑EIGHT _The Alpha’s Fury

*Aria*They didn’t drag me by the arms.They didn’t have to.Darius walked just ahead of me, shoulders tight, and every line of his body broadcasting barely leashed disapproval. Rhea paced at my side, jaw clenched, eyes flicking between the trees and my face as if expecting Lucian to appear out of both.The walk back to the manor took half the time it had taken to leave.It's funny how anger sped a path.By the time the outer walls rose through the trees, looming gray and solid against the winter‑pale sky, my heartbeat had finally slowed from a gallop to something like a sprint.Inside the courtyard, the usual morning bustle stuttered as we entered.Servants carrying baskets of linens paused mid‑step.A pair of younger warriors sparring to one side let their practice blows falter, eyes cutting toward us, toward me, toward Darius’s thunderous expression.“Luna,” someone murmured.“Is she—?”“Alpha’s going to—”The whispers cut off as Darius snapped, “Clear the hall.”Like a flock of st

CHAPTER TWENTY‑NINE _ Answer from the North[Part 1]

*Aria*The manor had a way of pretending nothing had happened.By afternoon, the corridors bustled with their usual rhythm: servants carrying trays and linens, warriors moving in purposeful lines, elders conferring in low tones. The scent of stew drifted from the kitchens. Someone laughed too loudly near the common room.But underneath it all, tension hummed like a low note.Lucian’s temper prowled these halls, even when he wasn’t in sight.Kade’s presence prowled the border, even when no one could see him.And I… prowled the edges of my own thoughts, circling the same questions.*You talk of leaving. But I’m already chained to you.* *Then choose me, Aria.* *Stop giving me reasons to run—or someone else might give me reasons to stay.*Brave words were cheap when your heart was still racing from the feel of his breath on your skin.Rhea stuck close for the rest of the day.Not obtrusively—she wasn’t Darius, looming over my shoulder like a disapproving statue—but she was always ther

CHAPTER THIRTY_ Answer from the North[Part 2]

Good.The kitchen corridor still held the day’s warmth.The ovens banked low.A couple of sleepy assistants wiped down tables, too tired to notice a cloaked figure slipping by the back door.The night air hit my face like a slap.Cold.Clean.Alive.I pulled the cloak tighter around my shoulders and stepped into the dark.The moon hung higher now, silvering the tops of the trees.Shadows stretched long and deep between trunks.Every instinct screamed at me to turn back.Behind you is a cursed Alpha who at least *tries* not to hurt you. It hissed. Ahead is a man who smiled at you from a border like you were dessert.I walked forward anyway.“If I’m walking into the wolf’s jaws,” I whispered to the night, “at least this time, I’m the one deciding.”The path to the ravine wasn’t the main patrol route.Rhea’s training had shown me the side tracks—the deer trails and hunters’ paths that skirted the usual patrol lines without leaving me truly alone in the wild.I followed one of those now.

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