Killed and Reborn: My Alpha’s Obsession のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 31 - チャプター 40

*Aria*By the time I reached the ravine again, I’d already broken three promises and one vow—two to Rhea, one to Lucian, and one to myself.*I won’t come back here.*That had lasted less than a day.The forest swallowed the manor behind me in slow degrees. Each step took me further from stone and firelight and into the dark tangle of roots and branches. The moon rode higher tonight, sharp and white, its light splintering through the bare limbs to dapple the forest floor.The air felt different this time.Thicker.Charged, like the hum in the air before lightning opens the sky.I followed the same narrow deer path down, cloak drawn close, boots silent as I could make them. My senses strained for every twig snap, every shifting shadow. The stream’s faint burble reached me first, then the cooler gust of air from the ravine’s dip.I slowed at the edge of the clearing, heart thudding.The last time I’d stood here, I’d walked away with my world inverted and a second offer of escape burning

*Aria*For a heartbeat, I forgot how to breathe.Kade’s mouth hovered a breath away from mine, his knuckles resting against the side of my neck, thumb a whisper from my pulse. The ravine, the trees, the stream—all of it blurred into the dark hum of his presence.*Tell me, little Luna. When he crowds you against his desk and says ‘choose me’… do you want to?*Lucian’s face flashed in my mind. His hand on my throat in another life. His hand on my neck today, gentler, trembling.I did the only thing I could that didn’t involve tumbling headfirst into the wrong answer.I put my hand on Kade’s chest.Solid muscle met my palm through the thin fabric of his shirt—heat, strength, a steady beat under my touch. It should have felt only physical.It didn’t.Something flickered under my skin, a faint, unnerving echo of what I felt when I touched Lucian. A thrum, low and unfamiliar, like the ghost of a chord I almost recognized.My fingers curled reflexively.For a terrifying second, I thought lig

*Aria*He looked like winter and war and every bad decision I’d ever made, all wrapped into one man, standing in a corridor that suddenly felt too narrow to hold both of us.His eyes were wrong.Not black.Not cursed.Just blazing gold, sharp as a blade in low light.“You smell like him,” Lucian said.The words hit harder than a shout.He hadn’t raised his voice.He didn’t need to.The quiet was worse.My fingers curled involuntarily in my cloak.“I went walking,” I said, forcing my tone steady. “The wind shifts. Scents travel.”His jaw flexed.He stepped closer.Not close enough to touch yet, but close enough that the heat of him brushed my skin, close enough that I had to tilt my head back a fraction to keep his eyes.He inhaled once, slow and deliberate.His nostrils flared.The muscles in his neck tightened.“Nightfang,” he said, low and lethal. “You reek of Nightfang.”Guilt stabbed me, sharp and immediate.Kade’s mouth on mine. His hand at my throat. His scent, wild and cold

*Aria*Sleep, and I stopped pretending to be friends.Every time I closed my eyes, I felt one of them.Kade’s mouth—quick, wild, sharp with amusement and danger.Lucian’s mouth—hard, consuming, desperate, tasting like everything he’d been denying for months.I lay in the dark, fingers resting lightly on my lips, and hated how my body couldn’t tell the difference between sin and salvation.My mind did.My mind whispered, "You are kissing men who could destroy you without meaning to. You are kissing men who already have.*My chest ached.I rolled onto my side, dragging the blanket with me, staring at the faint line of moonlight on the floor.*What am I becoming? Someone who bends for any wolf who wants me?*The thought was acid.I flinched away from it.That wasn’t fair.I had reached for both of them.I had chosen.Badly.Refusing to see that would only make me a liar to myself.Dawn came far too early, gray light seeping in around the curtains, dragging me up whether I wanted it or no

*Aria*Silence dropped over the clearing like a net.Kade’s taunt hung in the cold air:*“Why don’t you tell us who you’d rather stand beside?”*Below, the Nightfang wolves smirked, some openly, some with just the edges of their mouths.On our side, Blackmoon warriors bristled, jaws clenched, hands flexing as if they were already slamming Kade into the nearest tree.Lucian stood at their front, a solid wall of fury and control.His eyes were blazing.Not black.Not cursed.Gold, bright and hot, his wolf so close to the surface I could practically feel its breath on my face up here on the ridge.“Aria,” Rhea hissed beside me. Her fingers dug harder into my sleeve. “We need to go. Right now. While they’re busy posturing, we slip back. You were never here.”I tore my gaze from the two Alphas below and looked at her.Fear flashed in her eyes.Not for herself.For me.For what would happen to *all* of us if this moment went wrong.“I can’t keep hiding in the trees,” I murmured. “Not anymor