All Chapters of Rejected in Winter: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

First-Person POV:"Seraphina, it's been ten years." Axel Ravenscar's voice cut cold across the birthday celebration. "I gave you everything. I opened my heart to you and gave you a home, yet how did you repay me?"He pointed at Vanessa Nightshade beside him, his hand trembling. "Just because I found my fated mate, you went and threw yourself at some Rogue on my birthday? You make me sick!""No! Axel!" I crawled toward him through my tears."I was set up! I opened my eyes and I was already there... Please, you have to believe me...""Believe you?" His eyes were bloodshot, but he laughed bitterly. He threw a stack of photos in my face.The photos showed 'me' in the woods and in the stables, tangled up with different male wolves."No... These are fake... They were edited! Axel! I've never even been to these places!""Fake?" Axel descended the stairs step by step, closing in on me."When that intelligence leak got six of my best friends killed, the investigation pointed to you. Yo

The stone floor of the dungeon felt like ice, but my heart was colder. My stomach hurt like it was being torn apart by knives. Axel's kick had been brutal.I curled up, trying to protect the pup that might already be gone.In the darkness, there was only the sound of dripping water. It reminded me of that snowy night ten years ago.Before that night, I was the daughter of the Moonshadow pack's Alpha. After that night, the pack was destroyed, and I was the only one left.I crawled out from under a pile of bodies and found Axel. For some reason, he was barely alive too. He was covered in blood with his chest torn open.Maybe it was because we were both on the brink of death, but I used my frozen hands to dig him out bit by bit. I carried him on my back across the wilderness, running from those who hunted us. I chewed herbs and fed them to him, and I used my body to keep him warm.When he woke up, he only said one thing. "From now on, my life is yours."Later, he became the Alpha o

Third-Person POV:The study door burst open.Leon stumbled in, practically crawling. "Alpha! This is terrible! Seraphina escaped!""What?" Axel shot to his feet, his chair toppling over. "We had all those guards. How could they lose one half-dead she-wolf?""She... She faked unconsciousness!" Leon cried out. "After we drained her blood, she knocked out the nurse, stole medicine, and jumped out the window! She must have been planning this the whole time! She's fleeing from justice, Alpha!""Fleeing from justice... Good. Very good." A storm of rage swirled in Axel's eyes.He had actually been considering sneaking down to see her in the middle of the night after she got her blood drawn. He would bring her some proper medicine. After all, she had looked so weak. However, now he learned that she had fled? She had made use of his moment of softness and betrayed him yet again?"Issue the order!" Axel's voice turned as cold as ice. "Lock down the entire territory! Send out the highe

When he reached the healer's quarters, Axel grabbed the head healer by the collar."Tell me how a she-wolf who just miscarried, broke her ribs, and had 800 milliliters of blood drained managed to knock out guards and escape!"The head healer trembled. "She... She pulled out the needle after the blood draw and jumped out the window..."A young healer nearby said quietly, "Didn't she knock people out before running?"The stories did not match.Just then, Leon rushed over, wiping sweat from his brow as he explained, "Alpha, it was so chaotic at the time. We must have gotten confused… Besides, I suspect she had an accomplice! It must have been that Rogue! He snuck in and rescued her during the chaos!""Right! She definitely had help! Otherwise, she couldn't have escaped!" The other healers quickly agreed.Axel said nothing. He touched the notebook in his coat. It was still warm against his chest.He might have trusted the wrong ones before—and paid the price for it. From now on, he

The blizzard cut across his face like knives, but Axel felt no pain. He tore through the snow and rushed toward the Forbidden Forest like a madman."Seraphina!"The wind scattered his shouts into nothing.Drag marks were seen on the ground. Though snow covered them, the blood trail stood out like a red serpent, stretching all the way to the cliff's edge.That was his Seraphina, drained of blood and dragged here like garbage.Axel collapsed to his knees at the cliff's edge. Below stretched a bottomless dark pit, filled only with wind that sounded like wailing ghosts."No... No..."He reached out, trying to grab the figure that had fallen, but there was nothing—only cold snow.Suddenly, the wind carried a filthy scrap of cloth. It caught on a dead branch at the cliff's edge.Axel's pupils constricted. He crawled over while trembling. Ignoring the thorns that tore his hands, he grabbed it.A handkerchief. Though caked with mud and frozen blood, he recognized it instantly. It was