All Chapters of The Alpha’s Discarded Bride: Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

CHRISTINEFor a few seconds after Kael finished speaking, I simply stared at him.His words hung in the air between us— ‘we bring Alpha Harlan Stone to his knees.’My fingers slowly tightened around the edge of the document, the idea sounded simple when he said it like that but the man he was talking about wasn’t just another Alpha.He was the man I had loved the man I had planned to spend the rest of my life with and the man who had shattered that future in front of an entire pack.I placed the paper back on the desk.“You’re asking me to turn my past into a weapon,” I said quietly and Kael didn’t look offended but amused.“I’m asking you to use your experience,” he corrected.“That experience involves a man I once trusted.”“And that same man publicly abandoned you.” His tone remained calm and his words still landed hard.I met with his gaze,“That doesn’t mean I want to destroy him.” I said and Kael leaned back slightly in his chair.“Interesting,” He remarked.His golden eyes stud

CHRISTINESleep didn’t come easily that night and every time I closed my eyes, I saw the same thing again.The document Kael had pushed across the desk, the search notice, my name printed clearly beneath the description and the quiet certainty in his voice when he said Moonfall was a difficult city for someone without allies.I rolled onto my back and stared at the ceiling of my room. Nathan was asleep in his own room already and I could hear his faint snore earlier, but sometime during the night even that sound had disappeared beneath the restless noise in my head.I suddenly felt a dull sensation in my chest. It was faint and almost like a memory.I knew it was the mate bond again.Weeks ago, that connection had felt like a living thread tying my heart to Harlan’s. Now it was distant and thin but it was still there which meant one thing.Somewhere out there, Harlan was still looking frantically for me, the search notice flying around the city is enough to prove that.I shut my eyes

KAELI opened the door to my office and stepped in while Darius, my beta, followed behind closely.I had just returned back from my pack after cleaning the mess the rogues who attacked my pack created. As much as becoming a ruler of Moonfall City was my greatest achievement, my own pack beyond the outskirts of this city was my main responsibility so I had to balance handling both effectively. “Give double compensation to the families of the deceased,” I said to Darius. “It will be done Alpha.”“Any news on the rogue who survived and escaped?” I asked and Darius’s expression hardened.“That one was fast and calculated , he knew exactly where to break formation and disappear.”I turned slightly, leaning one hand against the desk. “So you’re telling me this wasn’t a random intrusion.”“No,” Darius said simply and silence stretched “So someone sent them,” I said.Darius inclined his head. “Yes.”Yeah, I have enemies and I've received quite a number of attacks but this one seems diff

KAELSilence settled the moment the door closed behind Christine—not the empty kind, the kind that lingered shifted and stayed.I didn’t move immediately.My gaze remained on the door for a second longer than necessary as if I expected it to open again. As if she would walk back in and add something else like another condition and another calculated demand but she didn’t.Christine Hale didn’t strike me as someone who second-guessed her decisions.My fingers tapped once against the desk before stilling.‘I don’t work under you, I work with you.’ I replayed her words in my head and a faint, almost imperceptible smile tugged at the corner of my lips.Most people walked into this office with desperation, fear, need and negotiated from weakness but she hadn’t even right from the first day she had stepped into my office She had walked in with nothing and still demanded terms.My wolf stirred beneath my skin, not in warning but in recognition.I exhaled slowly and reached for the comm de

CHRISTINEMy chest tightened faintly not from pain but from something colder. Even now, nothing has changed.“I heard you left the pack entirely,” she went on,“You sold your properties and cut ties completely with us. That’s too impulsive Christine, you don’t need to go that far. Just come back so we can fix things.”Fix? The word felt almost ironic.“You were wronged at the ceremony,” she added quickly. “I won’t deny that but we can make up for it. We’ll arrange another one properly, this time even bigger and better. If you’re worried, you and Harlan can formalize the bond first, and we’ll take our time with everything else.”I closed my eyes briefly just for a second. A month ago, those words might have broken and softened me but not anymore, they meant nothing.“He’s been out every day searching for you,” she continued. “He’s barely eating, barely sleeping and he’s lost so much weight.”A soft, quiet laugh slipped out of me before I could stop it. It wasn’t out of amusement but ho