Todos os capítulos de The Alpha Rejected His Bride For Me: Capítulo 71 - Capítulo 80

 (Kai POV)The door closed and I stood there looking at it.My knuckles were throbbing. I pressed my fist against my thigh and breathed.Julian came in without knocking, looked at the wall, looked at my hand, and went to pour himself a drink without being asked."Well," he said."Don't.""I haven't said anything.""You're about to." I went to the window. Outside the compound was moving through its evening routine, guards rotating, lights coming on, everything indifferent and continuous. "She went to Varden.""I know.""She crossed into their territory and stayed for days and said nothing to anyone.""Yes.""While I was in the borderland every morning. While I stood at that marker." I stopped. "She was sitting inside Walter's compound the whole time."Julian sat down and turned his glass in his hands. "Harrison sent fake delegates to Varden while she was there."I

(Lena POV)Mira was sitting on the ground outside the gate with her back against the compound wall and her phone face-down in her lap, and she stood up the moment she saw me coming through."You were in there for a long time," she said."I know."She looked at my face and didn't ask anything else, just fell into step beside me and we walked away from the compound and into the Lowlands street without discussing where we were going, because there was only one place to go and we both knew it.The evening had gone cool and the street was mostly quiet, a few lights on in windows, someone's radio coming through a wall somewhere, a dog moving along the fence line ahead of us and disappearing into a yard. Mira put her arm through mine and we walked like that, her shoulder against mine, and I didn't say anything and she didn't make me."Are you staying," she said, when we turned onto Theo's lane."For a while," I said. "I'm not going back to the compound tonight."She nodded. "I'll get your th

 (Theo POV)I left Danny to spread the word and went west to Jake Morrison's house first.Jake answered the door in a sleep shirt with his hair sideways and looked at me and said, "It's midnight, Theo.""I know," I said. "Let me in."He stepped back and I came in and his older brother, Cole, was already at the kitchen table because Cole never slept before two and everyone knew it. Cole looked up from whatever he was reading and closed it and said, "You've got the face.""What face?" I said."The face you get when something happened that you've been waiting to happen," Cole said. "Sit down."I sat down and Jake poured water and sat across from me and I told them about Varden first because that was the thing with the clock on it. Four days, eastern border, Walter's order, the window it would create when Darius pulled compound resources toward the response.Jake leaned forward with his elbows on the t

 (Kai POV)We were forty minutes into the morning drill when I heard them.Two women from the domestic staff, crossing the far end of the training yard with a basket between them, talking in the low urgent way people talked when they were passing something they believed was important. I wasn't paying attention until I heard Lena's name, and then I was paying attention to nothing else."...signed the order himself, that's what they're saying. Kept her locked out while her mother was in there dying.""He signed it?""His seal. She never got to say goodbye because of him."I stopped moving.Julian, three feet away working through the same sequence, stopped a beat after me and looked at my face and then looked across the yard at the two women, who had not noticed us yet and were still talking, their voices carrying in the morning quiet."They're saying he orchestrated the whole thing," the first one sa

(Lena POV)The crunch of boots on dry pine needles stops. Ryan steps out from between two thick oaks, his hands lifted to shoulder height, palms open and empty. His jacket is torn at the sleeve, damp leaves clinging to the rough fabric, and his chest rises and falls in steady rhythm despite the cross country trek.My shoulders drop a fraction before I catch myself and square them again. Kai’s hand moves to his side, fingers curling against his belt, his posture shifting into something rigid and coiled. He does not speak. His eyes track Ryan’s position, then drop to my face, then back to Ryan, measuring the distance, the angle, the threat. Ryan lowers his hands slowly, keeping his eyes on me. He ignores Kai completely.I step forward, my boots scuffing the dirt, and then I step sideways until I am directly between them, my back to Kai, facing Ryan. Kai’s breath catches audibly, a sharp intake through his teeth, and his hand leaves his belt. He takes a step forward, his boot heel striki