All Chapters of Rejected and Pregnant: The Alpha King’s Forbidden Heir : Chapter 161 - Chapter 170

“It found us.”The baby’s voice came from inside Aira with a calm that made her blood turn to ice.Kael went rigid.The corridor seemed to stop breathing.Aira stared down at her own stomach, her whole body shaking as the child inside her moved once, slow and deliberate, as if it had only just learned how to speak and had chosen this moment to do it.Her lips parted. No sound came out.Then the version of herself in the seam smiled wider.“Yes,” it whispered. “You remember now.”Aira’s mother made a strangled sound from the dark opening in the floor. “Aira, do not listen to it.”But Aira could not look away.The little girl from the memory was still there, standing in the black hallway inside her mind, holding the black ring in her small hand. Her face was wet with tears. Her dress was torn. And when she lifted her eyes, Aira felt something inside her split open.Not pain.Recognition.Kael’s hand tightened around her waist. “Aira, talk to me.”She finally turned to him, and the fear

The woman in the wall smiled with Aira’s face.Aira’s whole body went cold.Not because the smile was familiar. Not because the eyes were hers. It was the certainty in the expression that broke her. The woman behind the smoke was not pretending. She knew exactly who she was. Exactly what she wanted.Kael moved in front of Aira so fast the air cracked with the force of it. Crimson power surged around his hands, bright and violent, painting the corridor walls red. “Stay back.”The woman in the wall tilted her head and smiled wider. “You always say that.”Aira could not breathe.Her mother was still trapped in the seam below, face pale and shaking, her eyes fixed on the woman in the wall with fresh horror. The basin woman had gone rigid. Corvin looked like a man watching every secret he had buried come clawing back to the surface at once.Rowan’s voice came out thin. “I officially hate mirrors, walls, floors, and whatever this is supposed to be.”Marcus did not answer. His blade stayed l

Aira felt the words strike before she fully understood them. Now choose which memory survives. The hidden corridor behind the wall seemed to narrow around that voice, as if the house itself had grown a throat and was waiting to swallow her answer. The woman at the far end stood motionless in the black passage, wearing her mother’s face like a borrowed grief, while the version of her mother trapped in the seam below shook with raw fear and reached upward as if she could stop what was coming by force alone. Aira’s own breath came in thin, broken pulls. Her seal burned. The child inside her moved once, slow and deliberate, and the pulse inside her chest answered with a second beat that no longer felt distant. It felt awake. Kael shifted in front of her at once, his crimson power rising around him in a fierce glow that painted the corridor in blood red light. His hand found hers and held it so tightly she could feel the tremor in his fingers, though his voice stayed low and steady when he

The words came from inside her child with a calm that made Aira’s blood run cold.Come in.Her whole body locked. Kael shoved himself in front of her at once, crimson power exploding around him in a wall of violent light, but the tiny hand reaching from the black ring did not stop. It stretched farther, thin fingers trembling as if it knew exactly where to go. Aira could feel her child moving inside her now, not with fear, but with a terrible, welcoming pull. The sensation hit her like a sickness. Her stomach tightened, her seal flared, and for one shaking second she saw the shape of the thing inside her womb not as a baby, but as a door opening from the inside out.“No,” Kael snarled, his voice rough with panic. “You do not touch her.” He struck the air between them with a burst of crimson force, and the corridor shook hard enough to rattle the walls. The hand from the ring jerked back for half a second, then came forward again, slower now, more certain. The child in the seam smiled

Open the door.The words came out of Aira’s mouth in a voice that was hers and not hers at the same time. The corridor went silent around her. Kael froze so suddenly that she felt the shock of it through his arm around her waist. The black thread touching her skin burned once, then sank deeper, like something had finally found the place it had been searching for. Aira gasped and bent forward, one hand flying to her stomach. The child inside her was awake now, fully awake, and the presence inside it pulsed against her like a second heart trying to force its way to the surface. Her mother in the seam below went white with horror. “No,” she whispered. “Aira, do not let it speak through you.”But Aira could already feel the memory opening.It was not like remembering a moment. It was like being pulled into a room that had been sealed inside her skull for years and finding the air inside still warm with the breath of the past. The corridor around her blurred. The hidden passage behind the