บททั้งหมดของ Rejected By The Alpha Claimed By The Lycan King: บทที่ 41 - บทที่ 50

"Run."My newborn daughter's voice echoes in the sudden silence.Nobody moves. We're all frozen. Staring at this tiny baby who just spoke a complete word. Who just warned us.Then the castle shakes. Not an earthquake. Something else. Something forcing its way through reality itself."Get her out of here." Trinity's three voices speak as one. "Now. Before it arrives.""Before what arrives?" Kai demands. Already moving. Already protecting.The air splits. Like fabric tearing. And through the crack I see it. Another world. Dead. Gray. Everything rotting. And something massive moving toward us. Something that makes Lilith look like a playground bully."The Void King," Trinity breathes. "Impossible. He was sealed. Locked away forever.""Apparently not forever enough." Zephyr grabs my arm. "We need to move. Now."But I can't move. Can't look away from what's coming through that crack. It's huge. Made of shadows and hunger and ancient rage. And it's looking right at me. Right at baby Luna."

The Original Goddess stands before us. But she's not herself anymore. Her eyes are black voids. Her skin cracked like broken glass. And when she speaks, two voices come out. Hers and his."You came back," they say together. "Just as we knew you would. Love makes you so predictable.""What did you do to her?" Trinity demands. Power building around them."We merged." The Void King's voice dominates now. "She opened her dimension to hide from me. But I followed. Consumed. Took everything she was and made it mine."Horror crashes through me. The most powerful goddess in existence. Gone. Corrupted. Turned into a weapon against us."Where are my siblings?" Trinity asks. Voice shaking."Here." The merged being waves their hand. Bodies appear. Luna the first. Chaos. Hope. All unconscious. Drained. Barely alive."No!" Trinity runs to them. Drops to their knees. "What did you do?""Fed on them. Just enough to weaken them. Not enough to kill." The black eyes find me. "We're saving death for you,

**THREE YEARS LATER**Luna is getting married today.I stand in her room, watching her adjust her dress. She's twenty-one now. Beautiful. Strong. Everything I hoped she'd be.And in three months, we might have to split her in half to save the world."Stop thinking about it, Mama." She catches my eye in the mirror. "Today is happy. Let it be happy.""I'm trying." I move behind her. Fix a piece of her silver hair. "You look stunning.""Thanks to you." She turns. Hugs me tight. "For everything. For never giving up on me. For always believing."I hold her. My daughter. My miracle. My heartbreak.Because the Void King is waking up. I can feel it. We all can. Dark whispers in Luna's dreams. Moments where her eyes go black. Times when she's not quite herself.The split is coming. Soon. Too soon.But today. Today she marries the love of her life. A wolf from a neighboring pack. Kind. Strong.

I land hard.Not on ground. On nothing. A surface that feels solid but looks like smoke.Everything here is gray. Not dark. Not light. Just gray. Like color forgot to exist."Where are we?" Kai helps me up. He looks different here. Faded. Like he's halfway to being a ghost."The Between Place." Erebus looks around. "The realm where souls wait. Neither living nor dead. Just... waiting.""For what?" Damon asks."Judgment. Reincarnation. Whatever comes next." Erebus touches a wall that isn't there. "Different for everyone."Zephyr stumbles. Falls to his knees. "Something's wrong. I can't breathe. Can't think."I drop beside him. "What's happening?""We're dying." Erebus's voice is calm. Too calm. "The Between Place rejects the living. Our bodies are shutting down. We have minutes. Maybe less.""Then we find Luna fast." I stand. Pull Zephyr up. "Which way?""There." Kai points. A path appears. Made of memories. I see fragments. Luna as a baby. Luna learning to walk. Luna's wedding.We run

Baby Hope's black eyes stare at me.Not innocent. Not newborn. Ancient. Hungry. The Void King looking out through my granddaughter's face."How?" Luna gasps. Still holding her possessed baby. "We trapped him. Locked him away.""Did you?" The voice that comes from Hope's tiny mouth is wrong. Deep. Male. Evil. "Or did you think you did?"Trinity appears. Power already building. "The soul prison. Where is it?""Oh, that." The Void King laughs through Hope's baby sounds. "I broke it. From the inside. Took months. But I'm patient. And now I have the perfect host. Young. Powerful. Half-divine. She'll be magnificent when I'm done with her.""Get out of my daughter." Luna's voice shakes. "Now.""Or what? You'll kill me? Kill her? Your precious baby?" The Void King makes Hope smile. "You won't. You can't. And I know it."He's right. Luna won't hurt Hope. None of us will. We're trapped.Then my mother appears. Ghost form. Glowing. "Not trapped. Just need to think different.""Mom?" I breathe. "