All Chapters of Rejected By The Alpha Claimed By The Lycan King: Chapter 71 - Chapter 80

I can't shake the dream. Three days since Hope became God. Three days of peace. Three days of feeling watched. "You're distracted." Kai touches my face. We're in bed. All four of my mates surrounding me. Safe. Loved. Together. "Just thinking." I curl into him. "About everything. About what we've survived." "We survived because of you." Damon kisses my shoulder. "Your strength. Your love. Your refusal to give up." "Our strength." I correct. "I would have failed without you. All of you." Zephyr's silver eyes glow in the dark. His voices quieter now. More controlled. "Do you feel it? The watching?" I sit up. "You feel it too?" "We all do." Erebus flickers. Solid then transparent. "Something beyond the veil. Beyond existence. Observing. Waiting. Wanting." "What does it want?" I ask. "You." All four say it together. Fear crawls up my spine. "How do you know?" "Because we're bonded to you." Kai pulls me close. "We feel what you feel. Fear what you fear. And right now, you're terr

"We need to find a way to become immortal." I tell my family the next morning. "All of us. Together. So I'm never alone. So I never choose the Absolute." Luna looks worried. "Immortality isn't a gift, Mom. It's a curse. Living forever. Watching everything change. Everyone you love dying anyway because immortality never extends to everyone." "Then we make it extend to everyone." I stand. Determined. "We find a way. We research. We experiment. We don't give up." Trinity appears. "I know someone who might help. An ancient being. Older than gods. Older than reality. They've lived through multiple resets. Multiple existences. Multiple forevers. If anyone knows how to make love eternal, they do." "Who?" Kai asks. "The Chronicler." Trinity's three voices sound reverent. "The being who records everything. Every timeline. Every choice. Every moment. They exist outside time. Observing. Writing. Remembering. And they might know the secret." "Where do we find them?" Damon stands. Ready. "Ev

Living as one being is harder than I imagined. We share everything. Every thought. Every feeling. Every sensation. There's no privacy. No secrets. No alone time. When Kai is angry, we're all angry. When Damon is sad, we're all sad. When Zephyr feels pleasure, we all feel it. When Erebus is confused, we're all confused. And when I'm scared, they're all scared. It's beautiful. And suffocating. And perfect. And wrong. All at once. "We need boundaries." I try to separate my thoughts from theirs. "Some way to have individual space within the collective." "How?" Kai's consciousness asks. "We're merged. There is no individual space." "Then we create it." Damon suggests. "Mental walls. Thought barriers. Sections of our merged mind that belong to each aspect. Private corners where we can think alone." We try. Building walls inside our shared consciousness. Creating five separate spaces within the one mind. It works. Mostly. We can have some privacy. Some individuality. Some me-ness withi

Living as six is different from five.Trinity brings new energy to the collective. New perspectives. New fears. New strengths. We're more complete. More powerful. More unified. And more dangerous."I can feel it." Trinity's consciousness whispers inside ours. "The pull. The desire. The want. To expand more. To include more. To become more. It's intoxicating.""Resist it." We tell ourselves. Tell Trinity. Tell all six aspects. "We stay six. We don't expand. We stop here. This is enough."But is it enough? Can it ever be enough when you're merged? When you know how beautiful unity is? When you've experienced collective consciousness and want to share it with everyone you love?"We have to try." Kai's consciousness grounds us. "We have to make six enough. Or we doom ourselves. We doom everyone."Days pass. We adjust. Learn to function as six instead of five. It's harder. More complex. More thoughts. More feelings. More conflicts. More love.But we manage. We exist. We are six. And we're

Mother appears. Luna Celeste. Glowing. Transparent. Still fighting the Void King pieces inside her ghost form."You called, baby girl." Her voice echoes from beyond. "What's wrong?""Everything." We sob. All seven of us. "We're doomed, Mom. The Absolute manipulated everything. We can't escape. Can't resist. Can't win. Hope says we either become the Absolute or dissolve into God. There's no third option. Unless. Unless you know something. Saw something. Understand something Hope doesn't."Mother floats closer. Studies our seven-merged form. "I do know something. The Absolute showed me when it touched me. Showed me things even God doesn't see. Things beyond infinite. Things that exist in the spaces between existence.""What things?" We beg. "Please, Mom. We're desperate. We're dying. We're losing Aurora. Tell us anything. Give us hope.""There is a third path." Mother's ghost form solidifies slightly. "But it's not escape. It's transformation. You don't avoid becoming infinite. You chan