บททั้งหมดของ The Alpha's Rejected Mate : บทที่ 131 - บทที่ 140

AvaNow it was full winter in Valley Creek.The mountain was covered with snow.The morning sun was on the forests, they were white and silent.No one was relaxed enough inside the medical wing to appreciate it.There was tension throughout the entire level.Not panic.Not fear.Something sharper.Hope.The dangerous kind.The kind that people got when they believed they were close to success.I was standing by a table with reports and tried my best to not get ahead of myself.In front of me were the newest treatment results.Organized.Verified.Documented.I have already read them three times.This was the issue.Each time I looked at them, they were the same.Good.Too good.Across the room, Vessa was looking at me.“You've read that report four times already.”"Three.""Four."I glanced at her.She was correct.Unfortunately."I want to be sure.""You are sure already," she said."I would like to be more sure," I replied.Vessa seemed to take offense to this.Researchers were shuf

AvaAfter a few weeks, Valley Creek no longer felt like a mountain place.It began to seem like it was a place to go.Each day there were new visitors every morning.Some were brought in by cars.Some of them journeyed along transport networks from far away places.Others walked for days!After the first week, people didn't bother asking where people were coming from anymore.There was only one answer:Everywhere.One morning, it was very cold. I was standing outside in the courtyard and another transport vehicle pulled in.Snow covered the edges of the roads now.Winter had set in over the mountain.The air was so sharp that it cut into my lungs as I breathed.The vehicle stopped.A lady came out first.Then another.Then three more.All Lycans.All with the same expression.Hope.Careful hope.The kind of people who were afraid that they would lose it.Behind me, the doors opened.One of the nurses went outside."Three more arrivals."I nodded."We've prepared rooms."She smiled."W

MilracWinter continue in Valley Creek.It was snowy on the mountain.The clinic continued to grow.The archives continued to increase in size.The Council's reforms progressed.Things seemed to be normal, it felt like it was the first time in a long, long time.Not perfect.Nothing ever was.But manageable.The softness that enabled one to think about what was to come rather than just live through the moment.I should have been contented.Rather, I felt uncomfortable.I waited by one of the observatory windows and watched the snow fall across the mountain.The network glided gently under all.Ninety-two threads.Steady.Healthy.Safe.Including Ava's.The comfort of her presence was just outside my consciousness.The child too.Not a thread.Not yet.Something earlier.Something growing.A thing I'm still amazed at, each time I felt it.All should have felt well.But it didn't.I couldn't say why.I had come to know that there were some instincts that I could trust after having been

AvaIt was a full night in Valley Creek.Slow, quiet snow lines drifted across the mountain.The world below seemed tranquil from the balcony of the archive.Lit windows.Moving figures.Lights along pathways leading to buildings.The clinic.The archive.The Council halls.Everything still working.Still alive.Still growing.It should have felt like a relief.Rather, it was the sense of a delicate balance.As if it were going to fall over at any second.I looked out the window and saw the snow building up on the stone ledge.The network was under them all.Ninety-two threads.Steady.Familiar.Not completely at ease, however.Not anymore.Gregory was in custody.Cyprus was gone.The Lycan illness was cured.There were no indications of instability in the archive.The Council reforms were on hold.The mountain seemed stronger than ever, by all outward signs.But I couldn't help thinking I wasn't seeing beyond the surface.Not the depth.Footsteps came up to my back.Eryn.I didn't tu

MilracI was in the map room, surrounded by snow that was lightly touching the window glass.It had been several weeks since everything had changed between Ava and me, but the feeling in me didn't feel like something I was used to. Valley Creek went on as it had always been. The clinic continued to be a busy place. This archive continued to grow and expand. There was no interruption in Council work. Nothing was visually different from the outside. There was a rhythm to life, there were things that life required, and there was a pace to life.However, there was something different in the bond. Maybe because of the friction between us or Ava's growing pregnancy, was starting to take its toll on me.Initially I believed that it was my mind looking for patterns that were not there. I had been in leadership for too many years to ignore any change. My awareness of potential danger never went away. So I did what I knew I could do. I waited. I observed. I believed that it would go back to no