Pursuing My Rejected Luna의 모든 챕터: 챕터 271 - 챕터 280

Cassandra Piper knows. It’s the first thing that pops in my head when I see the look she’s giving me this morning. Well, that and the fact that she’s stopped avoiding me and actually started looking at me directly, which is somehow worse than the avoidance.Honestly, I preferred it when she was avoiding me. I’m used to people avoiding me here, even learned not to let it bother me. And with Piper, I could manage where I was and when and not put either of us in unnecessary proximity. It was uncomfortable but it was navigable.Now she’s looking and I have no idea how I meant to react to that.I could understand if she was being openly hostile with me. I’ve certainly dealt with my share of that too. But this isn’t hostility. She’s looking at me like she's trying to understand me. I don’t have much experience with that kind of look.Which brings me back to my original thought. Noah told her. I don't know how much. I don't know what version he gave her. But she definitely knows.The look sh

NoahIt’s been two days since my confrontation with Piper about my relationship with Cassandra. The one where I finally told her the truth. Two days to think about what the hell I’m doing with my life and who I’m doing it with. And while that was long enough for me to make some important decisions, it’s still way too short to convince my wolf those decisions are the right ones. Not that my timeline matters much right now. None of my decisions mean anything until Piper makes her own. And I know her well enough by now to know when Piper makes a decision, she makes it and then she shows up to deliver it. She’s not in the habit of drawing it out just to make a point. So I’m not the least bit surprised when she comes to my office ready to talk. Private. Deliberate. Determined. She looks like a woman who has been doing some real thinking and arrived at a decision she's comfortable with. I’m just not sure she’s decided it’s me. I’ve always found confidence in a woman sexy and she’s no exc

Cassandra It’s Saturday morning, I finally have a day off, and I have absolutely no idea what to do with myself. Usually, I volunteer to help Mara in the kitchen, even if I’m not assigned. But today, she’s insisting I take some time to relax. As if I know the meaning of the word. Liam is off playing with Theo and some other boys, so I take my time getting ready for the day. That doesn’t take nearly as long as I hope it will, so I settle in the one chair in our little room, determined to finally read the book one of the girls from the kitchen lent me. She’d handed it over with a mischievous smile and said “trust me, you’ll love it!”I do not love it. I’m not even through the first chapter and the female lead has already had three demons shove their dicks in her pussy, her ass, and down her throat. But is she satisfied? Of course not. She’s pouting because demon number four, the one she really wanted, refuses to join. Maybe demon smut is just not my thing, or maybe it reminds me a bi

NoahDonovan Reeves is officially a pain in my ass. The whole situation has stopped being a nuisance and started being a Goddess-damned pattern.That's a different thing entirely. The nuisances, when he was just filing official complaints, were easy to address. Sure, it was a headache and took time I really could’ve used for other things. But it basically boiled down to a written response to the council and his claim was always dismissed. The ugly truth is, it’s not all that uncommon for Alphas, especially power hungry ones, to try expanding their territory through border disputes. If they lose, no big deal. If they win, even better. And unfortunately, some new Alphas or even older ones, don’t want the hassle of fighting the disputeBut this—a relentless assault on my borders—goes way beyond dipping a toe in the water to test the temperature and it takes a lot more than time I don’t have. It takes manpower, tactical plans and strategy, not to mention the risk to my men every time they

Noah It’s two days later when we finally get our first break. Cole comes in mid-morning with a folder he's holding and the look of a man who has found something he didn't expect."Eastern correspondence cross-reference," he says cryptically. "Administrative flagged something."He sets it on my desk almost reverently. I pick it up and read it. Then I read it again.Cassandra—I know that’s who did this because that’s the only person it can be. I haven’t hired anyone else permanently, why would I when she can do it for free—has cross-referenced six weeks of eastern border correspondence against Ironwood's internal administrative calendar, specifically the council meeting schedule, which is the information we log in the public-facing administrative record. And the correlation is exact. The skirmishes don't happen randomly within a window. They happen in a specific sub-window: the forty-eight hours following a logged council meeting. When leadership is occupied with internal governance, R