All Chapters of The Rejected Mate Returns: Chapter 141 - Chapter 145

**Lyra**Seeing Rowan where I least expected him was a shock to me.I turned to Tharion questioningly, and he hurried to explain.“It was an uneasy alliance,” he admitted with a sigh. “A necessary one. He gave us the route when no one else could. I don’t trust him… but today he delivered.”I nodded slowly, processing it all. There were too many questions hanging in the air, too many truths just laid bare.“There will be time to talk,” he promised me, squeezing my hand. “To clear everything up. Right now, the only thing that matters is this.”He looked at our son. Then at me.“You’re safe. And you’ll stay safe. I swear it.”I held his gaze. And for the first time since this war began, I could truly feel at peace.The silence that followed Calista’s capture was thick, almost suffocating.My pulse was still racing, as if my body couldn’t quite grasp that I was no longer in danger. Aiden was behind me, small, clinging to my clothes, and that simple gesture anchored me to reality.We were

**Lyra**Happiness has a weight of its own. It is neither light nor naive. It is a deep, hard-won peace, like the one I feel every morning when I wake up next to Tharion, the Alpha king who chose me not only as his queen, but as his entire life. Being loved by him, in that devoted and fierce way, gave me something I never thought possible: peace. Wolvencrest ceased to be a refuge and became a home.Tharion loved us with absolute devotion. Me. Aiden. Each of our children, without distinction, without hierarchy. He looked at us as if we were the most precious things in the world, and I returned that love with the same intensity. Our legacy was not just power or territory, but a united family. But even in the deepest happiness, the past knows how to reclaim its place.Aiden was sixteen when the truth caught up with him.It was a quiet afternoon. Too quiet.He entered the living room with tense shoulders, a clenched jaw, his eyes ablaze with a determination I didn’t immediately recogn

“What are you doing here?” I managed to ask, my voice hoarse with emotion.He raised an eyebrow.“It’s simple. Answers.”That was enough to make all my sins come flooding back:The image of Lyra running away. Her crying. My cowardice. Fear disguised as resolve.“I have nothing to offer you,” I said. “Only mistakes and a great deal of regret.”Aiden didn’t look away.“I didn’t come to ask for forgiveness or to grant it,” he replied sharply. “I came to look at the man who gave me life… and perhaps to understand why he chose to abandon us.”My mother sobbed harder. I clenched my fists until they hurt and my hands went numb.“There’s no valid excuse,” I admitted with a sigh. “I was weak. And I paid for it. Probably for the rest of my days.”I looked at him closely. He was powerful. You could tell from his posture, from the energy contained beneath his skin. I thought of Lyra. Of how she must have grown. Of how she could have let him come. I had no right to question it… and yet, seeing hi