The Alpha King's Rejected Mate のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 11 - チャプター 20

KAEL Her hands flew to her stomach without thinking. For a split second, I saw the soft, exposed woman who had been in my hotel room. Then it vanished. She turned her body away from me, shoulders stiff.“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”There it was. The lie. The same one that had fooled me before.When her father had sat across from me and told me who his daughter really was, shame had burned deep. Cheating was bad enough. Learning she had planned the whole thing made it worse. I had played the fool, and I hated it.“Your father said you were just like your mother,” I said. “He said one day you would get pregnant on purpose to trap a man into marriage.”Her eyes went wide. “Did you tell him?”“That we slept together? No.” A short, dark laugh escaped me. “I was there as a king, not as the idiot you made me into.”“We can stop this right now,” she said quickly. “The baby isn’t yours. I’ll leave. I won’t tell anyone about us.”She started to drop the blanket, then froze when sh

ARIA “Keep screaming, and you won’t have to worry about seeing your father,” Corvin said through clenched teeth as he carried me deeper into the Blackwood Wilds. “You’ll be dead before that happens.”Kael was far behind us now. Far enough that his wolf ears couldn’t catch my voice anymore. That knowledge didn’t slow the panic. It didn’t calm anything. The shouting kept spilling out anyway, sharp and desperate, like my body had decided for me.Fists slammed into Corvin’s back again and again. Skin. Muscle. Solid as stone. I hit him with everything I had. It did nothing. He didn’t stumble. He didn’t even grunt.Another shout tore loose.Corvin let out a long breath, annoyed, almost bored. “So you’d rather die than see your father. Kael was right. You’ve got serious issues when it comes to him.” He paused, then added, “Or is that not it? Are you hoping I die too?”That wasn’t what I wanted.Teeth clamped shut hard enough to hurt. Rage boiled under my skin with nowhere to go. I stayed si

KAEL “All I’m saying is this,” Nyssa said, lifting one shoulder. “If you were going to sulk about it this much, you should never have let her walk away. And I’m not following a miserable werewolf into the Blackwood Wilds.”A scowl pulled at my mouth. “I’m not miserable. And this is not forbidden ground. You’re here because of loyalty, not because of my mood.”“So true,” she said easily.I snapped a low snarl in her direction. Nyssa only laughed.She was the youngest among us, barely twenty. Still, she had served beside Marrow since she was fifteen and had risen fast. Reckless. Loud. Too fearless for her own good. She was the last wolf I would have chosen as my third, yet when things turned violent, her wolf never failed. She traveled between packs, handled unrest, delivered hard messages.If she lived long enough to keep doing it.Her loyalty to my brother was the real reason she stood here now. Revenge tied her to this path as tightly as it tied me. The jokes were armor. We both kn

ARIA I still had not dressed after shifting back, and there was no chance I would sleep naked. I crouched and rummaged through my pack, fingers stiff from the cold as I searched for something clean to wear.“Aria? You are not sleeping in human form, are you?”I stopped and turned my head toward the voice. “I am. Is that an issue?”“It is safer for the baby if you shift. You know that.”“Yes. I know.” I exhaled slowly. “I have taken naps as a wolf. Just never a full night. I am more at ease this way.”She frowned, eyes dropping to the stone floor. “But we are sleeping on bare rock. There is no padding at all.”I shrugged and went back to my pack. Shifters were casual about nudity, but I was not raised that way. I did not live among them. “I will be fine. I sleep on the ground often enough.”She stayed quiet. The silence stretched long enough that I felt it. When I looked up, she was studying me, expression careful.“Is that a problem?”She blinked, then shook her head. “No. Not at all

ARIA Every wolf around us surged forward, mine included, and I had to fight to push her down. The air felt tight and wrong. The whole situation was strange, but that didn’t mean we should attack without thinking. I opened my mouth to speak, but the woman only lifted her brows, calm and unbothered.“Our witches knew you were coming,” she said. “They have names, but they couldn’t see why you were coming. Only that you would need guidance. Shift if it makes you feel safer.”He didn’t move.“You have seers among you,” Kael said. His voice was flat, careful. “I’ve heard of them. Never met one.”“I think you’ll meet this one,” the woman replied. “Just not today. And maybe not on this journey. She doesn’t live with us. She comes and goes. Though I think she knows more than she shares.” A faint smile touched her mouth. “She finds us…interesting.”“So do I,” he said, without warmth.“My name is Serah,” she added. “Does that help at all?”Kael studied her for a long moment. Then his shoulders