Todos los capítulos de The Three Alphas’ Rejected Mate: Capítulo 231 - Capítulo 233

         Ezekiel’s POV  I called them in after breakfast, which was the right time for difficult things — when people were fed and present and hadn't yet filled the day with other concerns. The document was twelve pages. I'd written it over three weeks, pulling everything together: Emily's explanations, the elder Erased's words, the cell markings, what I'd watched happen in the clearing with Kael. Everything that had answers now. I read it to them plainly, without performance. The Erased had been old — older than any of us had understood when we were fighting them. An ancient faction who believed the Bridge should be destroyed rather than fulfill

Rebecca’s POVMira had her grandfather's hands.I noticed it one morning while she was reaching for something she couldn't have yet — a cup on the table, well outside her range, completely unbothered by the impossibility of the attempt. The shape of her fingers, the particular angle of her wrist. I'd seen that exact gesture on Elias across a hundred tables and hadn't registered it as his until I saw it on her, and then I couldn't unsee it.I sat with that for a while after she gave up on the cup and moved on to something else.The grief came the way it came now — not in waves, not dramatically, just as a fact that arrived and took up space until it had said what it needed to say. He was gone. Mira would know him only through what I told her, which meant I was the only bridge between them, which meant I had to be deliberate about it.I picked her up and sat by the window where the morning light came through at the angle I'd been learning to love, and I talked to her about him.