All Chapters of Rejected By The Alpha : Chapter 21 - Chapter 27

Kael’s POVThe bond was gone again.That was the first thing I noticed after she collapsed in my arms.One second it had been there—violent, overwhelming, impossible to ignore. The next, nothing.Not weakened.Not distant.Gone.The absence of it hollowed something out inside me so suddenly it felt wrong to even breathe through it.For two years, I had lived with silence.Two years convincing myself the numb emptiness where the mate bond used to be was grief instead of instinct screaming that something had been ripped away from me.Then I felt her again.For one impossible moment beneath that ruined courtyard, the bond returned so violently it nearly brought me to my knees.Lila.Alive.And less than a minute later—nothing.Again.The memory replayed in my head endlessly over the following days.Lila collapsing against me.Silver light erupting through the courtyard.Her body shaking from unstable Moonblood magic.The desperation in her voice when she handed me the glamour vial.Plea

Lila’s POV Leaving Kael’s chambers felt harder than it should have. Not emotionally, physically. My entire body hurt, weakness weighed down my limbs in ways I hated to admit.The bond only made it worse reacting to the distance with a faint ache in my chest. I could feel it beneath my ribs—an irritating, steady awareness of him somewhere deeper inside the territory—but after everything he told me the night before, neither of us had tried reaching through it again.I preferred it that way.Even if the absence still hurt.The infirmary was the only place I could think of clearly enough to reach.Pain relief. I needed something to dull the ache in my body. Something to quiet what remained of last night inside me.I tightened my grip around the shawl draped over my shoulders as I walked slowly through the corridor, ignoring the lingering weakness in my legs.Seven days unconscious had left my body feeling unfamiliar, like my bones no longer fit together properly. Every few steps, exhaust

Lila’s POV Silver light spilled across the forest. The trees stretched impossibly high around me, their pale trunks glowing beneath a sky drowned in stars. White flowers bloomed across the forest floor in endless clusters, opening and closing like breathing lungs beneath my feet.This gnawing feeling of familiarity kept brushing through my awareness. It was like I knew this place. And that terrified me because in the real sense I'd never been there. But somewhere deeper inside me, something recognized it.The air smelled like rain and ancient magic.Ahead, wolves knelt in silence beneath towering stone ruins wrapped in silver vines. Men. Women. Children. All bowing their heads toward the figure standing at the center of the temple steps.A woman dressed entirely in white, her face out of sight. Only silver hair moving softly in the wind and a crescent-shaped mark glowing faintly against her throat.The moment she lifted her hand—Pain exploded through the dream. Blood flooded the tem