บททั้งหมดของ The Silver Alpha's Rejected Mate : บทที่ 71 - บทที่ 80

KARIN The silence in Rowan’s office felt different now. It did not weigh on my chest. It did not demand that I stay small or quiet. It felt charged, like the air before a storm breaks. Something was waiting. Something had already shifted.I sat in the chair across from his desk. It was the same chair where I had once sat stiff and careful, listening to cold orders and sharp dismissals. I remembered how I used to hold my breath there. How I learned to keep my face blank. Tonight, that memory felt distant. I was not that woman anymore. I was not broken. I was not shrinking.And Rowan knew it. I felt his awareness brushing against mine. He sensed the change, even if he did not yet understand it.“Sebastian’s forces have retreated beyond the northern border,” Rowan said. He set the radio down after the final all-clear came through. “Jonah Hale’s teams are securing the perimeter. It will be hours before we know the full extent of the damage.”I nodded. I understood the words, but they did

KARIN The walk toward the residential wing felt slow and deliberate, like a quiet procession everyone understood without being told. The Nightfall Pack already knew. News had spread through the halls and corridors, whispered and carried on instinct. Their Luna was awake. She was aware. And she was no longer powerless.Pack members stepped aside as we passed. Some paused mid-step. Others lowered their heads. The respect in the gesture felt earned, not demanded. It sat heavy and warm in my chest.I could feel their emotions brushing against my senses as clearly as a hand against skin. Fear loosening. Doubt thinning out. Something careful and fragile taking shape in its place. Hope, maybe. The kind that doesn’t dare announce itself yet.For three long years, they had watched their Alpha destroy himself piece by piece. They had watched him break his mate, even if they never fully understood why. They had lived under that tension, waiting for something to give. Now they felt it. A shift.

ROWAN The morning light spilled through the bedroom windows and felt almost cruel. Soft. Warm. Peaceful.It did not match what had happened. Nothing around us had changed. The bed was the same. The furniture sat where it always had. Beyond the glass, the Obsidian Territory stretched out, quiet and familiar.If someone walked in, they would think this was just another morning. But the world had shifted while we slept.The woman beside me was no longer the fragile human I had dominated for three years. She was no longer someone I could corner, scare, or silence. That version of her was gone.In her place was something larger. Something steady and dangerous in a way I could not measure. Something I did not fully understand.And the truth settled heavy in my chest. I was afraid I was going to lose her.Karin shifted beside me. Even in sleep, her hand moved to her stomach, fingers spreading gently over the swell of her belly. The motion was instinctive, practiced, full of quiet intent.Sh

KARIN The ancient oak tree at the center of the Nightfall Pack grounds had stood for more than three hundred years. Its thick trunk was wide and uneven, carved by lightning, claws, and long-forgotten battles. I pressed my palm against the rough bark. It scratched my skin, solid and real. Beneath it, I felt the slow, steady movement of life. This tree had watched leaders rise, rule, and fall. It had seen loyalty turn into betrayal. It had seen hope fail and return again.Now it was about to witness something that had never happened before. A Luna-born woman calling on old magic, not to divide packs, but to pull them back together.“Are you sure about this?” Rowan asked.His voice was tight, held back by control. He stood a short distance away. Far enough to give me space. Close enough to grab me if I slipped or lost focus.“I’m sure,” I said.My heart was racing. The truth stayed locked behind my teeth. I was not sure of anything. The power inside me still felt new and unsteady. It s

KARIN “They can choose,” I said, my voice calm and even. “They always could. You just made them forget.”I felt him react at once. The pressure came fast and sharp as he tried to reclaim control. Alpha force rolled outward, heavy and demanding, meant to bend every wolf back into obedience. I felt it pass through the bond like a storm.But Luna’s Call had already reached them.It had not ordered them. It had reminded them. It had pulled old memories to the surface. Warm homes. Quiet mornings. Children growing up without alarms or blood. It had given them back the feeling of wanting something for themselves.“That fear doesn’t own them anymore,” I said quietly.“This isn’t over,” Sebastian Drayke snarled. “I’ll find another way. I’ll...”“You’ll what?” I interrupted. “March against wolves who chose peace instead of war? Hunt down packs whose only crime was wanting to live and come home at night?”For a moment, I felt his rage twist through the link. Then it snapped.The connection went