Todos los capítulos de EVEN ALPHAS KNEEL: The Rejected Mightiest Luna : Capítulo 11 - Capítulo 20

Chapter ElevenPOV: Sera Ashwood"Go and fetch the pack herbalist right now," I told Mira, and my voice came out sharper than I intended it to because Lyra's face was still doing that thing that scared me, that pinched pale look she got when something was genuinely wrong and she was trying to minimize it for my sake. "Tell him it is urgent and I need him here immediately, not when he finishes what he is doing, right now."Mira was already moving before I finished the sentence.I turned back to Lyra and pulled the blanket tighter around her shoulders and held both her hands in mine and told her to breathe and she breathed and I sat there watching her face slowly come back to its normal color and felt the tight frightened thing in my chest loosen by small degrees.The herbalist arrived within twenty minutes, assessed her thoroughly, asked her questions I hovered over like I had medical training I absolutely did not have, and told us it was likely something she had eaten at the engagement

Chapter Thirteen POV: DamienI sat in the backyard with my phone face down on the table beside me and my mind running through everything that had been happening recently with the particular focused attention I gave to problems that were accumulating faster than I could manage them cleanly.Reuel Ashton. That was the one that would not leave me alone no matter how many times I tried to push it to the back of everything else where it belonged."That dirty bastard," I said quietly to the empty yard. "He thinks he can find a chance this time around."What he had whispered in my ear in Sera's bedroom had been four seconds of words that had rearranged something inside me completely and I had spent every single hour since then deciding what to do about it. He knew things he should not know. Things about me specifically, about what I was doing inside this territory and about who I answered to and where the money was moving and what the real objective behind the engagement actually was, and a

Chapter Fifteen POV: LyraMy heart was still hammering when the guards dragged Damien out of the room and I sat on the bed with the blanket pulled tight around my shoulders and Sera's arms around me and I kept my face pressed carefully against her neck and breathed in and out with the slow deliberateness of someone who needed every single thing about this moment to look exactly right because Sera was watching me the way she always watched the people she loved when they were hurting, with everything she had, completely open, completely present, the kind of attention that missed absolutely nothing, and I could not afford for her to miss nothing right now."You are safe," she kept saying, her hand moving in slow circles on my back the way it had since we were children and she was comforting me through things that mattered considerably less than this. "He is gone. I have you right here. You are completely safe now.""I know," I said, and my voice came out small and wet and exactly the w

Chapter SeventeenPOV: DamienI sat in the holding room they had thrown me into and stared at the wall and replayed everything that happened in that room last night from the moment the door flew open and I watched it all move in slow motion inside my head and the longer I watched it the clearer one thing became.Lyra had played me.She had sat there against that headboard shaking and crying and delivering every single word with the precision of someone who had rehearsed it, and I had stood there in the middle of it watching it happen and had been too stunned by the speed of it to do what I should have done which was open my mouth and talk faster than her tears could fall."That conniving little," I said to the empty room, and stopped, because the words I actually wanted to use were not strong enough for what I was feeling right now.My instincts had been warning me about Lyra for weeks. That specific recklessness of hers, the way she operated on emotion and called it strategy, the mess

Chapter Nineteen POV: ZaraI found Kael standing near the elder's house and walked up beside him and stood there quietly for a moment before I spoke because I had learned early that with Kael the approach mattered as much as the words and rushing into his silence was the fastest way to make him close off completely."You have been out here for a while," I said."Thinking," he said."About the attack?""Among other things."I looked at the side of his face and I already knew what the other things were because I had been standing beside this man long enough to know exactly where his mind went when it went somewhere he did not announce, and it always went to the same place, and that place had a name, and I was so completely tired of that name living in the space between us like a permanent uninvited guest that neither of us ever acknowledged directly."I heard about the engagement," I said carefully.He did not respond."She cancelled it herself apparently," I said. "Found him in her fri