Todos los capítulos de EVEN ALPHAS KNEEL: The Rejected Mightiest Luna : Capítulo 21 - Capítulo 30

Chapter Twenty Two POV: Sera AshwoodMira knocked and told me Alpha Cressian of Pack Aurveil was downstairs and I took exactly three seconds to remind myself that I was Seraphine Ashwood and I did not hide from anything and then I got up and went down.He was not what I expected. That was the first thing. I had been receiving delegations long enough to know the specific energy of a man who had come to negotiate something he had already decided was his, and Alpha Cressian did not have that energy. He was old blood, respected across every corner of the Seven Pack system in the way that only comes from decades of actually earning it, and he stood in my front room without performing anything and said my name like it deserved the space it took up."Seraphine Ashwood. I have wanted to pay my respects since the night of the ceremony. Forgive me for taking this long.""Alpha Cressian," I said. "You are welcome here."And I actually meant it which was honestly a surprise to both of us I think.

Chapter Twenty Four POV: ZaraI watched Kael carry Sera out of that dining room like she was something precious and breakable and I stood there with my hands folded in front of me and my face arranged into the appropriate expression of concern and thought, she is performing right now, she is absolutely performing and every single person in this room is falling for it completely.Because that was what Seraphine Ashwood did. That was her gift. She walked into rooms and fainted and bled and suffered loudly enough that every Alpha in a ten mile radius forgot everything they were supposed to be doing and came running, and Kael, my husband, the man I had been standing beside for months managing and maintaining and holding together with both hands, was currently sprinting through the corridor with her in his arms shouting at the guards to fetch the pack priest like the world was ending.The world was not ending. Sera was fine. Sera was always fine. Women like Sera were always fine because th

Chapter Twenty SixPOV: Kael DravonI had given Zara exactly one hour after the pack priest left Sera's room before I went to find her and when I did I closed the door behind me and looked at her standing by the window with her composed face and her folded hands and I thought about Sera unconscious on that bed and something in my chest that had been running cold since the moment she went sideways in that chair turned into something considerably hotter."What did you put in her food," I said."Kael," she said carefully. "I have already told you I had nothing to do with""What did you put in her food, Zara." My voice dropped into that register and I watched her hear it and watched her decide in real time whether the composure was worth maintaining and she decided it was, which told me we were going to be here for a while.I crossed the room and took her arm and walked her backward until she hit the wall and held her there and looked at her face from close enough that she could not perfor

Chapter Twenty Eight POV: LyraI was still turning my new plan over in my mind, feeling the shape of it, testing its edges, deciding whether it was solid enough to carry the weight I needed it to carry, when my phone buzzed and I looked down at the screen and felt something cold move through me that I was not going to call fear because I did not do fear, I did inconvenience and I did recalibration and I did whatever came next, but I did not do fear.It was Damien.I read the message once and then I read it again and then I set the phone down and picked it back up and read it a third time because the specific combination of words on that screen deserved the full attention of someone who understood exactly what they meant and what they were threatening."You betrayed me. Everything we built together and you threw me under the moment it suited you. I am coming back and when I do I am going to tell Sera everything. Every compound. Every instruction. Every conversation we had from the begi

Chapter ThirtyPOV: ZaraI watched him walk away and I stood in that corridor and I felt everything I had been holding together with both hands for months come apart at once and I let it come apart because there was nobody watching and I was done performing composure for a room that was empty.Last night had meant nothing to him. That was the thing sitting in the center of everything else, sharp and immovable, refusing to be filed away or managed or reframed into something less painful than what it actually was. I had given him last night and I had told myself it would change something, that proximity and warmth and the thing between us that was real regardless of everything else would be enough to shift the direction he was moving in, and he had walked away this morning toward her like last night had not happened at all.I went to my room and the door closed behind me and I stood in the middle of it and looked at everything arranged exactly as I had arranged it and felt something snap