Todos os capítulos de EVEN ALPHAS KNEEL: The Rejected Mightiest Luna : Capítulo 61 - Capítulo 70

Chapter Sixty OnePOV: Sera AshwoodThe first tear closed under my hands like a wound sealing and I stood in the middle of the borderlands with my wolf fully forward and my chest heaving and thought, I can do this, I can actually do this, and then I turned northwest because the second tear was pulling at me the way the first one had pulled and it was bigger and I could feel the difference in the pull the way you feel the difference between a stream and a river when you are standing in both."We are moving northwest," I said to the two guards Kael had assigned me, and they moved without asking questions because they were good wolves and good wolves did not ask questions when the Veilborn had that expression on her face.The borderlands were loud around us. The sound of the campaign, eight hundred wolves and the specific chaos of a rogue force being hit from three directions simultaneously, pressed in from every side and I moved through it with my wolf pointing me northwest and my Veilb

Chapter Sixty ThreePOV: Kael DravonI came to her door that morning because I had spent the entire night telling myself I was not going to and had failed completely at convincing myself of that, and I stood there and knocked and when she opened it the first thing I noticed was that something in her face had changed since the campaign ended.Not dramatically. Not in a way that announced itself. But I had been studying Seraphine Ashwood's face since we were children and I knew every version of it and what was on it right now was a version I had not seen before, something composed and deliberate and pointed inward in a way that gave nothing away and was doing so on purpose."I thought we could train together," I said. "The border sentries are reporting unusual activity three miles east. I want to run the outer perimeter."She looked at me for a moment and then she smiled.Not the warm real smile. The other one. The one that sat perfectly on her face and reached absolutely nowhere near he

Chapter Sixty Five POV: ZaraThe guard outside my door fell asleep at two in the morning and I had been watching him do it for four nights in a row so when it finally happened I was ready and I was out of the guest quarters and through the eastern passage before he had finished slumping in his chair.I moved through the settlement the way I had learned to move through it in the months I had spent studying it, knowing which paths the night patrol covered and which ones they left for last, and I was outside the settlement boundary and into the outer tree line before the first patrol rotation completed and nobody saw me go because nobody had ever thought to watch me as carefully as they should have.That was always the mistake people made with me. They underestimated what I was willing to do once I had decided to do it.I sat in the dark of the outer trees and let the cold air settle around me and thought about everything that had brought me to sitting in the dark of a foreign settlement

Chapter Sixty Seven POV: LyraThe witch doctor did not ask me why I needed what I needed and I did not offer an explanation because we were past the point of explanations between us and we both understood that.I sat across from her in that house at the edge of the outer settlement that never advertised itself and I said, "I need something that works on an Alpha. Not a compound. Not a binding. Something that reaches into the wolf itself and changes what it wants."She looked at me with those reading eyes of hers. "You want to alter a fated bond.""I want to alter what he remembers feeling," I said. "There is a difference."She was quiet for a long moment and then she went to the back room and I sat there in the silence and thought about Zara and what Zara had cost me and thought about Sera and what Sera had always cost me without ever knowing she was costing me anything at all, and I thought about Kael, about the one thing neither of them had managed to fully secure, about the one pl

Chapter Sixty NinePOV: Sera AshwoodI sent the message to the elder's council at seven in the morning and by eight o clock the entire settlement knew I had sent it and by nine the entire territory knew what it said and by ten I had received forty three responses and not a single one of them was from a person who actually understood what I was doing.Which was exactly the point.The message was simple. I had drafted it three times the night before and simplified it each time until what was left was the cleanest version of what I needed it to be. It said that Seraphine Ashwood, Veilborn of Pack Ironveil, was ready to complete the willing bond and would be announcing her chosen mate at a formal gathering the following evening and that all pack elders, senior wolves, and invited Alphas were expected to attend.I sent a special invitation to Kael.I sent a special invitation to Reuel.I sent invitations to every Alpha who had come through my door since the shift ceremony and to every elde