All Chapters of Rejected by my Alpha, claimed by his mate: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

The room became suffocatingly tense.Kael stood in the destroyed doorway breathing heavily, blood dripping steadily onto the stone floor beneath him.Darius remained directly in front of me.Protective and immovable.And through the bond, I felt it instantly, territorial fury.Not because Kael arrived.Because Kael looked at me like I mattered to him.The two Alphas stared at each other in complete silence for several long seconds.Honestly, it felt like one wrong word would end in murder.Kael finally broke the silence first.“The Black Wolf is heading toward the lower chambers.”Darius’s expression remained cold. “You expect me to trust you now?”Kael laughed once harshly. “I don’t particularly care what you trust.”The tension sharpened immediately.Miranda quietly moved farther away.Smart again.The King stepped between them slightly before this turned into an Alpha death match.“Enough.”Neither looked impressed by the command.Also not surprising.Kael’s gaze returned to me ins

“No.”The word left my mouth instantly.Sharp.Panicked.Because I refused to believe this was happening.Not now.Not while monsters were literally breaking out beneath the fortress.The room remained tense around me, cracked stone scattered across the floor while distant screams echoed from somewhere below.But somehow the worst thing in this room still felt like the silence between the two bonds pulling at me.Kael stood bleeding near the doorway.Darius stood directly in front of me.And my body, my wolf, already knew the difference between them.I hated that.The King watched me carefully. “Denial won’t stop the transformation.”“Maybe I don’t want a transformation.”Another violent pulse of heat shot through my spine.Pain followed immediately after.Right.Apparently my body disagreed.Darius moved closer carefully. “You need to stay calm.”“I am calm.”The wall behind me cracked loudly.Miranda raised an eyebrow. “Respectfully, you are absolutely not calm.”Fair.The bond betw

The temperature in the room seemed to drop instantly.The Black Wolf stood motionless in the ruined doorway while chaos thundered throughout the fortress behind him.Except now, everything else felt small compared to him.Wrong.That was the only way my mind could describe his presence.Wrong in a way nature never intended.The golden wolf in front of me growled low and deep, fur raised violently along her spine.Not fear, but hatred, ancient hatred.The Black Wolf noticed.And smiled wider.“There you are,” he murmured almost fondly. “I was beginning to wonder if the royal beast still existed.”The wolf’s growl deepened into something murderous.Darius stepped slightly closer to me without taking his eyes off the Black Wolf.The bond surged sharply.Protective instinct flooding through him hard enough to nearly choke me.Kael moved too.Despite his injuries, he positioned himself on my other side automatically.Two Alphas, one enemy.And somehow, the Black Wolf still looked amused.T

The Black Wolf wiped blood slowly from the corner of his mouth.Still smiling.My stomach turned violently.Because normal people did not smile after being blasted through stone pillars.But nothing about him was normal.The room remained frozen around us.Dust drifted through the air from the destroyed walls while the fortress groaned beneath distant chaos outside.And in the center of it all, the Black Wolf looked pleased.“Beautiful,” he murmured.The golden wolf immediately moved back in front of me again, growling low and vicious.Protective, but this time, I felt something else through our connection too.Fear.Not for herself.For me.Darius stepped beside the wolf, blood still running down one side of his face. His breathing was heavier now, injuries healing slower than before.The bond between us pulsed violently.Protective instinct.Worry.And underneath it all, fury.Pure fury directed at the Black Wolf.“You’re done touching her,” Darius said coldly.The Black Wolf laughe

Agony consumed me.Not ordinary pain.Everything-breaking-apart pain.Bones cracked violently beneath my skin as power tore through every inch of my body. The world exploded into light and sound and instinct all at once.Then suddenly, silence.Not outside.Inside.The pain vanished instantly.Strength replaced it.Massive strength.I opened my eyes, and the world looked completely different.Sharper, brighter and alive.Every scent crashed into me at once.Blood.Stone.Fear.Magic.Darius.My breath caught, except it wasn’t a human breath anymore.Low growls echoed around me.The gigantic black creature towered across the ruined chamber, red eyes locked directly onto me now.But suddenly, I wasn’t afraid anymore.Because I was no longer human either.The realization hit hard as I looked down.Massive golden paws pressed against cracked stone beneath me.Golden fur shimmered around my body like liquid sunlight.And I was huge.Bigger than any wolf in the room.The golden wolf hadn’t