Semua Bab After One Slap, I Rejected My Alpha Heir: Bab 1 - Bab 10

The whole class followed her gaze toward me, and my face burned instantly.I loved moon-white. Almost everything I owned was that color: my pale hide backpack, pale carved flask, moonstone hair clips, training clothes, casual clothes, phone case, and charms.People had talked about it since I was little. Some boys said I looked like something placed on a ritual altar. Some girls said I was acting pure and untouchable. But most people were kind. More often, girls told me moon-white suited me, like I was a child chosen by the Moon Goddess.This was the first time someone had mocked me so openly in front of everyone.“Oh wow, sorry,” Felicity said, blinking as if she had done nothing wrong. “I’m just a little too honest. Don’t be mad, little priestess.”“Enough. It’s your first day. Maybe talk less.”Rowan’s impatient voice came from the side.I turned and saw him frowning at Felicity.Felicity raised a brow.“Oh? The priestess has a guard dog?”“What the hell are you talking about? Are y

I skipped the rest of my classes and left the academy.As I crossed the moonlit woods back to Moonvale territory, my mother linked me.“Serena, what happened?”The pack link must have carried something in my emotions before I could hide it.I stopped under the trees and told her everything. Felicity’s insults. Rowan watching. Rowan defending her. The slap.For several seconds, my mother said nothing. When her voice returned through the link, it was cold.“Go home. I’m coming back now.”I ran straight to my room and tore through everything I owned. Bookshelves, closets, storage chests. Then I dragged out a large box and threw in every single thing Rowan had ever given me: the first polished moonstone he picked up beside a creek, an old training wrist guard he once tossed at me because he had extras, a carved bone token bearing the Nightshade family crest, and the short, crooked notes he only wrote when he happened to be in a good mood.By the time I finished, the box was full. I checked

I would later realize that, at some point, Rowan and Felicity had forged a strong pack bond. Felicity’s Ancient Wolf Tongue scores were the best in the year, and she sat directly in front of Rowan—the front row allocated by bloodline ranking, placing her above me. Every day, she gave him “lessons” in Ancient Wolf Tongue, naturally, and he absorbed them.Rowan had once relied on me to drill him in Ancient Wolf Tongue. Within two weeks of Felicity’s arrival, she had taken over quietly, leaving nothing behind.Felicity also excelled in wolf combat ball, a sport demanding speed, claw endurance, and hunting instincts. She moved seamlessly with the male students, tearing through defenses faster than anyone. Many of them were Rowan’s childhood companions, rolling in mud and hunting side by side. Naturally, she and Rowan formed a closer bond.Rowan’s perception of her changed completely. The girl who had snarled at everyone on her first day became someone sharp-tongued, bold, and genuinely cap

The hall buzzed with low growls and gasps. The scent of wolves rolled over me from every direction, charged with tension, excitement, and a hint of malice.Footsteps rushed toward me. The scent arrived first: cedar, cold iron, and a faint undercurrent of anger. Then a hand gripped my upper arm, pulling me upright.Rowan.“Your wolf blood is surging backward. Did you skip your lunar supplement?” His voice was low, audible only to me. His fingers dug into my arm, claws nearly piercing my skin.“You’re running laps in this state? Do you want to lose control in front of half the grade? Where did you fall? I’m taking you back to the den.”He spoke close to my ear, fast and insistent. My chest felt heavy from the surging wolf blood, and the humiliation of falling made it churn angrily inside me. The smells around me only sharpened my teeth.“I can walk. Let go,” I said, trying to shake off his hand.A low growl rumbled from his throat.“You challenging me now? Smell yourself. Your blood is h

He stepped forward, voice guttural from deep in his throat.“Do we really have to do this, Serena?”“Is it useless no matter how I plead?”“I don’t understand. You’ve always liked me. You know I like you too. We only lacked one marking. Why—”He finally admitted it. The first time he had said it.“Just because of that slap?”I nodded without hesitation.“Yes. Because of that slap.”“I loved you once. I have always loved you. Since elementary school. My feelings never needed you to feed them. They grew every day on their own. They lived in the fantasy I built for you. They did not need your attention. As long as I existed, they survived.”“But recently I… I destroyed them myself.”“Why?”He asked like he was sleepwalking.“Because of my left cheek. Every time I saw you, it hurt.”My face showed no emotion. Rowan’s expression finally lost all color.After that, Rowan and Felicity parted ways. I never learned the reason. Felicity soon requested to transfer classes.Rowan changed completel