All Chapters of Pregnant After My Triplets Mate Rejected Me: Chapter 81 - Chapter 90

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"Is it going to be today?"

Chapter 81: Elara's POV I wake up in a chair, for approximately three seconds I don't know where I am, and then the unfamiliar ceiling and the smell of a hotel room and the soft light coming through curtains I didn't close last night all catch up with me simultaneously. I'm in Ronan's room. In the corner chair. Wrapped in the blanket from the back of it, my feet tucked up, my neck doing something unpleasant from the angle I apparently slept in.Ronan is asleep in the bed. On his back, which I'd have told him to do if he'd been awake, easiest position for the shoulder. His breathing is slow and even. The immobilization I put on his shoulder last night is still in place.I check my phone. Six forty-two. I have three messages from Mom... the first checking in last night, the second this morning saying Landon slept well and has already asked twice about the fort, the third asking what I need her to bring from the cottage. I text back that Landon should stay put until I know more about

But not because I managed it.

Chapter 82: Ryker's POV I wake up to the smell of coffee.For a moment I lie still and let my lungs do their inventory....better, significantly better, the tightness from last night reduced to something that requires effort to notice rather than effort to ignore. The oxygen unit is on the bedside table where Elara put it. I use it for twenty minutes, the way she told me to, before I reach for my phone.Six fifty-eight.Two messages from Elias. The fire service has completed their initial report — accelerant confirmed, positioned deliberately on the kitchen wall, consistent with professional placement rather than opportunistic arson. The Council has been notified. Victor Kane's legal team has already filed a statement calling it unrelated to the ongoing proceedings, which is exactly what Ryker would have done in their position and which is going to go exactly nowhere given the timing and the documentation we already have.I send three replies to Elias, make two decisions about the Co

Does it pull when you extend

Chapter 83' Rafe's PovShe changes my dressing at seven in the morning and again at seven in the evening.The morning one is businesslike, she comes out of the kitchen with her small kit, sits across from me at the table, unwraps, checks, rewraps. We talk about Ryker's breathing and Ronan's pain levels and whether the pack doctor should come by for a follow-up today. We drink coffee. She makes toast and puts a plate in front of me without asking whether I want it, which I notice and which I eat.The evening one is different.Not dramatically. Not in any way she probably notices. But the suite has been quiet all day in the way of a place where people are recovering, Ryker in his room with his phone and his Council correspondence, Ronan asleep until noon and then awake and complaining about the immobilization in a way that told me the pain had eased enough that he had energy for complaining, which was a good sign. Elara had gone to the cottage mid-afternoon to assess the damage proper

Chapter 84: Landon my sweet boy

Chapter 84: Elara's POV Landon arrives at nine with his backpack on both straps, River under his arm, and the expression of a child who has been very patient and is now done being patient. He comes through the suite door, looks around the living area once quick, thorough, the assessment he runs on every new space and then looks at me. "Is the fort okay?" "The fort is fine," I say. "The fire didn't reach the backyard." "And the rope bridge?" "Also fine." "The lookout crate?" "Landon. The backyard is completely intact. Fort Landon is standing." He nods, satisfied, and then looks past me to where Ronan is sitting on the couch with his arm in a sling, trying to look like a man whose shoulder is fine. Landon crosses to him, stands in front of him, and studies the sling with the focused interest he brings to structural problems. "Does it hurt?" he asks. "Somewhat," Ronan says. "How much is somewhat?" "On a scale of one to ten? About a four." Landon considers this. "When Mom has

Chapter 85: That's all. It's just different

Chapter 85: Elara's POV "I'm going to talk," I say. "You're going to listen. All of it. Before anyone says anything back." I look at each of them in turn. "Agreed?" "Yes," Ryker says. Ronan nods. Rafe says nothing. Which from Rafe means yes. I put my hands flat on my knees. I've been thinking about this for weeks. I know what I need to say. The only question has been whether I could say it clearly, from somewhere real rather than reactive, and I think... sitting in this living room on a Thursday afternoon with my son asleep down the hall and a burnt kitchen wall in my cottage and three men who ran into a burning building last night, I think I can. "Six years ago," I say. "You used me. You took what you wanted from me and then you rejected me in the same breath, in the same building, while I was still..." I stop. Start again. "While I was still trying to understand what had just happened. You called me a distraction. You made clear that my lack of a wolf, my background, my fathe

Chapter 86: I think we're about to find out.

Chapter 86: Ryker's POV She makes four cups of tea and brings them to the living room on a tray and nobody says anything for a while.That's the thing I wasn't prepared for.... the quiet after. I'd spent weeks thinking about the conversation, what she'd say, what we'd need to hear, what it would cost. I'd thought about my response. I'd thought about Ronan's response and whether Rafe would respond at all. I'd run through scenarios the way I run through everything, systematically, accounting for variables. I'd thought about the cost.I hadn't thought about the quiet after.She sits in her chair with her tea and her hands wrapped around the cup and she looks at the window and none of us crowd her. Ronan has that expression he gets when something has moved him enough that the performance layer is completely gone just his face, without any of the usual Ronan architecture, open and tired and present. Rafe is looking at the table. I'm looking at her."Can I ask you something?" Ronan says,

Chapter 87: And she has already chosen

Chapter 87: Vivian's Pov "She stayed at the hotel," Sable says. She has the careful tone she uses when she's delivering information she knows is going to land badly. We're in my sitting room, morning tea going cold between us, and she's been turning her cup in her hands for two minutes without drinking it. "The whole time they were recovering. She treated them herself checked their breathing, changed dressings, monitored the shoulder. Nearly a week, Vivian. She was there nearly a week." I look at the window. Outside, the Kane estate grounds are white with frost, the fountain still frozen, the garden bare under the pale winter sky. Everything looks exactly as it did this time yesterday. Nothing about the morning has changed except for the information sitting in my chest like a coal. "Where did you hear this?" I ask. My voice comes out perfectly level. "The fire service report went through the pack administrative office. The pack doctor's follow-up is documented. And the hotel

Chapter 88: We cannot let him finish it.

Chapter 88: Ryker's POV "Tap tap tap" the knock at the door alerted me, i knew for sure it wasn't Elias, because Elias texts before he knocks. Not housekeepers too, they know our schedule. I'm already at the table with coffee and the Council correspondence when the knock comes, and something in the quality of it three sharp, unhurried impacts, the knock of a man who has never once in his life needed to knock twice... tells me before I open the door.My father is standing in the hallway.Alpha Kyle Blackthorn. Sixty-two years old. Six foot two, which he gave to all three of us along with the fine eyes and the bone structure and the particular kind of stillness that has always read, to everyone who encounters it, as contained violence. He's in travel clothes.... he came straight from Nightshade, no announcement, no advance communication. His face shows nothing. It never shows anything."Ryker," he says."Father." I step back from the door. "Come in."He walks into the suite and looks

Chapter 89: You must marry her

Chapter 89: Ronan's POV "Ronan" Father said as he finds me alone.I'm in the hotel corridor outside the suite, leaning against the wall with a coffee I'm not drinking, giving Ryker and Rafe space to think without my restlessness in the room, when the elevator opens and he steps out and looks at me with the expression that means he was looking for me specifically."Walk with me," he says.I push off the wall and follow him to the small meeting room at the end of the corridor, the kind hotels keep for business travelers, a table and four chairs and a window overlooking the car park. Father closes the door. He doesn't sit. Neither do I."You specifically," he says."I figured.""You know why."I look at him. "Because I'm the middle son. The one without Ryker's strategic value or Rafe's operational value." I keep my voice even. "The most replaceable."Father doesn't deny it. Kyle Blackthorn has never softened a truth in his life. "You are the one most able to act without it destabiliz

Three of us is always better than one

Chapter 90: Rafe's Pov The hotel rooftop access is a fire door at the end of the top floor corridor, propped open by what appears to be a brick that has been there long enough to have a permanent indent in the rubber seal. I find Ronan at two in the morning sitting on a maintenance crate near the edge, looking out at Silverveil below, his good arm on his knee and the sling on his other arm glowing faintly white in the dark.I sit beside him without asking.He doesn't say anything for a while. Neither do I. Silverveil is quiet below us, the street lights making warm pools on the frost-covered road, the pack settled into its nighttime rhythms. The cottage is visible from up here — two streets east, the kitchen side still showing the dark scar of the fire even in the dark."He talked to you separately," I say. Not a question."This afternoon." Ronan doesn't look at me. "In the meeting room down the hall.""What did he offer?"He tells me. All of it, the marriage, the settlement terms, t

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