บททั้งหมดของ Rejected And Pregnant, Marked By Two Alphas: บทที่ 11 - บทที่ 20

ELOWEN~•~The tour was a day behind me and nobody had come for me since.I became so bored that I put on the plainest dress Sasha had left me and went out to walk the pack on my own.I went down to where the food was handled.It was the busiest part of the pack I'd seen. Wolves at long tables with their sleeves pushed up, pots going, the smell of bread. Nobody looked up at first. I stood in the doorway and watched them work, and for a second it was almost good, being near something ordinary.Then a she-wolf at the nearest table saw me.She was tall, brown-haired, ranked by the way the others gave her room. She put down what she was holding and looked at me, slow, taking her time."Lost?" she asked."No. Just looking.""Just looking." She said it to the room, and a few of them stopped working. "The Alpha's new Luna, come down to look at us." She leaned back against the table. "Go on, then. I've been trying to work out what he sees in you since the night he brought you in. I've got not

ELOWEN~•~I sat on the edge of the bed for a long time after Thea left me at my door.The room was quiet. Down where the food was handled there'd been noise and heat and people who hated me, and even that had been better than this, because at least down there I was something to them, even if the something was a stray they wanted gone. Up here I was nothing to anyone. A girl in a room, waiting.I kept coming back to what Thea said.I knew better. Zaya had told me flat not to trust her. But knowing a thing and feeling it are two different things, and what I felt was that Thea had been the only person in this whole pack who'd put a warm hand on my arm and offered to stand next to me. The rest of them had watched, waiting for me to break.I wanted to. I wanted to walk down there and take the one hand that had reached for me, and I hated that I wanted it, because wanting things from people was how I'd ended up pregnant and alone at the edge of a border with a rope on a shelf.I pressed my

ELOWEN~•~I woke up with the pain from Kael’s grip still killing me. For the first time, I’d almost taken my words back, but now that was the least of my worries. I could feel my body changing. It was only a matter of time before everyone else would be able to tell just by looking at me. How long did I have left until then? How long before my secret was no longer a secret?I felt a sudden wave of nausea hit me so hard that I lost control of my body. I tried to stand but my head kept spinning so I sat back down. There was no idea what to do today, but I needed to step out, I couldn’t bear staying locked up all day. I had my shower, washed my face, and tried my best to look like a Luna was supposed to, even though this all still felt unreal to me. I was an Omega and in a split second, Alpha Kael had claimed me as his. I didn’t want anyone to talk down to me again, so I had to keep the image.The moment I stepped out, I could feel a familiar presence hovering around but I just could

ELOWEN~•~"Let's go," Kael ordered, not leaving any space for negotiation. "Caden, make sure Gregor and his escort find their way safely out of my territory.""Yes sir," his Beta answered.Dorian stole a glance at me."I'll come for what's mine, just you wait and see," he said, before he turned around."Elowen!" Kael barked at me, pulling me out of the distraction.His words had already found the place where they'd do the most damage. My hand went to my stomach without me telling it to, and I made myself drop it before Kael turned and caught the movement. Dorian didn't know for certain, not yet. Gregor hadn't gotten his answer before Kael cut the meeting short. But he'd keep asking, and I only had so many ways left to say nothing."Sorry, I'm right behind you," I answered in a low tone.We walked back into the pack and bumped into Thea. Kael didn't even act like he'd seen her, and walked right past. I stayed anyway."Hi, Thea," I greeted."Hello, what's with him?" she asked, watching

Elowen's POV~•~His hand was still on my face.I didn't move. I didn't dare to.My throat still ached where his fingers had been a minute before, pressed hard enough to leave a mark. Now his hand was gentle, almost careful, like he was scared of what he'd find if he pressed too hard again.I watched his face instead of asking anything. His jaw was tight. His eyes were somewhere behind me, or behind the years, I couldn't tell which.I'd learned a long time ago that questions cost more than they were worth. So I stood there and let him look at me like I was someone else.Then someone knocked at the door.Kael's hand dropped from my face like it had never been there. By the time he turned to the door, his whole body had changed: shoulders back, jaw set, that cold, careful stillness sliding over him like armor."What," he said. Not a question.Caden's voice came through the door, low and quick. I barely heard anything that was said, but I saw Kael's face change again, sharper this time,