บททั้งหมดของ Rejected And Pregnant, Marked By Two Alphas: บทที่ 21 - บทที่ 30

ELOWEN~•~My stomach dropped. For a second, nobody spoke. Thea was the first to recover.“Did Mira say what this is about?” she asked, her voice still carrying that same gentle concern I’d come to expect from her.The servant shook her head quickly.“No, ma’am. She only told me to find Luna Elowen as fast as I could.”I noticed the correction immediately.Luna Elowen.It sounded strange hearing someone put the title and my name together, as though they still weren’t certain which one I preferred.Thea looked back at me.“You should go.”There wasn’t even the slightest hint of disappointment in her voice, which somehow surprised me.“We’ll see each other another time.”“I’m sorry,” I said quietly. “I really didn’t mean…”She waved the apology away with an easy smile.“Don’t apologize. If Mira says it’s important, then it probably is.” She reached over and gave my arm a reassuring squeeze before letting go. “We’ll have plenty of chances.”The others echoed their agreement.“Take care.”

ELOWEN~•~Kael didn't release my arm immediately. His fingers remained clamped around my wrist, the heat of his skin burning right through my sleeve. He didn't push me against the wall this time, but the space between us felt smaller than it had in the corridor."Look at me," he said.His voice wasn't raised. It didn't need to be. It was steady and low, vibrating in the small space between our chests.I kept my chin up, forcing my eyes to meet his even though every instinct I’d developed in Blackthorn screamed at me to look down and make myself small. "I said what I meant.""You said what you wanted," Kael corrected, his thumb brushing against my pulse point with enough pressure to remind me how easily he could snap it. "There is a difference between speaking your mind and tearing down the authority holding this pack together. You stood in my hall, in front of every ranked wolf in Dravon, and you made a spectacle of my name.""She brought up a dead woman to humiliate me," I snapped b

ELOWEN~•~Morning didn't bring light into the room, just a pale gray haze against the window.The spot on the mattress beside me was cold. He had left long before dawn to handle whatever the blood-sigil meant, but the door didn't stay shut for long.It swung open with a heavy thud, the iron latch clattering against the frame.I pushed myself up, my palms slipping on the sheets as a dull ache pulled at my lower stomach. He stood in the doorway, still wearing the black shirt from the night before, his boots caked in fresh mud. The quiet stillness he had held at my bedside was gone. His jaw was set hard, his eyes flat and dark as he looked at me."Get up," he said.His voice didn't carry a raise or a pause. It fell like an order.I stayed where I was, pulling the blanket higher over my chest. "What happened at the wall?""It doesn't concern you," he said, walking into the room with long, heavy steps. He didn't stop until he reached the side of the mattress, towering over me so the shado

ELOWEN~•~Kael’s leather belt hung in his hand, and I backed up until my shoulders hit the wall. I held my breath, waiting for him to swing it.Before he could move, someone banged twice on the door and shoved it open."Alpha, we have a problem," the man said, stepping straight into the room without waiting for permission. He looked winded, his eyes darting between Kael and the strap in his hand before settling on Kael's face. "The Blackthorn pack is back at the border. Dorian brought a full squad with him this time."Kael didn't lower his hand right away. His jaw clenched, a vein pulsing along his neck as he glared at Marcus. "I told you to send them away.""We tried," the man said, taking a step back. "I spent the last hour trying to talk him down, but he refuses to leave without seeing you. He says he isn't going anywhere until he gets answers. If we use force to push them off our land, it's going to start a war."A tense silence stretched across the room. Kael looked back at me b

KAEL~•~"Dorian wasn't lying," Mira said, looking up from the screens. "The heartbeats are wild, her temperature is rising, and her stress levels are spiking."I stood over the main console, staring at the numbers. "Explain it to me.""It's twins—both carrying pure Alpha blood," Mira said, tapping the screen to pull up the heat scans. "Without their real father's wolf aura to calm them down in the womb, the unborn pups are frantic. They don't feel their father. They feel a rival pack, a rival Alpha, and a fresh mark locked onto their mother's neck. They think they're under attack.""So they're thrashing," I said."They're tearing her apart from the inside," she corrected directly, turning around to face me. "Every time those unborn wolves panic, her blood pressure spikes to dangerous levels. She’s bleeding inside right now. If those pups keep fighting her body to reach a father who isn't here, Elowen will bleed to death. Your mark on her neck can't protect her from her own kids."My