All Chapters of Rejected and Pregnant with Alpha Twins: Chapter 111 - Chapter 120

~Selene's POV~She knows what she is going to do before she leaves her suite.This is important to her. She has thought about it enough times in the three days since the sitting room, since she reached for his hand and he let her hold it and neither of them spoke, to be certain that what she is moving toward tonight is a decision and not a momentum. There is a difference and she knows the difference and she has taken the three days to be sure. She is sure. She changes into clean clothes, not for any particular reason, simply because she has been in the east wing since afternoon and the east wing at this stage of Lior's development involves a level of contact with various surfaces that makes changing clothes a reasonable end-of-day practice. She brushes her hair. She looks at herself in the mirror for a moment, not performing anything, simply checking that the person in the mirror and the person making this decision are the same person and both are clear on what the decision is.They a

~Selene's POV~She does not stay in his study.She says follow my lead and he says yes and she straightens and she looks at him for a moment in the lamp light and then she says, simply, come with me. He gets up from the chair. He leaves the reading glasses on the desk and the report where it is and the lamp on, and he follows her out of the study and down the corridor and up the stairs, and she is aware of him behind her the whole way, the warmth of him and the particular quality of his footsteps, which are quiet for someone his size, which she has always known and which she registers now with the full attention she is giving to everything tonight.She goes to his room.She has not been in his room since she came back to Cresthaven. She has been in her suite and the east wing and every common space in the manor, but not this room, which she understood without deciding it as the room she would enter when she was ready to enter it and not before. She is ready now. She opens the door and

~Selene's POV~Petra arrives on a Thursday morning with a canvas bag over one shoulder and the particular expression she wears when she is about to form opinions that she intends to share.Selene meets her at the manor entrance. They have not seen each other in three weeks, the longest gap since the early Silvermere days when their friendship was still new enough to require deliberate maintenance, and Petra covers the distance between the car and the entrance with the quick decisive stride she uses when she has been sitting in a vehicle for longer than she considers reasonable and has things to do now that she is out of it. She drops the canvas bag on the entrance hall floor and looks at Selene and they hold each other for a moment, the particular quality of an embrace between two people who have been through something together and know the weight of what they are holding.Then Petra steps back and looks at the entrance hall.She does it the way she does everything, fully and without

~Selene's POV~She waits until after dinner.This is a practical decision rather than a strategic one. The twins need their evening routine and she needs to be present for it, Lior's bedtime having reached a stage of complexity that benefits from two adults when possible, and the conversation she is about to have with Caden is not one she wants to begin and then interrupt twenty minutes in because Lior has additional commentary on the proceedings. She gets the twins down with Miriam's help, Lior's objections tonight running shorter than usual, which she takes as a small gift from the evening and does not question. Asha settles in her corner cot with the board book she carries to bed the way some children carry stuffed animals, for the comfort of the familiar object rather than any interest in the content.By eight-thirty the east wing is quiet.She finds him in the main sitting room. He is not working. The border report is on the table beside him but it is closed, and he is sitting wi

~Selene's POV~They walk to the elder circle at full dark.The whole pack is already there when they arrive, gathered in the natural slope of ground that surrounds the elder circle's stone perimeter, standing without being organized into any particular arrangement, the way pack gatherings happen when something genuine is occurring rather than something performed. They are simply there. She sees faces she knows and faces she has learned since coming back and faces that are new to her but not new to Cresthaven, and all of them are turned toward the elder circle with the particular quality of attention that belongs to people who understand they are present at something that does not happen often and may not happen again in their lifetimes.She walks through them with Caden beside her.The pack parts for them without being asked. Not the formal parting of a ceremonial procession, the deliberate stepping back of people making a corridor. Something quieter than that, the natural movement of