Rejected and Pregnant with Alpha Twins의 모든 챕터: 챕터 131 - 챕터 140

~Selene's POV~She hears Asha before she sees her.Not a sound of distress and not a demand, the specific deliberate syllable Asha has been producing since the morning she named the light in the oldest pack dialect, the sound she makes when she has something to say to something that has caught her full attention. Selene follows it from the east wing staircase to the entrance hall and stops in the doorway.Asha is in her bouncer seat in front of the ancestor portraits.The seat has been positioned at the precise distance from the wall that allows a clear sightline to the full row of them, the long line of Blackwell faces going back four generations, dark hair and strong jawlines and a collective expression across all of them that suggests they considered the painter's time less valuable than their own. Asha is facing them with the focused unhurried attention she gives to things she has decided deserve her full assessment. She is working her way through them left to right at her own pac

~Selene's POV~The Hollowcrest delegation arrives at ten on a Monday morning.Three people: the primary representative, a woman in her forties named Councillor Adena who Rhys has briefed as the diplomatic lead for the Hollowcrest Pack's external relations, and two support staff who manage the documentation and take notes in the particular quiet way of people whose job is to observe accurately and say very little. They arrive on time, which Selene notes as itself a form of communication, the same way arriving early or arriving late are forms of communication. They have calibrated their arrival precisely.She and Caden receive them in the formal session room.Rhys is present as Beta witness. The table is arranged the same way it was for the first joint governance session, both of them on the same side rather than opposite the delegation, which is Caden's adjustment from the previous Hollowcrest contact under the old governance structure. She noticed it when she came in. He had arranged

~Caden's POV~The first decision is the junior patrol assignment.It is not a significant decision in the governance sense. A junior wolf, eighteen months in the pack, performing well by every metric Rhys uses for the first-year assessment, ready to move from the training rotation to a permanent patrol assignment. The decision is which assignment. There are three available. Any of the three would be appropriate. The choice between them is a matter of fit rather than qualification, and fit is the kind of judgment call that a single decision-maker can make reasonably well from a file and a Rhys assessment and a direct meeting.He has made this call hundreds of times over his years as Alpha.He has the file in front of him at nine in the morning and he reads it through and he arrives at a provisional answer and then he puts it down and goes to find Selene.She is in the east wing sitting room with the coordination work she does most mornings while the twins are with Miriam, her laptop op

~Selene's POV~The monthly pack assembly happens on the last Thursday of the month.It is the first gathering under the restructured format, the changes she proposed and Caden approved three weeks ago, the three adjustments that shift the event from something the pack attends to something the pack participates in. The first adjustment is the layout, the formal rows replaced by a less directed arrangement that encourages the pack to move through the space rather than face the front of it. The second is the agenda structure, which now includes time specifically allocated for pack members to raise matters directly rather than through the Beta liaison process. The third is smaller and more specific, the opening acknowledgment now delivered jointly rather than by the Alpha alone.The assembly is at Pack Hall at two in the afternoon.The building has been rearranged since the morning session, the chairs in the main hall shifted by the setup team according to the new floor plan she submitted

~Selene's POV~She has been coming to the elder circle on full and new moons since the week after the ceremony.It began without particular intention. The first time she came was the new moon two weeks after the re-bonding, on an evening when the twins were down and the manor was quiet and she found herself walking toward the elder circle without having decided to walk toward it, the way you find yourself in a room you needed to be in before you knew you needed to be there. She stood in the circle for an hour. She came back on the following full moon. It has been her practice since then, the specific routine of someone who has found a thing that is hers and is keeping it.Tonight is the second full moon after the ceremony.She tells Caden at dinner that she is going to the circle. She says it the way she says it every time, as information rather than as an invitation, because the practice is hers and she has not been sharing it. He receives it the way he always receives it, a nod and