All Chapters of Pregnant And Rejected Mate : Chapter 91 - Chapter 100

He fought on, desperate and exhausted, cutting down one enforcer and then another, taking hits he barely registered anymore through the haze of pain and adrenaline, buying whatever time he could for Rowan and Ines to clear the fortress and carry word south.It was perhaps twenty minutes later, though it felt like hours, when a horn sounded from somewhere deep within the fortress — not triumphant, but urgent, almost panicked, and Kael watched Renner's composed expression crack for the first time since the confrontation began.A messenger burst into the chamber, breathless, ignoring the ongoing fight entirely in his urgency to reach Renner directly."My lord." The messenger's voice was tight with something that looked, to Kael's exhausted eyes, almost like fear. "Word from the compound assault. Something's gone wrong.""Speak plainly," Renner snapped."Our force reached the compound as planned," the messenger said. "But my lord — they encountered resistance far heavier than anticipated.

A scream. Cut short.I didn't think. I moved, Lena clutched tight against me, the captain and two remaining warriors falling in behind me as I ran toward the sound, my heart hammering with a terror sharper than anything I'd felt even in that clearing facing the Warden himself.We reached the residential corridor to find chaos already unfolding — dark-clad figures, more than I could count in the dim torchlight, moving with the brutal efficiency of men who'd had days to plan exactly this moment, exactly this route, exactly which doors would be weakest and which guards would be easiest to eliminate first."Fall back," the captain shouted, drawing his blade. "Sera, get to the tunnel, now!"I didn't need to be told twice. I turned, running back the way I'd come, Lena screaming against my chest now, the sound of fighting erupting behind me in a violent, chaotic roar that chased me down the corridor like something alive.I reached the kitchen — the same room where Wren had died buying me tim

The passage sloped upward, faint gray light bleeding in from somewhere ahead, and I pushed harder, Lena's cries settling into something quieter now, exhausted, as though even she understood the need for silence in this final stretch.We emerged into a small, overgrown clearing well beyond the compound's outer walls, dawn light pale and cold against my face, and for one brief, aching moment I let myself believe we'd actually made it clear.Ada collapsed against a tree, her wounded side finally demanding the rest she'd been refusing it, her breathing ragged and shallow in a way that sent fresh fear spiking through my chest."Ada." I knelt beside her, Lena still clutched tight against me. "Ada, stay with me, please—""I'm alright," she managed, though her face had gone gray, sweat beading along her hairline despite the cold morning air. "Just need a moment. Sera, we can't stay here. He'll search the perimeter the moment he realizes we're gone."I knew she was right. I forced myself uprig

He would not be the one who failed to give everything he had left.The captain recovered his footing and struck again, faster this time, and Rowan felt the blade catch his side, hot pain lancing through him as he staggered, his own strike going wide with the force of the injury."You're finished," the captain said, though something in his voice had gone strained now, uncertain in a way it hadn't been at the fight's beginning. "Yield, Rowan. There's no shame in surviving to fight another day.""There's no version of surviving today," Rowan said, forcing himself upright despite the pain radiating through his side, "that involves me letting you catch up to that little girl before her mother gets her somewhere safe."He struck again, driven by something past exhaustion now, something closer to pure, stubborn will, and the captain met the blow but staggered slightly, his own fatigue finally beginning to show through the careful composure he'd worn since Rowan first arrived.They traded blo

It was near dusk on the third day when they finally crested the ridge overlooking the compound, and Kael's heart nearly stopped at what he saw below.Smoke, still rising from several points within the walls. Bodies, scattered across the churned earth near the shattered gate, though from this distance he couldn't tell which side they belonged to. And figures, moving among the wreckage, some fighting still, some tending to wounded, the chaos of what had clearly been a brutal, ongoing battle spread out before him like something out of a nightmare he couldn't wake from."Sera," he said, the name tearing out of him, and he dug his heels into his exhausted horse, pushing it down the ridge at a reckless, desperate pace that Rowan couldn't fully match.He reached the compound gate to find Ines directing the aftermath of what had clearly been a second, brutal fight, her face streaked with dirt and exhaustion, and she turned at the sound of his approach, her expression flooding with a relief so