All Chapters of Rejected Once, Now Claimed By The Lycan : Chapter 131 - Chapter 140

"I'm not asking you to forgive her, Alpha. She'll come back and stay in the annex. She just says she can't be at peace until she apologizes to her sister." Clara kept her voice calm and even. "Didn't you tell me Ava was on her honeymoon? Who would Elsie even meet at the Lycan Kingdom?" Alpha Jackson asked. Clara shook her head. "Ava's back." His brows drew together. "They were meant to be gone a full month. Why return so soon?" The question was out before he could stop it. However hard he tried not to think about Ava, he still cared what happened to her. "A great deal has happened, Alpha, but it isn't my place to say." Clara lowered her eyes, and he nodded. "Understood. If Elsie wants to apologize to Ava, she may go." "Thank you, Alpha. Thank you so much." Relief lit her face. "We leave first thing tomorrow. I'll go with them. King Sebastian may not let them through the gates unless I'm there." "Very well, Clara." She bowed and left. Alone, Alpha Jackson sighed and let hi

The hum of the engine filled the car as Clara and her family drove toward the Lycan Kingdom from the airport. They were going to see their daughter, newly returned from her honeymoon. Beautiful scenery slid past the windows, but Clara, in the front passenger seat, stared straight ahead, trying not to think about who was riding with her. Her husband was at the wheel and Elsie sat in the back, and the three of them hadn't shared a car in years. "Elsie, are you sure you're ready for this?" Concern softened her voice. "We don't have to do this if you don't want to." Her daughter was still recovering, and she worried it might be too much, so soon after leaving the annex. "I'm sure, Mother. It's all I thought about in there." Elsie's face was blank. Lately she had gone cold toward everything and everyone. Clara forced a smile. An odd unease had settled over her before they'd even left the pack house, and she couldn't shake it. Still, she clung to the belief that this trip would bring t

Another warm afternoon settled over the Lycan Kingdom, but Ava couldn't feel any of it. Her family had been taken, and worry had hollowed her out. The rescue plans were meticulous, yet she paced her chambers anyway, an ache inside her that kept her from rest. Isabelle sat on the edge of the bed, watching her with troubled eyes."Ava, sit down. You'll wear yourself out, and you have a kingdom to run." Isabelle had finally reached the end of her patience with the pacing."I can't help it, Isabelle. The longer this drags on, the more I think about them. What if they're dead?" The words were out before she could stop them. Her eyes went wide and her hands flew to her mouth. Her worst nightmare had a voice now."Hey. Breathe." Isabelle crossed the room and laid a hand on her shoulder. "The plan you showed me sounds solid. Everyone on it is skilled. They can handle Edgar and his men.""I know. It's the not knowing that's killing me." Ava sighed and sank onto the bed. Her parents meant every

A cold, tense morning pressed down on the war room. Every mind in it was fixed on two things: getting Ava's parents out alive, and bringing King Edgar to justice. Sebastian, Ava, Alpha Jackson, and the military council gathered around a long table buried under maps and blueprints.The stakes had risen the moment Edgar issued his three-day ultimatum, demanding that his son step down. It was also the only window they had to save Ava's parents, and they had to use it well."What do we have?" Sebastian scanned the faces of his strategists."Your Grace, there are about a hundred and fifty children and twenty confirmed staff to evacuate. Everyone else in the building is one of your father's plants." John, one of his sharpest minds, answered at once."Good. Send their photographs to everyone in this room and mark every face, so we can tell the plants from the innocent." Sebastian nodded. The work was thorough."I heard talk of sleeping gas to put everyone under during the operation. Where ar

The first light of dawn crept across the sky as Sebastian and his men made their way back to the palace. Ava had waited through the night and the day before it, sick with anxiety, desperate for news of the battle and a reunion with her parents. The halls that once rang with life now felt like a place of mourning, and their queen was the saddest thing in them.She had known in her bones that the fight would be brutal. Worry had stolen her appetite and her peace, and she had prayed for victory, anything to end the dread she carried every day."They're back!" A guard's horn sounded across the grounds.Ava ran out as the gates swung open. She scanned the sea of weary wolves and Lycans, searching for her parents, for Sebastian, for anyone. Relief broke over her when she found her husband. Then it faded. A heavy aura clung to him, and she knew what it meant."Ava." He pulled her into his arms and held her as if he'd never let go. For a moment her fear eased in his embrace, though she could