Alle Kapitel von Rejected Once, Now Claimed By The Lycan : Kapitel 81 – Kapitel 90

Ava's POVI came back to consciousness slowly, the way you surface from a deep and dreamless sleep — no moment of waking, just the gradual awareness of ceiling, then light, then the faces arranged above me.Isabelle's first. Then Sebastian. Then Edwin just behind them both."Water," I said immediately, because my throat felt like something had been scraped out of it.Sebastian helped me sit. Isabelle put the glass in my hand. I drank the whole thing and handed it back and looked at all three of them looking at me."What happened?" I said.They exchanged a look that communicated something between them that I was not part of."You do not remember?" Sebastian asked."I remember Sebastian punching me with great care and very little effect," I said. "And then Isabelle —" I stopped. "Isabelle, did you punch me in the face?""I did," she said, with the expression of someone who has done a thing they believe was correct and is prepared to defend it thoroughly."In the face," I said."It was n

Ava's POVHe came home earlier than usual again.I had claimed the small desk in the corner of the study as my workspace — Sebastian had resisted giving me a separate office on the grounds that separate offices meant distance and distance was something he apparently found medically inadvisable — and I was in the middle of a scheduling document when he came through the door.He kissed the top of my head."I have something to show you," he said, and then crouched down so he was level with me, which was unusual enough that I set the document down."I owe you a proper proposal," he said. "I announced our wedding at a breakfast table. You found out with everyone else in the room." He held my gaze. "That was not how you deserved to hear it.""Sebastian —"He put one finger gently against my lips."Let me finish," he said. "Please."I closed my mouth.He looked at me with the expression he wore when something genuinely mattered to him and he had decided to say it directly rather than around

Author’s POVEdgar went to his room with a smile on his face.He locked the door and called his man."Is she still unconscious?""Yes, your grace. What do you want done with her?""Put her on a ship," Edgar said. "Take her somewhere far. I do not need to know where. Just make sure no one finds her."He hung up and set the phone on his bedside table and sat on the edge of the bed with the satisfied stillness of a man who believed he had won something.In a few hours the palace would realise she was missing. The wedding would be cancelled. The embarrassment alone would be enough to make Sebastian reconsider everything.Edgar was very good at patience when the outcome suited him.He did not know about the mind link.He did not know that Sandra had gone to Sebastian's study.He did not know about the cameras.He turned off his light and went to sleep.---Sandra ran.She had been waiting by the east entrance for Edgar's signal — the message that was supposed to tell her to go with the men

"Mum?"Sebastian's surprise showed plainly on his face. Standing on the other side of the door was his mother, Janet — and grief was written all over her.They had never been close, not the way sons and mothers were meant to be, yet she was still nearer to his heart than his father had ever been. He liked to think of her as a friend, even if they spoke only now and then. To him, that was enough. He had already made his peace with having no relationship with his father; a fragile one with his mother felt like a small mercy."Oh, dear." She forced a smile. "May I come in?""Of course, Mum. You never have to ask."He stepped aside and led her into the room."I'm sorry about Ava. I haven't been able to sit still since I heard she was missing — and to think she was taken from inside the palace." Janet's voice trembled. "I can only imagine how you must be feeling. And poor Ava. She must be so frightened."A tear slipped down her cheek as she spoke, and Sebastian's chest ached at the sight o

Sebastian told her everything, and to Ava it played out like a scene from a film. She could scarcely believe so much had unfolded in a single day."I think there's something wrong with me, Sebastian." Her gaze had dropped to her lap."What?" The words caught him off guard. "Why would you say that?"She let out a heavy breath. "It's as if I attract disaster wherever I go. Something always finds me. I haven't had one ordinary week since I set foot in this kingdom. Back at the pack house nothing ever went wrong — because I kept away from everyone, from everything. I think I'm meant to be alone, Sebastian. I don't—"She never finished. His mouth came down on hers, hard, stealing the rest of the sentence.He kissed her until he was certain the breath had left her lungs, and only when she was truly breathless did he draw back and take her face firmly in his hands."Don't ever speak about yourself that way." His thumb brushed her lip. "The next time those words leave your mouth, I'll prove h