All Chapters of Sold to the Beast Alpha After My Rejection: Chapter 111 - Chapter 120

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CHAPTER 111: The Royal Alpha Gathering

Nerissa POVThey started arriving before sunrise.I heard the first howl from the northern perimeter. Then a second from the westernapproach. By the time the sky shifted from black to the dark gray that comes just beforedawn, six separate howls had cut through the cold air surrounding Obsidian Keep. I was already awake. Sleep had become something that happened in fragments lately.Two hours here. Three hours there,my body would pull me under and then somethingwould drag me back up.Zayden has been awake since midnight.I knew because I was awake beside him, listening to him breathe in the way that meanthe was thinking rather than sleeping.Neither of us said anything about it.By seven in the morning, the outer yard was a different place entirely.I stood at the upper corridor window and looked down at it. Wolves I had never seenbefore moved through the space below. Each group stayed near their own.The way predators are always aware of each other."Seven Alphas,"

CHAPTER 112: Bow Before Your Luna

Nerissa POVI did not know it was happening until it was already happening.He did not announce his decisions before he made them. He did not consult or prepareor give warning.Including me.The gathering ended two hours before midday. The seven Alphas dispersed to theirassigned quarters inside the fortress. Brennan of Pale Ridge had been taken to aprivate room with Zayden and Darius, and whatever was said inside that room had notcome out yet. I watched Zayden's face when he emerged.He looked at me once across the corridor.Then he walked toward the outer yard without speaking.I let him go.Some things needed to be carried alone before they could be shared. I understood thatbetter than most.By midafternoon the outer yard had transformed.All seven visiting packs arranged themselves in formation along the perimeter. Therelated bloodline wolves occupied the northern section. Obsidian's own wolves filled thecenter ground. The combined mass of bodies and wolf en

CHAPTER 113:The Attack on Obsidian

Nerissa POVThe howl that woke me was wrong.This was fractured at the edges. Cut short. The kind of howl that stops because the wolfmaking it no longer can.I was upright before I was fully awake.Zayden was already gone from the bed.The room was dark,the oil lamp on the far table burned down to almost nothing. Outsidethe window the sky was the deep black that sits between midnight and the firstsuggestion of dawn.Then the second howl came.Then screaming.I was at the window before the screaming fully reached me. Chaos. Bodies running inmultiple directions. Torches appearing along the northern wall and then going darkagain almost immediately.Something extinguishing them from outside."Nerissa." Mira's voice through the door. Sharp and fast. "Get dressed. Now."I was already dressed.I pulled the door open.Mira's face was tight. Behind her, two of the related bloodline wolves stood with theirhands on their weapons."Northern wall is breached," she said. "

CHAPTER 114: Fire in the Fortress

Nerissa POVThe first fire started in the western grain store.I smelled it before I saw it,something underneath the cold battle air.Rowan smelled it at the same moment.His head turned west. His amber eyes shifted fully gold."That's not accidental," he said.He was already moving before he finished the sentence.I followed him.The western corridor was filled with smoke before we reached the end of it.We hit the western passage and the heat came with it.The grain store door was already gone.Blown outward from the inside, the heavy wood scattered across the passage floor inpieces that still had flames eating their edges. Inside the store, the grain sacks were towers of fire from floor to ceiling. The shelving along the walls had caught. The ceilingbeams above had caught.Two Obsidian supply wolves were on the passage floor outside the door."Dead," Rowan said, crouching briefly beside them. He looked up at me. His jaw washard. "Silver in the grain. Someone put

CHAPTER 115: The Rogues March

Nerissa POVCalista.It was Calista standing at the eastern gate.Standing in that dark cloak with her blonde hair tucked away and her sharp eyes findingmine across the burning yard like she had been waiting for exactly this moment.Like she planned for me to see her.My feet moved before my mind caught up with them."Nerissa!" Zayden's hand caught my arm."She's here," I said. "Calista. Eastern gate. She's the one who gave them the map,Zayden. She's been inside this fortress the entire time and she…"I looked back toward the eastern gate and she was gone.My chest pulled tight. "She was there!" I said."I believe you," Zayden said. His voice was flat. "Lock the inner corridors. Every entrypoint between the outer yard and the upper fortress. Nobody moves through withoutvisual confirmation of identity."Darius was already moving.Zayden looked back at me. "She cannot go far. The fortress is contained on three sidesand the fourth has thirty archers on it." His jaw

CHAPTER 116:Kaelor Returns

Nerissa POVBelgor's words were still sitting in my chest when the second horn sounded.A horn. Deep and long and coming from the eastern perimeter beyond the broken gate.The sound of it was different from everything else that had filled the air tonight.Someone wanted us to know they were coming.Belgor turned toward the eastern perimeter without urgency. His gold eyes did theirreading of the distance the way they had read the outer yard when he first camethrough the northern breach."That horn," he said. "I know that pattern.""What pattern?" I said."Three beats held long then released short," he said. "It is not Ashmoor's signal system.Ashmoor uses double beats." He paused. "That pattern belongs to a commanding wolf.One who wants the wolves already fighting to know that reinforcement has arrived. It isa personal signature."Zayden appeared to my right.He heard the horn from across the outer yard and crossed toward us with Darius twosteps behind him. The gra

CHAPTER 117: The Alpha's Wound

Nerissa POVThe thing moving through the eastern tree was not Dorian's fourth formation.It took three minutes to understand that.The sound was wrong for an organized military force.Belgor heard it before anyone else.His gold eyes went to the eastern tree line and stayed there."Not an enemy," he said."Then what?" Darius asked"Veil Forest has many layers," ABelgor said. "I brought the outer rogues. What is coming now is from deeper in."Nobody had time to ask what that meant.They came out of the eastern tree line in a wave that had no formation.They hit the rear of Kaelor's column before the column fully registered.The Greyspire wolves at the back of the column broke immediately. Being hit frombehind by something that had appeared from a direction nobody was watching becauseeveryone had been watching Zayden. The Ashmoor wolves held better but not well enough.Kaelor turned toward the rear collapse of his column.His plan was falling apart in real time and h

CHAPTER 118: The Healing Gift

Nerissa POVZayden was too heavy to move.His weight against me was the weight of a man who stopped helping because his bodywas prioritizing something else entirely. The wound in his left side was deep and theblood spreading between my fingers where I pressed against it was not slowing."Zayden." I kept my voice even. "I need you to stay awake.""I'm awake," he said.He did not sound awake. He sounded like a wolf using the last of something to producethe appearance of function."Talk to me," I said. "Keep talking.""About what?" he said."Anything," I said."The twins," he said. "What are we naming them?""We haven't decided yet," I said."Decide now," he said. "Give me something to stay awake for." My throat tightened completely. I pressed harder against his side and looked toward thenorthern yard entrance."Edna!" My voice came out sharp and carrying. "I need Edna in the northern yard!"Boots on stone were heard,running.Rowan came through the northern yard ent

CHAPTER 119:Rowan's Redemption Begins

Rowan POVThe outer yard was still burning in sections when Darius's voice came through thefortress walls.I had been moving toward the eastern corridor to find Isolde when the sound of itreached me. Darius did not panic. But the urgency in it was the kind that meantsomething had happened outside. I changed direction.The outer yard entrance was a different world from an hour ago.The Ashmoor soldiers who had flooded through the broken eastern gate were mostlygone. Dead or fled. The rogues from Veil Forest pushed the retreat.Wounded wolves along the eastern wall. Three bodies covered near the northern yardentrance. The western wing was still eating itself with fire that nobody had the resourcesto fight anymore.Darius was at the center of the yard.He was looking at the eastern gate.I followed his gaze.Through the broken gate, in the dark territory beyond, movement. A single figuremoving toward the gate from the eastern tree line. A wolf who was not afraid of

CHAPTER 120: Calista Unmasked

Nerissa POVThe outer yard was still smoking when Darius dragged her out.The western wing was still producing thick gray smoke that rolled across the yard inslow waves and settled low against the ground and made everything beyond twenty feetlook like it existed behind gauze. The fire burned itself down to embers sometime in theearly hours but the smoke remained.I was crossing the outer yard toward the northern breach when the commotion startednear the eastern corridor entrance.Shouting first,then the particular sound of a struggle that was not between equals. Onewolf fighting hard and another wolf not needing to fight hard at all.Then Darius's voice cut through both."Stop!"The struggling stopped. I changed direction.The eastern corridor entrance was crowded by the time I reached it. Obsidian wolvesand related bloodline wolves and three of the visiting pack wolves from Caden'sformation all pressing toward the same point.I pushed through.Darius had Calis

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