Sold to the Beast Alpha After My Rejection のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 111 - チャプター 120

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,"

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. "

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

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

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