All Chapters of Sold to the Beast Alpha After My Rejection: Chapter 131 - Chapter 140

Nerissa POVZayden took Aldric back to the treatment room.Kaelor was in Darius's custody. Darius looked at him in the stone chamber with hiseyes doing their assessment and made arrangements.I was in the outer yard with Selene against my chest.She had not gone back to sleep after the stone chamber. Her eyes were open andmoving through the outer yard with the same focused attention her brother gaveeverything. Two children born into chaos who apparently decided that sleep was asecondary concern until they understood their surroundings completely.I understood the impulse.Rowan came to me near the corridor entrance.He was in worse condition than the last time I saw him on the eastern road. The cutabove his eye stopped bleeding but the dried blood covered the entire left side of hisface. His right side took something significant during the southern sweep engagement.Garrett was three steps behind him. Also damaged."The southern sweep is broken," Rowan said when h

Nerissa POVRowan died by the next morning.Garrett was beside him,as he always was. That was the only thing I could hold onto afterward. That Garrett had not moved fromthat spot on the inner corridor wall since the enforcers carried Rowan there. ThatRowan did not die alone in an empty room with nobody who knew him present.I was in the outer yard when it happened.Edna came to find me.She walked across the outer yard toward me with her damaged leg and her healer'sbag."No!" I said."Nerissa," she said."No," I said again. The word coming out of me like something I could use to stop theinformation from landing if I said it enough times."The wound was too deep," she said. Her voice was very careful. "The silver the secondwolf carried went further than I could reach. His body held on as long as it could." Shestopped in front of me. "He did not suffer at the end. He went quietly. Garrett was withhim."I did not say anything.Wolves moved through post-battle wor

Nerissa POVThe news came in pieces.The first piece arrived the morning after Kaelor's death.A scout from the eastern boundary. Riding hard and reaching the fortress before fullsunrise with dust on his clothing and his horse breathing.Darius brought the report to the planning room where Zayden and I were with the threeremaining visiting Alphas. Felix and Aldous and Caden. The others sent theircontingents home the previous evening with the formal pack law documentation ofeverything witnessed and the commitment to return if called.These three had stayed."Ashmoor's regional commanders are abandoning their positions," Darius said. Readingfrom the scout's report with his characteristic flatness. "The eastern boundarycommander left his post sometime in the night. His soldiers woke this morning with nocommander and no instruction and no communication from the central operation." Helooked up. "Approximately sixty wolves standing on the eastern boundary with no order

Nerissa POVZayden should not have been here.Two hours out,that was what Darius had said. Eastern territory assessment. Two hoursminimum before any reasonable calculation put him back inside these walls.I did not ask how,the answer was in his face when he came through the broken northerngate. The mate connection that Isolde spoke about in the planning room weeks ago.The Nightmoon frequency recognizes threat and transmits it to the guardian bloodlinethe same way it had been designed to do for three hundred years.He had felt it,turned his horse around before the conscious decision to do so finishedforming.He stood inside the broken gate with dust on his riding clothes and his gray eyes on hisfather's white wolf and everything he was carrying visible on his face in a way thatZayden Crowe's face almost never permitted.The white wolf looked at him.The silver eyes moving across his son's face with the searching quality."Father," Zayden said.The white wolf made

Nerissa POVThe gold above the tree went quiet but the forest did not.Three days after the main ground ceremony the Veil Forest began doing something thatnone of the wolves who lived near it for generations had ever seen it do.It started with sound. Something from the trees themselves,a low continuous resonancethat Evander heard first because Evander had been listening to Veil Forest for threehundred and forty years and knew every sound it made and knew immediately that thisone was different from all of them.He came to find me at midmorning. Moving through the inner corridor with his walking staff and the steadiness that wasreturning to him within three days of sleep and foodHis eyes when he found me were not the broken quality from before."Come outside," he said.The sound was audible from the outer yard.Once he pointed me toward it I could not understand how I had not heard it already. Butthat was the nature of it. Below the threshold of casual attention. T