All Chapters of Sold to the Beast Alpha After My Rejection: Chapter 141 - Chapter 150

150 Chapters

CHAPTER 141: Peace After Bloodshed

Nerissa POVDorian Vane requested to speak to me on the morning of the seventh day.The request came through the upper holding room guard at breakfast. Delivered toDarius who delivered it to Zayden who brought it to me in the treatment room where Iwas with the twins and said nothing when he handed me the folded note.The note was four lines long.‘I would like to speak with the Luna of Obsidian Keep before the formal judgment. I haveinformation she needs that is not in any documentation Darius has compiled. It willmatter for what comes after. I ask for one hour.’I folded it."No," Zayden said."You haven't asked me yet," I said."I don't need to ask you," he said. "The answer is no.""Zayden.""He is a manipulator," he said. "Every conversation he has ever had has been a tool.Every word chosen for specific effect. Whatever he wants to tell you in one hour isarranged to produce something in you that benefits him. No."I looked at him."You are right about all o

CHAPTER 142: Return to Red Claw

Nerissa POVIt was Evander who made me think about going back.We were in the eastern corridor. Ten days later Dorian Vane walked through the brokengate. He was sitting on his bench with Aldric in his arms the way he sat most mornings.The boy looked at Evander's face and Evander spoke to him in the old language in alow continuous way that seemed to satisfy something in both of them.I sat beside him.We were quiet for a while.Then Evander said without looking up from the boy, "Where did you come from beforethis?""Red Claw Pack," I said."Tell me about it," he said.I thought about that for a moment.The question was simple enough. Evander asked simple questions.I told him.The compressed version that lives in the back of the mind and gets summarized intosingle words when summoned. Abuse,rejection,escape.The texture of Red Claw Pack mornings.Waking before anyone else to start the work that would not be acknowledged. Theparticular cold of the storage room f

CHAPTER 143: Aunt Mara's Punishment

Nerissa POVThe Red Claw Pack looked smaller than I remembered.The buildings were the same size and the main ground was the same dimensions andthe gate was the same height it always was.The crowd that gathered at the main ground was larger than the gate crowd.Word moved fast inside a pack territory. We had been inside the gate for four minutesand the main ground was already filled with wolves who stopped what they were doingand came to see what the ripple announced.They looked at me the way the Obsidian wolves looked at me after Mark appeared.The Obsidian wolves were afraid of something they did not understand. These wolveswere afraid of something they understood very well.I recognized faces in the crowd.The woman who threw water at my feet in the main corridor and laughed when Islipped. She was in the middle of the gathering with her eyes down now.The elder wolf who stood at the ceremony and said loudly for three rows to hear that theMoon Goddess had a po

CHAPTER 144: The Pack That Bowed

Nerissa POVHarper's mother was a small woman with large hands.Working hands. The kind that showed every year of labor in the texture of them.Calloused across the palms and strong in the grip.She opened the door of the Harper family residence.Harper's mother stood in her doorway and looked at me.Then past me at Harper behind me."Mama!" Harper said joyfullyHarper's mother came through the doorway and crossed the small space between thedoor and her daughter and put her arms around her and Harper went into them I stood in the residential corridor and gave them the moment.Zayden was with me. He did not speak since we left the main ground.When Harper and her mother separated, Harper's mother looked at me."You are the one she left for?" she said."Yes," I said."She used to talk about you," she said. "Before you left. Before the ceremony." Her largehands folded together in front of her. "She said you were going to be something. Wheneveryone else was saying the o

CHAPTER 145:Rowan's Grave

Nerissa POVThey buried him at the eastern edge of Red Claw Pack territory.That ground was for Alphas who died in their territory leading their pack. Rowan haddied outside his territory protecting someone else's Luna and his pack made a decisionabout what that meant and where it placed him.They buried him where the territory met the open land,at the boundary. A Beta wolf named Ethan who handled the pack's ceremonial decisions in the vacancyexplained it to me when I asked. Said the elders had debated it and concluded thatRowan Blackthorn at the end of his life had been neither purely Red Claw nor purelyObsidian. Had belonged to both and to something larger than either.Zayden did not argue. He looked at me across the breakfast table in the room theacting Alpha prepared for us in the Red Claw Pack residential corridor and simply saidwhat time and I said midmorning and he nodded and that had been the fullconversation.Harper started to say something and stopped her

CHAPTER 146: The Alpha and His Luna

Nerissa POVWe rode back to Obsidian Keep on the third morning.The southern territory and the northern terrain ahead and the particular quality of thejourney back to a place being different from the journey away from it. Going awaycarries anticipation of what you will find. Coming back carries the weight of what you leftand what you are returning to and the question of whether those two things will fittogether properly when you arrive.Obsidian Keep appeared on the horizon.The Mark on my forearm warmed when I saw it. The bloodline knows its territory the way a wolf knows the scent of home even from adistance.Zayden was riding beside me and he felt me stop and looked at where I was lookingand said nothing. Just sat his horse beside mine and looked at his fortress on thenorthern horizon with something in his face that he was not managing."It looks different from out here," I said."It always does," he said. "I used to ride out to this hill when I was younger. Wh

CHAPTER 147:The Obsidian Heirs

Nerissa POV It started with the weather.Aldric was three weeks old when the first storm came from nowhere.A dark formation building directly above the fortress in a sky that was clear twentyminutes before. Building fast and from nothing and sitting directly over Obsidian Keepwith the intentionality of weather that has been directed.Felt it through the permanent sensitivity.I went inside.Found Aldric in Evander's arms in the eastern corridor.Awakes,his eyes pointed at the ceiling with the focused upward attention he gave thingsthat interested him. His small fists open rather than closed.Evander looked at me when I came through the corridor entrance."How long?" I said."Four minutes," he said. "He woke from sleep and looked at the ceiling and the skychanged."I crouched in front of them and looked at my son.He looked at me.Then I looked at the ceiling again.The storm above the fortress rumbled once.Aldric's open hands moved.Tiny fingers spreading wide

CHAPTER 148: Moonlit Promises

Nerissa POVThe night before the territorial assembly Zayden could not sleep.I lay still for a moment.Listening to him breathe in the way that meant he was awake. The slight difference inrhythm. "Say it," I said."Say what?" he said."Whatever is keeping you awake," I said.The room was dark. The oil lamp had burned down hours ago. The northern territoryoutside the window was the deep black of a clear night with no cloud cover and the fullmoon three days past but still producing enough light that the window was a palerectangle in the dark wall."Forty packs arrive tomorrow," he said."Yes," I said."The Ashfen and Thornwall boundary dispute documentation is prepared," he said."Darius has arranged the session order so that dispute comes second rather than first.First impressions of the assembly should not be a territorial conflict between twoattending packs.""That is sensible," I said."The three eastern packs with incomplete Ashmoor alliance documentation h

CHAPTER 149: The Kingdom Restored

Nerissa POVThe first delegation arrived before sunrise.Felix of Ironfang with his healed shoulder and his flat operational eyes and twelvewolves behind him in full Ironfang colors. They came through the rebuilt eastern gate inan organized manner.I was on the northern wall when I saw them come through.Been there since before dawn. The full embrace changed what early mornings felt like.The fortress frequency at that hour was particular and clear. Every sleeping wolfproduces a quiet steady hum that the permanent sensitivity reads as a single collectivesound. The sound of Obsidian Keep at rest.It was the most peaceful thing I felt since the power became permanent.I went down to meet Felix at the inner corridor entrance.He stopped when he saw me.I looked at the Mark. At the pendant. At whatever the full embrace was doing to thequality of my presence that wolves had been responding to differently since the mainground ceremony."Luna," he said."Felix," I said

CHAPTER 150: Under the Moon Goddess

Nerissa POVThe night after the assembly, Obsidian Keep was quiet for the first time in months.I stood at the northern corridor window and listened to it.The assembly ran until evening. The formal documentation signing took longer thanDarius projected because forty Alphas applying pack seals to foundational charterdocuments was a process that could not be hurried without insulting the significance ofwhat was being signed. Darius managed the pace with his characteristic flat precisionand did not once show the strain of managing it.Afterward there was a gathering in the main ground.Food and fire and the sounds of forty packs finding the particular ease that comes afterthe hard thing is finished.I moved through it with Zayden beside me and the twins passed between Edna andIsolde and Evander and Harper and Aldric Crowe who held both grandchildren in thefirelight with his recovering eyes.The pure undefended wonder of someone receiving something they stopped belie

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