All Chapters of Sold to the Beast Alpha After My Rejection: Chapter 61 - Chapter 70

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CHAPTER 61: Calista's Poison

Calista POVThe rider outside was mine when the sound of hooves hit the yard.Rowan heard it too and was watching my face.The sealed letter in his hand contained enough things to end everything I had if heopened it."Rowan," I said."Put the letter down," he said. "That's mine," I said."Put it down and I will not open it." He saidI needed to understand exactly how much he knew before I decided what side of thetruth to give him."Harper talked,did she not?" I said.Harper gave him the framework of everything,possibly the forged note too.The question was whether Garrett's scouts gave him the rest."Before you decide about the letter,let me explain what it is." I said."Explain it then," he said."It's a supply merchant,someone I have been using to move information between RedClaw and several territorial contacts.""Ashmoor Dominion's supply network," he said."How long have you been doing this?” he asked."Eight weeks," I said. "The truth," he said."Six month

CHAPTER 62: The Enemy Territory

Nerissa POVSoren was talking for a couple minutes and Zayden looked at me through the opendoorway."Come in," I said.He came in and sat down which was unusual for Kaelor and it made me put down mymother Andrea's journal and gave him my full attention."Soren gave us Ashmoor," he said."All of it?" I asked."Enough of it, and Caden Voss." He said"Tell me what he said," I said."Ashmoor Dominion covers four territories,three that Caden Voss absorbed through theinsertion method over the last six years. One that was his origin territory. The one hewas born into and took control of at nineteen years old.""Nineteen?" I said."His father was Alpha," Kaelor said. "Was, being the relevant word. Caden Vosschallenged him at nineteen and won.""He killed his own father?" I asked"He did,in front of the full pack." He said."Patience," I said."He has been planning that challenge since he was fifteen," Kaelor said. "Four years ofpreparation and positioning himself so

CHAPTER 63: The Ancient Rogues Rise

Zayden POVI was already moving back through the lower corridor toward the cells. Kaelor's boots onthe stone above me telling me he heard it too and was pulling Nerissa away fromwherever she was.The cell corridor was dim,torches spaced wide. The cold lived down here regardless ofseason, deeper than the mountain cold.Two of my wolves were posted outside Soren's cell,both of them were standing andlooking at the wall opposite Soren's cell."Report," I said.One of them turned.His name was Aldus. He was broad through the jaw,a scar bisecting his left eyebrowfrom an old patrol incident that took months to fully heal."Sound came from the outer wall behind the stone." He saidI looked at the wall.The original foundation of the fortress. Stone four feet thick at the base and older thananything built above it by two centuries at least."Movement?" I said. "Below movement,deeper than the floor level." He saidI walked to the wall and pressed my palm on it.I moved m

CHAPTER 64:Kaelor's Betrayal

Kaelor POV The third day was the deadline. I knew that from the grain store,the two Ashmoor wolves laid three items on that old table and the third item was a sketch of a woman with my jaw line. Renna,my sister. I told myself the decision was made. I told myself no in that grain store and walked back to Red Claw Pack and stood outside Nerissa's door doing my function and being what I have been. It has been three days and the deadline was tonight and the sketch was not on the grain store table anymore. It was inside my head. Nerissa was inside the upper room. That was the first thing I checked every morning and the last thing I checked every night. The position and security of the most important thing inside this fortress. It was the correct priority given everything pressing toward these walls from every direction. She was inside the upper room and the door was closed. Bram was on post outside it with his carved jaw. A good and reliable wolf in the way tha

CHAPTER 65: The Alpha's Bed

Nerissa POVI found the sealing method in Andrea's journal. The first two times I read it, my eyesmoved over the words without fully landing on them. Perhaps because I was reading forinformation about the bloodline and the sealing method was buried inside a longer entryabout the old roads that I initially categorized as historical context.When I caught it while reading it again,I sat up straighter and read it again slowly.‘The old roads close to the carrier's touch the way a wound closes to clean hands. Thecarrier places their palm against the stone at the entry point and holds the intention ofclosing without pushing it. The road reads the bloodline and responds. The herbs fromSable's collection amplify the signal. Three at each point burned at the threshold. Thesmoke carries the intention further than the touch alone can reach.’I read. Then I got up and went to find Edna.Edna listened to the entry,she sat in her preparation room with the dried herbs Sableshe

CHAPTER 66: Don't Touch Her

Nerissa POVMorning came loud and the fortress was different at dawn before the sealing.More wolves were in the corridors than the standard rotation warranted. Everyone knewsomething significant was happening today and adjusted accordingly. Every wolf Ipassed on the way from the upper room to the main corridor carried that adjustment inthe way they moved. Eyes that stayed on their assigned directions and not wanderingabout.Zayden briefed the senior wolves last night after I slept.Mira told me over breakfast with the matter of fact delivery she used when informationwas simply shared."Full rotation on the lower levels,Darius in charge of the tunnel approach from the cellcorridor. Kaelor on your direct perimeter during the sealing." She set the tray down."Alpha Zayden specified the positioning.""Of course he did," I said."Eat,you'll need it," she said. "Edna's instructions."The gathering happened in the main outer corridor before we descended to the lowerle

CHAPTER 67: Weakness and Cravings

Nerissa POVThe sealing took everything in me Three entry points,three times I pressed my palm on the stone while Edna burned theherbs and the smoke moved through the gaps. Something on the other side pushedback,showing a presence that was deeply unhappy about what we were doing.The first sealing took four minutes.The second took seven,the probable eastern point was less cooperative. The old roadbehind it felt different from the cell corridor one,like it had been opened and closedmany more times across the centuries than the primary access.The third one I barely remembered finishing.I remembered the smoke and the smell of it carrying those three notes Andreadescribed. The third one beneath both of those that I still had no better word for thandeep. A smell that registered in my nose,chest and bones.I remembered my palm on the stone going warm and the feeling on the other sidestopping,like a door closing.Then Zayden's arm around me.I woke to Edna sitting in

CHAPTER 68: Rowan Crosses Borders

Rowan POVI left Red Claw at midnight just with Garrett and four wolves I trusted completely withhorses that were prepared in the back stable by a groom.Calista was still in the east chamber.I left two wolves on the door and Elder Callum with temporary administrative authorityover anything that required Alpha approval before I returned. Callum was old andconservative and deeply uninterested in anything that wasn't covered by establishedprotocol. Which means he would do exactly nothing in my absence which was exactly what Ineeded.Garrett rode beside me through the first hour without speaking."Calista met with Ashmoor representatives last night," he said finally. "The real meetingon the letter was a day later than actual.""At the grain store,my scout watched it from the tree line.""She got out of the east chamber?" I asked"Through the window,the drop is manageable from the east chamber." He said"What happened at the meeting," I said."The scout was too far

CHAPTER 69:Alpha Against Alpha

Rowan POVThe ward on the third tunnel entry point was open from the inside.Those four words landed in the room and rearranged everything. The air changedquality.Zayden moved toward the desk,he pulled a map from the surface and spread it flat andhis finger found the third tunnel entry point on it before Darius fully entered the room."Eastern foundation,furthest from the cell corridor. The probable access point." Zaydensaid. "Yes," Darius said."Kaelor sealed it himself after Nerissa's sealing yesterday," Zayden said. "Hevolunteered to reinforce the eastern points.""And now it's open," Darius said."From the inside," Zayden said.Garrett moved to the doorway behind Darius and was reading the room."Where is Nerissa?" I asked.Both Zayden and Darius looked at me as if they temporarily forgot another Alpha was inthe room."Upper corridor," Darius said. "Bram is on the door.""Get someone else there," I said. "Now. If Kaelor chose the hour he left to coincide wit

CHAPTER 70: You Rejected Her

Zayden POVThe tunnel was sealed by the second hour not by Nerissa this time but by force.Twelve wolves drove the ancient rogues back through the opening while Dariuscoordinated a stone reinforcement that went three layers deep. It was still a temporarymeasure.Everything was temporary until Nerissa could place a permanent seal.The last rogue from the corridor was contained in the upper cells. I told Aldus not to gonear the relay rogue without me present. The Rogue King used those wolves for heused their proximity too. Any wolf who spent extended time near one came back fromthe shift reporting sounds at the edge of their hearing that hadn't been there before.I have seen that once and I did not intend to see it again.Rowan's four wolves from the outer yard were integrated into the eastern tunnelperimeter.Garrett handled them. Red Claw and Obsidian wolves working the same perimeter.Which was what the next several hours required.Rowan found me in the planning

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