All Chapters of Sold to the Beast Alpha After My Rejection: Chapter 71 - Chapter 80

Nerissa POVI felt something at the second hour of the night.I felt a pulse starting somewhere central moving outward through my ribs and down intomy limbs and up through my chest like a stone dropped in still water sending rings inevery direction at once.I pressed my hand on my stomach.I sat up slowly in the dark and listened to the fortress around me. The third hour patrolsounds and Bram outside the door. The distant movement of the eastern perimeterrotation that has been running continuously since the tunnel breach and under all of it was a frequency,the same as the thing Zayden described coming through thefoundation stone from the tunnel but this was coming from inside me.I pressed harder on my stomach,the pulse came a third time.I got out of bed.Edna's room was on the second floor.Bram walked with me to her room.He stopped asking questions about my destinations and simply followed wherever Iwent.I knocked on Edna's door.She opened it within ten se

Zayden POVThe ambush came at dawn,Aldus took six wolves on the standard northern perimetercheck at first light. The same route they have been running for three weeks.The northern perimeter check was the most routine patrol in the rotation.The signal came through the patrol communication chain. Three short howls followed bya break followed by one long one.I was out of the planning room before the echo died.Kaelor came to me at the outer yardThe Kaelor who I suspect betrayed me,came back through the eastern gate. He knew what he had done and he was preparedto carry the full weight of it.I did not speak to him yet about the tunnel,there was no time for that conversation now.He fell into step beside me without being asked."Northern perimeter," I said."I heard the signal." He said."Later,we speak," he said. "Yes," I said. "Later."We ran into the tree lines,it opened into the northern clearing two hundred yards fromthe fortress wall.What I saw when we bro

Zayden POVThe northeast howl hit me while I was still in the northern clearing.I was moving before the echo finished.Kaelor walked with me.The clearing behind us had eight downed rogues and three standing patrol wolveshandling them. Aldus on the ground with Garrett crouched beside him applying pressureto the shoulder wound.I told Garrett to stay.The fortress gate was two hundred yards.We covered it in less time than that should have allowed.The eastern junction corridor told me everything before anyone spoke.Bram on the floor in wolf form. Conscious and bleeding from two wounds.Dray pressed on the far wall.And Nerissa standing between them. I saw that in Nerissa and not before in the tunnel during the sealings there was warmthand the herbs and the bloodline responding to the entry points.Her hands were luminescent in the way that the luna stone was luminescent when shefirst touched it in the settlement.Dray was not moving toward her.He was pressed o

Rowan POVCalista was gone according to elder Callum's message.Garrett's follow-up message arrived an hour later with considerably more. She took three things from her chamber before leaving. Her correspondence materials,aledger from the household records that contained months of supply routedocumentation and something from the locked box under her writing table that Garrettdescribed as a sealed document he wasn't able to identify from the exterior.The sealed document she had been protecting since before the east chamber.Possibly since before the mating ceremony.I sat in the small room Darius gave me and read Garrett's message, then set it on thetable and looked at the wall.Three years of Calista inside the Red Claw Pack.Every territorial gathering,every elder council meeting,conversation about the future ofthe pack and its position in the northern territorial structure,even the discussion aboutalliances and borders and what Red Claw needed from its future Alp

Nerissa POVI was strolling the pack when I found Rowan in the yard.I came down from the planning room after Zayden and Darius went to coordinate theborder response and Garrett took Rowan's Red Claw wolves through the easternperimeter briefing. My knee was holding well for the stairsHe was sitting on the low wall at the yard's edge looking at the northeast tree.I almost turned back to the entrance.My wolf made a quiet sound inside me.I walked toward him and he heard me coming.He turned before I was close for the footfall to be audible.I sat beside him and kept a little distance between us.Neither of us spoke.The yard was lively,the evening patrol rotation settling into its positions.Two Obsidian wolves and one of Rowan's Red Claw wolves at the northeast junction."Garrett showed me your message to Elder Callum," I said.Rowan looked at the tree."You told them everything," I said. "The correspondence and the alliance contract. Whatyou missed and why you m