All Chapters of After I Escaped the Shifter World, My Mates Lost Their Minds: Chapter 1 - Chapter 9

When I woke again, I was lying in Fenrir’s den.The wolf shifter was beside me, awkwardly trying to untie the cords around my cloak.The moment he saw my eyes open, he covered my mouth with his hand and warned me in a low voice.“Human, don’t scream. Give me an heir, and I won’t hurt you.”I widened my eyes innocently.Then I brushed my lips lightly against his palm.Fenrir froze.A flush spread across his face, and he jerked his hand back as if he had been burned.“What are you doing?”I reached up and wrapped my arms around his neck.Then I let my fingers trail over the thick silver fur of his tail.“Fenrir,” I whispered. “I’ll give you a child.”Those words snapped the last thread of his restraint.For the next few days, I never left his den.Maybe my obedience pleased him.After confirming I was carrying his child, Fenrir did not lock me in a cage the way the others had.He did not chain me.He did not restrict where I could go.That day, as usual, Fenrir left to

After that night, I was carrying the heirs of three clans at once.Rabbit.Wolf.Fox.The news threw the entire shifter world into an uproar.Once the clans learned I could carry heirs from different bloodlines at the same time, they began dreaming of an endless future of descendants.Over the days that followed, Rowan, Fenrir, and Kael took turns caring for me.Rowan had always been gentle and attentive. He handled my meals, my medicine, and every small detail of my daily life.Fenrir was not good with words, but every day he brought back the best game he could find, determined to keep me strong.Kael was the lightest presence of all. He stayed at my side, making jokes and trying to keep me smiling.There were moments when I almost believed they cared for me.Almost believed they saw me as something more than the means to continue their bloodlines.But I knew better than to expect human morality from shifters.Carrying three bloodlines weakened me badly.The clan healer

“No. It wasn’t me…“Ayla, don’t listen to them. How could I ever betray you?”Rowan reached for my hand, desperately trying to explain himself.“Ayla, I’m sorry. I never meant to hurt you. How could I bear to hurt you?“They were too strong. I couldn’t defeat them.“I never meant to use you. I only… I only wanted the rabbit babies to have a better life.”He was still lying.If I had not overheard his conversation with Fenrir that night, perhaps I would have believed him forever.Kael ignored him.He took a small white tablet from his pocket and placed it between my lips.“Stop!”Rowan tried to pull him away, but the tablet had already dissolved.“What did you give her?”“A fox-clan preservation medicine,” Kael said quietly. “It will keep her body from deteriorating for a month.”A shadow crossed his eyes.“I want the babies to open their eyes and remember Ayla’s face before we lay her to rest.”After the three of them eventually left, I noticed something strange.Ever

But even as he faced the hostile crowd, Rowan refused to move.“No.“While Ayla was alive, I failed her. I won’t let her be disturbed even in death.“If I don’t make it, Fenrir… please take care of the rabbit children for me.”He did not get to finish.Fenrir struck Rowan’s head.Rowan went limp at once.Fenrir threw him over one shoulder, glanced at the open window beside the door, and ran without looking back.The wolf clan was powerful.None of the other shifters wanted to risk a direct fight with Fenrir, so they let him go.With Rowan no longer blocking the doorway, the tiger-clan leader kicked the door open and rushed inside.But the bed was empty.Only the open window remained, banging against the wall in the wind.“We’ve been tricked,” someone snarled.The black serpent narrowed his eyes.“That fox is as cunning as ever. They can’t have gone far.”At the same time, I found myself trailing behind Kael as he ran through the forest with my body in his arms.I had n

Three days later, just as they were preparing to bury me, Rowan came back.He was covered in bruises and barely steady on his feet.But he ran straight to me, his eyes blazing.“Ayla, I did it.“I struck back at the clans who hurt you. None of them are coming after you again.“Look. The people who made you suffer are gone.”I barely heard him.All I could think about was stopping them from burying me.“They have to burn my body. If they leave it here, I’ll never get home!”But no one could hear me.Fenrir dug the grave.Kael gently cleaned my body with a damp cloth.Only Rowan kept talking to me, over and over, as if I could answer.Just as they were about to lower me into the earth, Rowan suddenly spoke.“Wait.“I remember something Ayla once told me.“She said she didn’t want to be buried underground. She was afraid of the dark.“She wanted her ashes scattered back into the earth.”I froze.Something I had said without thinking.He had remembered.The pyre was li