Twin Alphas' Rare Luna 의 모든 챕터: 챕터 31 - 챕터 40

AlecI could not concentrate on a single piece of pack business for the rest of the morning.I sat through a dispute between two of the southern border families about grazing rights that under any other circumstances would have held my full attention, and I heard perhaps a third of what was said. My beta noticed. He was too professional to comment on it, but I caught him glancing at me twice with the particular careful expression of a man recalibrating his understanding of his Alpha's mood.I was thinking about the hall.About her standing there with her chin level and her voice steady, saying the thing neither Seb nor I had found the courage to name out loud even between the two of us. I am not choosing. I am done being afraid of that.I had spent my whole life believing that control was the same thing as strength. That the measure of a man, and certainly the measure of an Alpha, was how completely he could manage what he felt and present only what served the pack.She had just done

MylaThe second letter arrived three days later.Myla was in the eastern garden with Elder Cora when Alec found her, the letter already opened in his hand, his expression carrying the particular controlled quality she had learned meant something significant."Darius again," she said. It wasn't a question."Yes."He handed it to her without hesitation, and she felt something settle in her chest at that small fact. He had promised her in the library weeks ago that he would tell her first, not manage it and report back, and here he was, keeping that promise without her needing to ask.She read it.The tone was different from the first letter. Less patient. The formal language was still there, the careful diplomatic phrasing, but underneath it ran something sharper. Darius noted that his previous request for a visit had gone unanswered for an unacceptable length of time. He noted that as the Luna's adoptive Alpha he retained certain rights of welfare oversight under the original contract

MylaThe dispute had been simmering for weeks before it reached her.Two families on the southern edge of Crimson River's territory, both with legitimate claims to the same stretch of hunting ground, both too proud and too entrenched to back down without someone neutral stepping in. Alec had mentioned it once, briefly, the kind of pack business that normally would never have reached her attention at all.It was one of the senior wolves who brought it to her directly."The Alpha is occupied with the border situation," the woman said, careful and a little uncertain, as though she wasn't entirely sure this was appropriate. "But the families are asking for someone to hear both sides. They asked for you."Myl

AlecThe pack physician found him before breakfast, which was how Alec knew before she said a word that this was not the same as the dozens of other mornings he'd been summoned to his father's rooms over the past months."He's asking for you," she said. "Only you, for now. He wants to see Sebastian after."Alec did not ask why the order mattered. He simply went.His father's room smelled of the particular medicinal mixture the physician had been using for weeks now, herbs and something sharper beneath them, and the light through the curtains was thin and grey with early morning. Marcus was propped against the pillows, smaller than he had been even a month ago, the way illness seemed to take up residence in the body and slowly hollow out everything that had once f

All ThreeThe gathering was small by Crimson River standards, but it carried a weight that had nothing to do with numbers.Word had moved through the pack the way such things always did, quietly and without anyone needing to announce it formally. The Alpha's father was failing. The senior wolves and elders had requested a gathering, not a ceremony exactly, something closer to acknowledgement, the pack coming together the way packs did when something significant was shifting beneath the surface of ordinary life.Marcus could not attend. The physician had been firm about that, and for once he had not argued.Alec stood at the front of the great hall as the pack assembled, the late afternoon light slanting gold through the tall windows, and Myla watched him from whe