บททั้งหมดของ Rejected by the Alpha Who Loved Another: บทที่ 1 - บทที่ 8

The healer ordered me to stay in an isolation room for at least seven days. I refused.I knew my body better than any healer did. A rare strain of wolfsbane had already reached my heart, and my wolf had grown weaker inside my soul. Some days, even answering me took everything she had left.Damon Thorn was the Alpha of Silver Ridge. Five years ago, he marked me with hatred in his eyes. He thought I had used my family’s power to force the mate bond and steal him from Serena. After that, every good thing I did for him only looked like guilt to him.Five years later, he finally had the chance to return that hatred.I didn’t want to spend my last days in a healing center. I signed the discharge form and took a car back to the Alpha manor.Damon sat in the living room with a cup of untouched ginger tea on the table. He used to make that tea whenever my hands went cold after patrol, but when I walked in, he pushed the cup away and let his gaze sweep over my pale face. “Weren’t you at the hea

A few minutes after we left the council hall, the wolfsbane surged from my heart toward my throat. I covered my mouth and coughed dark blood onto the snow.Elias’s voice sounded far away. “Aria? Aria, stay with me.”I wanted to tell him not to cry, but I couldn’t lift my hand. The last thing I saw was a faint moon above the clouds, like the Moon Goddess had finally come for me.When I opened my eyes again, Elias was on his knees on the healing center floor, crying so hard his shoulders shook.I wanted to touch his shoulder. My hand passed through him. I froze, then slowly turned around and saw my own body lying on the bed.So I was dead.My soul didn’t leave right away. Some unfinished obsession tied me here, and I could only follow Elias as he arranged my funeral.Elias looked as if the color had been drained from him overnight. In a few days, he lost visible weight, and the shadows under his eyes stayed.Three days before the funeral, he sat beside my ashes with a ruined voice. “Aria

After the funeral, my parents asked Elias to stay.My father placed a blackwood wolf seal in his palm. “Aria is gone. We don’t have the heart to manage the family business now. Blackwood Holdings and the border trade routes will be under your care for the time being.”Elias looked startled. “I can’t. I’m only a Beta. I’ve never managed anything this large.”My mother looked at him with red eyes. “You were the person Aria trusted most. She trusted you, so we trust you.”My father nodded. “Management doesn’t mean doing everything yourself. It means guarding the direction and keeping her legacy out of the wrong hands.”Elias looked at my tombstone for a long time. Then he closed his fingers around the wolf seal. “All right. I’ll do it.”I stood beside him and felt the first quiet comfort since my death. Elias never showed off, but he was steadier than anyone. I trusted him with everything I left behind.That night, Elias sent my parents back to the Blackwood estate and then bought a full

When Elias returned to his apartment, Damon was waiting by the door.This time, Damon looked truly broken. His suit was wrinkled, his eyes were bloodshot, and the Alpha pride that once held his shoulders straight seemed to have been ripped out overnight.When he saw Elias, the first thing he said was, “They admitted it.”Damon’s voice was low. “My parents really begged Aria to keep me in Silver Ridge. She never forced anyone.”Elias didn’t comfort him. “And?”Damon raised his eyes. His voice trembled. “Why didn’t she tell me? Just once.”“She told you many times that she didn’t force you.” Elias’s voice was ice. “You didn’t believe her.”Damon stood pinned by that sentence.Elias threw the evidence file into his arms. “Then take a look at the woman you couldn’t wait to marry.”Damon opened it slowly. Photos, transfer records, the rogue healer’s report, and the audio device fell into his view. His hands began to shake. By the time the recording reached the sentence about me dying after