The Alpha's Rejected Mate のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 91 - チャプター 100

Lyra’s POVThe moment the crown touched my head, the dead began to kneel.Not just the kings.Not just the warriors buried beneath the ruins.Every dead soul in the Moon Kingdom bowed toward me.I heard their voices rising from the earth, thousands of whispers becoming one.Our Queen.Our Mother.Our Beginning.I stumbled backward.“What have I done?”The silver-eyed man standing before me smiled.“My daughter has finally come home.”I stared at him.My father.The word felt wrong in my mouth.I had spent my life searching for the truth about where I came from. I had been told I was a fragment, a vessel, a forgotten heart, a second attempt at something that had existed long before me.Now the being responsible for the beginning of it all stood before me, calling me his daughter.And I was supposed to accept it?“No.”His smile faded slightly.I lifted my chin.“You don't get to call yourself my father simply because you know where I came from.”The battlefield fell silent.Behind him,

Kael’s POVThere are things a man can survive.War.Betrayal.The death of a kingdom.I had survived all three.But watching Lyra look at me as though she no longer knew whether she could trust me?That was a different kind of death.“Kael.”Her voice was quiet.Too quiet.I knew that voice.It was the voice she used when she was trying not to cry.“Tell me it's lying.”I opened my mouth.Nothing came out.The Hunger stood before us, holding the silver heart between its claws.The black thread connecting it to Lyra's chest pulsed with every beat of her heart.“Tell her,” the creature urged.I glared at it.“Be silent.”“Tell her how you killed her.”Lyra's fingers slowly slipped from mine.I felt the loss before she even stepped away.“Kael?”I wanted to lie.I wanted to tell her that the creature was twisting the truth, that its memories were poisoned, that whatever it showed her could not be trusted.But I had spent too many lifetimes hiding behind silence.And I had already hurt her

Lyra’s POV“Touch him, and I will destroy you.”My voice echoed through the chamber.The first King looked at me.He glanced at the sword in his hand, then at Kael's lifeless body in my arms.A slow smile spread across his face.“You sound like her.”I tightened my arms around my husband.“I'm not interested in who you think I sound like.”“No?” He approached. “Then perhaps you should be interested in who you are.”I raised my head.“I know who I am.”“Do you?”He lifted his hand.The silver fragments of Kael's heart spun above his palm.“You are the final consequence of a promise broken before the first moon was born. You are the echo of a woman who refused to belong to me.”His eyes narrowed.“And you are the reason my heart has remained incomplete.”I stared at him.“You stole Kael's heart.”“I reclaimed what was mine.”“No.” I looked down at Kael. “You murdered my husband.”The first King sighed.“You speak as though death is permanent.”He turned the sword toward Kael.“Stand asid

Lyra’s POVThe Hunger knelt before the golden flower.Its enormous body trembled as the tiny heart inside pulsed again.“I have been waiting for you.”Those words had come from the heart.The Hunger stretched out one claw, but stopped before touching it.“What are you?” it whispered.Aurelia approached slowly, tears shining in her eyes.“It's the part of you that you buried when you decided love was too painful.”The Hunger shook its head.“No. I destroyed that part of myself.”“You tried,” Aurelia replied. “But even monsters cannot erase everything they once were.”The golden heart floated toward it.Suddenly, the Hunger screamed.Memories exploded through the chamber.An ancient world without death.A lonely creature wandering through endless darkness.A silver-eyed man reaching out his hand.And a promise.You will never be alone again.The Hunger collapsed.“I loved you,” it sobbed. “I loved you, and you disappeared!”The golden heart glowed brighter.“I never disappeared,” the vo

Lyra’s POVThe sky cracked like glass.Beyond it, something enormous stirred.The ancient father released Luna and stumbled backward, clutching his hand. Golden flames crawled across his fingers.My daughter fell.I caught her before she struck the ground.“Luna! Look at me!”Her eyes fluttered open.“Mama?”“I'm here, baby.”She buried her face against my chest.“I was scared.”I kissed her forehead.“I know. I've got you.”Kael reached us, limping, one hand pressed against his chest. He wrapped his arms around both of us.For a few seconds, we simply held each other.Then the ground shook again.The ancient father looked toward the broken sky.“No,” he whispered.Aurelia approached him cautiously.“What have you done?”He shook his head.“I did nothing.”“Liar!” Liora shouted.The ancient father turned on her.“You know nothing of what lies beyond the first moon!”“Then explain it!”He stared at the cracks spreading across the sky.Finally, he spoke.“Before there was a kingdom, bef