All Chapters of Rebirth and Revenge:Lycan King’s Feisty Luna: Chapter 1 - Chapter 5

Eileen’s pov “Eyes down,” the maid said again, for the third time since she’d laced me into the gown. “Whatever you do, Miss Hayden, keep them down.”“You’ve said that already.”“I’ll say it until we reach the doors, if that’s what it takes.” She fastened the final clasp at my throat, gold-trimmed black settling over me like something built to be admired and feared in equal measure. “You’ve never needed reminding before today. I don’t like that I have to remind you now.”I studied myself in the mirror one final time, this stranger’s face still wrong in every detail, and felt something harden in my chest that had nothing to do with fear.I had already died once tonight. Whatever waited beyond those doors would have to work considerably harder to frighten me twice.“Let’s go,” I said.The corridor outside stretched longer than any hallway had a right to be, lined with staff who bowed their heads as I passed, not in respect, I realized, but in practiced avoidance, the same way people lo

Eileen’s pov “Sit,” Alaric said, nodding toward the chair by the hearth, though his eyes never left me as he crossed to bar the door behind us.“I don’t take orders well.”“Then consider it a request from a man who just watched his wife go pale over another alpha’s mistress.” He shrugged out of his ceremonial cloak, tossing it over a chair, and the muscle in his jaw hadn’t relaxed since the feasting hall. “Sit, Eileen. Please.”I sat, if only because my legs had started shaking and I didn’t trust them to hold me standing much longer.He didn’t take the other chair. He knelt instead, close enough that I could feel the heat still radiating off him, gold banked low in his eyes like embers refusing to fully die.“Tell me about the chain,” he said.“I already told you it troubled me.”“That’s not the same as telling me why.” His voice stayed even, but something sharper moved behind it now. “Lady Renata mentioned a peacock tonight. Said you’d been bitten as a child, chasing it around your