บททั้งหมดของ Rebirth and Revenge:Lycan King’s Feisty Luna: บทที่ 11 - บทที่ 20

[Eileen’s POV] The healer wrapped my arm twice more than necessary, like extra layers of linen might somehow undo what half the palace had already seen. “The poison’s out of your blood,” she said, not quite meeting my eyes. “You were lucky.” “Was I.” She didn’t answer that. She just finished the bandage, bowed too quickly, and left without another word. I was noticing that a lot today. People finishing things quickly. People not quite meeting my eyes. Wren came in not long after, carrying a fresh gown over one arm, her expression carefully arranged into something normal. It didn’t quite hold. “How is everyone,” I asked, before she could pretend otherwise. “Fine.” A pause. “Talking. But fine.” “Talking about what?” She busied herself with the gown instead of answering right away. “Wren.” “About the light,” she said finally. “About what you might be. Some of the older servants are saying things I won’t repeat in front of you.” “Say them anyway.” She hesitated, then set the

[Alaric’s POV] The seal on the western correspondence had been broken hours before anyone noticed. By the time I stood in the archive room staring at the empty shelf where three sealed dispatches should have been, whoever took them had already had half a day’s head start. “Only three people hold keys to this room,” my steward said, not quite meeting my eyes. “Myself. You. And whoever the Luna’s household grants access to for filing.” “Say it.” “Lumi filed correspondence here twice this week, my Alpha. Both times unsupervised.” I didn’t want to believe it. That surprised me more than the theft itself, how quickly my mind reached for a reason it couldn’t be true instead of simply looking at what was in front of me. “Find her,” I said anyway. “Quietly.” They found her within the hour, in the garden behind the east wing, exactly where half the palace already knew to look for her these days. They found something else too. A scrap of paper caught beneath the same shelf where the dis

[Eileen’s POV]The sound of it closing was softer than I expected.It still felt like the loudest thing I’d heard all night.Neither of us moved for a long moment after the door shut.He stood by his desk still, like he wasn’t entirely sure what came next now that I’d actually said yes. I almost found that endearing, how uncertain he suddenly looked for a man who’d just struck a bargain with his own wife as easily as trading at market.“You can sit,” he said finally, nodding toward the chair by the window. “I’m not going to… this isn’t…”“I know what it isn’t.”He studied me for a moment, like he was checking whether I meant it.“Good,” he said finally. “Because I don’t actually know what tonight is supposed to be either.”Something in his shoulders loosened slightly.I sat anyway, mostly because my legs had started to feel less than steady the moment the latch clicked into place. The room felt different with the door shut. Smaller, somehow, though nothing about its size had actually

[Kade’s POV]Nobody in that hall had actually been happy to see me. Relieved, maybe. Calculating, certainly, all of them already rearranging alliances and betrothals my death had rearranged three years ago, now that I’d gone and ruined the math by walking back through the gate.A council elder cornered me before I’d even had a full cup of wine, already talking about succession lines and what my return meant for the North Pack’s standing with the West. I nodded through most of it without hearing a word, watching my brother across the hall instead, the way his eyes kept finding Eileen and then finding reasons not to stay there. Selena caught my arm at one point, all warmth and welcome, already asking whether I intended to remain at court now that I’d returned. I gave her nothing worth repeating and moved on before she could ask a second question.Even Alaric, between council questions, kept glancing my way with an expression I recognized from when we were boys, the one that meant he was

[Eileen’s POV]Alaric didn’t come to my chambers that night, or the next. Whatever he’d meant by discussing the alliance, he seemed content to let the threat sit unspoken between us instead of finishing it, which was somehow worse than if he’d simply said the words outright.I never did find out what Kade had actually asked Selena’s steward to arrange, not until I cornered him about it myself two days later.“I asked if I could speak with you both about increasing the guard around Lumi,” he said, looking at me like I’d started speaking a different language entirely. “That’s all it ever was, Eileen. I don’t know where the rest of it came from.”“Did Alaric increase the guard?” I asked.“He did, actually. Two additional guards outside Lumi’s door every night now.” Kade’s mouth twisted, somewhere between grateful and frustrated. “He didn’t say a word to me while he arranged it. Just did it and walked away, the same way he’s been walking away from everything else lately.”“That sounds fam