Rebirth and Revenge:Lycan King’s Feisty Luna のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 31 - チャプター 40

[Eileen’s POV]Alaric was already barking orders before the rider had finished catching his breath, guards scattering toward the armory, horses being dragged out half saddled, the clank of armor going on wrong in someone’s hurry, a sergeant somewhere behind us calling names off a muster list too fast for the men to answer in order. I stood there with his hand still braced against my spine, the heat under it only now starting to fade.“Full muster. Riders on the road within the hour,” Alaric’s head came up sharp at the next interruption, nostrils flaring like he’d caught a scent he didn’t like.“My Alpha.” A steward, breathless, ducking around two guards hauling a weapons crate between them, “forgive the timing. Beta Hayden’s arrived at the north gate, says he wrote ahead three weeks ago.”Something in Alaric went very still, the kind of still that had nothing to do with calm. “He rides into my territory unannounced the same hour we take an attack, and I’m supposed to receive that as c

[Kade’s POV]I caught the tail end of it from the far side of the training yard, dirt still settling where something had clearly happened, that thin electric smell hanging in the air that only ever comes after real fear, not practice nerves. Selena walked away like she’d already spent every ounce of interest she owned this yard, spine straight, not a hair out of place.“Everything all right?” I asked, once she’d disappeared through the gate.“Fine.” Eileen’s smile didn’t reach her eyes. I knew better than to push. “Don’t you have somewhere to be today?” She asked.I did. Three days in the shed behind the stables, sawdust in my hair, a bench with two wolves carved facing each other instead of away, herbs along the seat that Lumi had taught me the names of without realizing she was teaching me anything at all. My father had shown me and Alaric both, years ago, evenings when being second sons and heirs apparently felt lighter with something to do with our hands. I hadn’t touched a chisel

[Alice’s POV]“You’re really doing this.” I stood in the doorway of the study, arms crossed, watching him yank his shirt over his head like the room was on fire. “Writing to Selena. Tonight.”“I already sent it,”he said.“You sent it.”“An hour ago.” He grabbed his jacket off the chair, wouldn’t look at me. “Before I even told you.”I laughed, and it came out sharp enough that he finally turned around. “Three years I draft every word you send that woman. And the one letter that matters, you write in the dark without me.”“It wasn’t a strategy letter.”“I know what it was.”That stopped him. His hand went still on the sleeve, and the room went quiet enough I could hear the fire snapping behind him.“Say her name,” I said. “Go on. Say it to my face instead of a piece of paper.”“Alice, don’t.”“Say it.”He didn’t. He looked at the floor instead, jaw working, and something in me wanted to cross the room and shake it out of him with my bare hands.“I want to see her.” His voice came out l

[Lumi’s POV]The South Pack envoy’s horse was barely past the gate when Kade came through it instead, still dressed for the council, ink smudged dark along the side of his hand from whatever he’d been signing an hour before.“You’re supposed to be listing everything Thornfield cost us.”“I already gave my part. Left before they got to the boring half.” He dropped onto the bench beside me, close enough that our knees touched, and caught my hand before I could go back to the shears. “Eileen handled the envoy herself. Alaric says he’ll owe her for that one.”“Good.” I meant it, let myself feel glad for exactly one breath before the rest of the week crowded back in. “Kade. We haven’t actually talked, not since the soldier came and your hands started shaking and I…”“Flinched.” He said it plainly, no flinch of his own this time. “I know.”“I didn’t mean to.”“I know that too.” His thumb found the fresh blister along his own palm, worried at it instead of at me, a habit I recognized from ev

[Selena’s POV] I hadn’t stopped moving since sunrise, and it showed in the state of my hands, ink on the left, a hairline paper cut on the right, three messages already sent and two more still waiting on my signature before the household woke fully into the day. Word had reached me twice this week that the Alpha had taken to sparring with his wife personally, every morning now, the two of them thick as thieves in that training yard while the rest of the North Pack watched Eileen Hayden become exactly the kind of untouchable I’d promised Lucian she wasn’t. I didn’t have much time left to be right about anything. Elena’s report about the garden was still sitting folded in my desk drawer, the wooden cord and the promise Kade had made Lumi in front of witnesses neither of them realized were watching. Useful, not useful enough to spend today, not when there was a bigger fire to light first. I found Lucian exactly where his message said he’d be, a room above the tailor’s on the merch