Rebirth and Revenge:Lycan King’s Feisty Luna のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 71 - チャプター 80

[Eileen's POV]I finally opened it that night, once the village visit was behind us and my hands had stopped shaking enough to manage the seal.No signature. Just careful, handwriting, telling me exactly how much this stranger already knew about my life, and how little that peace was supposed to last."Well?" Alaric watched me from across the room, arms crossed, waiting."She knows I'm pregnant." I set it down on the table between us like it might still bite. "Whoever wrote this. She knows, and she wanted me to know she knows.""She?""The handwriting. I can't explain it better than that. It felt like a woman wrote it." I pushed it toward him. "Read it yourself."He did, jaw tightening with every line, and when he finished he folded it once, sharp, like closing it might undo what it already said."This isn't Lucian's handwriting from the note in the depot.""No. Different hand entirely.“Then whoever wrote this isn’t following Lucian’s plan.” He set it down finally. Is that supposed t

[Eileen's POV]Alaric found me before the music even finished changing, one hand held out like he'd been waiting all night for an excuse."I don't dance," I said."You danced at your own wedding.""Badly. Under duress.""Then you're already improving, since nobody's forcing you tonight." He didn't lower his hand. "Come on. Kade and Lumi already made fools of themselves. Someone has to make them feel better about it.""That's generous of us.""I try to be generous exactly once a year. Tonight's the night."I let him pull me onto the floor, laughing despite myself, and his hand settled at my waist like it belonged there."You're better at this than you let on," I said."Strict childhood tutor. She threatened to make me dance with a broom if I didn't take it seriously.""Did it work?""Clearly. I'm devastating on a dance floor now." He spun me once, smooth, and pulled me back in before I'd fully caught my balance. "See.""That was luck.""That was years of humiliating broom-based trainin

[Alaric's POV]"Two horses, not four." I kept my voice low, checking the girth on the first saddle myself rather than trust it to anyone else tonight. "Fewer riders, fewer people who remember seeing them leave."The guard captain nodded, though I could tell he didn't love it. "Four would move faster if trouble caught them on the road, my lord.""Four looks like an escort worth stopping to ask questions about. Two servants moving grain to a border farm, nobody looks twice."He didn't argue past that. He never did once I'd made up my mind, which was half the reason I trusted him with things like this.Kade came through the stable doors before I'd finished with the second horse, hair still wet from washing, one boot half-laced like he'd dressed while walking. "You're doing this now? Before the sun's even up?""Before the household's awake to watch you go, yes.""Lumi's been married three weeks, Alaric. She hasn't even finished unpacking the wedding gifts.""She'll unpack them somewhere s

[Eileen's POV]"I am walking to the herb garden, not marching into battle." I kept my tone even, mostly for Wren's benefit, since she was the one standing closest to me and therefore the one most likely to catch the brunt of it if I stopped trying. "It's forty paces from that door.""Four guards minimum past the east wing, my lady. Alpha's orders." The guard didn't budge, didn't even have the decency to look uncomfortable about it."I helped draft half the trade policy this kingdom runs on. I think I can survive forty paces of open lawn.""I don't doubt it, my lady. The order stands regardless.""I could go to the garden anyway. What exactly is he going to do, lock me in my own chambers?""He might, my lady.""He wouldn't dare."The guard had the good sense to at least look apologetic about it. "I was told to say, if you pushed the point, that he would in fact dare."Wren pressed her lips together, fighting a smile she clearly thought I couldn't see, which only made it worse. "You cou

[Eileen's POV]"You've checked that treeline four times since we sat down." I kept my voice low, my smile fixed for the South Pack delegation still filing into their seats across the field. "Nobody's going to leap out of the woods during the gift exchange, Alaric.""Humor me.""I always do. That's practically our whole marriage at this point."That earned the barest twitch at the corner of his mouth, which was the most I’d gotten out of him since we’d left the palace.” The ceremony field stretched wide and green under a sky too clear for how tense his shoulders were, banners from both packs snapping overhead, the South Pack envoy already bowing his way through the opening formalities like a man who'd rehearsed it a hundred times. Guards ringed the field at a respectful distance, more of them than tradition strictly called for, all of them Alaric's, and I counted at least six without meaning to before I made myself stop."See," I murmured, as the envoy finished his bow without incident