Lahat ng Kabanata ng From Rejected Mate to Three Alphas’ Claim: Kabanata 71 - Kabanata 80

THALIA’S POVThe sudden, shocking realization hit Dion and me at the exact same moment as I watched his eyes widen slightly before snapping back into a cold, dangerous focus. Edna wasn't just taking orders. She was working with Cogent, not for him. “Time’s ticking, Dion,” she hissed in my ear. To prove her point, she dug the blade deeper into my throat. A sharp pain sliced through my skin, and I felt a warm trickle of blood slowly running down my neck.“Edna, why the hell are you doing this?!” I cried out, my voice cracking with fear. I was freaking out.“I don’t really have a choice, Thalia,” she simply said, her tone terrifyingly calm. “Unlike you.”So did it mean she was being threatened into doing this? Was someone holding a leash over her, too? The thought crossed my mind, but it did nothing to ease the terror gripping my chest.Just then, footsteps thundered down the path, and a dozen warriors burst through the trees behind Dion. The moment Dion saw the blood dripping down my

Dion PovSitting beside Thalia’s bed and staring down at her pale face was absolute torment. It was more than I could bear. She looked so fragile, so small on the white sheets. Her dark hair fanned out across the pillow, too still for a woman who usually carried so much fire. Fuck. I had the sudden, violent urge to walk out of this room, find Edna’s corpse, and strangle it. Not just strangle it. That was too clean, too quick, and too merciful for the snake who had drawn her blood. I wanted to dig my claws into the soft meat of her throat, peel it open like wet paper, and feel the cold, already-stiff flesh give way under my fingers. I wanted to drag her body out into the woods, hang it from a low branch by the hair, and open her from sternum to pelvis so the freezing night air could fill her emptied chest. I wanted to tear the tongue from her lying mouth, force it down her own throat, and break every single finger that had ever dared to touch Thalia—snap them one by one until the bo

Adonis PovThe heavy scent hit my nose before I could process what it was.A thick, overwhelming wave of female pheromones flooded the corridor, instantly making my blood run hot.“Can you smell that, Caspian?” I stood up instantly from the bench, my head snapping up as I sniffed the air. Caspian stiffened beside me, his gaze moving sharply to the infirmary door. Before he could get a word out, I shoved past him and threw the door wide open. My heart completely stopped.Thalia was lying on the bed, her face flushed and her eyes glazed over. A blanket was wrapped loosely around her body, her bare shoulders exposed, and her discarded clothes were strewn across the bed like they had been ripped off in a hurry. Standing over her was Dion—his shirt hanging off his shoulders, his chest bare, and fresh, angry red marks showing on the side of his neck.My vision went red instantly. Every ounce of logic, every bit of guilt, and every warning Caspian had given me vanished into thin air.I lun

Dion PovI looked down at what Devon was holding, realizing instantly that it was a torn piece of parchment. Someone had clearly tried to destroy it in a hurry. “We found it in Edna’s room,” Devon said, smoothing out the crushed paper as he handed it to me. “It seems she planned for eyes never to read it, but she didn’t count on dying today.”I snatched it from his hand, carefully smoothing over the crumpled edges to make sense of the hurried scrawl. My gaze ran swiftly across the ink, my vision blurring with a sudden, violent surge of rage at the single sentence written there:“Stop waiting and kill Thalia before the group leaves Bluerig.”“What does it say?” Caspian asked, stepping forward and leaning over my shoulder to read it. Without a word or a glance in his direction, I thrust the paper into his chest, my eyes fixing squarely on the locked door of the room where Thalia was still in.“Fuck!” I heard Adonis curse from behind me, the sound of his fist slamming against the stone

Adonis PovI had no idea where Caspian had run to immediately after Dion left Edna’s chambers. Well, that was a damn lie—I knew for a fact he had run straight after Dion.Out of an ugly mix of curiosity and resentment that Caspian was mated to that fucking brute, I found myself following his scent down the hallway to Dion’s chambers. I arrived just in time to hear a loud, ragged moan echo through the wood. Stumbling back, I nearly tripped over my own foot as my fingers gripped the handle of the door.Jealousy burned through my veins like molten lava, hot and sickening as I fought myself, every instinct screaming at me to shove the door open and put an end to whatever was happening inside. How on earth did my life turn into this?I bit down on the inside of my cheek until I tasted blood, wondering if any of this nightmare would have happened if Thalia hadn’t saved my miserable life that night. If she hadn’t performed that cursed blood ritual to keep me breathing.From having a simple