All Chapters of The Alpha King’s Rejected Slave : Chapter 31 - Chapter 35

~Elira~Pain dragged me back slowly, like something was forcing me upward through thick water.The first thing I felt was the pounding in my head. It sat heavily behind my eyes, making every little movement feel unbearable. My body ached all over, weak in a way that immediately felt wrong. Even breathing felt harder than it should have. Then came the movement beneath me.My brows pulled together faintly as consciousness settled little by little. Something creaked underneath my body. It sounded like wood and wheels. The steady uneven rocking made nausea rise instantly inside me.I forced my eyes open. The sky above me blurred together at first, tree branches shifting past in uneven patterns while sunlight flickered through them. I blinked repeatedly, trying to focus, but my vision kept spinning.A groan escaped me before I could stop it. The movement around me slowed slightly.“She’s awake.”The voice came from somewhere close. Panic hit me immediately.I tried pushing myself upward, b

~Ryker~The bunker had never felt this tense before.Even during the wars we had survived, even during the raids and the nights we spent waiting for enemies to strike, there had always been some level of trust holding everyone together.Now, that trust was cracking. The murmurs started before I even entered the main hall.“They brought Kael here.”“He’s right outside.”“What if this is a trick?”“We should never have sheltered her.”I stepped forward fully and the room quieted immediately, though not completely. Fear still lingered in every expression staring back at me. Some looked angry. Others looked exhausted.Most looked terrified and I understood why.King Kael Draven was not a man people simply welcomed into their territory and expected peace afterward. He was destruction in human form.And now he stood outside our bunker with armed soldiers surrounding the area. I looked around slowly before speaking. “Everyone calm down.”One of the older men stepped forward first, frustratio

~Elira~The room had started to feel smaller with every passing hour.At first, I thought it was because of the ropes around my wrists, the way they held my hands painfully behind my back whenever the guards decided I had rested enough after eating. But after a while, I realized it wasn’t the ropes that made the walls feel suffocating.It was the waiting, the not knowing and silence.The guards barely spoke to me anymore. They stood near the door with unreadable expressions, their eyes fixed ahead as though I wasn’t even there. The tray of food they brought earlier still sat half finished beside the bed because my stomach had twisted too hard to let me eat properly.My thoughts had become louder than hunger anyway.“Ryker, the bunker. And finally, Lyra.” The betrayal still sat inside my chest like something sharp and poisoned. Every time I thought about her standing over me while I drifted in and out of consciousness, I felt anger rise inside me so suddenly it almost scared me.“You