Lahat ng Kabanata ng Rejected By Alpha, Craved By The Lycan King: Kabanata 61 - Kabanata 70

Ivara's POVI gathered Solara from her cradle immediately, her sleepy protest at the sudden disturbance barely registering amid the urgent chaos surrounding this alarming discovery. Kael guided us quickly toward a different chamber further within the castle's more secure inner wing, guards positioned protectively around us throughout the brief but tense relocation while Orin and the remaining guards continued their careful investigation of whatever hidden device had been embedded so deliberately within the nursery's ancient walls.Draven joined us shortly after ensuring our safe relocation, his expression carrying grim urgency that immediately signalled significant developments regarding whatever the guards had ultimately discovered hidden within the disturbed stonework."Orin managed to extract it safely," he reported. "A small crystalline object, covered in symbols similar to those found on your pendant, though clearly corrupted somehow, twisted into something considerably more sini

Ivara's POVThe revelation stole whatever brief peace we had managed to establish throughout our exhausting day, Kael rising immediately with renewed urgency despite the late hour and everyone's obvious need for genuine rest following everything we had already endured together. "Confirm this immediately," he demanded, addressing Draven directly as we hurried to verify whatever alarming escape had apparently occurred without our immediate knowledge. "How long has Rurik been missing from custody?"We found the answer within minutes, guards confirming with obvious embarrassment that Rurik's cell had indeed been discovered empty during the chaos surrounding preparations for our journey toward the ambushed diplomatic meeting, his escape apparently timed deliberately to coincide with whatever distraction our own departure had inadvertently provided throughout the castle's usual careful security protocols."This explains considerably more than simple coincidence," Kael said grimly, fury evid

Draven's POVThe receiving hall carried a tension unlike anything I had witnessed throughout our previous diplomatic encounters, guards positioned at every entrance while Kael and Ivara waited at the head of the chamber, Solara resting safely elsewhere under Yselda's careful protection given everything uncertain surrounding this unprecedented meeting. The doors opened precisely at the appointed hour, and three figures entered with a bearing that immediately commanded attention despite their otherwise unremarkable travelling clothes.Their leader was a woman of indeterminate age, silver hair braided elaborately despite features that suggested she carried far fewer years than her colouring initially implied. She moved with the measured grace of someone accustomed to formal courts, though something in her expression carried genuine curiosity rather than the calculated menace we had grown accustomed to expecting from every previous encounter with Hollow Court affiliated forces."Emperor R

Ivara's POVWe gathered in the same chamber where Selara had once revealed her own complicated confession weeks earlier, the captured attacker seated before us with guards positioned carefully nearby despite his obvious exhaustion and apparent willingness to cooperate rather than resist proper questioning. He appeared young, barely older than the frightened messenger boy Draven had once captured during our earlier investigation into Malachai's true identity."Tell me about this First Warden," I said, keeping my voice steady despite the unsettling implications this new revelation continued suggesting regarding the true scope of everything our family had already survived confronting."I do not know much," the young man admitted, his voice carrying genuine fear despite his obvious cooperation. "Only fragments whispered among the Faithful's higher ranking members when they believed lower recruits like myself were not listening carefully enough to properly understand their significance.""

We followed Yselda quickly toward Solara's cradle, concern flooding through me despite everything else our exhausting day had already demanded from us throughout this eventful, complicated confrontation with so many overlapping threats and revelations. Yselda gently lifted Solara's tiny arm, revealing something along her forearm that immediately sent a chill through my entire body despite my determination to remain composed given my daughter's continued peaceful sleep.Faint markings had appeared along her skin, subtle but unmistakable, matching precisely the ancient symbols etched across the pendant's surface that I had worn constantly since discovering it beneath the temple ruins weeks earlier. The markings seemed to shimmer slightly beneath the candlelight, similar to how the pendant itself occasionally responded to nearby magical energy or significant emotional intensity."When did these appear," Kael asked, his voice carrying carefully controlled alarm despite his obvious effort