All Chapters of Rejected By My Alpha Mate, Claimed By The Cursed Lycan King : Chapter 31 - Chapter 33

Elara's POVThe messenger arrived just after midday. Mud was splattered up to his knees and he was breathing hard enough that Soren had to steady him by the shoulder before he could get a full sentence out.There was something about the raw panic on his face told me, even before he spoke, that whatever peace we'd carved out over the past weeks was about to end."Riders," he gasped. "From the northern packs. A dozen of them, maybe more, crossing into Nightfall territory without sending word ahead first."Kael was already moving before the messenger finished. He called for Soren and for the guard captain. The easy warmth from the night before vanished into the sharp, focused King I'd first met in the forest. I found myself hurrying to keep pace with him through the castle halls, my heart pounding with a fear that had nothing to do with rogues this time."Northern packs don't usually concern themselves with Nightfall Hollow," I said. Half question, half statement, trying to piece toge

Kael's POVI didn't sleep that night either, and this time it wasn't the pull of the moon keeping me restless, but the memory of that blade cutting through the courtyard air. It had come close enough to remind me exactly how fragile everything we'd built together still was, however steady it felt on quiet evenings in the garden.I found Soren in the guard house before dawn. He was going over reports from the search parties that had combed the tree line through the night. They hadn't found any real trace of the hooded man beyond a set of tracks that vanished into a stream half a mile from the castle walls."Whoever he is, he knew this land," Soren said, spreading a rough map across the table and marking the point where the tracks disappeared. "That's not the kind of knowledge a stranger picks up overnight. He either spent time here before, or someone gave him detailed instructions on how to get in and out without being caught.""Mathis," I said. Even as I said it, something about t