บททั้งหมดของ The Rejected Fourfold Luna: Fated to Two Alpha Twins : บทที่ 91 - บทที่ 100

Celeste's POVThe estate was too quiet for this hour, and I was done pretending I didn't notice.Mason went out earlier to handle something with the pack and wasn't back, and after Jason's call that afternoon I half expected him to be back by the time the sun went down. He wasn't. I moved through the sitting room restlessly, tried reading, gave it up after three pages, and ended up standing at the tall windows overlooking the front of the estate with a cup of tea going cold in my hand.It was nearing eleven o'clock when I saw headlights sweep through the gates.I recognised the car before it fully pulled through the gates and stopped in front of the estate entrance.I set the cup down and went downstairs, moving fast enough that I caught the front door handle while he was still stepping out of the driver's side.He looked up when he heard the door open, and whatever expression was on my face must have said something because the corner of his mouth lifted before I even reached him. I

Vivian's POVMy notes were spread across half the desk and I was staring at the same paragraph for the third time.Third year was supposed to be the year everything clicked into place. The foundational courses were done, the pace settled, and I told myself by now I would have found some rhythm between studying and everything else running in the background of my life. Instead I was sitting at my desk at nine in the evening with a highlighter I stopped using an hour ago, a half-empty coffee cup, and a test on Friday that felt further away than it actually was.My phone buzzed against the desk.Lucien.I picked up."Are you free tonight?" His voice came through clear and easy, the way it always did, like he already decided the answer would be yes and was only asking as a formality."Depends where you're trying to send me.""Somewhere worth getting dressed for," he said. "I'll send the address."I looked at my notes. Then I closed the folder.Twenty minutes later I was in front of the mi

Celeste's POVThe drive home started quietly enough.No music, no calls, just the road and the familiar stretch of Crestfield Road settling around me as I made my way back toward the estate. I was still turning over the Ashen Hollow decision, not anxiously now, just carrying it the way you carried a thing that was settled but still new. I would tell them tonight and it would be fine.My phone lit up on the console.Mason. I picked up."Where are you right now?" His voice was easy, no urgency in it."Crestfield, heading home. Why?""Pull over. We're close."I glanced at the road ahead and took the next turn, pulling into the wide stretch near the Dunmere crossing where pack members sometimes gathered in the evenings. I called Mason once I parked to let him know where I was."Give us a moment," he said. "We're coming out now."I stepped out of the car and stood by it, letting the evening air settle around me. The Dunmere crossing had its usual quiet energy at this hour, not loud, not e

Celeste's POVBy the time we got home, the estate was warm and quiet in the way it always was at this hour, and the three of us settled into it the way we always did. No performance to it, no announcement, just the natural ease of three people who knew how to share a space without making work of it.Mason dropped onto the couch with an apple he picked up somewhere between the car and the sitting room. Where exactly was a mystery I didn't investigate. Jason sat beside him, legs stretched out, phone in hand, already scrolling through something. I curled into the armchair across from them, tucked my feet beneath me, and let a moment pass while I figured out how to start."I need to go to Ashen Hollow next week."Mason looked up. Jason's eyes moved from his phone to my face.Both of them gave me their full attention without making a production of it, and I appreciated that more than I knew how to say."My dad has been calling," I continued. "And Fedrick, his close friend, came in as a

Aiden's POVJace was mid-sentence, making some point about the last shot that neither Luke nor I was particularly convinced by, when my phone went off.I glanced at the screen and felt something shift before I even answered it. Jayden didn't call in the middle of the afternoon unless something was actually wrong. We knew each other's rhythm too well for a call at this hour to be casual. That wasn't how we worked."Give me a second," I said to Jace and Luke, and stepped away from the table."Something's wrong," Jayden said the moment I picked up. His voice was tight in a way I hadn't heard in a while. "Something's happening and I don't understand it.""Chill. Tell me what's going on.""Nothing is okay right now, Aiden. Nothing."I turned slightly away from the others, keeping my voice low. Jayden wasn't someone who panicked easily. The urgency in his voice was real enough that I wasn't going to talk him down from across the city."I'm coming home," I said. "Stay there."I went back to