Lahat ng Kabanata ng The Rejected Fourfold Luna: Fated to Two Alpha Twins : Kabanata 71 - Kabanata 80

Celeste's POVI stood very still."Are you sure?" My voice came out quieter than the room. "Are you absolutely sure about who you just named?"Daren's eyes stayed on mine. Wet, red-rimmed, carrying none of the wriggle room of someone with options left. "I swear it. Calista and her friends, Khalan and Nyra. They paid me and they arranged the pit themselves. I didn't set it up. They told me it was already done and all I had to do was get you to follow me out there." He swallowed hard. "Everything was in place. I was just the one who came to the door."The room stayed quiet.Mason's gaze moved from me to the boy and there was something in his expression I could only describe as contained. The way a room looks just before a storm, the sky still technically clear, everything already decided."Why?" Mason's voice was low and even. "Why did you agree to it?"Something moved through Daren's face. Not guilt, that was already sitting there plain. Something beneath it, something more painful,

Celeste's POVI sat on the edge of my bed for a long while after the house went completely quiet.The anger cooled into something else now, something closer to guilt, sitting heavy in my chest where the fury used to be. I replayed the whole scene in my head, Daren kneeling on the floor, my own voice cracking as I told them it was their fault, the way I walked out without letting either of them respond.Maybe I overreacted.I pulled my knees up and wrapped my arms around them. It wasn't entirely their fault, not really, and some small honest part of me knew that even as I said it downstairs. Calista's issues with me existed long before either of them ever did anything wrong. I just needed somewhere to put all of it, and they were standing closest when it came pouring out.I genuinely probably owed them an apology.My pride had other plans entirely.Apologizing meant admitting I was unfair, and I wasn't quite ready to hand that over yet, not after the day I just had. Not after a boy p

Celeste's POVMorning came faster than I truly wanted it to.After everything Mason and Jason said to me the night before, after the way they held me close and promised I would never feel like that again, I woke up lighter than I had in days. That lightness lasted exactly as long as it took me to remember what today actually was.Getting ready that morning felt strange, like preparing for something caught somewhere between a trial and a punishment, and I wasn't entirely sure which side of it I actually belonged on.The Grand Hall.By the time we arrived, the space had already filled with pack members standing in loose clusters near the walls, murmuring quietly among themselves. Mason and Jason walked me to the front, one on either side, and Roland stood near the platform with his arms folded and his expression carved from stone.The whole hall carried a weight I hadn't felt since my own Luna ceremony, except this time the energy in the room was nothing close to celebration. It was c

Mason's POV"You are Omegas." I let the words land exactly as heavy as I fully meant them. "That means you hold no real value to me whatsoever. None. Do you understand what I am telling you right now?"None of them answered, but their faces told me they understood perfectly.I let the silence stretch a moment longer before continuing, wanting every word that came next to sink in fully."If either of you ever lay a hand on our Luna again, or if I so much as hear a whisper of anything close to what you attempted, you will be banished from this pack." I let my eyes move across all three of them slowly, deliberately, giving each one a long moment under my gaze before continuing. "Or worse, you will be ordered to duel a high ranked warrior. Someone like Roland."Calista's face went pale."As Omegas," I continued, my voice deliberately even, "you would not survive that. Either of those outcomes ends the same way for you. Think carefully before you ever consider testing me on this again."S

Vivian's POVThe call with Lucien had been short. He confirmed seven o'clock, mentioned the name of the restaurant, and said he was looking forward to it. I told him the same, which wasn't entirely a lie, and then I stood in my room for a long moment after I hung up, thinking about how easy it was starting to feel to say things I wasn't sure I meant.Soraya was already on my bed by the time I started getting ready, legs crossed, watching me with the expression she wore when she was about to say something she knew I wouldn't want to hear."You don't look excited." She tilted her head. "Your brothers just arranged a marriage into the Ravenor family. That's not a small thing, Vivian. That's a very big thing. And you look like someone handed you a homework assignment.""I'm fine." I reached for my earrings. "I'm just focused.""Focused." She repeated the word like it tasted wrong. "You're getting engaged to Lucien Ravenor. People don't look focused about that. They look happy. They glow,