Todos los capítulos de MY MATE REJECTED ME ON OUR WEDDING NIGHT. NINE MONTHS...: Capítulo 21 - Capítulo 30

Ivy was called away that morning, a birth in the eastern quarter that couldn't wait, and Roman offered, almost too casually, to take me down to the bunker himself rather than delay training a full day. I said yes before I let myself think too hard about why that felt different from every other morning we'd trained together. The underground chamber felt smaller than usual, or maybe I only noticed the size of it because there was no one else in it this time, just the two of us and the torches and the particular quiet that comes from being somewhere private with someone you've spent months very carefully not naming what you feel. "Same as always," Roman said, though his voice had a rougher edge to it than the words needed. "Listen,reach,no walls." I closed my eyes and reached for my wolf, and she came easily now, familiar in a way she hadn't been months ago, no fight in the letting go anymore, only trust. Careful, she said anyway, quieter than usual, more warning than instruction. Y

The weeks after Petra's visit passed slower than any I could remember, my body too heavy now for the training that had defined most of my days, my wolf restless in a way that had less to do with danger and more to do with waiting.Ivy checked on me daily, sometimes twice, her hands gentle and certain against the impossible tightness of my stomach."Any day now," she said, for what felt like the hundredth time that week. "Maybe two. Your body's getting ready whether you feel ready or not.""I don't feel ready.""Nobody does." She smiled, tired and kind. "Not for the first one. Definitely not for two at once."Roman had taken to hovering in a way he'd have denied if I called it that, finding reasons to be near whatever room I occupied, though he kept enough distance that neither of us had to name what the past weeks had settled into. We hadn't discussed that morning in the bunker again directly, not because either of us regretted it, but because there was no good place to put the conver

Three days after the twins were born, I asked Roman for parchment, ink, and a moment alone.He didn't ask what for,I suspected he already knew.I sat by the window with Elara asleep against my shoulder and Corwin settled in the basket Ivy had fashioned from an old drawer, and stared at the blank page for longer than I wanted to admit before the words finally came.Good, my wolf said, low and fierce, no hesitation in it at all. Let him read every word and know exactly what he threw away. Don't you dare soften it for him.I won't, I told her.Kane,I am writing to inform you that you are the father of twins, a daughter and a son, born three days ago in Cade territory.Their names are Elara and Corwin. They are healthy, and safe. They have been safe this entire time, which is more than I can say for how I was treated the last time I stood in front of you and the pack I once called mine.I am not writing this to invite you into their lives. I am writing it because they deserve to exist in

Roman's scouts caught him at the border again, the same stretch of land where they'd caught him months ago, except this time Kane didn't drop to his knees and wait to be judged reasonable."Move," he said, low and dangerous, when the first scout raised a blade. "I'm not here to be detained. I'm here to see my children, and the man standing between me and them.""Alpha Voss." The scout's voice carried real wariness now, reading the fury in Kane's face that hadn't been there the first time. "You'll need to wait for—""I said move."Word must have traveled fast, because Roman himself arrived within minutes, flanked by four of his own guard, his expression carefully, deliberately neutral in a way that told Kane he already knew exactly why Kane had come."You got the letter," Roman said."You knew." Kane's hands curled into fists at his sides. "For months. You knew she was carrying my children, and you let me sit in Ashwood thinking I was walking toward nothing but my own guilt.""It wasn'

Roman's scouts arrived at dawn, three days after Kane's arrival, breathless and grim in a way that pulled every one of us out of whatever fragile peace we'd been building."Vantage has crossed the old trade line," the lead scout said, addressing Roman and Kane both, since the two of them had spent the past two days in careful, guarded negotiation over the terms of an alliance neither fully trusted yet. "Not scouting. Moving in force. We estimate two hundred wolves, maybe more, heading toward the crossroads town Thornfield's men marked on their own maps months ago."The room went cold."That's the location," I said, my stomach tightening. "The one the coalition Alphas marked. I didn't know what it meant when we heard about it.""You know what it means now," Roman said grimly. "It's not just territory. It's a staging point. Close enough to reach Cade land within two days if they push hard."Kane was already moving toward the map spread across the table, tracing the distance with two fin