Todos los capítulos de MY MATE REJECTED ME ON OUR WEDDING NIGHT. NINE MONTHS...: Capítulo 51 - Capítulo 58

We left Ashwood at first light, a small enough party to move quickly, large enough to defend ourselves if it came to that, Roman's most trusted guard flanking us on all sides as we crossed into unclaimed border territory."Two days, if the weather holds," Roman said, scanning the treeline out of old habit even in daylight. "Less if we push the horses harder than I'd like.""Push them," Kane said, still favoring his healing side but sitting his horse with more strength than I'd expected after everything. "Every hour Tarrow has to prepare is an hour that costs us."We rode hard through the first day, stopping only when the horses genuinely needed it, and I felt my wolf restless the entire way, alert to every shift in the wind, every snapped twig in the surrounding brush.Careful, she said, more than once. Something's wrong with this quiet. Too still for territory this exposed.I know, I told her. I feel it too.—The attack came at dusk on the second day, exactly when we'd let our guard

Vantage's border patrol met us before we'd covered the last mile, wary at the sight of a wounded party, bound prisoners, and two Alphas whose packs had no business traveling together unless something had gone badly wrong."Alpha Cade. Alpha Voss." The lead scout's eyes moved over our group, cataloguing the damage. "You weren't expected.""We need Alpha Draven immediately," Roman said, no patience left for formality after two days of road and an ambush neither of us had fully recovered from. "This can't wait for a scheduled audience."The scout took one look at the restrained wolves trailing behind us and nodded, already turning to send word ahead.—Draven received us within the hour, his own expression darkening as he took in the wounded guard, the four bound prisoners, and the exhaustion written plainly across all our faces."Tell me everything," he said, without holdback anything, "starting with why four of my own people are standing here in restraints.""They attacked us two days

The council deliberated for the remainder of the day, and I spent those hours pacing the guest quarters, unable to settle no matter how many times Roman or Kane tried to reassure me the evidence had been overwhelming."It felt that way to me too," I admitted, sinking onto the edge of the bed for what felt like the hundredth time. "That doesn't mean I trust myself to predict what forty strangers will decide about a man they've known for decades.""Tarrow's own people wouldn't testify against him," Kane said, leaning against the wall near the door, some of the fury from the hearing still simmering beneath his exhaustion. "That should tell the council something on its own. Loyalty like that doesn't come from a man who's innocent.""Or it comes from fear," Roman said quietly. "Which is its own kind of evidence, if the council's willing to read it that way."We didn't have to wait much longer. A summons arrived at dusk, calling us back to the chamber, and I felt my stomach twist tight the

We left Vantage territory at dawn, the wounded guard well enough now to ride at a gentler pace, and I felt the tension of the past week finally begin to loosen with every mile that put the accounting, the hearing, and everything Tarrow had built behind us."You're quiet," Roman said, riding close beside me as the morning mist burned slowly off the hills."I'm tired in a way that isn't just physical." I let my shoulders drop, some of the careful readiness I'd been carrying since the ambush finally easing. "It's strange. We won. Tarrow's exiled, Bertrand's still out there somewhere but exposed, unable to hide behind Ashwood's trust anymore. Everything that threatened us these past weeks has been answered, one way or another. I keep waiting to feel like it's actually over.""It takes time," Kane said, from my other side, his own posture easier than it had been in days. "Fear doesn't leave the moment the danger does. It lingers a while, checking to make sure it's actually safe to let go."