All Chapters of After the Alpha Rejected Me, I Came Back with His Twins: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

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Chapter One — The Word She Never Spoke

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Chapter Two — What the Silver Showed

The Mark at my neck was still burning when I got my door open.It should have gone cold. Every wolf in the Blood Moon Pack knows how it goes — a severed Mate Bond leaves the Mark grey and numb before morning, the way an old scar finally stops arguing with you.Mine felt like someone had held a coal to the junction of my neck and shoulder, then walked off and forgotten it there.I ran the tap until the water hurt and pressed a wet cloth to my throat. The burn drank the cold and gave nothing back.It isn't dead. Nyx moved somewhere behind my eyes, restless. Stop washing it like a dish."It's shock," I said to the empty kitchen. "Shock, and cold, and a long walk home. That's all it is."She didn't dignify that.My cabin sits at the thin end of Pack territory, two rooms and a stove that lights on the third try. The smoke alarm in the hallway had been chirping for a dead battery since Tuesday and

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Chapter Three — Three Ahead, One Behind

The Mark at my neck prickled before I saw anyone, the way skin knows a hand is coming.I kept walking the ridge road with my collar up and an empty rucksack over one shoulder. The wind came off the high ground with ice riding in it, straight down the back of my jacket.Somewhere behind me a boot turned on gravel, once, and then took great care not to do it again.Don't run, Nyx said. Count them.I counted. One at the bend where the culvert goes under the road, pretending to check a fence line that hadn't needed checking since spring.One in the trees above the switchback. One at the crossroads ahead, sitting on a tailgate with his arms crossed.Three ahead, one behind. Nyx sounded almost pleased to have something to do. That's a net, Aria. Not a patrol.I stopped in the middle of the road."Delta Ames," I called. "Your fence is fine."He came out of the ditch g

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Chapter Four — The Word I Kept

"I could have said it," I said. "That's the part. I could have said it and I didn't."Wren didn't answer.She sat with both hands wrapped around the cup between us, and the steam came up off it and went sideways in the draft from the window, and she watched it go. Her fingers were cold enough that I'd felt it when she took the cup from me, cold the way hands get when the rest of you has gone somewhere else.The rain had started again on the glass. Her radiator knocked twice and gave up."Say something," I said."I'm deciding which thing.""Pick the worst one.""Fine." Wren set the cup down. "You didn't just fail to answer, then.""No.""You refused.""Yes.""On the stone. In front of three hundred wolves.""Yes.""Aria." She pulled the blanket up over her knees, and a drift of grey cat hair came with it, and she brushed at it without looking. "He gave you Alpha Command

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Chapter Five — Two

"You're pregnant," Wren said.The floor of her workroom tipped four degrees to the left and stayed there. The Mark at my neck came up hot all at once, one long pulse under my collar, like something turning over in its sleep."Say it again.""Aria—""Please say it again.""You're pregnant." She set the paper strip down on the tray. "Seven weeks, maybe eight.""You're guessing.""I'll know better in a minute."The room smelled the way her room always smells, antiseptic over dried yarrow, and I sat on the end of her table with the paper crackling under me and did not move at all.I had bought the test myself, at the human pharmacy off the highway, two towns over where nobody knows my Scent. The box had a coupon on the flap for a different brand, two dollars off, expires in March. I stood in that aisle and read the coupon four times because it was easier than reading the box.The strip's edge

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Chapter Six — The Third Button

"Come in."His voice came through two inches of oak and the Mark at my neck jumped like a struck nerve.Beta Cole opened the door for me and did not follow me through it. He wouldn't look at me either, which told me most of what I needed to know about how this had been described to him.The Alpha's office is the oldest room in the Pack House, stone floor, no rug. The cold came up through my shoes inside of ten seconds.Damien stood at the far window with his back to me. His Scent reached me before he turned — wet pine and hot iron, the same as it has been since I was seventeen years old and had no idea what it meant.Breathe out slow, Nyx said. Say nothing about them. Not one word, Aria, not if he tears the room apart."Alpha," I said."Sit.""I'll stand."He turned around. Four days had not been kind to him, which I noted the way you note weather."Sit down, Aria."

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Chapter Seven — The Road on Thursday

"There's a road out on Thursday," Kai Ashford said. "I'd take it, if I were you."He was leaning on the cinderblock wall beside the ice machine, out behind the pharmacy off the highway, two towns from anyone who knows my Scent. That was the part that got me first. Not the offer — the address.The Mark at my neck had gone faintly, steadily hot, the way it does near anything my body has decided is wrong.I put my back against the wall three feet from him, because standing in the open was worse. The cold came through my coat immediately."How long have you been following me out here?""Long enough to know you like this pharmacy." Kai didn't move. "It's a good choice — the girl at the register is nineteen and looks at her phone."He's too calm, Nyx said. Ask what he gets."Say the rest of it," I said."A truck leaves the mill road at four on Thursday morning. It goes north thro

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Chapter Eight — The Notice Board

"—cleanse it before the Council sits. That's all I'm saying."I stopped with my hand still up at the notice board and the Mark at my neck went cold.Not cool. Cold, all at once, the way a stove goes when someone shuts the gas off, and I stood there in the corridor outside the common hall with a grocery list in my other hand and did not move at all."You want to say that word louder," a second voice said. "There's people in the kitchen.""There's people everywhere. That's rather the point."Trace Bellamy. I'd have known him through a wall.The common hall always smells the same in the wet months — wet wool, old grease, and the coffee urn that nobody has descaled since Elder Mara's mother ran the kitchen. Somewhere back there a knife was going on a whetstone, slow and even, six strokes a side.Somebody's kids were shrieking with laughter in the nursery at the far end. Two of them, chasing something.Don't move, Nyx said. Listen."It's not a word anybody has to say," Trace went on. "You

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Chapter Nine — What the Wind Carried

The last thing I packed was the flower.I took it out of the coat I was leaving and put it in the pocket of the coat I was taking, and it came apart a little more between my fingers, and I stood in my own kitchen at four in the afternoon with a bag by the door and my hand on the cold brass of the knob and could not make myself turn it.The Mark ached at my neck, low and slow. It had been doing that all day, a pulse with no fever in it, like something counting down.Not yet, Nyx said. Six tomorrow. Not one minute earlier.I knew. I still stood there.The bag was smaller than I'd expected a life to be. Two shirts, the good boots, the coffee tin money in three separate places, Wren's salve, the papers from the drawer, a knife I would not be able to use on anybody.I'd packed two socks that morning without looking. One grey, one navy. I found out at noon and I did not repack them, because by then it seemed like tempting something.The kitchen was clean. I'd washed both dishes and stood th

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Chapter Ten — Past the Snow Line

I crossed the snow line at twenty past four in the morning with a bag on my back, two heartbeats in me, and about a mile and a half of head start.The cold came off the white ground and took my face. My breath had frozen into the wool of my scarf an hour back and I'd given up on it.At my neck the Mark did the strangest thing it had done in ten days.It went steady.Not cold, not burning. A low even pulse, like something that had stopped arguing, and I kept climbing with my hand pressed over it because I did not trust it for a second.Higher, Nyx said. Get above the crust. Snow takes our Scent.The plan had been six in the morning. It had been six in the morning for four days, through Ames's gap in the roster, out the road like a woman going to work.At twenty to two I looked down the road and the lantern at the culvert was dark.Ames does not go off at twenty to two. He sits with that lantern until six, and he'd told me so himself once, complaining.He had put it out and gone home tw

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