I Bore His Heirs, Then I Vanished のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 1 - チャプター 10

The blood on the floor was mine.It ran warm between my legs and pooled beneath the birthing bed while the healer wrapped my daughter in a blanket. He did not show her to me. He did not ask if I wanted to hold her.He carried her straight across the room and placed her in Seraphina’s arms.The door shut behind them.My baby’s cries faded down the hall.Three days later, Seraphina ordered me to appear before her in the pack hall.Pack law gave me no right to refuse a formal summons from the Luna, so I forced myself out of bed before moonrise. The tear from the birth had not healed. Every step sent a fresh bolt of pain through my body, and by the time I reached the hall, blood had soaked through the bandages beneath my dress.Seraphina sat at the head of the council table with a cushion across her lap.My daughter slept on top of it.Seraphina traced one finger over the baby’s ear. When I entered, she glanced at me but made no move to stand.“You look awful. Is there a problem?”I kept m

Lucian came to my room that night.He stopped in the doorway and kept one hand on the frame, as though he had already decided not to stay.“The baby has a name now,” he said. “Nova. Seraphina chose it. You gave birth to her, so I thought you should know.”“Nova is a beautiful name.”His expression shifted, but he moved on.“The boy is three. His training starts soon, and Seraphina will choose his first instructors. He’s old enough to remember faces now.”He paused.“From now on, stay away from the training grounds. I don’t want him confused.”I looked up at him. “All right.”Lucian did not leave.My answer had been too quiet. He was used to tears, accusations, desperate promises that I would keep my distance if he only let me see my son once.I gave him nothing.“Are you angry?” he asked at last.“No.”His brows drew together.He would have known what to do with anger. He could have called me selfish. He could have reminded me that he was Alpha and that the pack came first.But I was c

“What the hell is going on?”Lucian’s voice cut across the entrance to the great hall.He had come straight from the evening council. Dust still marked his boots. His gaze found me first—my hair half-fallen from its tie, my clothes gray from the quarry, my palms dripping blood onto the stone floor.Seraphina stood in front of me with several guards gathered behind her.The moment she saw him, her expression crumpled.“I gave her a simple work assignment,” she said, her voice shaking. “She threw her father’s position in my face and said I had no right to order her. Am I Luna only when it’s convenient for everyone else?”Lucian looked at my hands.His eyes lingered on the blood for one second.Then he looked away.Seraphina had the legal authority to assign pack labor. The quarry was brutal, but it was still within her power.Lucian knew exactly what she had done.He also knew that challenging her in front of the elders would weaken her position as Luna.So he chose the pack again.He ch

Lucian's car sped through the Bloodmoon gates before midnight. Smoke still hung above the western grounds where the old cabin had collapsed into a blackened pit. He was out of the vehicle before the engine had fully stopped."Where is she?"His Beta followed him toward the ruins. "The roof collapsed before the guards could break through. The healer is searching the remains."Lucian stared at the burned frame. The windows had been covered with planks, iron nails still protruding from the surviving wood. "Why were the windows sealed?"Seraphina stood nearby with their daughter in her arms, their son clinging to her dress. "She needed discipline. I ordered the guards to confine her until you returned.""You locked her inside and sealed every exit?""I did not start the fire.""That was not my question."Seraphina shifted the baby against her chest. "She humiliated me in front of my own guards. She suggested you would abandon me for the mother of your heirs. I had to remind her who the Lun

The Bloodmoon elders were waiting when Lucian returned from the border. They filled the council chamber before he arrived, speaking over one another about the closed northern road and the warriors gathering beneath Silvercrest banners.Elder Garrick struck his fist against the table. "The Vale family has withdrawn its guards, our merchants cannot reach the northern settlements, and Silvercrest has three hundred warriors at the border. We cannot allow one woman to hold the pack hostage."Lucian removed his coat. "That woman gave birth to both of our heirs.""She is also your fated mate. Bring her back under guard. Once she is inside Bloodmoon territory, her father will not risk attacking us."Several elders voiced their agreement."No one will force her back into this territory."Garrick stared at him. "You would surrender two heirs because she has become emotional?""I said no." The elders lowered their eyes, but their anger remained. "The children stay in Bloodmoon until I decide ho