Reborn After Rejection: I Chose the Alpha Everyone Feared のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 241 - チャプター 250

Saevren found Hallie after Maeren ended the meeting, still standing over the revised map.“You changed the wording again.”“Yes.”“Of course you did.”Hallie turned toward him. “That sounded judgmental.”“It was admiration with poor delivery.”She almost smiled.Across the room, Grant was speaking quietly with Maeren. Saevren did not glance toward them before touching one finger to the edge of the map.“What would you do?” Hallie asked.“If it were my decision?”“Yes.”“It is not.”The answer came so quickly that Hallie looked up.“My mother is Queen,” he said. “I am heir. Those are not the same job.”“No challenge?”Saevren’s brows lifted. “Why would I challenge her for having the authority she actually has?”Hal

Maeren waited until the compact files had been removed from the table. Grant noticed because she never waited without a reason. Saevren had already gone.Hallie was elsewhere in Everen, reviewing the revised departure notices. Grant stayed across from his mother.“You said not today.”Maeren set the page she was holding aside.“Yesterday was not today.”Grant almost left on principle. He did not. Maeren folded her hands.“Your father taught me something I did not expect to learn from a wolf.”Grant flattened one hand against the table. He knew his father was wolf. He did not know what Maeren was about to make of it.She said, “I loved him.”No qualification. Grant held her gaze.“I loved him genuinely.”Something in Grant’s chest shifted. He said nothing.“When I first wanted him,” Maeren continued, “I did not underst

Hallie thought about Saevren differently after Grant told her what Maeren had learned.Saevren’s attention sharpened rather than softened. He had never hidden that hunger existed for him.He had named it when it would have been easier to make desire sound cleaner than it was.Hallie had respected the honesty even when the truth unsettled her. Now the truth had become larger. Not kinder.Larger. A Vael could take emotion.A Vael could also choose not to.The second possibility did not erase the first.It changed what Hallie understood about the road between wanting someone and loving them.She carried that thought with her when she found Saevren reviewing the last messages.He looked up once.“You have the expression again.”“What expression?”“The one that means I am about to become part of a conclusion I did not approve.”Hallie almost smiled.

For the first time since Hallie entered Everen, no one put a document in front of her.She did not realize how strange that felt until she sat down with empty hands.No compact. No route map. No objections waiting to be separated into facts and fear.Just food, four people, and the knowledge that departure was close enough to change the day.Maeren sat across from Grant.Saevren was beside her, though not in the place he usually occupied during formal discussion.Hallie noticed that first. Then she noticed Grant had stopped sitting like an Alpha. Not completely.Grant probably could not stop being alert if someone paid him. But his shoulders were lower. His attention moved without measuring every silence for political consequence.Maeren looked at him.“You are staring at the food.”Grant looked down.“I was considering whether it had done something wrong.”Saevren’s mou

Hallie packed the compact copies before anything else.The papers did not matter more than the rest of Everen. They were simply the one part leaving with her that needed to remain exact.Only the roads still covered by the agreement. Current participation confirmed before departure. No implied protection beyond an active segment.No military obligation hidden inside civilian passage. Hallie checked the final Everen copy against Cedar Draw’s. Then she closed the folder.Grant was standing near the doorway.“You checked that three times.”“Four.”“That is worse.”“It is safer.”Grant looked as if he wanted to argue. He did not.The departure notice had already been entered under the same rules they had spent days revising.No exception because Grant was Maeren’s son. No exception because Hallie had helped rewrite the agreement. Their route home used