บททั้งหมดของ Rejected by My Mate, Claimed by the Triplet Alphas : บทที่ 1 - บทที่ 5

Viene’s POVThe mate bond was still burning under my skin when he rejected me.Only hours ago I had woken to Miel Uriel’s arm across my waist, to the quiet before dawn when neither of us had to be Alpha or Luna — just two people who belonged to each other. He’d traced the mark of the bond on my shoulder with two fingers, slow, like he was memorizing it. I’d laughed and asked if he was planning to disappear before the ceremony. He didn’t laugh back.“Stay like this a minute,” he’d said. “Just this.”I thought it was nerves. Every Alpha got nervous before he stood in front of his pack and made a promise that couldn’t be unmade. I didn’t know he was already saying goodbye. I didn’t let myself think it was anything else, not even when he held on a beat too long before he let me go to get dressed.Now I stood in the center of the ceremony circle with the whole pack watching. Hundreds of them. Same ground where his hands had been on me the night before like he never planned to let go. His s

Viene’s POVMorning light cut through the thin clinic curtains.I woke with the taste of metal in my mouth and the same hollow ache under my ribs. The broken bond hadn’t faded. It sat in my chest like a bruise that went too deep, pulsing every time I breathed. The fever had broken, but the weakness stayed.A nurse came in with a tray. “You’re stable. But you need rest, food, and dry clothes. Do you have anyone we can call?”“No,” I said. My voice came out scraped raw. “There’s no one.”She left me plain clothes that smelled of detergent instead of rain and mud. I changed slowly. Every movement pulled at the bruises on my arms where the warriors had gripped me. When I caught my reflection in the small mirror, I barely knew the woman looking back. Pale. Hollow around the eyes. Stripped of everything that used to make her someone.I left the clinic with nothing but borrowed clothes and a body that still felt like it belonged to somebody else.The town was already awake. People moved past

Viene’s POV The car moved the moment the door shut. I sat stiffly near the door, Nolan beside me, Neil across from us, Nathan in the front passenger seat. Nobody spoke at first. The quiet inside the car pressed harder than the confrontation on the street had. Neil watched me without pretending not to. “Your bond is unstable,” he said. “Still searching.” “I noticed.” “It’ll keep doing that until it settles. Or is claimed properly.” “It won’t be claimed.” “That’s not a decision you get to make alone anymore.” He said it flat, the way he’d state a measurement. “You should get used to that now, while it’s still just words.” I didn’t answer. He took in the set of my shoulders, my hands pressed flat in my lap, then turned back to the window as he’d already read everything there was to read off me. Nathan spoke without turning around. “You should rest while you can.” “I’m not tired.” “You are. You just don’t want to show it in front of us.” I hated that he was right. My body wa