Luna Reborn: I Refused My Fated Alpha のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 11 - チャプター 16

I went back to the Eastern wall alone three days later, unable to shake the feeling that I'd missed something in the scouting report, some detail that mattered more than the captains had given it credit for. The tree line looked the same as it had with Rylan beside me, quiet and unremarkable, but standing there without an audience, without anyone to perform composure for, I let myself actually think about what an Ashfall scouting party testing this exact stretch of fence might mean, layered on top of Rylan's flinch, layered on top of a name that had never once mattered in my first life and now apparently mattered enough to warrant careful lying. I hadn't told anyone about the vision I'd woken up carrying, the one where Kai's grey eyes belonged to someone I didn't recognize. I hadn't told anyone about the ledger, or Vesper Kane's name, or the facts that some nights I lay awake convinced that the entire shape of the future I remembered was already coming apart in my hands, one careful

He was off his horse before it fully stopped, and he crossed the courtyard with the clipped, efficient stride of a man used to walking into crisis. Dust clung to his boots, his cloak, the sharp line of his jaw, evidence of a ride hard enough that his horse stood lathered and blowing behind him.His eyes went over me once, fast, checking for blood that wasn't mine, and something in his shoulders eased a fraction when he found none. It was there and fone quickly enough that I might have imagined it, of I hadn't been watching for exactly that kind of thing since the day he first rode away from this courtyard. "You're not hurt," he said. Not quite a question. "No. Others weren't as lucky.""I heard three hours ago. I came myself instead of sending a rider." He said it plainly, an explanation rather than a confession, though something in his jaw suggested he hadn't fully examined his own reasons for choosing that yet. "Word travels slowly when it has to cross two territories. I didn't wa

I found her at the edge of the gathering, half hidden behind a tent pole, watching the crowd with an unnerving kind of stillness. She was younger than I expected, fifteen years maybe, grey eyes exactly the shade of her brother's, and something in the set of her shoulders told me she'd rather be anywhere else. I had noticed her earlier, standing apart from the other Nightfang household while everyone clustered close around Kai, and something about the deliberate distance she kept had made me curious enough to seek her out once the crowd around the silver light bad finally thinned."You are Selene," she said. Not a question. "I am. You must be his sister.""Mira." She kept looking at me, the way you'd look at something half remembered, a word on the tip of your tongue that wouldn't quite surface. "You look different than I thought you would.""Different how?""I don't know yet." She tilted her head. "Sorry. Strange thing to say to someone you just met.""I've been told I have that eff