Alle Kapitel von Reborn, I Took the Silver Bullet for the Alpha King: Kapitel 1 – Kapitel 8

I woke to a blade cutting into my shoulder.The royal healer was digging silver fragments out of the wound one by one. Every piece came free with a fresh rush of blood.I bit down on a folded strip of leather and swallowed my screams.“Stay awake, Mrs. Mercer,” the healer warned. Sweat ran down his temples. “If you shift, the silver will spread faster. Keep your wolf down.”My wolf was already weakening.So was the tiny heartbeat inside me.Kaelan stood beside the operating table while another healer stitched the cut across his abdomen. He did not look at his own injury once.“Pull through,” he told me. “You saved the Crown and every pack in this Alliance. Whatever you ask for after this, you will have it.”I managed a faint smile.The Hawthorne Pack. My father’s name. The fortune Lucas had slowly taken from us while pretending to love me.There was plenty I wanted back.But right then, all I wanted was the heartbeat beneath the healer’s hand to grow stronger.It did not.The doors bur

“What did you say?”Lucas’s grip loosened.“I said I want to break our mate bond.”For one second, real panic flashed across his face.Then Serena began to cry.“Lucas, don’t be angry with her. This is all my fault.” She pressed herself against his side. “If Evelyn hates me so much, I’ll leave. I never wanted to come between you and your mate.”Lucas forgot his panic at once.He pulled Serena into his arms with the same hand that had just bruised my jaw.“You are not going anywhere,” he told her. “Evelyn has threatened to leave a hundred times. She never means it.”I gave a weak laugh.“Try me.”Lucas’s expression darkened.“You think you can take my child and disappear behind the Hawthorne name?” He looked down at me with open contempt. “A jealous, unstable Omega like you is not fit to raise my heir. Once the baby is born, Serena will raise it.”Serena lowered her eyes, but I saw the triumph in them.“I would love the child as my own,” she whispered.Something inside me finally broke.

Three days later, the royal investigators delivered twelve boxes of evidence.Lucas had been careful, but Serena had not.Her father kept private ledgers showing every contaminated shipment sent through the Hawthorne mines. Lucas’s clearance appeared on the forged inspection reports. Money stolen from the mining company had paid for Serena’s house, jewelry, and private guards.There was also proof that Chloe had hired the rogues who once attacked me.Lucas had approved the payment.I sat at the head of the interrogation table while Lucas and Serena were brought in wearing iron restraints.They had spent three days blaming each other through the walls of their cells.Now they tried to stand together.“Evelyn,” Lucas said softly, “we lost our baby. Whatever happened between us, we should grieve as parents, not enemies.”My nails cut into my palm.He spoke about our child as if the baby had died in an accident.“You had two chances to come back,” I said. “You refused both.”“Because she l

One year later, every Alpha in the Alliance gathered beneath the royal banners.I stood beside Kaelan in a black military uniform. The Hawthorne crest rested over my heart, and the gold insignia of the War Ministry shone at my collar.The same councilors who once dismissed me as Lucas Mercer’s weak Omega now bowed their heads.Kaelan stepped before the assembled packs.“Evelyn Hawthorne rebuilt our border defenses, exposed corruption across six territories, and ended the rogue smuggling network without losing a single soldier,” he announced. “By unanimous vote of the High Council, she is the new Minister of War.”I had spent that year replacing Lucas’s loyal officers with wolves who had earned their ranks. I reopened the training program to Omegas and Packless wolves, rebuilt every failed checkpoint along the summit route, and returned the stolen mining profits to the workers Lucas and the Vale family had poisoned.No one could say Kaelan handed me the position because I saved his life