REJECTED BY THE ALPHA, CLAIMED BY THE LYCAN KING のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 1 - チャプター 5

~Calla~"Calla," Maeve hissed from the doorway. "Get up, girl. Get up."I couldn't. Every wolf in Crescent Hollow knew what this night was. The Blood Moon Festival came once a year, and the pack gathered in the great hall in their best clothes to watch the eighteen-year-olds shift for the first time. The Moon Goddess was supposed to show them their mates on that night. Girls who turned eighteen at the Blood Moon were meant to feel something that changed their whole lives.I had been up since four in the morning carrying firewood. I was an Omega, so my job was to serve, and nobody in the pack expected anything else from me. I also had no wolf. Most girls shifted at sixteen. I had waited two years, and my body had never once felt like anything but a girl's body, and the pack had started calling me the empty one.That morning, Maeve had put a small moonstone on a silver chain into my hand. "The Goddess doesn't forget her children," she told me. "Not even the quiet ones."I had hung it ar

~Calla~They put me in a chair.The elders' chamber of Crescent Hollow was a stone room off the great hall with a long table and six old wolves sitting behind it. Maeve sat at my left, holding my hand so tightly that it hurt. Kaius stood at the window with his arms folded. Dorian stood on the other side of the room, as far from his brother as the walls allowed. Alpha Orsen sat near the head of the table with his fingers steepled and an expression of polite interest.I could not stop shaking. It felt as if someone had sewn two different pieces of cloth to the inside of my chest and was pulling them in opposite directions. One side ached for the man across the room. The other, newer side hummed whenever the king moved."The matter is simple," said Elder Corwin, the oldest of the six. "Alpha Ashcroft has rejected her. She has not accepted. By our law, the bond stands.""And by Lycan law," Kaius said, without turning from the window, "any rejected mate is under the protection of the Crown

~Kaius~Duskhold rose out of the mountain like a thing that had never been built. Black stone towers climbed the cliff face, silver banners snapped from every wall, and below it all the valley lay in blue evening shadow. I had been looking at it all my life, and I had never once been glad to see it. Tonight, I watched Calla's face at the carriage window instead.She said nothing. Her hand trembled against the frame, and her knuckles were white, but she kept looking.By the time we reached the outer gate, every man in the convoy knew what she had done in the gorge. Brin had told the story twice at the evening camp, and I had heard the changes in it grow. By the third telling, she had lit up the whole sky. My riders no longer whispered wolfless when she walked past. They went quiet instead, and one or two of them touched their fists to their chests.The court was a different matter.They were waiting in the great hall, forty or fifty nobles in dark velvet, with Chancellor Edric at the f