Lahat ng Kabanata ng The alpha who rejected me is now obsessed: Kabanata 11 - Kabanata 17

*CHAPTER 11: HOW TO BE A PAPA* Leo fell asleep again right after saying "Hi, Papa." One second he was hugging Kade's neck, the next his little head was heavy on Kade's shoulder, snoring softly. Kade didn't move. He stayed on his knees, holding his son, his forehead still pressed to Leo's. His big shoulders were shaking. I knelt beside them and put my hand on Kade's arm. "Kade," I whispered. He looked at me, and his golden eyes were full of tears he wasn't hiding anymore. "He called me Papa," he whispered, like he couldn't believe it. "Ani, he called me Papa." "I heard," I said, my own voice thick. Luna Rhea quietly ushered Elder Marga and the elders out, closing the big Luna room door to give us privacy. Now it was just the three of us. Kade carefully laid Leo back on the big Luna bed. Leo curled up around a pillow that was bigger than him. Kade sat on the floor, his back against the bed, exhausted. I sat next to him. Not touching, just close. "How do you do it?" he asked

*CHAPTER 13: THE MARK* I didn't feel tired at first. After the witch ran, the pack cheered. Warriors came to thank me. Mothers brought their pups to see Leo. Luna Rhea hugged me so tight I couldn't breathe. Leo was on Kade's shoulders, telling everyone "My Mama won! My Mama's light is stronger!" I was smiling. I was okay. Then the white light in my staff flickered. My knees buckled. "Ani?" Kade caught me before I hit the ground. Leo slid off his shoulders into Elder Marga's arms. "Ani, hey, look at me," Kade said, his big hands on my face. My face was too pale. "I'm... just tired," I whispered. "Healing ten cursed wolves yesterday... and then the witch today... Lyra used too much..." My eyes started to close. My white wolf, Lyra, was whimpering inside me, weak. White wolves burn bright, but we burn out fast if we don't have our mate's energy. Elder Marga pushed through the crowd, touched my forehead, and gasped. "Her light is fading! Her wolf is retreating! White wolf col

*CHAPTER 15: THE QUEEN'S DIARY* We left at sunset. Not just me, Kade, and Leo. Twenty Blood Moon warriors, Luna Rhea, Elder Marga, and Magnus's white wolves. Two packs moving together for the first time in fifty years. Leo rode on Kade's shoulders, his little white hair glowing in the sunset, telling Magnus's warriors, "My Mama is Queen! I heard Elder Marga say!" I didn't feel like a queen. I felt scared. The mark on my neck was warm, but my mother's journal in my bag felt heavier. Halfway to White Mountain, we stopped to rest near a river. Kade made a small fire. Leo fell asleep instantly on his cloak. Magnus sat across from me. "Your mother never told you, did she?" he asked quietly. "Told me what?" "That Elara was not just a white wolf. She was the White Queen. The last one. The one who hid all white wolves after the Hollow killed the King." I opened the journal. I had read it a hundred times, but there was one page at the back I could never open. It was stuck together wi

*CHAPTER 16: TARA'S FACE* We reached White Mountain at midnight. The old protection stones were supposed to glow white when a queen returned. My mother wrote about it. They didn't glow. They were dark. Cracked. Covered in black ice. Magnus touched one and pulled his hand back like it burned. "It was here," he whispered. "The Hollow. It came out." Kade pushed me and Leo behind him, his black wolf already pushing to shift. The gates of White Mountain village were open. Too open. No guards. No lights. We walked in, twenty Blood Moon warriors with hands on weapons, white wolves growling low. Then we heard crying. In the middle of the village square, under the big Moon Tree that was now dead and black, stood a girl in a red dress. Tara. But not Tara. Her eyes were completely black, no white. Her smile was too wide. Her voice was not hers when she spoke. "You are late, little queen," she said in a voice that echoed like two voices. Leo woke up in Kade's arms and screamed. "Tha