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Chapter 34

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Rosalie's POV

The quarters were small. Smaller than I'd let myself expect, even after Magnus's ruling made it clear exactly how little welcome either of us had actually earned.

One room, mostly, a narrow bed, a washstand, a single window overlooking the training yard. No sitting room. No private hearth beyond the small iron stove in the corner. Nothing like the royal wing I'd once, in another life, imagined myself occupying as Luna, the wide windows, the private gardens, the wardrobe rooms bigg
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  • Rejected by the Alpha Hockey Captain And Then Claimed By His   Chapter 34

    Rosalie's POVThe quarters were small. Smaller than I'd let myself expect, even after Magnus's ruling made it clear exactly how little welcome either of us had actually earned.One room, mostly, a narrow bed, a washstand, a single window overlooking the training yard. No sitting room. No private hearth beyond the small iron stove in the corner. Nothing like the royal wing I'd once, in another life, imagined myself occupying as Luna, the wide windows, the private gardens, the wardrobe rooms bigger than this entire space combined.I unpacked what little I owned in under ten minutes. A second dress. A cloak. The plain silver ring that never left my finger anymore, though I still hadn't decided what, exactly, wearing it meant. I set each item down with a kind of grim, methodical precision, cataloguing the space the way I'd learned to catalogue everything since the altar, with the cold, clear-eyed accounting of someone determined not to be surprised by her own circumstances twice.This is

  • Rejected by the Alpha Hockey Captain And Then Claimed By His   Chapter 33

    Rosalie's POVMagnus summoned us to the smaller council chamber the following morning, which felt somehow more intimidating than the great hall had — fewer witnesses, but colder for it, the kind of room built for decisions rather than spectacle.I sat beside Elias, close enough that our shoulders nearly touched, and watched Magnus arrange himself behind the long table like a man settling into a position he'd occupied his entire life and intended to hold for the rest of it."I've made my decision regarding your standing," Magnus said, addressing Elias directly, his eyes flicking toward me only briefly, cool and assessing, before returning to his son. "You will receive no title. No privilege granted by blood. No formal reinstatement to whatever position you believe your birthright might have once entitled you to.""I expected nothing else," Elias said, his voice level, betraying nothing."Good. Then you'll also understand that if you intend to remain in this territory — and given the le

  • Rejected by the Alpha Hockey Captain And Then Claimed By His   Chapter 32

    Rosalie's POVI noticed the maid on the second day, mostly because I'd gotten good, over two years of being watched and whispered about, at sensing exactly when someone's attention lingered a beat too long to be accidental.She was young, dark-haired, carrying a basket of linens down the corridor outside our guest quarters with the kind of practiced casualness that would have fooled anyone who hadn't spent two years learning to read a room full of people pretending not to look at her.I caught her eyes for half a second before she dropped her gaze and hurried past, and something cold settled low in my stomach that had nothing to do with the corridor's draft."Elias," I said that evening, once he'd returned from another brutal morning of solo training in the yard, "I think someone's watching me."He went very still, the way he always did when something threatened my safety, all the careful ease sliding off him in an instant. "What makes you say that?""A maid. I've seen her three times

  • Rejected by the Alpha Hockey Captain And Then Claimed By His   Chapter 31

    Elias's POVI found Easton on the training yard fence two mornings after the hall, alone, staring out at nothing in particular, and something about the stillness of him stopped me before I'd decided whether to approach at all.I hadn't planned to seek him out. I'd told myself, walking back from Magnus's study the day before, that whatever remained between my brother and me could stay buried exactly where it had been for six years. But Rosalie's worry kept circling back to him, what seeing her alive might have done to him, what it might mean for the tryouts, for all of it, and some part of me needed to see for myself before I trusted her instincts over my own indifference."You're staring at nothing," I said, coming to stand a few feet from the fence.He didn't startle, which told me he'd already caught my scent before I spoke. "Didn't realize you were back to caring what I do with my mornings.""I'm not, particularly. Rosalie's worried about you, though, and I've learned to take her i

  • Rejected by the Alpha Hockey Captain And Then Claimed By His   Chapter 30

    Elias's POVMagnus summoned me to his study an hour after the hall emptied, which surprised no one, least of all me. Some conversations had always been reserved for private rooms in this family, the ones with too much blood in them for public witnesses.He was standing at the window when I entered, hands clasped behind his back, exactly the posture I remembered from every dressing-down of my childhood, and something in my chest tightened involuntarily at the familiarity of it, old instincts refusing to fully let go even after six years of distance."Close the door," he said, without turning around.I did, and stood there a moment, waiting, refusing to be the first one to break the silence the way I always used to as a boy, desperate for any scrap of his attention."Six years," he said finally, turning to face me. "Six years without a word, and you return not with an apology, not with any explanation for your absence, but with a wife and a legal maneuver that strips me of authority I'v

  • Rejected by the Alpha Hockey Captain And Then Claimed By His   Chapter 29

    Elias's POVThe great hall filled faster than I expected, word of our arrival apparently outpacing us through every corridor of the packhouse, and by the time the doors were shoved open to admit the assembled council, elders, and whatever curious clan members had managed to talk their way inside, the room was packed tight enough that the air itself felt heavier for it.Magnus sat on the raised dais at the far end, exactly where I remembered him always sitting, exactly as unreadable as I remembered him being. Six years hadn't softened the set of his jaw or the cold calculation behind his eyes. If anything, the crown he'd be formally passing to Easton in a matter of weeks seemed to have sharpened both.Easton stood near the dais, and I felt Rosalie stiffen beside me the moment she spotted him, though she didn't look away. I gave her credit for that. It took considerable nerve to hold a gaze that had once discarded you in front of hundreds of witnesses."Elias." My father's voice carried

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