Lahat ng Kabanata ng Awakening the Rejected Queen: Kabanata 231 - Kabanata 240

Zane’s POVElation. Brief and short.I hurled myself off the edge of the cliff, and for a beat, I was flying. I outstretched my arms into the air, like I was taking a swan dive. I broke through the misty clouds and fell.I couldn’t see the bottom of the canyon. Lucinda was too late. She’d tried to catch me but she couldn’t. Slade howled, still bound by Lucinda’s blue spell.This is what it’s like to be a bird, I thought. The weightlessness. The rush of the wind. This is what it’s like to fly.But the moment was fleeting.Only seconds after I leapt from the edge of the cliff, I smashed into a rock.We hadn’t been able to see down the cliff from the top. But as I fell, I realized that the cliff face was not smooth. There were rocks, large ones, that jutted out from the surface.I hit the first one. My ribs broke from the impact.I began tumbling down the cliff side, hitting other rocks as I went.I lost track of how many times my body slammed into the side of the cliff. Nine? Ten?Each

Zane’s POVI awoke to darkness. In fact, it was so dark, I wasn’t even sure if my eyes were open. I heard noises off to my left. The scurrying of feet. Wherever I was, someone was with me.I tried to turn my head.FUCK!My neck felt like it had daggers in it. My head suddenly started to throb. I didn’t know where I was. I didn’t know what had happened.All I knew was that I was in a lot of pain.“Drink this.” It was a female voice, but it was too dark to see who it was. A warm hand wrapped itself around the back of my neck and tilted my mouth forward. The next thing I knew, a cool liquid was in my mouth.It was sweet, like honey or nectar. It trickled down my throat. Almost instantly, the pain in my head stopped.“Where I am?” I asked the woman shrouded in darkness.“Safe,” was all she said. Then I heard her walk away.I struggled to remember. But my mind was getting even heavier now. I was groggy. Sleepy. I couldn’t keep my eyelids open even if I wanted to.I drifted off to sleep.I

Zane’s POVBread cookies?I inhaled the sweet scent. It was euphoric. That was…that was Eden’s scent. I felt dizzy. What were the odds? That this woman would bake something that smelled like my mate.Perhaps this was the Moon Goddess smiling on me? Perhaps this was destiny?And Slade! How fortuitous for Slade. I hadn’t been able to feel him since I’d woken up. But this smell. Surely this smell would wake him up.Slade? I asked. He would probably be losing his mind by now. Eden’s scent always made him go crazy.Slade? I repeated.But he didn’t answer.I remembered then. He’d broken through the blue binding spell and emerged. He hadn’t wanted to die. So he’d forced me to shift. And just in time. Only a few feet before we hit the bottom.He had taken the brunt of it. The worst of the fall.I assumed Slade had just been sleeping. But now I feared it was something worse.“My wolf,” I started. But she shook her head.“Your head,” she said. “It’s oozing.”She came towards me then and winced.

Eden’s POVMy mind reeled.He’d found our black rocks in the lagoon. My heart sunk. That was our only chance of escape. My grandfather and the Silver Mist Pack had been scouring the ocean, looking for those black rocks. And now?But there were even bigger things at play. Demetrius was dangerous. Far more dangerous than I’d imagined. I’d dismissed him as some crazy lunatic that had lost his mind over the deaths of his sons. I’d assumed he was just an unhinged old man living in seclusion on an island. But the look in his eye right now said otherwise.Caleb had told Storm and me about the uprising. Alpha Skylar had made a deal with the witches. He’d secured a ton of potions that would immobilize Zane’s warriors in exchange for the werewolf corpses so the witches could feast on them. I’d been concerned about this, of course I had, but now I had the sinking sensation that this was far worse than I imagined.Demetrius knelt down beside the cage. Astrid kept staring off into the distance, he

Eden’s POV“Ooooh! A new pet!” Murietta walked down the beach. She eyed the cage with Astrid in it as she passed, a satisfied look on her face. “She’s a pretty one,” she said to Demetrius. “Let’s build her a special cage.”It bothered me to hear them talk about Astrid like that. But I felt a sense of hope for the first time in a long time.Astrid was here! And she was okay! Or…at least she would be once she got out of the cage. She was playing along, pretending to be in shock to throw them off. I’d go and see her as soon as I could in the menagerie. She’d know how to get out of here.I mindlinked my grandfather.“Astrid’s here,” I told him.“What? Eden, are you sure?”I told him about the cage.“But she’s okay,” I assured him. “She gave me a sign that she’s okay. Grandpa, I have something important to tell you.”I filled him in on the details of Demetrius’ plan. Alpha Miles already knew that a potential war was coming. But he hadn’t know how close it was.Nor how many warriors Alpha S