《The Alpha’s Rogue Luna》全部章節：第 31 章 - 第 40 章

Rae’s POVThe guards outside Killian’s office were polite about it, which somehow made it more frustrating.“He’s in an important meeting, ma’am. He asked not to be disturbed.”I looked at the closed door for a moment, then turned and walked back to my room.I put the sand into the drawer, wrapped carefully in the cloth. I stood over the drawer for a moment after locking it, thinking about the smoothed ground and the crying and the particular feeling of being watched by something that left no evidence of itself.Someone knocked.Maya came in before I could answer, which was her usual approach to doors.“Thank goodness you are here,” she said, looking around the room with the air of someone checking that everything was in order. “I wanted to coach you before they arrived.”“Before who arrived?” I asked.“The event team,” she said. “Dressmakers are coming first since the ceremony is in two days. After that the makeup artists and the event planners will be through.”I looked at her.“I

Rae’s POVWe were moving before the call had fully ended.I pulled on my jacket and followed Killian through the corridor and out to the garage, my mind already running ahead of my feet. The dressmakers had left the compound hours ago. They had been here, in my room, measuring me, showing me designs on a tablet, and now they were in a hospital.The timeline was suspicious.Killian was talking as we got on the bike. Pack hospital, eastern territory, the call had come from the attending sentinel on duty. I caught fragments of it but most of his words were arriving at a slight remove, like sound through water.It was the feather first, now this.“Rae.”I blinked.His hand was on my arm. He was turned around on the bike looking at me directly.“I’ve been talking to you,” he said.“I know,” I said. “Say it again.”He repeated everything. The hospital location, what the initial report had said, the nature of the injuries as they’d been described on the call.“This is a warning,” I said.He

Rae’s POVI didn’t realize I’d fallen asleep until the darkness woke me.One moment I was lying on the bed staring at the ceiling, turning Killian’s raised voice over in my mind like a stone I kept finding new edges on, and the next the room was dim and the compound outside had gone quiet in the particular way it did when the day had moved on without me.I lay still for a moment.He yelled at me in front of the crew. Not loudly, but with enough force that every face in that room had turned toward me to watch what I would do with it. I had walked out rather than give them anything to watch.I was getting tired of walking out of rooms.I pressed my fingers to my face and pushed the thought back. It wasn’t useful right now and I had other things that were.The knock came before I’d sat up properly.I walked to the door already forming his name in my mind, already deciding what I was going to say about the yelling and how I was going to say it.I opened the door but it was Zeus.I blinked

Rae’s POVThe raven didn’t move for a long moment.It sat on the windowsill with the stillness of something that had been placed there rather than landed on its own. Its eyes catching the low light in a way that felt deliberate. Then it opened its wings slowly, and lifted into the dark without a sound. It was gone.I stood at the window.I heard boots sound in the corridor. Guards coming in fast, taking stock of the room, the tied woman on the floor, the two dead bodies in the beds. I stepped back and let them work. Maya walked in behind them and went immediately to Asher, who was still on the floor with both hands pressed to his stomach and his phone in his lap. His color was changing but his eyes were open and focused, which meant there was still time to save him.Someone had found Ethan behind a corridor away. I heard it being relayed… he is alive, unconscious, with head injury. They carried him past the doorway and Maya split her attention between him and Asher with the calm of so

Killian’s POVKael looked up when I walked into the cell.He had the look of a man who had been sitting with something uncomfortable for long enough that it had started to settle into his face. Zeus was on the bench against the wall, elbows on his knees, eyes on the floor.“Go stay with Asher,” I told Kael. “He shouldn’t be alone right now.”Kael stood without argument and went.Zeus lifted his head. “How is he?”I turned to the wall beside him and hit my fist through it.The plaster gave and the pain in my knuckles was clean and immediate and did nothing to touch what was sitting in my chest. I stood with my forehead against the wall for a moment and breathed.Then I turned around.“You grew up in this compound,” I said. My voice came out quieter than I expected. “You ate at my table. You rode at my side for twenty years.” I looked at him. “And you decided to burn it down because you were angry.”“I know,” he said.“Tell me why you suggested the bike ride tonight,” I said. “Tell me y