Rejected by Her Mate Claimed by Four Alphas novel Chapter 111

CHAPTER 97–T

Alpha Darius’s POV

I walked away from Clara’s room, her words echoing in my mind. She had asked for space to process what happened, and I had given it to her.

But something about the entire conversation felt wrong.

The way she had looked down at her hands when she said she felt dismissed. The slight tremor in her

voice when she talked about being hurt. It had felt rehearsed, calculated.

And there was something else. A faint scent I had caught in her room. Another wolf’s scent that didn’t

quite belong.

I headed to my office, trying to push the suspicions from my mind. I had pack work to handle, reports to

review, and preparations for tomorrow’s event to oversee.

But no matter how I tried to focus on the documents in front of me, my thoughts kept returning to Clara.

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She was hiding something. I was certain of it now.

The question was what, and how far I was willing to go to find out.

I spent the next few hours throwing myself into administrative work. I reviewed security protocols for tomorrow’s gathering, approved budget expenditures, and handled correspondence with other pack

leaders who would be attending.

Three hundred guests were coming to our territory tomorrow for the largest inter–pack gathering we had hosted in years. Everything had to be perfect.

But even as I worked through the logistics, part of my mind was analyzing every detail of my conversation

with Clara.

Her body language had been off. She had avoided eye contact at key moments, and her responses had

been too polished, too perfect.

Clara was many things, but she wasn’t naturally manipulative in conversation. When she was genuinely upset, she was direct, sometimes even harsh. She didn’t do trembling voices and downcast eyes.

Unless she was putting on an act.

By late evening, I couldn’t concentrate on the reports anymore. The suspicions were eating at me, and i needed answers.

I needed to know where I stood with Clara. I needed to be certain that she truly cared for me and

belonged to me.

More importantly, I needed to know what she was hiding.

I had initially planned to return to her room and force the truth out of her through interrogation. I would

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use my authority as Alpha to make her confess whatever she was concealing.

I would be methodical, relentless, unforgiving until she told me everything.

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But the moment 1 knocked on her door again and stepped into her room, that plan went completely out the window.

Clara was already in her nightgown, a soft silk thing that clung to her curves and fell just above her knees. Her hair was loose around her shoulders, no longer tied back in the practical style she wore during the day.

The sight of her made my wolf stir with immediate want, and suddenly all my careful planning seemed irrelevant.

“Darius?” she said, looking surprised to see me again. “Is everything alright?”

Her voice was softer now, without the calculated tremor from earlier. This was Clara as she really was, not

the performance she had given me hours ago.

“I couldn’t stay away,” I admitted, moving closer to her.

The air between us felt charged, electric. All the tension from our fight this morning, combined with my

lingering suspicions and the undeniable attraction I felt for her, created a volatile mix that made my pulse

quicken.

I had come here to interrogate her, to demand answers about where she had been and what she was

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