Rejected by Her Mate Claimed by Four Alphas novel Chapter 255

CHAPTER 233

CHAPTER 233

Clara’s POV

Before I could fully process what was happening, the heat hit like a tidal wave, crashing through me with such force that I couldn’t breathe, couldn’t think.

But it didn’t stop the fight.

Mira’s jaws were still locked around my broken foreleg, shaking, tearing. The pain should have been unbearable, but the heat was drowning it out, replacing it with something else entirely.

I looked up through the haze of heat and agony. My eyes found the edge of the clearing. Four figures stood there. Killian, Lucien, Ronan. And behind them, Darius.

He’d arrived. He was here, watching me die.

The mate bonds flared to life all at once, four separate threads pulling at my chest, my wolf, my very soul. The heat intensified, making my vision blur. For a moment, weakness crashed through me. My body wanted to collapse, wanted to submit, wanted to crawl to them and beg them to make the burning stop.

Mira sensed it. She released my leg and lunged for my throat, going for the kill.

Then something inside me snapped awake.

That power. The same strange surge I’d felt when fighting Jaden, when my life was on the line and

my body had no right to keep going. It roared through me like lightning, burning away the

weakness, burning away everything except pure, feral survival instinct.

My wolf took over completely.

I twisted out of Mira’s path at the last second, her teeth snapping on empty air. Before she could recover, I launched myself at her exposed side, my jaws closing around her ribs. I heard bones.

crack under the pressure.

She yelped and threw herself sideways, breaking free. We circled each other, both bleeding, both

panting.

The crowd was going wild, but I couldn’t hear them anymore. Couldn’t hear anything except my own heartbeat and Mira’s ragged breathing.

She attacked again, faster this time. We collided in the center of the clearing, a vicious tangle of claws and fangs. Blood flew. I couldn’t tell whose anymore.

My broken leg screamed in protest every time I put weight on it, but I ignored it. The power surge was holding me together, forcing my body to fight past its limits.

Mira was good. Better than I’d expected. Each move was precise, calculated, deadly. This wasn’t the calm, gentle Luna everyone knew. This was a trained killer who’d been hiding behind a mask. her entire life.

She went low, aiming for my already damaged leg. I pivoted, using my good legs to launch myself over her. My claws raked down her back as I passed, leaving deep gouges.

She howled in pain and rage, spinning to face me. Her eyes were wild now, all pretense of control gone.

We charged at each other again. The impact sent us both tumbling across the clearing. Dirt and grass flew up around us as we rolled, each trying to gain the dominant position.

I managed to pin her for a second, my jaws going for her throat. She bucked hard, throwing me off I landed badly on my broken leg and nearly collapsed.

Mira was on me before I could recover. Her weight slammed into me, driving me into the ground.

Her teeth found my shoulder, tearing through muscle.

The pain cut through even the heat and the power surge. I screamed, the sound coming out as a

wolf’s anguished howl.

But I didn’t give up.

I twisted beneath her, ignoring the agony, and sank my teeth into her throat. Not deep enough to kill. Not yet. Just enough to make her let go.

She released my shoulder and we broke apart again, both of us staggering. Blood matted our fur, made the ground slick beneath our paws.

The heat was still there, burning through me, making everything sharper and more intense. I could smell my mates at the edge of the clearing, could feel their eyes on me, their wolves clawing to

break free and intervene.

But they didn’t. Pack law was absolute. This was my fight.

Mira shifted back to human form suddenly, her chest heaving. Blood covered her arms and torso, her fighting leathers torn and shredded.

I shifted too, swaying on my feet. My broken leg wouldn’t hold weight anymore. I had to lean heavily on my good leg just to stay upright.

“I underestimated you,” Mira said, her voice hoarse. “Everyone said you were strong, but I thought

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they were exaggerating. I thought you were just another Luna who got lucky.”

“And now?” I managed to ask.

“Now I see why he chose you.” She wiped blood from her mouth. “You fight like someone with nothing to lose.”

“I don’t have anything to lose,” I said. “Not anymore.”

She smiled, but it was sad. Broken. “Neither do I.”

We both shifted back to wolf form at the same time.

The final exchange was brutal. Mira came at me with everything she had left, and I met her with equal ferocity. We were both running on fumes now, our bodies pushed beyond their limits. /

But the power surge was still there, still holding me together when I should have fallen.

I ducked under her lunge and came up inside her guard. My jaws closed around her throat properly this time, finding the killing grip.

Mira went still beneath me.

The crowd held its breath.

I had her. One twist of my jaws and it would be over. She’d be dead and this nightmare would end.

But as I stood there with her life in my teeth, feeling her pulse beating frantically against my

tongue, something stopped me.

Nooked into her eyes. Saw the pain there. The betrayal. The absolute devastation of someone who’d lost everything they thought they had.

I knew that look. I’d seen it in my own mirror after Jaden rejected me. After Liana stole everything! thought was mine.

Mira and I weren’t enemies. We were the same.

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