Chapter: Chapter 124Murielle's POVHe didn't take it back.I had half wanted him to. I had wanted him to reach for the softer sentence, the one with a but in it, so I could hear the but and hate it cleanly. Instead he stood in the last of the light and let my sentence stay exactly where I had put it."Yes," Cassian said, and his voice came out low and rough, as if the word had scraped him on the way up. "Before you knew my name."His heart was the only sound in the yard. I had listened to it for weeks without knowing what I was listening to. I had listened to it on the cold east stair, and in the dark after the wolfsbane, and every time I was afraid and he walked into the room. It had been the steadiest thing I owned.It belonged to the King. I stood there trying to make that sentence fit around a sound I knew by heart, and it would not fit.Under my ribs my wolf made a low, unbroken noise, too deep for the yard to carry. She wasn't angry. That was what I couldn't stand. She was waiting for me to be fini
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Chapter: Chapter 123Murielle's POV I chose the lower yard because it had no walls and no door, and because it was where he had first taught me to hold a sword.I made him wait until the light was going. It wasn't punishment. I needed the hours to sort out which questions were mine and which I had only inherited from three years of other people's answers, and by the time Fenwick had locked the collection and Vesper had gone off to wherever she put her face away, I had a list I could carry without writing it down.I sent Soren away at the gate. He went without arguing, which told me what he thought was about to happen.Rook stood in the middle of the packed earth with his hands loose at his sides, his coat buttoned correctly for once. I took a practice blade from the rack along the wall, because my hands wanted work, and stopped a sword's length from him."You said wherever I chose," I said."I did," Rook said."I chose here. Nobody can hear us and nobody can walk in. If I leave, I leave by that gate and
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Chapter: Chapter 122Murielle's POVI reached the archive before the light did, because I hadn't slept, and because I wanted to hear whatever Rook meant to say before anyone else's footsteps could get between us.He was already there, standing in the cold corridor outside the restricted collection with his back to the wall. His coat was creased from a night he hadn't spent in bed, and his hands hung empty at his sides, as if he had run out of places to put them. I could hear his heart from ten feet off, fast and held tight, like a man gripping a rope, and under the cold stone I caught the sharper smell of someone who had been awake all night."Elle." He pushed off the wall. "Before they come, I have to say what I wrote.""They're on the stair." I had caught them at the turn, two sets of steps, one measured and one brisk, with Fenwick's wheeze underneath both. "Fenwick, and a woman in good shoes," I said.His mouth closed. I watched him swallow the whole speech, whatever it had been, and the sight hurt mor
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Chapter: Chapter 121Alpha King Cassian's POVMurielle had told me about the dinner at midnight, standing in her doorway with her shoes in one hand. She repeated Ophelia's last words twice, and the way the napkin had stopped, trying to decide whether the pause was real. I wanted to draw her against me, but she was watching my face, and I was afraid of what she'd find there.I told her she'd done well. She asked what I thought Ophelia meant by revived, and I gave her no better answer than the one she'd already found herself. Then I went back to my room and lay awake until morning."Ophelia said she remembered the office, but not who had revived its files three years ago," I told Soren now. "Murielle never told her anyone had opened them. When she picked at the word, Ophelia said she had misspoken.""Ophelia." Soren leaned against the window of the small room we used when the Court's walls were too thin for anything else. "Does she misspeak?""No.""Then it was a message.""Or it was Court talk, and the ye
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Chapter: Chapter 120Murielle's POV"I'm going," I told Rook. "The messenger told Petra it's her private dining room tonight, and that Vesper Calderon will be at the table."He hadn't moved since the seal broke. "Lady Ophelia doesn't write to people without a reason.""Your heart jumped when I read it.""Yes.""Are you going to tell me why?""I know her. I know what she does once she's sure of what she's holding." His eyes stayed on the note. "That's all I can give you before you go in, and I hate it.""You said soon.""I did. I haven't forgotten.""Good. I'm not waiting on anyone's soon.""I'll put Soren outside the door."He looked at the note again, though he had already read it. His fingers closed around the edge of the table, then loosened."You'll arrange my protection," I said, "but you won't tell me what I'm walking into.""I wouldn't send you there if I thought you couldn't walk out.""That isn't what I asked."His jaw tightened. "I know."I waited, but he offered nothing else. I took the note fr
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Chapter: Chapter 119Murielle's POV "Again," Rook said.I reset my feet on the packed earth of the lower yard and brought the practice blade up. For three days he had corrected me only when I asked. This morning he didn't wait."You're strangling it.""It's my sword.""It's a stick you're afraid to drop." He stepped behind me and laid his hand over mine, loosening my fingers one at a time. His chest was warm against my shoulder blades, his heartbeat slow and steady through two layers of wool, and my body, which had spent three years learning to flinch, did what I had given it no permission to do. It leaned.I stepped out of his hold so fast I nearly dropped the blade after all."Elle.""Don't." I didn't know which of us I was warning. "Again."He came at me slowly. I took the opening he left, then the next, and every clash sent the anger I'd been swallowing straight into my wrists. Wanting a man I couldn't read was its own ins
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My Sister's Mate Is Obsessed With Me
Sera knows she's the worst kind of woman.
She's sleeping with her sister's husband, sneaking into his study while her own husband waits at home, moaning a name that isn't his. She's disgusting, shameless, and everything her family always said she was.
But she can't stop.
When Dax touches her, she finally feels alive. When he's inside her, she finally feels whole. The wrongness makes it hotter, the guilt makes it sweeter, and she would rather burn in this sin than go back to being numb.
Then she learns why their bond, although forbidden, felt so right.
Dax was supposed to be hers. Her twin sister saw the mate bond form and stole it before Sera could understand what she lost.
Everything Sera hated herself for, every tear she cried after he left her bed, every whispered apology to a sister who never deserved it. All of it was for nothing.
She was never the other woman. Octavia was
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Chapter: CHAPTER 166Seraphina's POV “She howled,” I said, crying and laughing at the same time. Ezra was wiping his eyes with the back of his hand. Hilde was sobbing. Rena was crying into her cup. Greta was sitting on her bench with tears running down her wrinkled cheeks and the widest smile I’d ever seen on that old woman’s face. The feast lasted until sunset with wine and mead and food and music. Ezra cooked enough to feed five packs because Ezra always cooked enough. Wolves from different packs were sitting together at long tables sharing bread and telling stories. Somewhere in the middle of it Greta stood up on her bench leaning on her stick and raised her cup of dirt tea and said “to the Luna’s daughter. May she have her mother’s hands and her father’s stubbornness and may she never learn to waddle” and the whole gathering laughed and raised their cups. The grey-haired Alpha from the northern ridge found me near the end of the feast with Maren asleep on my shoulder and she looked at the baby and
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Chapter: CHAPTER 165Seraphina's POV “It’s smaller than I expected.” She looked at the eastern quarter with the new houses and the children playing in the yards. “But it’s alive. That counts for more.” By the morning of the ceremony the gathering ring was full again with garlands and torches and fresh flowers. Wolves from five different packs were eating together and trading stories and their children were playing together and for the first time in years the territory felt connected instead of scattered. I dressed Maren in a small white wrap that Elara had sewn with tiny gold threads along the edges to match my ceremony dress. She screamed through the entire dressing process, kicking her legs free every time I tucked them in and arching her back every time I tried to hold her still and turning red from the effort of making her opinion heard at full volume. “She’s going to scream through the whole ceremony,” I said. “Good,” Dax said. “Let them hear her. A Luna’s daughter should have strong lungs.” “S
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Chapter: CHAPTER 164Seraphina's POV “Maren Vaelorin.” The baby stopped crying for half a second like she was listening and then started again even louder and Hilde laughed and said “she knows her name and she’s already arguing about it” and Dax said “she gets that from her mother.” I held her against my chest and her screaming vibrated through my ribs and her fists were punching the air beside my collarbone. I looked down at her red scrunched face and thought about Maren of Willowbrook standing at her kitchen window watching the road, the woman who’d opened her door to a stranger in the rain and given her everything. The woman who’d said “go, run, don’t look back” while a burning beam fell toward her. This small furious girl would carry that name into the world and she would never know the woman it belonged to but I would tell her. Every story. Every remedy. Every cup of dirt tea. Rena arrived an hour later at a dead sprint. She burst through the door out of breath with her hair loose from its braid
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Chapter: CHAPTER 163Seraphina's POV "We do what I've been trained to do." I put my hand on his face and his jaw was tight under my palm. "I'm a healer. I've delivered babies. I know what's happening and I need you to breathe and help me walk to our room."He breathed and put his arm around my waist and we walked through the yard together and the pack parted around us like a river splitting around a stone. Wolves were running in every direction and Ezra was shouting orders and Hilde appeared with an armful of clean cloths and hot water already on the way.Greta was on her bench and she watched me walk past and said "finally" in a voice that was rough and wet and she gripped her stick with both hands. I reached out and squeezed her shoulder as I passed and she patted my hand once, quick and firm.The room was warm and the east-facing window was flooding the space with afternoon light and the crib was in the corner with the green blanket folded on the mattress and everything was ready because he'd been rea
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Chapter: CHAPTER 162Seraphina's POV Eight months after the ceremony I couldn't see my feet.I was standing in the healer's hut trying to reach a jar of chamomile on the second shelf and my belly was in the way and my arms were too short and the jar was too far back and I was about three seconds from climbing on the table when Dax walked in and reached over my head and grabbed it without a word."I could have gotten that," I said."You had one knee on the table.""That was a stretch.""That was climbing." He put the jar in my hand and looked down at my belly which was enormous and round and sitting low between my hips.His hand settled on the side of it and his thumb traced a slow circle through the fabric. The baby kicked against his palm and his whole face changed, soft and stunned like he'd never felt it before even though he'd felt it a hundred times."She's active today," he said."She's been active since four in the morning. She kicked me in the ribs so hard I thought I cracked one.""He.""She.""
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Chapter: CHAPTER 161Seraphina's POV "Good."We stood there for a while and the hot iron cooled in the grass around us and the smoke drifted through the trees and by the time we walked back to the trail the camp was nothing but lumps of metal and scorched earth and it would never hold anyone again.We reached Willowbrook in the afternoon. The foundations came first, stone walls with no houses on them, blackened and crumbling with grass and wildflowers growing up through the cracks. The forest had started reclaiming what was left, saplings pushing through collapsed roofs and ivy climbing the standing walls.The well was still standing in what used to be the square. I stopped in front of it and pulled up a bucket and drank and the water tasted the same, clean and cold and faintly sweet from the limestone underneath."Maren lived there," I said, pointing to a foundation on the eastern edge with a collapsed chimney and a stone path. "The kitchen was on the left. She'd stand at the window mixing herbs and wat
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Chapter: CHAPTER 163Delilah's POV"I do.""Dante Blackwell. Do you pledge yourself to Delilah Calloway as her bonded mate, to honor her choices, respect her strength, and stand beside her as an equal for as long as you both live?"Dante looked at me. His grey eyes held mine and his voice was rough and certain."I do.""Mateo Blackwell. Do you pledge the same?"Mateo's eyes were wet. His voice cracked on the first word and he didn't try to hide it."I do."Corbin looked at the three of us standing in the moonlight and his expression shifted into what I could only describe as respect."Then let the bond be formed."Dante moved first. He stepped close and his hand came up to my face and he tilted my chin and looked into my eyes for one long second. Then he lowered his mouth to the curve of my neck where it met my shoulder and I felt his teeth graze the skin and Storm surged inside my chest with a howl that shook my bones.His teeth broke through.The pain was sharp and bright and lasted half a second before
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Chapter: CHAPTER 162Delilah's POVThey held the rhythm. Mateo's mouth and Dante's fingers working in sync like they'd planned it and maybe they had because the two of them had always been able to read each other without speaking and right now that talent was being used to take me apart piece by piece.The second orgasm built slower, deeper. I could feel it in my stomach and my thighs and my chest, a full-body wave that grew every time Mateo's tongue hit the right spot and Dante's fingers curled inside me."I'm close," I said. "Don't stop. Harder. Both of you."Mateo sucked and Dante pressed deeper and I reached back and grabbed a fistful of Dante's hair with one hand and held Mateo's head with the other and I used them both exactly the way I wanted to because this was mine now. This moment, this pleasure, these two men on their knees and at my back giving me everything I asked for. Mine.The second orgasm tore through me and I screamed. I actually screamed and my legs gave out completely and Mateo caught
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Chapter: CHAPTER 160Delilah's POVHe made a sound low in his throat and his lips pressed against the curve of my neck and the warmth of his mouth sent a shiver down my spine that I didn't bother hiding. His musky scent wrapped around me and Storm hummed and my head tipped back without my permission.Dante's hand slid up my spine from behind. Slow, deliberate, his fingers tracing the line of my back like he was memorizing it."Higher," I said.His hand moved to the back of my neck and his thumb pressed into the tension there and a groan slipped out of me before I could catch it."Good," I said. "Keep doing that."Mateo's mouth trailed from my neck to my collarbone and his hands tightened on my waist. "Can I go lower?""Ask me again.""Can I go lower, Delilah?""Yes."His lips moved down my chest and his breath was hot against my skin and when his mouth closed over my nipple I gasped and grabbed a fistful of his hair and held him there. His tongue circled and flicked and I felt the pull of it all the way d
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Chapter: CHAPTER 159Delilah's POV I waited three days after the Council left before I went to them.Not because I needed the time. Because I wanted them to sweat. Because after everything they'd put me through, three days of wondering whether the woman who'd just saved their entire family was going to let them back in felt like the bare minimum of what they owed me.On the third evening I sent Stella to the barracks with a message for Dante and another to the main house for Mateo. Same message for both of them.My cabin. Nine o'clock. Come alone.Dante arrived first. He knocked once and waited. I opened the door and he walked in wearing a plain black shirt with his sleeves rolled up and his grey eyes careful like a man walking into a room where the floor might give out.Mateo came two minutes later. He didn't knock. He just stood in the open doorway until I nodded him inside. His amber eyes moved from me to Dante and back again and his jaw was tight with the effort of not speaking first.I closed the do
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Chapter: CHAPTER 158Delilah's POV"I've been through worse." I held his gaze. "Your daughter was a guest in this pack and I'm sorry her mating didn't work out. But Dante Blackwell rejected Celeste of his own free will as an adult member of this pack. Mateo did the same with Thalia. Those were their choices and they made them publicly and legally through the proper rites."I sat back. "If you're looking for someone to blame for your broken alliances, the men who broke them are right outside this building. I'm just the healer.""The healer they're both now pursuing," Crest said."Yes. As an independent wolf with my own rank and my own standing, I've chosen to explore a relationship with both of them. That decision was made recently and openly. There's nothing forbidden about it. I'm not their stepsister in any legal sense. I'm an independent member of this pack and the choices I make about my personal life are exactly that. Personal."Thorne looked at Crest. Crest looked at the elders. The elders looked at
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Chapter: CHAPTER 157Delilah's POVI dressed carefully the next morning, for me and not for them. I braided my hair back tight like Helena had taught me, pulled on a clean shirt and trousers, and looked at myself in the small mirror until the woman staring back had no cracks showing. Just the flat steady gaze of a healer who had work to do and a pack to protect.Storm was quiet inside my chest but not dormant like she'd been after Jaxon's rejection. She was alert and waiting, crouched low and watching for the moment to move."You ready?" she asked."No. But that's never stopped me before."The main hall was full when I walked in.Corbin sat at the head of the long table with Ryker to his right. Alpha Thorne sat across from them, a broad silver-haired man with cold blue eyes and a jaw that looked like it had been carved from the same stone as his reputation.Beta Crest sat beside him, smaller and sharper, with the watchful energy of a man who counted every slight and forgot none of them. The two council el
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