The MC President’s Wanted Woman
Claire Bennett has spent years pretending she has the perfect life.
She married her high school sweetheart at nineteen, stood beside him as he became sheriff, and learned exactly how much makeup it takes to hide the bruises he leaves behind. No one knows what Grant Bennett is really like behind closed doors.
Until Claire finds a USB hidden beneath his dresser.
She has no idea what is on it, but Grant’s reaction tells her one thing—he is willing to kill to get it back.
When their five-year-old daughter, Lilly, throws herself between them during his latest attack, Claire finally fights back. She takes Lilly, the USB, and runs to the one man Grant would never expect her to trust.
Nick Salazar.
President of the Iron Saints MC.
Nick knew Claire long before she became Mrs. Bennett. Once, she was the kid he looked out for. Now she is a grown woman standing at his gates with bruises on her skin, fear in her eyes, and a sheriff hunting her down.
Nick gives her protection.
Then his club discovers what is on the USB.
Names. Ages. Motels. Transfers. Payments. Messages clearing county roads and delaying police reports.
Evidence of a sex-trafficking operation.
And Grant’s name is buried all through it.
Claire didn’t just escape an abusive husband. She stole the evidence that could destroy a network of powerful men, and now they all want her silenced.
While the Iron Saints fight to keep Claire and Lilly alive, the connection growing between Claire and Nick becomes harder to ignore.
Nick refuses to control her.
Claire refuses to be owned again.
But Grant still believes his wife belongs to him.
And if he wants her back, he is going to have to come through him.
Baca
Chapter: Someone Else Took The JobNick’s POVThe pancake batter slid toward the edge of the counter when I tried to hold the bowl steady with my left hand.“Don’t,” Claire said behind me.“I’ve got it.”“You’ve got batter on your boot.”I looked down. A pale stripe ran from my jeans to the toe. Lilly crouched beside me, fascinated.“It looks like bird poop.”“Thanks, peanut.”She laughed, but it didn’t last. She stood and pulled the hem of Claire’s shirt. “Can we go see Daddy’s flowers today?”Claire’s hand stopped halfway to the paper towels. “Not today, sweetheart.”“Tomorrow?”“We’ll talk about it.”“But the picture could get wet.”“The funeral man tucked it under the ribbon,” I said. “Remember? He made sure it wouldn’t blow away.”“Rain isn’t wind.”“No, ma’am. It isn’t.”Claire put down the towels, crouched, and opened her arms. Lilly walked into them without another word. I used my good hand to drag the bowl away from the edge. My shoulder hurt so badly I wanted to throw the fucking thing across the kitchen.“Pa
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Chapter: Twenty ThousandRoy’s POVVern put my money on the kitchen table, but he kept his other hand inside his coat.“Driver gets here at eleven. You pay him yourself.”I looked from the envelope to the bulge in his coat pocket. He’d spent eight years hauling for me without needing a gun between us.“Take your hand out.”“You need to finish packing.”My bag stood beside the door. He’d stepped around it coming in.“You bring that in here for me?”He withdrew his empty hand slowly. “I brought it because I watched the news. And because you keep telling me one more night.”The refrigerator clicked off. Without it, I could hear him breathing through his nose.“You called somebody?”“The driver. Like you asked.”I held out my hand for his phone. He looked at it, then at the door behind him.“Roy, I’ve done what I said I would.”“Then give it here.”He unlocked it before passing it over. The local news page was still open, with a photograph taken outside the funeral home that afternoon.Claire stood beside Nick in
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Chapter: The FuneralClaire’s POV“Mommy, you’re bending it.”I loosened my grip on Lilly’s drawing. One corner had caught beneath the strap of my bag, and I couldn’t get it free while she held my wrist.“Let go a second, baby.”“You’ll drop it.”“I won’t.”Nick took the bag off my shoulder with his right hand. I worked the paper loose, and he settled the strap back over my shoulder. I smoothed the drawing against my skirt, but the crease stayed across the yellow sun.Lilly rubbed it with her thumb. “Now it’s got a line.”“We can lay it flat inside.”She took it back before I could try again.Rafe came up from parking the car and held the funeral-home door. Nick waited while I got Lilly moving, his left arm still supported against his body.“Mrs. Bennett?”The funeral director stood beside the guest book. I had spoken to him four times that week, but it took me a moment to answer.Three weeks had passed since Nick and Teo visited Nadine and Leanne in the hospital. Teo had brought them to their rooms at th
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Chapter: A Room If You Want ItNick’s POVNadine was sitting on the edge of the bed when the nurse let us in. She looked at my cut, then past me at Teo.“You’re staying?”“Yeah. Move your feet and I’ll sit down.”She took her feet off the chair beside her. He lowered himself carefully, keeping an elbow against his sore side, and I pulled the other chair around with my right hand. The sling caught on the armrest. By the time I’d worked it free, Nadine had stopped watching me and taken a folded piece of paper from beside her pillow.She laid the paper in her lap, keeping her hurt wrist tucked against her stomach. I waited until she looked at me again.“Teo said you needed somewhere to go.”“When they let me leave. I’m not trying to get out of here early.” She turned toward the door as someone walked past. “Leanne’s here too. They brought her yesterday.”“Have you seen her?”“Spoke to her on the phone this morning. She was asleep when I asked again.”The nurse had said she would check with Leanne about a visit. I told
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Chapter: You Don’t Have HerClaire’s POV“Dale too?” I asked.“Both of them,” Ortega said through Nick’s phone. “Glen was arrested at the truck. Dale went behind the trailers, and an officer caught him there. They brought him back in handcuffs and put him in a separate patrol car. Neither man left the yard except in police custody.”I sat down before he finished. Sarah pulled the chair beside mine closer to the table. Across the hall, Evan was helping Lilly gather her markers; I had told her we needed a few minutes with Ortega, and she had made me promise to come get her afterward.“And Leanne?”“On her way to the hospital. Our officers were with her until the ambulance left.”“Have you found Haskett?”“Not yet. We’re looking for him.”I bent forward with my hands between my knees. Nick moved toward me, but I caught the edge of his shirt and kept him beside the chair.“She’s out,” I said.“Yes, Claire.”Ortega asked us to pass any further contact to him and Torres. I looked up at Nick.“He doesn’t have her.”Nic
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Chapter: I Need to Make Them See Me!!Leanne’s POV“Put your feet down.”Dale stood in the open door of the SUV, holding a different set of keys. I had watched him go into the building twice while Glen stayed beside me. Now he caught my bag by the strap and pulled it across my knees.“Where are we going?”“Get out.”I put one foot on the gravel. Before I could bring the other down, he took my arm and pulled. I caught the door with my free hand, but my legs folded when he tried to stand me up.“Jesus Christ. Glen.”Glen came around the open door and got his arm beneath mine. Between them, they hauled me upright. I kept trying to find somewhere to put my feet while they carried most of my weight toward a white work truck.“Wait. My shoe.”The heel had folded beneath my foot. Glen let me lean against the truck while I tried to straighten it with the toe of the other shoe. I couldn’t bend far enough to reach it without losing my balance.“Get in,” Dale said.“I need a minute.”He opened the passenger door. The step was too hi
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Rejected by my Mate, Chosen by his Alpha Father
Selene Carey believed the Bloodhowl mating ceremony would be the night her life finally began.
Damon Bloodhowl was her fated mate, the Alpha heir, and the one wolf she thought would choose her when no one else ever had. Instead, he rejects her in front of the entire pack and claims her stepsister, Mira, as his chosen mate.
Humiliated, heartbroken, and abandoned by her own family, Selene expects the night to end with her shame.
Then Alpha Ronan rises.
Damon’s father. Bloodhowl’s ruthless Alpha. A wolf feared, obeyed, and never questioned.
Before Selene can accept Damon’s rejection, Ronan places his Alpha ring in her hand and claims her as his chosen mate.
Now Selene is trapped between the mate who rejected her, the Alpha who chose her, and a pack waiting to see whether she will break.
Ronan’s protection is dangerous. His attention is impossible to ignore. And the more Selene stands beside him, the more enemies begin to circle.
She was rejected by the heir.
Chosen by the Alpha.
But the choice that matters most may be the one Selene makes for herself.
Baca
Chapter: The Life We ChoseSelene’s POVThe healer had asked me to lie still three times, and I was beginning to think she regretted letting me through the door.“It’s a little difficult when you keep making that face,” I told her.“What face?”“The one you make when you’re trying to decide whether to give someone bad news.”She lifted her head from my stomach and stared at me. “I’m trying to listen, Selene. You’re making it rather difficult.”I pressed my lips together and lay back against the examination bed.I’d suspected I was pregnant for almost two weeks. My monthly cycle hadn’t come, I was exhausted by the middle of most afternoons, and the smell of eggs had become enough to send me running from the breakfast table. Ronan had been ready to confront the cook after the second morning.I’d managed to convince him there was nothing wrong with the food, although explaining why I’d suddenly developed an intense dislike for something I’d eaten all my life had been another matter.The healer placed her fingers l
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Chapter: The Ones Who Came HomeSelene’s POVHale was arguing with Garrick over the last supply wagon when Ronan helped me down the gatehouse steps.“I told you where I put the medical supplies,” Hale said, standing beside the wagon with his hands on his hips. “If you’d listened the first time, you wouldn’t be digging through every damn crate.”Garrick pulled a folded blanket from beneath the driver’s seat and tossed it onto the wagon bed. His injured forearm was bandaged beneath his sleeve, and he was doing most of the work with his other hand.“Then quit moving things after I’ve checked them.”“I moved them because the healers need to get to them.”“And I need to know where everything is before we leave.”Hale looked toward Ronan. “You want to tell him I’m in charge of this?”Ronan glanced at the two men, then toward the wagon carrying our fallen. “I want to get my people home. You two can argue about blankets when we get there.”Garrick muttered something under his breath and went back to checking the straps.I s
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Chapter: The Price of VictoryRonan’s POVHale came into the gatehouse while Selene was trying to tear another piece from her bread.Her hands were still shaking. She’d managed to eat some of the meat we’d been given, but I could see how much effort it took for her to hold the food without dropping it. I took the bread from her, tore it into smaller pieces, and put it back on the tray. She gave me a look but didn’t complain.Hale stopped in front of us with a folded sheet of parchment in his hand. There was fresh blood on his sleeve, and the cut along his jaw had started bleeding again.“I’ve got the count,” he said.I put my own bread down. “Let’s hear it.”“Three dead. Eleven wounded badly enough that the healers are keeping them down. We’ve got another six with cuts and other injuries that need tending, but they can walk.” He looked at the parchment. “Two of the serious ones are still in rough shape. One took an arrow through his shoulder, and the other lost a hell of a lot of blood from his leg.”Selene shifte
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Chapter: What Cannot Be TakenSelene’s POVThe first arrow struck Hale’s shield before we’d made it halfway through the covered passage.“Keep moving!” he shouted, bracing his shoulder against the wood as another arrow hit hard enough to knock him sideways.I ducked behind the warrior in front of me while our archers returned fire from the western wall. Cassius’s men were shooting through the narrow openings above the entrance, using the stonework to protect themselves between volleys. One leaned out farther than the others, drawing his bow toward the men carrying the timber. An arrow caught him in the chest before he could release. He disappeared backward, and his bow clattered onto the stones below.Hale pointed toward the windows. “Keep those fuckers down! Garrick, get your men around the east side!”Garrick raised his sword before heading toward the building we’d secured earlier. His archers had a better angle on the residence from there, and within minutes, Cassius’s defenders were taking fire from two direct
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Chapter: The Ground We TakeSelene’s POVHale raised his fist, and the warriors behind us stopped.The gates to Cassius Varric’s property stood less than a hundred yards ahead, surrounded by a stone wall that disappeared into the trees on either side. Men lined the walkway above the entrance, bows in their hands, watching us from behind the protection of the parapet. I counted six before another two appeared near the western corner.The sight of them made my stomach tighten, but I kept my place beside Ronan.One of the archers pointed toward me. He spoke to the man beside him, who immediately disappeared down the steps behind the wall. I watched the exchange, wondering how many of Cassius’s men had been given my description and ordered to look for me.Ronan caught the movement, too. His hand closed around mine, and I could feel the tension in his fingers.“Stay with Hale when we move,” he said.“I intend to.”He looked at me, apparently unconvinced.I squeezed his hand. “I’m not planning to run through those gat
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Chapter: At Cassius’s GateSelene’s POVThe storekeeper was halfway through counting the recovered sacks when the wounded guard beside me reached for one with his bandaged arm.“Don’t even think about it,” I told him.He stopped with his fingers around the corner of the sack.“I can carry flour.”“With one good arm?”“I’ve got two.”“Then why is one of them tied against your chest?”He looked down at the bandage as though he’d forgotten it was there. The storekeeper snorted and took the sack from him.I had to bite back a smile. The man had barely escaped losing the use of that arm, yet he’d spent most of the morning complaining that nobody would let him do anything. I understood the frustration. I hadn’t particularly enjoyed being ordered to rest after healing Ronan, either. But watching him reach for a sack that weighed nearly as much as he did wasn’t something I intended to ignore.Three days had passed since Damon died.I still found myself counting them whenever the courtyard came into view.The stones had
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Sinful Alphas: A Dark Romance Collection
Power. Obsession. Pleasure. Pain.
Behind every Alpha lies a dangerous hunger—and these men don’t ask for permission. They take what they want.
Sinful Alphas is a scorching collection of interconnected dark romance stories featuring dangerously possessive Alphas, forbidden desires, obsessive love, and heroines who find themselves caught between temptation and destruction. From ruthless pack kings and morally gray billionaires to primal mates, secret arrangements, revenge seductions, and enemies who crave each other far too much, every story explores the intoxicating line between dominance and surrender.
These aren’t sweet love stories.
These are tales of obsession so consuming it burns. Passion so addictive it destroys. Desire so sinful it feels dangerous to crave.
Inside this collection, you’ll find:
* Possessive Alpha males
* Enemies-to-lovers tension
* Forced proximity
* Forbidden attraction
* Mates, secrets, betrayal, and obsession
* Explicit spice, emotional chaos, and addictive twists
Some loves save you.
Others ruin you beautifully.
Enter at your own risk.
Baca
Chapter: Claimed by the Alpha-Ch.4-A place beside himMira’s POVThe last button had rolled beneath Nicholas’s chair, far enough under that I had to kneel and reach for it. I added it to the others in my palm, then looked at the shirt spread across my knees. In daylight, the tear beside the collar looked considerably worse.“You can leave that.”Nicholas stood near the window, fastening his cuffs. He was dressed already, his hair still damp, and I had spent the past several minutes trying to decide whether he was waiting for me to leave or waiting for me to say something.“I was going to mend it.”He looked at the shirt. “Mira.”“It wasn’t torn when I came here.”His hands stopped at his wrists. After a moment, he crossed to the wardrobe and took out a clean shirt.“Wear this.”I accepted it, running my fingers over the folded collar. The fabric was softer than anything in my own room.“It’ll be too big.”“It has all its buttons.”Despite myself, I laughed. He crouched beside me and held out his hand for the broken ones. I let them drop
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Chapter: Claimed by the Alpha:Ch. 3- The Moon’s ClaimMira’s POVThe moment my fingers touched his, a current surged through me—raw, electric, undeniable. Nicholas pulled me inside, the door clicking shut behind us with finality. His quarters smelled of leather, pine, and something darker—that primal musk I had come to associate with him alone.I stood trembling in the center of his room, the full moon casting silver light through the wide windows. His chest was bare, scarred from battles I could only imagine, muscles tensed and ready. A thin line of dark hair trailed from his navel down into the waistband of his low-slung pants."You came," he said, his voice low and thick with satisfaction.My throat was dry. "I shouldn't be here.""No," he agreed, stepping closer. "You shouldn't." His hand reached out, fingers brushing the curve of my jaw. "But you are. Because you want this. You want me."I should deny it. Every rational part of me screamed to run, to preserve whatever dignity I had left as a pack nobody. But my body betrayed me—my n
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-09-17
Chapter: Claimed by the Alpha:ch.2-Shadows and ScentMira’s POVI didn't sleep that night. Every time I closed my eyes, I saw silver moons staring back at me, felt the ghost of his fingers on my jaw, heard his voice wrapping around my name like a promise and a threat all at once. Every flower must bloom before it's plucked.I tossed and turned in my narrow bed, the thin sheets doing nothing to cool the heat that pooled between my thighs. My body was betraying me, aching for something I didn't fully understand, something that had a name and a face and a scent that haunted my every waking moment.By dawn, I was exhausted, dark circles bruising the skin under my eyes. I dressed mechanically, pulled my hair into a tight bun, and reported to Marta for my daily assignments. She gave me a list of tasks for the east wing—the furthest possible point from the Alpha's quarters—and I felt a flicker of relief.Maybe if I stayed far enough away, he'd forget about me.Maybe if I worked hard enough, he'd find another Omega to fixate on.Maybe if I pray
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Chapter: Claimed by the Alpha:Chapter 1-The New MaidMira’s POVI was going to die. That was the only thought that cycled through my mind—on repeat, like a prayer—as I stood at the massive iron gates of the MoonStar packhouse, clutching my threadbare suitcase and staring up at the beast of a building that would become my new home.The packhouse was less a house and more a fortress, carved from ancient timber and gray stone, its windows glowing with warm amber light that felt inviting and mocking all at once. Beyond the gates, I could see the vast expanse of forest that bordered the territory—a sea of dark pines and moonlit shadows that whispered wolf. Everything about this place screamed power, wealth, and history. And I was going to be scrubbing its toilets.I swallowed hard and repeated my mantra: You're lucky to be here. You're lucky to be here. You're lucky—The gate swung open before I could finish, and a stern-faced Beta woman in a crisp uniform beckoned me forward. "You're the new Omega hire? Mira, yes?""Yes, ma'am," I squeaked,
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Chapter: The Masked Alpha: Ch.10-The End or just the beginning?Lucy’s POV The silence that followed the death of the True Mouth was not the silence of defeat. It was the silence of a held breath. The world was waiting to see if we would fall. I didn't fall. My knees were weak, my thighs painted with the evidence of our war, but I stood. Zenard's hands were on my waist, his breath hot against my neck. "Is it done?" he whispered. "It's done." My voice was my own now. The Wolf Mother's power was a steady hum in my chest, no longer a frantic scream. The void crystal was ash. The True Mouth was gone, swallowed by the exact thing it sought to erase: pure, unfiltered life. I looked at the spot where the black sun had hung. The floor was no longer dead stone. It was rich, dark soil. Tiny green shoots pushed through the cracks, delicate and defiant. Life, sprouting from the corpse of oblivion. "We planted a garden," I said, an exhausted laugh es
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Chapter: The Masked Alpha:Ch.9-The Feast of RuinLucy’s POVThe city wept around us.Not tears, but ichor—black, thick, oozing from the cracks in the walls as the violet light guttered and died. Malachar's ashes were already scattered, carried away by the wind that now howled through the empty streets. The ziggurat groaned beneath us, the bone throne shuddering as if the city itself was taking its last breath.I stood on the top step, the shard blazing in my chest, and looked out at the dying kingdom.You did this.The Wolf Mother's voice was silk and hunger. You killed their Mouth. You silenced their song."I silenced one voice," I muttered back. "Vexia is still out there. The court has other mouths."Then cut them out.I wanted to. The shard wanted to. It pressed against my ribs, demanding I descend into the catacombs beneath the city, find the nexus, and feed. But Zenard was still breathing hard behind me, his body recovering from the fight. I needed h
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Assassin of Alpha Academy
“Tell me you hate me,” Cassian whispered, his mouth close enough to make my body betray every thought in my head.
I should have shoved the dagger into his heart.
That was what I had been trained for.
That was why Aurelia sent me to Alpha Academy.
But Kael’s hand was on my waist, cold and possessive, his golden eyes burning into mine like he already knew every lie I carried beneath my skin.
“You were sent here for a reason, little human,” Kael said. “The question is… was it to kill us, or belong to us?”
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Lyra was raised in Aurelia, the last human stronghold, where werewolves were enemies and mercy got people killed.
Her mission was simple: enter Alpha Academy, get close to the powerful werewolf heirs, and kill them before they inherited the packs threatening her people.
Rowan, her best friend and the only person who truly knows her, is the one thing keeping her tied to the life she came from.
But the Blood Moon Marking changes everything.
Lyra is dragged into the ritual and bound to the very heirs she was sent to destroy.
Kael, the cold Snow Pack heir, sees through every lie.
Cassian, the dangerous Arrow Pack heir, tempts her toward every wrong choice.
And Rowan refuses to let the wolves take the girl who was his before fate sank its claws into her.
Now Lyra is trapped between duty, desire, loyalty, and a bond that should never have existed.
If she chooses her mission, she may have to destroy the men fate tied her to.
If she chooses the bond, she may betray the only home she has ever known.
And when her truth comes out, will they protect her…
Or turn on the assassin sent to end them?
Baca
Chapter: EpilogueLyra’s POVCassian came out of the house before Kael had finished parking.I had watched him struggle to sit upright, watched him go pale trying to cross a room without help. Seeing him come down the steps with his shirt untucked and his sleeves pushed up made me forget the bag between my feet.I left it in the car.He caught me beside the open door, one arm around my waist, the other sliding into my hair as I kissed him. His mouth curved against mine before he pulled me closer.“Fuck, I missed you.”I pressed my face against his neck. “You said that in your letter.”“I was being restrained.”Behind him, Rowan leaned against the porch post. He waited until I looked up, then came down the steps.Cassian loosened his hold without letting go completely. I reached for Rowan, caught the front of his shirt, and pulled him into a kiss that made his hand tighten at my back.“You’re late,” he murmured.“We stopped to eat.”“Good.”He kissed me again, slower this time, then looked past me at Ka
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Chapter: A Key Of Our OwnLyra’s POVAmber put a key beside my cup.I looked at it, then at her.“What’s that?”“A house I want you to look at.”I’d come downstairs to return a book Miri had left in our rooms. Amber had caught me before I reached the entrance and asked whether I’d eaten.Now I had bread on a plate, a cup beside my hand, and a key I hadn’t asked for.“Whose house?”“The pack’s. Four bedrooms, a kitchen, and some space behind it. It needs work.”“What kind of work?”“Paint. A cupboard door. Someone’s been using the back room to store things they should have thrown away.”I picked up the key.“Why are you showing me?”“Because you’ve been living upstairs for six weeks, and you still carry that bag between the rooms every morning.”“I keep things in it.”“I noticed.”She reached for her cup. Her wrist no longer needed the support, though she still rubbed it when she’d been writing too long.“You don’t have to decide anything now. Go and look with them. If you want it, we’ll talk about how.”I turn
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Chapter: All Four Of UsLyra’s POVKael had the armored car waiting outside the barracks when I came down with my bag.Rourke stood beside the passenger door with his injured arm supported against his body. Lucy was fastening the strap on his sling while he tried to speak to one of Alden’s men.“Stop moving,” she told him.“I’m talking.”“You’re turning every time you do it.”He faced forward and let her finish.I stopped beside them. Rourke looked at the bag in my hand, then at the bandage showing beneath my sleeve.“Have it checked when you get back.”“Miri will.”“She needs to know how it happened.”“She’ll get the same account everybody else did.”His mouth moved slightly, but he didn’t smile. He reached for my hand with his good one and held it between us.“I’ll send word when we’ve heard from the remaining units.”“And when you know what’s happening here.”“Yes.”I looked toward the entrance. Alden was speaking to two officers beneath the arch. A man came out carrying another bundle of dispatches and s
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Chapter: Her Last OrderLyra’s POVSeraphine looked at the man beside her.“Take her weapon.”He shifted his sword toward me.Alden stepped forward. “Nobody moves until the Council gets here.”“She killed a member of the guard.”“He cut Rourke while trying to take Lucy.”“She resisted detention.”Lucy’s hand tightened over the cloth against Rourke’s arm. He looked down at her fingers, then back at Seraphine.“You don’t get to do this again.”Seraphine ignored him. Her eyes stayed on the guard.“Disarm her.”He came forward.Kael moved between us, his sword still low enough that the man could stop without meeting it.“Stay where you are.”The guard struck at him.Kael caught the blade and drove it aside. The guard came in close, trying to get his weight behind it, and Alden caught his arm before he could pull back for another swing.The sword broke free and hit the stones.Kael shoved the man away from Alden. They collided with one of the men standing near the gate, and the guard caught Kael’s coat, dragging
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Chapter: Blood On The RecordLyra’s POVThe receiving officer was still writing when the door opened.Seraphine came in with two guards behind her. I could see another pair waiting in the passage. She stopped just inside the room, looking first at Rourke, then at Kael.Her eyes moved over me without settling until she reached Lucy.Lucy put both feet flat on the floor and kept her bag between them.“Close the door,” Seraphine said.Alden moved before either guard could touch it.“It stays open.”She looked at him.“You brought an armed werewolf into the barracks.”“He’s here as a witness.”“To what?”Alden nodded toward the desk.“The orders issued in Rourke’s name.”Seraphine came closer. One of her guards followed her, stopping far enough from the desk that he could still reach the doorway.I kept my hands where they were.She looked down at the original order, then at the open dispatch record.“Who gave you permission to examine that?”“I received it,” Alden said. “I asked for it to be examined.”“You were ins
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Chapter: Back Within Her ReachLyra’s POVMiri made Cassian sit forward without using Kael’s arm.He managed it until she asked him to stay there. Then his hand went to the mattress, his shoulders tightened, and I moved before she had to tell me.“Behind him,” she said.Kael supported his back while I moved the pillow. Cassian let out a breath through his teeth as we eased him down.“Again,” he said.“No.”“I can do it.”“I saw what you could do.” Miri pulled the sheet clear of his dressing. “That was enough.”Cassian turned his head away while she checked him. I watched her hands, waiting for her to reach for clean cloth.She didn’t.“Can he travel?” I asked.“Not now.”“In a cart?”“A cart still moves. Someone still has to get him into it and out again. He can’t hold himself upright without pulling against the injury.”Cassian looked back at her.“How long?”“I’ll examine you again tomorrow. I’m not giving you a date so you can spend the night trying to reach it.”She went to Rowan next. He’d been quiet through t
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Masuk
