Chapter: Asher's POVThe moment Corrin pulled the necklace from her pocket, something inside me shifted.I had been watching her the whole ceremony, though I wasn't supposed to because she was just a maid. She was just moving quietly along the edges of the hall, offering drinks, keeping her head down like she didn't want to be seen at all. But my eyes kept finding her anyway, again and again, no matter how hard I tried to focus on my father's words, on the crown waiting for me, on everything I was supposed to care about that day.Now I understood why.The pull hit me the second Corrin dragged her forward.She was my mate.I stared at her, my heart pounding, my mind scrambling to catch up with what my body already knew. Her. This girl standing frozen in front of the entire hall, gold clutched in the guard's fist as proof of a crime against my own family.A thief. My mate was a thief."I didn't take it," she said again, her voice breaking, panic clear in every word. "I swear, I didn't touch it. Someone put
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Chapter: Missandei's POVThe door creaked open sometime near dawn, light spilling into the cell and stinging my eyes after hours in the dark."Get up," Ferris said, his voice flat, tired. "You're needed in the kitchen."I blinked up at him, my body stiff from the cold stone floor, my legs barely able to hold me as I pushed myself upright. "So that's it? I'm just... let out?""Seems the item turned up," he said, not quite meeting my eyes. "Wasn't you after all."Relief should have flooded through me, but it didn't. Just a hollow kind of exhaustion, and a question that sat heavy in my chest. If it wasn't me, then who had it been? And why had no one bothered to apologize for locking a girl in a freezing cell over a mistake?"You're wanted with the other maids," Ferris continued, stepping aside to let me pass. "Big day today. It's the coronation so get moving."I nodded, too tired to argue, and made my way up the narrow stairs on legs that still trembled from cold and hunger. I hadn't even tasted water since the
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Chapter: Asher's POVThe knock on my door was ferocious enough to make me bolt upright in bed, my heart slamming against my ribs before my mind had even caught up with my body.For a moment I didn't know where I was. Five years away from home did that to a person. The knock came again, harder this time."I'm coming," I muttered, dragging a hand down my face as I swung my legs off the bed. The floor was cold beneath my feet. I grabbed a shirt from the back of a chair, pulling it on as I crossed the room, still half-convinced I was dreaming.I opened the door to find Rowan standing there, already dressed, looking like he'd been up for hours. He probably had. Rowan never seemed to sleep, not since we were kids training together in the yard, not since he'd been named my beta."Rowan." I rubbed my eyes. "It's barely light out.""Good morning to you too," he said, a faint smirk tugging at his mouth. "Sleep well, your highness?""Don't call me that.""You'll have to get used to it soon enough."I sighed, leanin
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Chapter: Missandei's POVA heavy slap landed on my face before I even registered I'd made a mistake.My cheek burned, my head snapping to the side, the tray in my hands rattling as coffee spilled over the rim and splattered across the polished floor."You clumsy, useless girl." Greta's voice cracked through the dining hall like a whip. "Do you know who that was for?"I pressed my hand to my cheek, willing myself not to cry in front of everyone. Five years of this, and I still hadn't learned how to stop the sting from reaching my eyes."I'm sorry," I said quietly, already kneeling to gather the shattered pieces of the cup. "I'll clean it up.""You'll clean it up," she mocked, crouching down beside me, her voice low and vicious so only I could hear. "You're lucky that was meant for the Beta's guest and not the alpha himself, or you'd be doing far worse than cleaning."I said nothing. Five years of silence had taught me that responding only made things worse.This was my life now. Five years since the day my mo
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Chapter: Missandei's PovMissandei's Pov"You're not even listening to me," Lora said, waving her hand in front of my face.I blinked and looked at her. "Sorry. What were you saying?""I said Daemon likes you." She grinned. "He's been asking about you all week."Tessa laughed beside her, nudging my shoulder. "Don't act surprised. Everyone's noticed except you."We were sitting outside near the training grounds, the three of us, like we did every afternoon. The sun was warm. The grass smelled fresh. It was an ordinary day. I didn't know yet that it would be the last ordinary day I'd have for a long time."I don't have time for boys," I said, picking at the grass. "You know that.""You don't have time for anything," Tessa said. "You're always with your mom or working."I shrugged. It was true. Being wolfless in a pack full of shifters meant I had to try twice as hard just to be seen as useful. My mother always told me not to let it bother me, that I was still pack, still worth something. I believed her because
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