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CHAPTER 83
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The meeting took place in Lord Harlen's private study. Away from the palace. Away from eyes and ears that reported to the King.
Three council members sat in leather chairs arranged in a careful semicircle. Lord Harlen. Lady Voss. And Lord Torven, the oldest member of the council, a man whose loyalty had wavered in recent weeks like a compass near magnetic interference.
I stood near the fireplace. Not sitting.
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MAYAI was reviewing defensive positions with Asher when the commotion reached us from the training yard.Shouting. The ring of steel. Rhea's voice calling for order.We ran.The yard was chaos. Two fighters circled each other with weapons drawn while others formed a ring around them, some cheering, others trying to intervene. The fragile unity Rhea had worked all morning to build was shattering before my eyes."Stand down!" Asher's command cut through the noise.No one listened. The Lycan and wolf were too focused on each other, years of hatred burning in their eyes.I did not think. Just acted.Silver light exploded from my body as I stepped between them, creating a barrier that forced both fighters back."Enough," I said quietly.The light pulsed brighter, and suddenly every weapon in the yard grew too hot to hold. Swords clattered to the ground as fighters yelped and released them.In the sudden silence, I let the light fade to a shimmer around my hands."You want to kill each oth
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MAYAThe black sky writhed like something alive, and then it was gone, leaving only normal darkness and a lingering sense of wrongness."What was that?" Rhea whispered."A warning," I said, my hands still trembling from the vision the crystal had shown me. "Something is waking up. Something that has been dormant since the last Alpha Queen disappeared."Asher pulled me closer, his warmth anchoring me. "We deal with one crisis at a time. Right now, we need to understand what my mother left us."We returned to the war room and spread Elara's journals across the table. The handwriting was elegant, precise, each word chosen with care.I opened the first journal and began to read aloud."I am Elara Blackwood, formerly of the Northern Reaches Pack, now Queen of the Lycan territories. I write this in secret because the truth I carry could destroy my family or save the world. I do not yet know which."Asher leaned over my shoulder, his breath warm against my neck. The bond hummed between us as
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ASHERI reached the throne room at a dead run, Maya right behind me.Erik stood on the raised platform, a blade pressed to the throat of a young servant girl. Three other hostages knelt before him, hands bound."Finally," Erik said calmly. "I was beginning to think you would not come.""Let them go," I commanded, my voice echoing through the vast chamber. "Your quarrel is with me, not them.""My quarrel is with the corruption you represent. A Lycan king who betrayed his own kind for a wolf." Erik's eyes found Maya. "For an abomination that should have been eliminated at birth.""You murdered my mother," I said, forcing my voice to stay level. "Poisoned her while pretending to heal her. Made me watch her die.""I saved you," Erik corrected. "Elara would have poisoned your mind against your own people. Would have made you weak, just as you are now.""She loved me. That is not weakness.""Love is exactly weakness. It clouds judgment. Makes you vulnerable." He pressed the blade harder aga
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