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An Heir For The Comatose Alpha chapter twenty nine
Constance"Moved up to when?" William asked, already on his feet, the hood falling back from his face now that secrecy in this room had become the least of our problems."I don't know." Julian's hand was still braced against the door, listening to the bell's slow, formal tolling continue beyond it. "That rhythm means tomorrow. Maybe the day after. It doesn't ring like that for anything less than a full ceremony announcement.""Five days became two," I said, the box Ysolde had given me still clutched tight in my hands. "Or less."Ysolde rose from her chair, her expression unreadable, but the way her shoulders tightened told me she was already thinking fast. "This isn't coincidence," she said. "Ferdinand doesn't move ceremonial dates on a whim. Something forced his hand tonight, and I don't like how neatly the timing sits beside everything we've just discussed in this room.""You think he knows," William said. It wasn't quite a question."I think a man like Ferdinand rarely tips his ful
An Heir For The Comatose Alpha chapter twenty eight
ConstanceYsolde's chambers sat at the edge of the keep, beyond a corridor so neglected that moss had started growing between the flagstones. Julian led the way with a lantern shielded low against his palm, and William walked close behind me, hood drawn, moving with the same borrowed anonymity that had carried him through the archive breach weeks earlier."She won't harm you," Julian said quietly, more to reassure himself than either of us, I suspected. "Whatever else she is, she's never struck me as someone who enjoys cruelty for its own sake. Ferdinand keeps her because her magic is useful. That doesn't mean she likes him."The door at the end of the corridor stood ajar, candlelight spilling out in a thin gold line across the stone floor. Ysolde was waiting when we entered, seated at a table crowded with jars and dried herbs, her violet-veined skin catching the candlelight in a way that made her look like she'd survived some other age entirely."Sit," she said, not looking up from t
An Heir For The Comatose Alpha chapter twenty seven
ConstanceWilliam was waiting exactly where I'd left him, and the moment I stepped through the door he crossed the room fast, his hands finding my shoulders, searching my face for damage before I'd said a single word."Tell me.""He has the letter locked in his desk," I said, my voice steadier than I felt. "He denied knowing anything about my aunt. But he doesn't believe our story, William. Not fully. He listed everything, one piece at a time — the trial, the time I spend here, the debts, Julian, the aunt. He said individually each one means nothing. Together, they mean something he doesn't trust."William's jaw tightened. He pulled me into him, one arm wrapping around my waist as his chin rested briefly against the top of my head. "Five days," he said."Five days," I confirmed, letting myself lean into him before I pulled back enough to see his face. "He's watching us more closely than we realized. Julian thinks it's not just us anymore. He thinks Ferdinand's had eyes on all three of
An Heir For The Comatose Alpha chapter twenty six
ConstanceThe summons came before dawn, delivered not by the woman in violet robes but by two guards standing silent outside William's door, their presence alone enough to answer the question of whether Ferdinand had believed my story."He wants to see you now," William said, low, his hand finding mine one last time before I had to go. His thumb brushed once over my knuckles, steady despite the tension radiating off every other part of him. "Whatever he says. Whatever he shows you. Don't give him anything he doesn't already have in front of him.""I know.""Constance." He caught my chin, tilting my face up to his, his gold eyes searching mine with an intensity that made my breath catch even now, even with guards waiting three feet beyond the door. "If this goes wrong, if he moves against you today, I am done staying hidden to protect a secret that isn't worth more than you are. Do you understand me?""You can't," I whispered. "Not yet. Not without proof.""I am aware of the arithmetic
An Heir For The Comatose Alpha chapter twenty five
ConstanceWilliam was at the door before I'd finished processing the sound, his hand flat against the wood, every muscle in his body coiled tight enough to snap."William, wait." I caught his arm again, my voice low and urgent. "If you walk out there and someone sees you standing, moving, *speaking*, everything we've protected for weeks is gone in a single breath. Julian didn't risk his sister's life to buy us time so you could throw it away the second his voice cracked.""And if I stand here and do nothing while they drag him away for what he did to protect us?" His eyes found mine, gold blazing, torn between two instincts that were both, in their own way, entirely him. "What kind of man does that make me, Constance?""The kind who's still alive to help him tomorrow," I said. "Please. Let me go first. I'm not the one they're hunting."Something in his face fought against it, every protective instinct screaming to refuse, but whatever calculation he was running behind those eyes final
An Heir For The Comatose Alpha chapter twenty four
ConstanceWilliam was flat against the pillows before the second knock finished sounding, his face slack, his breathing dropped into that slow, borrowed rhythm, gold eyes closed like they'd never opened at all. I smoothed my skirt, pressed a hand to my mouth like a woman startled from a private moment of grief rather than caught mid-kiss, and crossed to the door with my heart still slamming against my ribs.I opened it to find four guards in the regent's black and silver, and behind them, unmistakable even in the dim corridor light, a physician I recognized from the examination room on my very first night in this keep."Lady Constance." The lead guard's eyes moved past me into the chamber, cataloguing everything, the same way Ferdinand's own gaze always seemed to. "The regent has ordered a formal wellness examination of Lord William. Standard procedure, given the Blessing Ceremony is now within the week. We require confirmation of his condition before he can be presented, even in abse
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