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Chapter 182: The Ancestral Stone
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Kieran's head snapped around. "What?""A second hearing." Caspian's silver eyes were cold and still. "He came here knowing that Elara would not give up the cubs. He came knowing that Thorne had the Compact. He never expected to win today. He expected to be delayed." He glanced at the sky. "He wanted the Gathering to sit again. After the birth. After every Alpha has seen what is in that cradle."A slow, ugly silence settled over the little group."Then he knows something," Alaric said, very low."Or someone has told him.""The hood.""Yes."Elara closed her eyes.She felt it again then. The tightening. A slow, deep, climbing wave that began low in her back and rolled around her body like a hand closing. She leaned a little against Alaric's arm. Her breath came short.Not yet. She pressed her hand to the curve of her stomach, and the three small shapes inside her rolled and pushed and shoved. Please. Not here."Elara." Alaric's voice was close to her ear. "How long?""It's fine.""How l
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For a heartbeat, Garrett's eyes went still.Then a voice spoke from the southern tier, rough and slow."I can read it, Luna."Alpha Thorne rose. He was holding a slim, scarred wooden case, and as he opened it, a ripple of surprise passed through the bowl. Inside lay a curl of ancient parchment, brown at the edges, tied with a faded ribbon of green."I took the liberty," said Thorne, "of consulting the Cascade's copy. Every Alpha who knelt to the Luna in the great hall has an obligation to understand what he is being asked to rule upon. I made sure that I did." He unrolled it, and held it up to the light. His voice rang across the flagstones."'That the issue of a Breeder, being born alive and whole, shall be witnessed by the Alphas of the Nine Stones, and its guardianship considered in Council, according to the need of the nation.'"He lowered the parchment."Being born alive and whole."Silence."The Compact does not speak of cubs in the womb," Thorne said. His voice was dry. "It spe
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Elara stood up.It took her longer than it should have. The great cushioned chair held her like a hand, and her body had grown so heavy and so strange that the simple act of rising felt like lifting a mountain. Alaric was on his feet before she had finished, one palm cupped beneath her elbow, and Kieran's hand hovered at her back. She shook her head, very slightly, at both of them.Let me.They let her.She straightened. She laid one hand over the high, hard swell of her stomach, and walked three slow steps out from the foot of the Stone, until she stood alone on the grey flagstones with the whole bowl above her, ten thousand eyes pressed against her skin.The wind moved in the oaks. Somewhere far up the slope, a baby cried and was hushed."Alpha Garrett," she said.Her voice did not shake. It surprised her. It rang out clear and low across the bowl, and the last whispers on the tiers died away."Luna.""I want to thank you." She let a small pause fall. "You've said a great deal that
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Silence."You have kept them safe thus far," Garrett continued, gently. "I do not doubt it. You and your mates have done every thing that love and loyalty could ask. But love, Luna, is not always enough." His voice sank. "Three months ago, a Breeder's Awakening tore across the training field of Shadowmere. A tornado of raw power, in the middle of a pack house. It destroyed an acre of ground. It shook the wards. By the grace of the Goddess, no one died.""No one did," said Alaric, in a flat, cold voice."By the grace of the Goddess," Garrett repeated, as though Alaric hadn't spoken. "And since then? I am told that flowers bloom in the dead of winter. That the very soil of Shadowmere bends toward its Luna. That a child of the Fae sits at her council, and that she wears the sigil of a Fae house around her neck." His gaze dropped, deliberately, to the crystal pendant. "I do not say these things to accuse. I say them because they are true. Because every Alpha in this bowl has heard them. A
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"Working them how?""Dinner. Wine. Kind words. A great deal of concern for the nation." His beard twitched. "He is very good at concern.""And the others?""Divided." He lowered his voice. "A third are ours. A third are his. A third are waiting to see who speaks best."Elara nodded slowly. "Then I'd better speak well.""You will.""I'm not sure I'll be able to stand for much of it.""Then sit, Luna." He smiled, grave and fierce. "No one will think the less of you. A Queen may sit."She almost laughed. "I'm not a queen.""No?" His eyebrow rose. "Look around you."She looked.At the banners. At the faces. At the three huge, protective figures at her sides, each radiating a quiet, potent menace that had kept the nearest rows of wolves carefully quiet. At the high priestess, the ancient Fae, the Alphas ranged in a row. At the great grey Stone, still humming faintly under her feet.Well, she thought. Perhaps a little.***There were others.She saw them as she climbed to the seat that had
BRED BY THE ALPHA KINGS Chapter 182: The Ancestral Stone
They did not ride to the Stone.Meredith had forbidden it, flatly, in terms that left no room for debate. A day's journey over rough northern roads, jolting in a wagon, with three cubs pressing on her ribs and her back aching like an old wound? The high priestess would sooner have thrown herself off the north tower. So at dawn on the morning of the Gathering, with the mist still lying heavy in the courtyard, Lysandra stepped out into the garden, drew a slow breath, and began to walk.She walked along the terrace and through the rose arbor, and the air parted in front of her. It did not tear, the way the portals to Luminara did. It unfolded, soft as silk, into a long, green, dew-bright path that wound away between the trees and disappeared into a light that did not belong to any dawn Elara had ever seen."A walking road," Lysandra said. "Fae-made. It does not cross the veil, and it will not harm her. It will take us no longer than a good stroll." She glanced back over her shoulder, and
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The mate bond, which had been humming quietly in the background since he'd caught her scent, suddenly snapped into place with the force of a lightning strike. It roared through him, white-hot and all-consuming, burning away every thought that wasn't her her her MINE.Kieran's vision went white.His
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