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Chapter 118
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Bound to the Alpha She Was Raised to Hate Chapter 122
Odessa's POVI stayed at Ironhollow another week before I finally made myself go back to Vale territory, and even then, I nearly talked myself out of it three separate times before actually crossing the border."You don't have to do this," Ronan said, walking beside me toward the council buildings, his hand steady in mine despite the tension I knew he still carried every time we crossed back into this territory."I do," I said. "I keep thinking about how I felt when I found out my own parents had died and nobody ever told me the full truth. I don't want Julian's family living with that same kind of lie, even if some of them already knew more than they let on.""Even after everything he did?" Ronan said, not quite a question."Even after everything," I said. "He still didn't deserve to just disappear into some sanitized official story. His family deserves the truth, whatever they end up doing with it."We found the Castellan family seated in a formal meeting room near the council chamb
Bound to the Alpha She Was Raised to Hate Chapter 121
Odessa's POVWe crossed back into Ironhollow territory three days later, once the healers cleared all of us to travel, and the pack had already prepared the burial ground by the time we arrived, word apparently having traveled ahead of us about everything that happened in that stone cell.I recognized the clearing immediately. The same stretch of ground where they buried Finn months earlier, except now it held two more fresh markers alongside his, plain stones set into the earth without any of the grandness I imagined a place like the Vale might have given similar losses."Who else?" I asked Ronan quietly, my chest already tightening in anticipation of the answer."Two scouts," he said, his voice rough. "Wounded during the fight at the pack house before we even left for Vale territory. They held on longer than the healers expected, but they didn't make it through the night."I closed my eyes for a moment, the weight of it settling heavy over everything else I was already carrying.The
Bound to the Alpha She Was Raised to Hate Chapter 120
Odessa's POV"No," I said.It came out faster than I expected, no hesitation in it at all, and something about hearing my own voice say it so plainly surprised me almost as much as it seemed to surprise Marsh."No," he repeated, studying me carefully. "Just like that.""Just like that," I said. "I appreciate the offer, I really do, but I can't sit in that chamber, Councilor Marsh. Not now. Maybe not ever.""May I ask why?" he said, his tone carrying curiosity rather than any real pushback.I thought about how to explain it, my mind still exhausted, still raw from everything the last twenty-four hours had put me through."Because that chamber's been the center of every terrible thing that's happened to me since I was twelve years old," I said finally. "My parents' deaths were quietly buried in a room just like that one. My own future got decided there without my consent, more than once. Corvin sat in there for years, running that entire program with nobody in that building ever botheri
Bound to the Alpha She Was Raised to Hate Chapter 119
Odessa's POVThe presiding elder called for a vote within the hour, and I stood beside Ronan near the front of that packed chamber, my heart pounding despite everything I already survived to reach this moment, some small, stubborn part of me still bracing for a different outcome than the one I desperately hoped for."Those in favor of formally dismissing all charges against Odessa Ravencourt," the elder said, his voice carrying steady across the chamber, "given the evidence presented regarding their fabrication under Magistrate Ashgrave's direct orders."Hands rose across the council table, one after another, and I watched with something close to disbelief as the count climbed past what I cautiously allowed myself to hope for."Those opposed," the elder said.Silence. Not a single hand."The charges are formally dismissed," the elder said, and the crowd erupted into a mixture of applause and relieved murmuring that took a long moment to settle.I felt Ronan's hand tighten around mine,
Bound to the Alpha She Was Raised to Hate Chapter 118
Odessa's POVThey gave us a few hours to be seen by healers, patched up in a quiet side room while the sky outside slowly turned from black to gray, and by the time someone came to tell us the council chamber was already filling, none of us had managed more than a few stolen minutes of actual sleep."You don't have to go in there," Ronan said, watching me flex my bandaged hand carefully, the burns from earlier already fading faster than they had any right too,given everything else my body had just been through."I do," I said. "This isn't something I can watch happen from the outside."He didn't argue further. He just took my hand, careful of the bandage, and we walked together toward the chamber, Briar and Micah trailing close behind, all of us bearing marks from the night in one form or another.Nothing could have prepared me for what waited inside.The tribunal from the day before had felt crowded. This was something else entirely. Every seat filled, every aisle packed with people
Bound to the Alpha She Was Raised to Hate Chapter 117
Odessa's POVThe sound of boots came before anything else, dozens of them, pounding fast down the corridor toward the shattered doorway, and every muscle in my body locked tight all over again despite the exhaustion still dragging at my bones."More of them," Micah said, his voice rough, still braced in the doorway despite the blood soaking through his shirt. "Damnit, how many did he have stationed here.""I don't know if they're his," Briar said, straightening beside him, her weight still favoring the good ankle, though something steadier had settled into her posture now. "Listen."I forced myself to listen too, my heart hammering, and beneath the pounding boots I caught fragments of voices, none of them shouting orders the way Corvin's enforcers had earlier. Just confusion. Overlapping questions. Someone repeating a name that wasn't mine or Ronan's or Corvin's, some council title I didn't recognize."They don't sound coordinated," Ronan said, pulling himself upright beside me, one a
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