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Broken by My Family, Reclaimed by the Alpha King Chapter 124
Murielle's POVHe didn't take it back.I had half wanted him to. I had wanted him to reach for the softer sentence, the one with a but in it, so I could hear the but and hate it cleanly. Instead he stood in the last of the light and let my sentence stay exactly where I had put it."Yes," Cassian said, and his voice came out low and rough, as if the word had scraped him on the way up. "Before you knew my name."His heart was the only sound in the yard. I had listened to it for weeks without knowing what I was listening to. I had listened to it on the cold east stair, and in the dark after the wolfsbane, and every time I was afraid and he walked into the room. It had been the steadiest thing I owned.It belonged to the King. I stood there trying to make that sentence fit around a sound I knew by heart, and it would not fit.Under my ribs my wolf made a low, unbroken noise, too deep for the yard to carry. She wasn't angry. That was what I couldn't stand. She was waiting for me to be fini
Broken by My Family, Reclaimed by the Alpha King Chapter 123
Murielle's POV I chose the lower yard because it had no walls and no door, and because it was where he had first taught me to hold a sword.I made him wait until the light was going. It wasn't punishment. I needed the hours to sort out which questions were mine and which I had only inherited from three years of other people's answers, and by the time Fenwick had locked the collection and Vesper had gone off to wherever she put her face away, I had a list I could carry without writing it down.I sent Soren away at the gate. He went without arguing, which told me what he thought was about to happen.Rook stood in the middle of the packed earth with his hands loose at his sides, his coat buttoned correctly for once. I took a practice blade from the rack along the wall, because my hands wanted work, and stopped a sword's length from him."You said wherever I chose," I said."I did," Rook said."I chose here. Nobody can hear us and nobody can walk in. If I leave, I leave by that gate and
Broken by My Family, Reclaimed by the Alpha King Chapter 122
Murielle's POVI reached the archive before the light did, because I hadn't slept, and because I wanted to hear whatever Rook meant to say before anyone else's footsteps could get between us.He was already there, standing in the cold corridor outside the restricted collection with his back to the wall. His coat was creased from a night he hadn't spent in bed, and his hands hung empty at his sides, as if he had run out of places to put them. I could hear his heart from ten feet off, fast and held tight, like a man gripping a rope, and under the cold stone I caught the sharper smell of someone who had been awake all night."Elle." He pushed off the wall. "Before they come, I have to say what I wrote.""They're on the stair." I had caught them at the turn, two sets of steps, one measured and one brisk, with Fenwick's wheeze underneath both. "Fenwick, and a woman in good shoes," I said.His mouth closed. I watched him swallow the whole speech, whatever it had been, and the sight hurt mor
Broken by My Family, Reclaimed by the Alpha King Chapter 121
Alpha King Cassian's POVMurielle had told me about the dinner at midnight, standing in her doorway with her shoes in one hand. She repeated Ophelia's last words twice, and the way the napkin had stopped, trying to decide whether the pause was real. I wanted to draw her against me, but she was watching my face, and I was afraid of what she'd find there.I told her she'd done well. She asked what I thought Ophelia meant by revived, and I gave her no better answer than the one she'd already found herself. Then I went back to my room and lay awake until morning."Ophelia said she remembered the office, but not who had revived its files three years ago," I told Soren now. "Murielle never told her anyone had opened them. When she picked at the word, Ophelia said she had misspoken.""Ophelia." Soren leaned against the window of the small room we used when the Court's walls were too thin for anything else. "Does she misspeak?""No.""Then it was a message.""Or it was Court talk, and the ye
Broken by My Family, Reclaimed by the Alpha King Chapter 120
Murielle's POV"I'm going," I told Rook. "The messenger told Petra it's her private dining room tonight, and that Vesper Calderon will be at the table."He hadn't moved since the seal broke. "Lady Ophelia doesn't write to people without a reason.""Your heart jumped when I read it.""Yes.""Are you going to tell me why?""I know her. I know what she does once she's sure of what she's holding." His eyes stayed on the note. "That's all I can give you before you go in, and I hate it.""You said soon.""I did. I haven't forgotten.""Good. I'm not waiting on anyone's soon.""I'll put Soren outside the door."He looked at the note again, though he had already read it. His fingers closed around the edge of the table, then loosened."You'll arrange my protection," I said, "but you won't tell me what I'm walking into.""I wouldn't send you there if I thought you couldn't walk out.""That isn't what I asked."His jaw tightened. "I know."I waited, but he offered nothing else. I took the note fr
Broken by My Family, Reclaimed by the Alpha King Chapter 119
Murielle's POV "Again," Rook said.I reset my feet on the packed earth of the lower yard and brought the practice blade up. For three days he had corrected me only when I asked. This morning he didn't wait."You're strangling it.""It's my sword.""It's a stick you're afraid to drop." He stepped behind me and laid his hand over mine, loosening my fingers one at a time. His chest was warm against my shoulder blades, his heartbeat slow and steady through two layers of wool, and my body, which had spent three years learning to flinch, did what I had given it no permission to do. It leaned.I stepped out of his hold so fast I nearly dropped the blade after all."Elle.""Don't." I didn't know which of us I was warning. "Again."He came at me slowly. I took the opening he left, then the next, and every clash sent the anger I'd been swallowing straight into my wrists. Wanting a man I couldn't read was its own ins
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