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Chapter 78
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Broken by My Family, Reclaimed by the Alpha King Chapter 152
Murielle's POV The presiding councillor looked at the slip for what felt like a full minute, and then at the silent hall, and when he spoke at last it was with the stiff care of a man reading out a sentence."The motion carries," the presiding councillor announced, dry and unhurried. "The day-eighteen observation will be examined by a neutral examiner. The lineage and treason records may be considered together where their evidence overlaps. Their findings will remain separate."It was not my freedom. It was not even a verdict. But the Council had agreed to look at the connection instead of burying it, and Vesper's hand closed on my arm."You can breathe now, Murielle," she murmured.I had not known I was holding it.The benches emptied all at once, and the noise rushed back in. The corridor outside was narrower and worse, crowded with councillors and clerks arguing over the ruling and carrying folders and sealed papers without looking where they went. A shoulder knocked mine, and I
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Murielle's POV My hands had gone cold, and the faces nearest me seemed to be watching every breath I took.A chair scraped behind me, and I was back in the hall where they had sentenced me, with the rope biting my wrists and every face turned my way while the verdict was read. I had counted the floor tiles then because there was nothing else I could count, and afterward I had spent three years in a cell where nobody asked me a single question. My fingers crept to my wrist before I caught them and put them back in my lap."Lady Murielle?" Merrick said. "I asked whether you refuse."Heads turned along the councillors' bench.I glanced at Vesper, who waited with her pen still, and then I looked at Cassian, who stood with his hands clasped behind him and his jaw locked and did not move an inch. He was letting the choice stay mine, and I could see what it cost him.I drew a breath that hurt, and I stood."I am not refusing to identify it, Advocate," I said, my voice shaking only on the f
Broken by My Family, Reclaimed by the Alpha King Chapter 150
Murielle's POV For several seconds nobody spoke, and the lamp hissed so loudly in the quiet that I wanted to put it out."Six years," I said at last, my voice thin with disbelief. "You are certain of that.""I carried the foot of his coffin, my lady." The keeper wiped his damp palms down his coat, miserable and steady in the same breath. "I was there when they lowered him."I read the entry again. Three weeks ago a request had gone in to see the very page we had spent the morning bent over, and it had been approved under the name of a man who had been dead for six years."Then who signed it?" I demanded of Vesper, and I heard how raw I sounded."That is what we have to establish," she said evenly, drawing a clean sheet toward her."A dead man's name was used to look at the same entry we are looking at. That has to mean it matters," I argued, heat rising in my face."It tells us his name was used, Murielle. It doe
Broken by My Family, Reclaimed by the Alpha King Chapter 149
Murielle's POV "So it was signed almost as soon as you were out of the door," I said to Vesper, and my voice came out tighter than I liked."It appears so," Vesper answered, coming closer. "We do not yet know who asked for it, or why.""I know." I hated how often those two words had become necessary.Cassian stepped up beside my chair. "My seal opened that book for reading," he said, low and careful, looking at the order in my hand. "I can stop this recall until your examination is finished."I knew he could. One word from him and the clerk would forget how to walk, and for one brief, shameful moment I wanted him to say it.Then I remembered Dray, and how quickly the Council turned on every piece of evidence that had passed through the King's hands."No," I said, flatly, before I could talk myself out of it.Cassian's eyes came back to my face. "Murielle, we have witnesses.""And Dray has spent weeks finding reasons to doubt them. If you stop it, they will say you kept the register b
Broken by My Family, Reclaimed by the Alpha King Chapter 148
Murielle's POVThe keeper did not like the lamp.I noticed it because I had nothing else I could bear to look at. When Fenwick lowered the flame against the page and the mark rose out of the paper, the keeper's thumb jerked off the leather as if it had burned him, and now he stood with that hand tucked inside his other sleeve, watching the flame instead of the book.I did not trust the flinch. A man might shy from a seal because he had pressed it, or because he had once been punished for mishandling it, or because his hands were cold, and I had spent three years learning what it costs when a verdict is built out of a look."Describe exactly what you see," Vesper said, lifting her pen. "Nothing you suspect and nothing you think it means, only what is on the page.""A margin note beside the entry for the nineteenth day after Colette arrived," the keeper said, leaning forward without touching the paper and pausing to swallow. "The authority column has no ink, but there is an impression p
Broken by My Family, Reclaimed by the Alpha King Chapter 147
Murielle's POVNobody moved while the number settled over the table."Written, but not proven written then," Vesper said, her pen scratching. "The sheet is dated twelve days before the leak, and I will note that the date is what the page says. If the date was added later, the ink and the folding will say so.""Fenwick," I said, not trusting myself with more than his name."Already looked," he answered, steady beside me. "Same ink as the sheets on either side, same fold, same wear along the edge. That tells us the page is old, not when the words went on it. I will lay these beside the packets from Colm's route as well, hand against hand, before anyone calls them the same."Vesper stopped writing. When she looked up her face was grave."This sheet sits in the lineage drawer, under the lineage seal," she said. "Using it in the treason matter joins two strands the Council has kept apart. They must rule on that before we lean on it.""Then I'll ask them," I said flatly. "I will not use it
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