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CLAIMED BY THE FOUR ALPHA BROTHERS chapter 166
Calla's POV"Thaw," said an elder with iron-gray braids and a voice like a rusted hinge, and he said it as though the word itself had a bad taste. "You call it a thaw, Maren, and I call it a trap with a Duskmoor ribbon on it.""Then tell me what the trap is for," the woman beside him shot back, not bothering to lower her voice. "Because I've been looking at that boy for twenty minutes and I haven't found the hook yet."The hall had come apart in a way I hadn't expected. After Ronan's word was accepted, there had been a single suspended breath, and then the whole room had burst into argument at once, elders leaning across each other's laps, old grudges being dragged out of pockets and examined in the lamplight, voices rising and falling in clumps like weather moving over a field. Nobody was shouting. That was the strange part; nobody was really angry. It was more like watching a house full of people discover a door in a wall they had walked past every day of their lives."Four generati
CLAIMED BY THE FOUR ALPHA BROTHERS chapter 165
Ronan's POVMy knees made the decision before the rest of me did, which was a new experience, and by the time I understood I was standing, the whole hall had already turned around to watch me do it.Three hundred Blackthorn wolves, and every last one, with a grandfather who had once, at least one, sold somebody else's story at the border for a fat coin. Raider, thief, liar, grinning like a bastard at the border and selling a map to the other side. I'd grown up on the black half of those stories; I knew the hatred in that room the way you know the weight of your own coat, and I walked in tonight, chin out and gun hand near my belt and all the fight I could summon in me to tell me if I said one word somebody would figure out where I could put it.There had not been a single hiss."The council acknowledges Ronan of Duskmoor," the white-haired elder said. But what struck me was how even he said it, no teeth clenched, no formal disdain. He said my name like a neighbor. "You may speak to
CLAIMED BY THE FOUR ALPHA BROTHERS chapter 164
Calla's POVThe scar on my shoulder started to burn halfway through my next sentence, a slow, dull heat that spread outward under the fabric like a hand pressed flat against old bruising, and I stopped talking so abruptly that the elder nearest the aisle half rose from her seat as though I might be about to fall."I'm all right," I said, and then, because it was a lie and the hall had already heard enough of those tonight, "It does that when I say certain things out loud. I think it's listening."A murmur went down the rows, uneasy and curious in equal parts, and I decided that if I was going to stand in front of three hundred wolves and describe the strangest months of my life, then I might as well stop trying to make them sound ordinary, so I pulled the collar of my dress aside and let them see it, the pale ridged line across my shoulder with the faint seam of gold running through its center like something poured into a crack and left to set."Six months ago I had this," I said. "It
CLAIMED BY THE FOUR ALPHA BROTHERS chapter 163
Calla's POVI had been talking for almost a full minute before I understood that I'd stopped speaking to the hall and started working it out for myself, the sentences leaving me in the wrong order and faster than I could hold them, like something that had been standing at the edge of my mind for months and had finally decided to walk in without knocking."A bearer isn't bound by a border," I said, and heard Elder Wren draw a sharp breath from her seat. "That's what you told us. An Alpha's authority ends where his territory ends, but a bearer'sdoesn't, which means every pack with a rival and a grudge and a map would have wanted her on their side of the line. Every pack on the other side would have wanted her gone before she ever got the chance to choose.""Yes, child." Wren's voice had gone gentle, the way a teacher's does when a student reaches the answer without being walked to it. "Go on. It lands better coming from you.""Then Mara knew what I was long before I did." I pressed my p
CLAIMED BY THE FOUR ALPHA BROTHERS chapter 162
Calla's POVThe elder rose before anyone invited her to, a thin, silver-haired woman whose hands trembled faintly even as she steadied herself against the chair in front of her, and something in the hall's attention sharpened instantly, recognizing the shift before I fully understood it myself."Forgive the interruption," she said, her voice thinner than I expected, carrying the dry rasp of someone who rarely spoke in gatherings this large. "But I don't believe this hall should hear the rest of this story from someone who's only just learned it herself. I was alive when the bearer bloodline was still spoken of openly. I'm one of perhaps three people left in this pack who remembers why it stopped being spoken of at all.""Then this council welcomes your testimony, Elder Wren," the white-haired elder said, something careful entering his voice, like a man recognizing he was no longer the oldest authority in the room on this subject."Thank you." Elder Wren's gaze found mine across the fl
CLAIMED BY THE FOUR ALPHA BROTHERS chapter 161
Calla's POV"This council calls Calla Ashveil forward again," the white-haired elder said, once the hall had settled enough to continue, "not to testify against Mara this time, but to speak to what she agreed, weeks ago, to tell us."I rose on legs that felt steadier than I expected, given everything the last hour had already asked of them, and walked back to the center of the floor for what felt like the tenth time tonight, though it had only been a handful."I made a promise to this assembly through Ronan," I said, once I'd reached the spot where so much had already been said. "That if his family helped mine uncover the truth about Mara, I would tell this hall the truth about my mother, and about what I carry because of her. I intend to keep that promise now."The hall was suddenly quieter than it had been for Mara, for Corvin, for Nyx.A more delicate, thoughtful hush fell across the ranks as if they were preparing to catch something rather than to cast stones.I told myself to say
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