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Chapter 22: Old politics

Autor: Vera Cassian
last update Data de publicação: 2026-09-12 09:25:03

Cassian didn’t sleep again. Sloane found him back at the same cramped desk three nights later, except this time the books stacked around him weren’t about bond marks and bloodlines, they were pack ledgers, personnel records, decades of internal history written in handwriting that changed every few pages as different record-keepers took over the task across the years.

“You’ve been at this since dinner,” she said, setting a mug of something warm beside his elbow.

“Marcus’s file doesn’t add up,” h
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  • CURSED TO THE TRIPLET ALPHAS    Chapter 39: A good day

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  • CURSED TO THE TRIPLET ALPHAS    Chapter 38: Preparing for the storm

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  • CURSED TO THE TRIPLET ALPHAS    Chapter 37: Confirmed

    The scout who brought word back to Ravenwood territory hadn’t wanted the assignment. Word of the Marlowe claiming ceremony had traveled fast even before he’d been sent to verify it, and something in the certainty of what he’d have to report made him linger at the border longer than necessary before finally forcing himself back toward the compound that no longer felt entirely like home.He found Silas alone in the study, exactly where he usually was these days, sidelined, isolated, a man watching his own pack slip through his fingers one meeting at a time.“It’s true,” the scout said without preamble. “I saw the mark myself, from a distance. All three of them, lit up together during some kind of ceremony three nights past. Half their pack witnessed it. It’s not a rumor, Silas. It’s done.”Silas closed his eyes briefly, something in his chest sinking even though he’d known this was coming, had braced for it the moment Marcus’s warning first reached him weeks ago. “Public and permanent.”

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    The scouting mission wasn’t supposed to take this long.Dax had volunteered for it himself a quiet pass along the northern ridge to map any new Ravenwood movement since Marcus’s warning, in and out before dawn, nothing that should have taken more than a few hours. Sloane had watched him go with the mark humming low and steady, no warning in it, nothing to suggest the night would go anything but smoothly.Six hours later, it hadn’t.She stood at the window of their room as the sky lightened toward gray, arms wrapped around herself, watching the tree line for a shape that wasn’t coming. Griffin had gone out twice already to check with the border patrols. Cassian hadn’t left the war table since midnight, maps spread out in front of him like he could locate Dax through sheer force of calculation.“He’s late,” Sloane said, for what felt like the hundredth time. “He’s never late.”“He’s resourceful,” Cassian said, not looking up, though the tightness in his voice betrayed exactly how little

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