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Chapter 30: No right to rule
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FOR REVENGE, I MARRIED THE CRIPPLED LYCAN KING Chapter 34: A hook
Kael's POVThe maids came in quietly, the way good staff moved through a room — present without being intrusive, efficient without being rushed. Two of them, working around me like I was furniture they had learned the position of, collecting plates and folding the small cloth that had been laid across the table.I sat and let them work.The candle had burned low enough to be nearly done. The window showed nothing but dark and the distant lights of the kingdom below, a scatter of them across the valley, the kind of view I had stopped seeing somewhere in the last three years and was only now noticing again."Will you need anything else, Alpha?" the older of the two maids asked, pausing at the door with the tray balanced on one arm."No," I said. "Thank you."She dipped her head and they were gone, the door pulling shut softly behind them, and the study was quiet in the way it only was late at night when the rest of the palace had found its own silence.I looked at the table. Empty now,
FOR REVENGE, I MARRIED THE CRIPPLED LYCAN KING Chapter 33: A Quiet Evening
Selena's POV"My lady," Nia called, holding a bag in her hands as she walked in."What's the matter, what's in the bag?" I asked, sitting up from the bed I had been lying on."Alpha Kael requests your audience in an hour," she said, setting the bag carefully on the dresser and beginning to open it. "He sent this."Inside was a dress. Deep burgundy, simple cut, nothing ceremonial about it. The kind of thing you wore when the occasion was personal rather than political."Did he say why?" I asked."Dinner," Nia said. "Just dinner. His study."I looked at the dress.In the ten days since the council session, we had fallen into a rhythm that was functional and productive and almost comfortable — morning briefings with Dave, council appearances twice a week, evenings reviewing the reports that came in from the border territories. We worked well together. We worked in a way that felt natural, which was stranger than the working itself.But we had not had dinner. Not like this."Help me get r
FOR REVENGE, I MARRIED THE CRIPPLED LYCAN KING Chapter 32: No More Caution
Richard Ashwood's POV"Alpha," one of the guards called, bowing as he walked in."I made it very clear I did not want anyone in here," I said, not looking up from the desk."I know, Alpha, I apologize. But the news from the Lycan Kingdom—" he stopped, choosing his next words carefully in the way that people choose words when they know the information they are carrying is going to cause damage and they would prefer not to be standing close when it does."Say it," I said."The Continental Council's recommendation went against the Lycan King," he said. "But the co-governance petition filed by Prince Lucien was suspended. The Luna made a case before the full council and the majority voted to give her thirty days to prove her capability." He paused. "Lucien's petition is on hold for the entire period."I set down the pen in my hand."And Drake?" I asked."He returned this morning," the guard said. "He was denied the private audience and the trade request was rejected. Formally. By the Luna
FOR REVENGE, I MARRIED THE CRIPPLED LYCAN KING Chapter 31: Petition denied.
Selena's POV"Highly needed," I said, my gaze fixed on Lucien. "I believe someone needs a breather before they burst red with shame." I held his eye for a beat longer than necessary, then turned and walked out of the chamber with Kael beside me."Luna, that was insane," Dave said the moment we cleared the doors, his face split with a wide grin."I just refused to be a backdrop anymore," I said. "Plus I made a promise." My voice dropped slightly as I turned to Kael."That was incredible," he said. "You were more than amazing."I nodded with a small smile, smoothing the creases on my dress when Lucien's voice came hard from behind us."You see what this stray—"Kael's cane connected with his leg before the sentence finished.Lucien pulled up short, wincing, fury and shock fighting for space on his face."You're rattled," Kael said simply."I'm not—""You're flushed, Lucien. Your face has been red since she asked how you knew about the recommendation before it was read." Kael kept his vo
FOR REVENGE, I MARRIED THE CRIPPLED LYCAN KING Chapter 30: No right to rule
Selena's POV."What do you mean by we all deserve better reasoning than that?" Lady Voss asked, her voice cracking slightly at the edges.I leaned in with a small smirk."I mean we all know that this room has been compromised. Your loyalty has been bought, even though you swore your allegiance to the Alpha's position, to the truth of this kingdom." I let that settle before continuing. "This is a Lycan pack, not an ordinary pack. Sell your loyalty for all we care, but think about the thousands of people looking up to this pack, seeking protection, hoping, before you hand co-governance to a man who has barely served the minor position he was already given."My voice landed exactly where I needed it to."Selena!" Lucien's voice came sharp across the chamber, his face flushing red."Lucien!" I came back just as sharp before Kael could move."You dare call me by my name?" He muttered, visibly shocked, the composure cracking for the first time without him catching it fast enough."You start
FOR REVENGE, I MARRIED THE CRIPPLED LYCAN KING Chapter 29: What Does a Prince Do?
Selena's POVCaius had chosen the main council chamber. Not the smaller assessment room from two days ago but the full chamber, every seat filled, the noble families along the walls, the council elders at the table, the kind of assembly that was designed to make whatever happened inside it feel permanent and witnessed and impossible to walk back from.We knew before we walked in. Kael had not said it and I had not said it but we both knew, the way you know things when you have been paying attention to the shape of what is being built around you. The threatening message, Drake's men mapping the gate, the timing of Caius's arrival against the mating ceremony, Blackthorn had been using the Continental Council as a mechanism, and now the mechanism was about to deliver its verdict.I walked in beside Kael and took my seat and put both hands flat on my thighs under the table where no one could see them and kept my face doing nothing at all. Around the room people were already arranged in
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