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Finally Done, Ex. I Am Mate, Not Maid 64
LeahI was in the training yard, watching Kael practice the knife work Dex had finally agreed to teach him, when the sound of an engine cut through the quiet, low and expensive, the kind that didn't belong to anyone on staff.Kieran straightened before the car had even cleared the front drive, some old reflex answering a sound I hadn't learned to read yet."Who is it?" I asked."Seraphine," he said, and something in his voice, easy and unguarded in a way I rarely heard him use for council business, made me look up from the blade Kael was still holding wrong.A silver sports car pulled up outside the main entrance a minute later, and the woman who stepped out of it moved like she already knew every eye in the yard would find her before the door had finished swinging shut behind her. Dark hair loose over one shoulder. Sunglasses pushed up, a laugh already started before she'd said anything worth laughing at, aimed at Kieran the moment she saw him."You've gotten taller," she said, cross
Finally Done, Ex. I Am Mate, Not Maid 63
Kieran I woke before she did, which wasn't unusual, except that for once I didn't reach for my phone or start running through the day's obligations before my eyes were fully open. I just watched her sleep, her hand loose against the pillow where mine had been an hour earlier, and let myself feel something I didn't have a lot of practice naming. She stirred eventually, found me watching, and didn't look away or make a joke to cover it, which told me how far we'd actually come. "You look like you're bracing for bad news," she said, voice still thick with sleep. "I'm not." "You've got the face you make in council meetings. The one where you're deciding how much of the truth to give someone." I hadn't realized I had a face for that until she said it, which meant she'd been paying closer attention to me than I'd been paying to myself. "My mother left when I was six," I said. It came out plainer than I meant it to, no lead-up, no careful framing, just the fact sitting between us in t
Finally Done, Ex. I Am Mate, Not Maid 62
POV LeahI found him in his study long after most of the palace had gone quiet, papers still spread across his desk that he wasn't actually reading anymore, just staring past."You should be asleep," he said, not looking up right away."So should you."He set the papers down when he saw my face, some instinct in him always alert to the difference between me being fine and me needing to say something that required his full attention.I'd spent most of the evening working up to this, turning it over the way I used to turn over a suspicious ledger, checking it from every angle before I trusted it enough to act on. I still wasn't entirely sure I'd found the right words, but I'd learned enough these past weeks to know that waiting for perfect words usually just meant waiting."The bite wasn't something I chose," I said. "I want you to understand that I know that. I was unconscious. Your father was holding a chalice over my dying body and you made the only decision either of you thought yo
Finally Done, Ex. I Am Mate, Not Maid 61
KieranI waited three days after the council dinner before I brought it up, mostly because I'd learned enough from that evening to know timing mattered as much as intention.We were in the garden behind the east wing, one of the few places in the palace that hadn't been designed to impress anyone, just rows of winter herbs and a bench nobody important ever bothered sitting on. Leah liked it there. I'd started liking it more since I noticed that."The council raised something today," I said. "I want to tell you before it turns into a rumor instead of a conversation."She didn't look up from the herb bed she'd been examining, but her shoulders set slightly, some old readiness for bad news that I doubted would ever fully leave her. "Go on.""They want a formal naming. Luna, in front of the pack, not just the bond mark most of them have already guessed at." I chose the next part carefully. "It doesn't have to happen soon. It doesn't have to happen at all, if you tell me you don't want it.
Finally Done, Ex. I Am Mate, Not Maid 60
Leah The council dinner wasn't supposed to be anything formal. Kieran had called it a small gathering, a handful of senior wolves he trusted enough to introduce me to before word spread through the territory in whatever distorted version rumor always preferred over the truth. I'd worn the plainest dress I owned, on purpose, and still felt like I'd shown up in something borrowed from a life that wasn't mine. It was a comment from one of the elder wives, tossed off lightly enough that she probably didn't mean it to land the way it did, that undid the evening for me. Something about how refreshing it was that Kieran had chosen someone so unassuming after Velvet, no offense intended, of course, purebloods could be exhausting company. I understood, immediately and completely, that unassuming was the polite version of a word closer to lesser. I smiled through the rest of dinner. I'd had eight years of practice smiling through rooms that didn't want me in them. By the time we were alon
Finally Done, Ex. I Am Mate, Not Maid Brody 2
KieranIt started small enough that I almost let it pass without saying anything.She stopped finishing sentences mid-thought, her attention sliding somewhere I couldn't follow. She'd sit across from me at dinner, present in body, gone somewhere else entirely behind her eyes. Three nights running, I woke to find her side of the bed empty and found her instead on the balcony, arms wrapped around herself, staring north in a direction that had nothing to do with the weather.I didn't ask, at first. I told myself she was entitled to whatever she needed to work through alone, that pushing would only prove every fear she'd built about men who wanted to manage her feelings instead of letting her have them.By the fourth night, I stopped telling myself that.I found her on the balcony again, the air cold enough that her breath showed, a blanket around her shoulders she hadn't bothered pulling tight."You're not sleeping," I said, joining her at the rail."I'm fine.""You've said that every n
Finally Done, Ex. I Am Mate, Not Maid Damaged
"I lost our pups." "Mm." His thumb kept moving across the screen. "Anyway, Brody hasn't eaten yet. Make him breakfast. Simple is fine." I didn't respond. I was too stunned to respond. What Cain was doing was cruel beyond anything I had words for. After everything I had given up, after walking
Finally Done, Ex. I Am Mate, Not Maid Betrayed
Eight years ago, one day after Abel died, Celeste came to us.Cain and I had just gotten married. We hadn't even had our first night together yet. Celeste showed up at our door holding a pregnancy test with two pink lines, telling us the pup she was carrying belonged to Abel.And from that day on C
Finally Done, Ex. I Am Mate, Not Maid Wrecked
LEAH "I'm so sorry for your loss, Luna." The pack doctor, a middle-aged man with glasses and hair going silver at the temples, looked at me with a pained expression. "We did everything we could. Your future pups... we couldn't save them." "Tell me you're lying. This can't be real." My voice was
Finally Done, Ex. I Am Mate, Not Maid Way Too Hot
His thumb traced along my jaw like he had every right to touch me. The heat coming off his skin was insane — way too hot, like this bastard was straight-up branding me with molten iron. That Lycan energy prickled across my nerves, making my pulse stutter while something between my thighs tightened
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