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Chapter 183: The Teacher Who Wasn't Dead
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I Kissed The Supreme Alpha By Mistake Chapter 186: The Biscuit Tin
Damon's POVThe bell struck once and then stopped, as if the rope had been cut. Nobody on the stair spoke for the length of a held breath."Go," Constance said. "All of you. Take the car. Maren and Orla stay with Keeper and me. If the hinge is counting, I would like the two living halves of its key kept as far from that house as possible.""And the cairn?" Orla said hoarsely. "They'll be waiting for me at noon.""Let them wait," said Maren Holt, taking her arm. "I've found it does people good."Damon would later remember the drive as eleven minutes of three people not shouting. Hope sat in front, white and silent. Diana drove, with a competence that suggested she had been secretly practicing for a decade. Maya and Damon sat in the back with their hands locked together, and not one of them said *I should have seen it.* That was new, and Damon noticed it the way he might have noticed a missing tooth."She's fine," Maya said, somewhere around the Ashwood bridge. "Ruth is fine.""I know."
I Kissed The Supreme Alpha By Mistake Chapter 185: Down the Stair
*Maya's POV*"That isn't me," Orla said.She said it very calmly, which was how I knew she was terrified. Her knuckles had gone the color of candle wax on her hedge-stick, and she was looking at the dark square in the floor as if it had told her a secret she'd spent four years pretending not to know."I heard," said Hope. "Your lips didn't move.""Then whose voice is it?""Yours." Hope's eyes were on the stair. "That's what I can't work out. It's your voice, and it's your cough, and it's *asking* for me by name. But it's coming up from somewhere you're not."Nobody had touched the door since it swung shut. Damon had spent two minutes establishing that the oak had no inside latch, and then, to my private and enormous joy, he had stopped trying to break it. He stood with his hands loose at his sides, watching our daughter as she looked at the stair.I watched him not take charge. It looked a great deal like holding a very large dog on a very thin lead."Hope," I said. I kept my voice le
I Kissed The Supreme Alpha By Mistake Chapter 184: What the Halves Said
Damon's POVThe door had no latch on the inside.Damon established this in about four seconds, which was how long it took him to cross the chapel, put his shoulder to the old oak, and discover that the wood had gone as hard and smooth as a stone. He stepped back and flexed his hand. Twenty-five years ago he would have kept at it until something broke, most likely his shoulder."Diana," he said. "Anything?""They're warm." She held up one of her shield-stones, and a faint glow showed through her fingers. "All of them. It isn't a threat warm. It's more like a held-breath warm." She frowned. "I didn't build them to do that.""Selene?"Selene was standing in the aisle with a hand pressed flat against her sternum, as if her heart had just been returned to her and she wasn't sure of the fit. "Wards, none. I would feel wards. This is something else." She turned to Maren Holt with the expression of a woman asking a question she suspected she would hate the answer to. "What is it?""Oh dear,"
I Kissed The Supreme Alpha By Mistake Chapter 183: The Teacher Who Wasn't Dead
*Selene's POV*Selene had given the eulogy.It was the first thing she thought, standing in the aisle of a ruined chapel with her knees quietly dissolving. Thirty years ago she had stood in a village churchyard in the rain and read three pages she had written the night before, and she had cried so hard the vicar had offered her his handkerchief. She still had it. It was in a drawer at the east cottage, folded in tissue."You were *in the ground,*" she said."A box of stones was in the ground," said Maren Holt, picking up her knitting again, "with my best hat on top. I was rather proud of the hat." She looked at Selene over her spectacles with the same mild, warm attention that had once talked a terrified seventeen-year-old through her first ward. "You've gotten gray, darling. It suits you. You never did take my advice about the sleeves, though.""The *sleeves.*""Of your robes. Too long. You'll set them on fire one day."Behind Selene, someone coughed. It was Damara, whose face carrie
I Kissed The Supreme Alpha By Mistake Chapter 182: Ten O'Clock
*Maya's POV* Hope kept her eyes closed for what felt like a full minute. I counted it. I counted her breaths, and I counted the ones I wasn't taking, because I had promised myself in the kitchen that I would let her get all the way to the end of her own thought. It was the hardest thing I'd done since the Threshold. It was harder than the barren land, harder than Vesper's garden. Every old instinct I owned was pushing at the backs of my teeth. "The note is wrong," Hope said at last, opening her eyes. "Wrong how?" Damon asked. "It's in the wrong order." She held up the brown paper. "Priscilla put this parcel on the windowsill at a quarter past twelve. Orla's letter to me was slipped under the gate after one. The note says *the cairn is not safe.* But at twelve-fifteen nobody knew there was a cairn. I didn't. You didn't. The first person who knew about the cairn was Orla, and she hadn't written it down yet." Orla's weathered face went very still. "I chose that place three days ag
I Kissed The Supreme Alpha By Mistake Chapter 181: The Linen Cupboard
Damon's POVTwenty-five years ago, Damon would have been halfway down the east corridor by now with Elias at his heels and half the security staff behind him, and someone would have lost a door.This morning he stood very still in the study and did the harder thing."Hope," he said. "What do you want to do?"She looked at the humming stone in her palm, and he saw her take a breath. She did it the way she had learned to at the Threshold, with no voice in her head telling her how it would go."I want to talk to Priscilla," she said. "Before anyone else does. Not because she's innocent. Because if she's frightened, a room full of people will make her stop talking.""That's a reasonable instinct," Damon said, and meant it."Is it?" Hope asked, a little wildly. "Or is it just that I like her? She taught me to braid a rope bracelet when I was six.""It can be both.""That's not helpful, Dad.""I
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