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Chapter 77
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I Married My Mate's Enemy Chapter 84
Lana’s POVThe wind carried the first warning before we even saw the sky shift. A low, rolling pressure swept through the path ahead, bending the treetops and scattering loose soil across the trail. Kael stopped beside me, his hand tightening instinctively around the strap of his pack. Mara glanced over her shoulder, expression sharpening with the sort of alertness that never meant anything good.“We’re close,” Bastion murmured. “Too close. The air shouldn’t feel like this unless something ahead has been disturbed recently.”“Disturbed how?” Dren asked, hugging his coat tighter around himself.“Either by us…” Warren said, “or by someone who got here before we did.”My pulse kicked. “You mean someone else is after the vault?”Warren didn’t answe
I Married My Mate's Enemy Chapter 83
Lana’s POVThe Assembly met in a building that smelled of old wood and the careful confidence of men who had decided the fate of towns for generations. We had built our case with witnesses, with ledgers, with quiet demonstrations that taught councils to be suspicious of gifts. Now the work felt grimly formal: we would bring evidence before a body packed with men who guarded reputation like an old Sunday shirt.Warren had spent weeks preparing the legal framing. He’d taught witnesses to hold their memory steady and to avoid the rhetorical jaws that Assemblymen used to twist facts. Mara had trained them like performers, coaching voice and cadence so that the testimony would land in the stony ears of magistrates. Bastion and Maris had worked with scholars to authenticate artifacts and provide neutral explanations of their effects. The hermitage had become a laboratory for truth.We arrived early, sun slanting through the Assembly’s high windows. The building’s wood seemed softer up close
I Married My Mate's Enemy Chapter 82
Lana’s POVWe had thought Marek’s exposure would weaken the network in neat, predictable ways. Instead, it fractured into unpredictable pieces that tested our patience and forced us to think like gardeners not generals. The ledger we’d taken from his house had been a key, yes, but keys open doors and reveal rooms you didn’t know existed. It pulled back curtains that let other things breathe.One evening, while sorting testimony and cross-referencing courier runs, Sera found a notation in the ledger we had overlooked: a list of names marked with small initials that corresponded to guilds — not buyers but facilitators. One of the names popped in my mind — “Rhett of the Glassworks.” At first the name sounded like a piece of the artisan world, but Sera had a way of squinting at details and seeing the edges of mischief.“Rhett makes glassware,&r
I Married My Mate's Enemy Chapter 81
Lana’s POVSpring came stubbornly, the country reluctant to change all at once. It arrived the way it always did—slow green, mud, and the first splatter of lambing in the barns. The hermitage smelled like peat fires and paper. The map we'd been stitching together grew layered with not just places but names, the faces of people who gave testimony and those who risked small betrayals of their own comfort to do what was right.Our campaign had become less about a single, dramatic takedown and more about making the truth cumbersome for those who relied on whisper networks. We put Elders on record, coaxed a courier to keep a receipt, and trained witnesses to recount events with calm precision. Each small success loosened the manipulators’ grasp; each public inquiry tightened the light.One morning, as panes of glass trembled under a dull wind, an envelope arrived for us at the hermitage. Inside was a thin, nervy note: *We’re watching the Assembly. Aldis has moved to the coast. He’s meeting
I Married My Mate's Enemy Chapter 80
Lana’s POVA scrap of Renn’s tidy handwriting had led us north: a note jotted in a margin about a bell, about moving goods to a left-hand cellar when the bell rang oddly at market. That kind of small instruction is the backbone of custodial work — quietly pragmatic, almost trivial, and lethal in intent if used wrongly. The trail took us through towns that smelled of peat and iron and into a chapel that kept its secrets low.Rowen had mapped the route with a cartographer’s patience and the instincts of someone who had slept under tradesmen’s roofs. The chapel was squat and honest, its stone frosted by years. An off-key bell sat crooked in its belfry; the tone when rung carried like a cough. The keeper, Alric, was an old man who kept cups clean and his regrets cleaner.“He was careful,” Alric said, as we sat in the chapel’s thin warmth. “Renn would not make a thing to c
I Married My Mate's Enemy Chapter 79
Lana’s POVSuccess never felt as clean as I imagined. The demonstrations and the hearings had coaxed the market to flinch, but the more we pulled at threads, the more we discovered the tangles beneath them — old wounds stitched over with new lies. It became painfully clear that the manipulator’s work had not relied solely on greed; it had been built on people’s fears and on the kinds of compromises that felt rational in a hard world.We lingered near the hermitage for longer than necessary, partly to rest, partly to gather witness testimony and partly because the hermitage had become something like a home. People who had once been strangers were now allies with faces I could name from memory; Rowen moved like a shadow inside the archives, Vorrin’s watchers were a tacit guard in the lanes, and Sera scanned remnants for the forger’s mistakes with an artist’s precision. There was comfort in familiar fac
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