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LEAVING MY BETRAYING ALPHA Chapter 39
Without Catherine, the world was too quiet.I noticed it at dawn, standing in the gray light behind the healer house with a loaf of warm bread in my hands. I couldn't smell the damp earth the way I should have. I couldn't hear the guards talking at the east gate. Everything was flat and muffled, like a house after someone has taken all the furniture out."Cass?" Alaric's hand settled at the small of my back. "You don't have to do this.""I want to."We buried Garrick Voss under the old pine at the edge of the cemetery, in the grave that had stood empty for seven years, beside the five men he had let die. Six stones in a row, and for the first time, all six had someone under them. Elena stood at the head with her shawl pulled tight. When the last shovelful went in, she stepped forward, took the bread from my hands, and set it on the fresh dirt without a word."Stale," she said quietly. "Every month, for thirteen years. And I never once thought to ask where it came from."Nobody answere
LEAVING MY BETRAYING ALPHA Chapter 38
The Hollow's idea of mercy was a kitchen.I stood in the middle of it, barefoot, with flour on my hands that I hadn't put there. It was Silvermoon's cookhouse the way it looked when I was twelve. Steam on the windows, copper pots hanging over the stove, a loaf cooling on the sill. Everything smelled right. That was the cruelest part. Whoever built this place knew exactly which smells to use."Do you like it?"The Hollow sat at the worktable with its feet up, a tall shape of black light with a face as smooth as a river stone. It was pouring tea into two chipped cups. Beside me, Catherine pressed against my leg, silver and small, her ears flat."Don't drink it," she whispered. "Don't eat anything.""I'm not an idiot.""You're my favorite idiot," she said. "Still.""I made it from your own memory," the Hollow said, pleasantly. "Nothing here is a lie. I only arranged the furniture." It lifted one hand toward the window over the sink, and the steam on the glass cleared like a breath wiped
LEAVING MY BETRAYING ALPHA Chapter 37 (Alaric's POV)
The silver went in just above my collar, and it didn't hurt.It was cold. That was all, a thin line of cold pressed into the black crescent on my throat, and then something deep inside me tore like a root being pulled out of frozen ground. The Hollow screamed. It used my mouth to do it, and the sound that came out was nothing a man should be able to make."Hold still, boy." Garrick's voice was rough and very close. His hand was clamped on my shoulder, and the other hand was driving the blade along the mark in one long, steady stroke. "Hold still and let it go.""Alaric!" Cass's voice, high and terrified."Don't come closer!" I tried to shout it. The Hollow shoved the words back down my throat, and for one terrible second, I felt it grab at every part of me, my spine, my lungs, my tongue, clinging like a drowning man."Kael!""Here." My wolf's voice came out of the dark, flat and furious. "I am here. I am pulling.""Pull harder.""I am pulling with everything."The blade finished its s
LEAVING MY BETRAYING ALPHA Chapter 36 (Alaric's POV)
The worst part was that I remembered every step.I had fallen asleep in the chair with my eyes on Cass, just for a moment, the way you close them in a long conversation. Then my hands moved without me. They gripped the arms of the chair and pushed me upright. My boots found the floor. I walked out of that room like a man wading through a dream, and I could not stop one stride of it."Kael!" I shouted in the dark of my own skull. "Kael, take it back!""Trying." My wolf's voice was a snarl, ragged and strained. "It is wide. It is deep. It is in every bone."I passed Mira asleep in her chair. At the head of the cellar stairs, two Silvermoon guards turned to challenge me, and I watched my own fist take the first one in the jaw. The second got an elbow across the temple. They dropped without a sound. I felt the crunch of it in my knuckles, and I would have vomited if I'd had a stomach to do it with."Peaceful," said the thing wearing my voice. It spoke to no one, almost fondly. "They are o
LEAVING MY BETRAYING ALPHA Chapter 35
My mother took one look at the black crescent on Alaric's throat and sat down for the first time in hours.She lowered herself onto the stool in the healer house back room as if her legs had stopped working. Mira hovered behind her with a lamp. Alaric sat on the cot with his chin tilted up, jaw tight, and Elena pressed two fingers to the mark and held them there.I felt a low growl vibrate through the bond, Kael's, furious, like a dog warned off a bone."Hold still," Elena murmured. "Both of you.""I'm holding," Alaric said."I was talking to your wolf."The growl stopped. Elena closed her eyes, and her lips moved without sound, as if she were counting something very old. When she opened them, she looked ten years older."It's a tether," she said. "The Hollow had one door in Cassandra. Last night it learned that one door can be shut. So it built a second one in the only person who could shut it.""In me," Alaric said."In you. It can speak through whichever of you is more afraid." She
LEAVING MY BETRAYING ALPHA Chapter 34
The man who killed Marta Hale had been officially dead for seven years."Garrick Voss," Alaric said. He stood over the table with both hands braced on the wood, staring at the scrap of blue wool under the lamp. "It has to be. My father's sixth guard. He vanished the night the other five died. We buried an empty coffin and called it a funeral.""Everyone in this story has an empty grave," I said.Nobody laughed. Gray dawn light crept under the shutters of the healer house back room. In the next room, Marta lay under a sheet where none of us could stop hearing her silence. My mother hadn't sat down since we came in. She stood by the window with her arms wrapped around herself, and when she spoke, her voice was very quiet."He was my jailer for thirteen years."Alaric turned. "You never said.""You never asked." She didn't say it unkindly. "He brought me bread and water every month and never once looked me in the eye. Then one winter he stopped coming. Your father brought the food himsel
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