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Chapter Forty-Two: The Broken Chain
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MARKED BY FATE: THE ALPHA PRINCE'S REGRET Chapter Forty-Two: The Broken Chain
Corvin froze. The color drained from his face, leaving him looking older, haunted. Ivy saw it instantly this wasn't some distant threat. He knew exactly what the scout meant."You know that banner," she said."I know who used to carry it," Corvin said, his voice barely above a whisper. Grief flickered in his eyes, tangled with something else. "Sixty years ago, when the purge started, I wasn't the only historian who saw what was coming. There was another. A colleague. A friend. She was braver than I ever was. I hid in the shadows, writing down what I could, hoping not to be noticed. She fought back.""Fight how?" Kaelan asked."She built something," Corvin said. "A network. Survivors. Sympathizers. Anyone who refused to just sit and watch the throne's purge. She wanted to fight back, not just survive. We argued about it, right before we lost contact. She said patience was just another way of letting them win. I thought she was being reckless, that she'd get everyone killed even faster.
MARKED BY FATE: THE ALPHA PRINCE'S REGRET Chapter Forty-One: Loyalists
Sterling territory was chaos. Not the kind they'd faced before. No ritual circle. No black-eyed monsters. No enemy lurking in the shadows, pulling strings.Just fire. Fear. Confusion everywhere."Grain stores," Rhys said grimly, already dismounting and shouting orders toward the warriors scrambling to form bucket lines against the spreading blaze. "Not the pack house itself. Whoever did this wanted to hurt us, not simply announce themselves."Bianca caught one of the exhausted warriors fighting the flames, urgency sharp in her voice. "Who did this?""Riders," the warrior gasped between exhausted breaths, passing another bucket down the line. "Came through an hour ago, maybe less. Ashford colors, but not royal guard militia, local loyalists, angry about the council's decision. They shouted something about traitors sheltering the throne's enemies before they set the fire and fled."Ivy's stomach dropped. "This is because of us. Because of what happened in the council chamber.""This is
MARKED BY FATE: THE ALPHA PRINCE'S REGRET Chapter Forty: Elara
Bianca's contacts came through again, just like before. It only took a day for the rumours to start someone had seen a girl who looked like Elara. Not in some grand Draveth estate, but tucked away in a plain, forgettable waystation near the northern border. The kind of place where people and secrets disappeared without a trace."It's likely a skeleton crew now," Kaelan said, studying the layout Bianca's contact had sketched from memory. "Ambrose's network collapsed with his capture. Whoever's left holding her probably doesn't have clear orders anymore, which could work in our favor or make them considerably more dangerous, depending on how desperate they've become.""Then we move carefully," Rhys said, "and fast, before desperation turns into something worse for whoever's actually guarding her."They reached the waystation as dusk settled in. Mira refused to stay behind, even with the tension crackling between her and Rhys. Nothing mattered more than seeing her granddaughter safe not
MARKED BY FATE: THE ALPHA PRINCE'S REGRET Chapter Thirty-Nine: What Mira Protected
They barely waited an hour before riding hard for Sterling territory, the fragile peace of the afternoon shattered by the urgency burning in their veins."It doesn't make sense," Ivy said, more to herself than to Rhys, as they pushed their horses hard through the fading light. "Mira's the one who explained the entire prophecy to us. She could have easily fed us false information from the start if she wanted us to fail. Why help us survive the sealed site, the Farrow homestead, everything, if she's been working against us the whole time?""I don't know," Rhys admitted, jaw tight with barely controlled anger. "But my second's report was clear. Encrypted correspondence, found hidden in her study, dating back weeks before Callen's death. Someone inside Sterling territory has been passing information to Draveth-aligned contacts, and every piece of evidence points directly to her."It was well past midnight when they finally reached Sterling territory. The pack house was too quiet, shadows
MARKED BY FATE: THE ALPHA PRINCE'S REGRET Chapter Thirty-Eight: What's Actually Mine
The council gave them three days. Three days before anyone talked about succession, Aldric’s charges, or what Serrin would have to answer for.Ivy slept through the first day. Weeks of exhaustion crashed down on her the second the adrenaline faded. She woke up late, sunlight already spilling through the window of the council’s guest room, and for a moment, she didn’t know where she was. The quiet was almost too much.No bells. No pounding on the door. No letters with strange seals, ready to ruin everything all over again.Just quiet.Kaelan was on the balcony, staring out over the rooftops. His face was different none of the court’s careful mask, none of the wild desperation from before. He looked calm. Unsure, but calm."Couldn't sleep?" she asked, joining him at the railing."I slept," he said. "Woke up an hour ago and couldn't stop thinking." He glanced at her, something vulnerable flickering behind his exhausted eyes. "About all of it. The ceremony that started this. Everything si
MARKED BY FATE: THE ALPHA PRINCE'S REGRET Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Fall
King Aldric just stood there, frozen. The whole chamber was silent, every eye locked on him, the air so heavy it felt like it might crush him right where he stood.His face twisted, desperate and trapped, like a wolf with no way out."Guards," he snapped. "Clear this chamber of the traitor and everyone who came with him. This session is""This session," interrupted an older woman rising from the tiered seating, her voice carrying the particular authority of someone rarely challenged, "will continue exactly as the council charter requires, Your Majesty, or you'll find yourself explaining to every pack representative present precisely why testimony regarding attempted regicide isn't worth this chamber's attention."The nobles started to murmur, then voices rose, louder and braver. One by one, they stood up, and suddenly the whole room was turning against the King. He was losing them, and he knew it."Lady Wexford speaks for the council's procedural integrity," another representative cal
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