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Chapter Seventy-Five: Rhys Finds Her
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MARKED BY FATE: THE ALPHA PRINCE'S REGRET Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Three Choose
Corvin called us together before the week was out. I was still dragging the weight of that night at the hollow, exhaustion clinging to me like a second skin. It never really let go."I don't believe we can continue simply reacting," he said, spreading his research across the war table with a new, focused urgency I hadn't seen from him since the earliest days of translating the boundary's history. "The Hollow will keep asking, patiently, until exhaustion or desperation eventually gives it the answer it wants. I believe the only way to end that pattern is to meet it deliberately, on terms we choose, rather than waiting for it to catch one of you unguarded again.""You're suggesting we go to it," Serrin said, arriving from her new duties with Corvin's archive, something steady and purposeful in her bearing that hadn't been there even a month earlier."I'm suggesting the three of you go to it," Corvin said, "together, with full understanding of what you're choosing, rather than a single f
MARKED BY FATE: THE ALPHA PRINCE'S REGRET Chapter Seventy-Six: Kaelan Finds Them
Kaelan showed up just before dawn, his horse lathered and wild-eyed from the ride. He hadn't stopped once after Rhys's message reached him in the capital. Three words. He never even questioned why Rhys was the one calling him. He just rode.Ivy needs you.I heard his horse before I saw him. The cold had already stripped away any composure I had left. Kaelan ran the last stretch, golden eyes wide and scared, not even trying to hide it. Watching him, I realized just how much it must have cost Rhys to send for him."What happened," Kaelan demanded, reaching us both, his gaze moving rapidly between my bare, frozen feet and the crack still pulsing faint and patient in the ancient wall behind us."The Hollow reached her again," Rhys said before I could find the words myself, his voice carefully even despite the exhaustion I could hear underneath it. "In her sleep. It's been asking her to accept its offer for weeks. Tonight, exhaustion nearly answered for her, before she managed to stop hers
MARKED BY FATE: THE ALPHA PRINCE'S REGRET Chapter Seventy-Five: Rhys Finds Her
The offer came back. Three times. Always in my dreams, always softer than the bone-deep exhaustion waiting for me when I woke up.I kept it to myself. Told myself I was protecting everyone else from a fear that belonged to me alone. Same old instinct, the one that made me hide the truth about my gift, until Bianca dragged it out of me on that bench by the training yard. I should have learned by now. But I hadn't. Not really. Not when the fear felt this sharp, this personal.The exhaustion crept in, slow and steady. Council sessions. Serrin's sentencing. Bianca fighting through endless negotiations. The fourth-thread question hanging over us. Wren still barely holding together after what she saw at the crack. I told myself it was normal to be this tired. Anyone would be, with this much on their shoulders. I didn't let myself think about how much of it was the Hollow, quietly feeding on me, waiting for me to break.I barely remember leaving Sterling that night.I remember going to bed,
MARKED BY FATE: THE ALPHA PRINCE'S REGRET Chapter Seventy-Four: The Hollow's Offer
It found me on a night that should have been safe. No warning, no storm, just the kind of ordinary that makes you let your guard down. That made it worse.I crashed early, too tired to fight the weight of the week. Serrin’s council session still echoed in my head. Bianca’s warnings about the three factions. Kaelan turning down the crown, leaving the whole kingdom twitchy and unsure if they should be grateful or terrified. For once, I didn’t toss and turn. I just slipped under.I woke standing in the black forest.I knew right away this wasn’t the same dream. The three whispering voices were gone. Or maybe they’d melted into one steady, patient, everywhere at once. I couldn’t turn and face it. It was just there."You've been afraid of me," it said. Not accusing. Simply observing, the way you might note the weather."Yes," I said, because lying to something that had already slipped into my own voice once before felt like a particularly foolish place to begin practicing deception."I und
MARKED BY FATE: THE ALPHA PRINCE'S REGRET Chapter Seventy-Three: Serrin's Redemption
Serrin asked for the council session. No one forced her. That alone told me everything she wasn't the same girl who left the healer's cottage."I want it formal," she said when I found her the morning before, methodically packing a single small bag with the particular calm of someone who'd already made peace with whatever came next. "Not a quiet arrangement between friends who've decided to forgive me privately. I want the full council present. I want it recorded. I want every consequence that comes from it to be real, not simply symbolic.""You don't have to do this," I said, though I understood, even as I said it, that she'd already decided the opposite months ago."I do," Serrin said. "Not because anyone's forcing me to. Because I spent this entire past year believing consequences were something that happened to other people, while I remained clever enough, or desperate enough, or simply important enough to be exempted from them. I don't believe that anymore. I don't want to believ
MARKED BY FATE: THE ALPHA PRINCE'S REGRET Chapter Seventy-Two: The New Council
When I finally broke the seal, the letter was nothing like I expected. It promised so much with that heavy stamp, but what it actually said was worse than anything I wanted to hear.No name. No hint of who sent it, or how they got a Council Historian's seal one Corvin swore only he still had. Just cold, flat words, spelling out everything we already knew from Wren’s dream, Corvin’s translations, and Serrin’s ritual. The boundary. The three bloodlines. Something ancient, waiting on the other side of a door that three centuries of secrets couldn’t keep shut.One line at the end. That was all it took for panic to race through every faction before we could even try to stop it.The kingdom's survival may depend on strength it currently lacks the unity to provide.Kaelan barely made it to the capital before the council chamber exploded into the chaos Bianca had fought so hard to keep at bay for months."They're using it," Bianca told me grimly, arriving at Sterling only a day after the lett
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