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Chapter Twenty-Seven: Nine Names
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2026-08-17 03:44:59
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MARKED BY FATE: THE ALPHA PRINCE'S REGRET Chapter Thirty-Two: Finding Her
"Assuming Wren's right," Rhys said, once the initial weight of the idea had settled enough for practical planning to begin, "we still need to find Serrin before we can offer her anything at all. And the last time any of us saw her, she was retreating wounded into unfamiliar territory with every reason to avoid being found.""She'll have gone somewhere she trusts," Corvin said. "Somewhere with meaning to her, not just tactical advantage. Everything she's done since the ceremony has carried an emotional weight beneath the strategy the sealed site, the ancestral estate, even the letters she's sent. She wants to be understood, even while insisting she doesn't.""The Draveth territory's main holdings," Kaelan said slowly. "Not the ancestral seat that's gone now, collapsed. But there's a secondary estate, smaller, more private. I remember hearing my father's advisors mention it once, dismissively, as the place Serrin apparently retreated to as a child whenever court politics grew too viciou
MARKED BY FATE: THE ALPHA PRINCE'S REGRET Chapter Thirty-One: Reunion
The second Sterling territory came into view, Ivy felt it a rush of warmth, the bond flaring so bright it nearly stole her breath. Not Kaelan beside her. Something ahead. Familiar. Steady. Her chest ached with relief before her mind could even catch up.Rhys.By the time they reached the gate, he was already moving, crossing the courtyard fast, like he couldn't get to her soon enough. Five days of dread and sleepless nights clung to him, tight around his eyes, but the relief when he saw her was so raw it nearly undid her."You're alive," he said, pulling her into a brief, fierce embrace before pulling back to study her properly, gaze cataloguing every visible injury with barely restrained worry. "All of you?""Barely," Kaelan said, dismounting stiffly beside her, "but yes. We found the third bloodline." He nodded toward Wren, exhausted and wary but upright, and Corvin, leaning heavily on his staff after days of travel, his aged body clearly hadn't fully recovered from. "And an ally we
MARKED BY FATE: THE ALPHA PRINCE'S REGRET Chapter Thirty: What Broke First
Rhys moved before the blade finished falling.He moved so fast Bianca barely saw him. One heartbeat, Ambrose was about to strike. The next, Rhys had his hand locked around Ambrose’s wrist, the blade yanked away just before it could touch the child. Metal hit stone with a useless, echoing clatter.The girl screamed. She tried to crawl away, twisting against her bindings, sobbing so hard she could barely breathe. But she was alive. Unharmed. Still whole.Ambrose snarled, fighting Rhys’s grip with a strength that didn’t match his age. But Rhys was all momentum and fury. He slammed Ambrose down at the edge of the ritual circle, pinning him with a knee to the chest."It's over," Rhys said, voice raw with barely controlled violence. "Stand down, or I end this considerably less gently than I'd prefer to."Sterling warriors rushed in as soon as the standoff broke. They cut the children free with quick, careful hands. Some of the warriors were crying, scooping up the small, shaking bodies and
MARKED BY FATE: THE ALPHA PRINCE'S REGRET Chapter Twenty-Nine: Too Slow
They didn't stop once. Bianca's borrowed horse was shaking, foam streaking its sides, by the time Sterling's gates finally appeared in the cold, gray dawn.Rhys met them in the courtyard before they'd fully dismounted, his expression already grim with news of his own. "The search party found the trail," he said, without preamble. "It leads exactly where you're about to tell me it does.""The ancestral seat," Bianca confirmed, breathless, shoving the journal into his hands. "Ambrose Draveth. He's planning to force the ritual using the children as an unwilling catalyst, since Serrin's own attempts keep failing." She met his eyes, dread coiling tight in her chest. "And he knows we're onto him. He's moving up the timeline."Rhys scanned the journal's marked page in seconds, his jaw tightening with every line. "How long do we have?""I don't know," Bianca admitted. "But if he's already moving faster because of us""Then we don't have time to wait for reinforcements from anywhere else," Rhy
MARKED BY FATE: THE ALPHA PRINCE'S REGRET Chapter Twenty-Eight: What the Smithy Hid
Bianca's hand flew to the blade at her hip before she even thought about it. The Sterling warriors on either side of her were already moving, weapons out, eyes locked on the door."How many?" she asked."With my uncle involved?" Tobias grabbed a second blade from the wall, tossing it to her without hesitation. "Assume more than we can see."Glass exploded inward. The first attacker burst through the smithy's rear window in a blur of dark fur and claws. A Sterling warrior met him mid-air, both of them crashing into the forge's cooling embers, tools scattering everywhere."Behind you!" Tobias shouted, and Bianca spun just in time to catch a second attacker's strike on her borrowed blade, the impact jarring up her arm hard enough to numb her fingers.She wasn't a fighter. She'd spent her whole life perfecting charm and appearances, not combat. Every instinct screamed it now. Panic clawed at the shaky confidence she'd managed to build these last few brutal weeks.I don't need to be as str
MARKED BY FATE: THE ALPHA PRINCE'S REGRET Chapter Twenty-Seven: Nine Names
Rhys stared at the list of missing children, reading it once, then again, his hands shaking. He couldn't trust his voice. Not yet.Nine names. The youngest, a girl, just five, snatched from her bed while her parents slept only a wall away. The oldest, a thirteen-year-old boy, vanished on his way home from chores. Gone. Just like that."This isn't Serrin," Bianca said quietly, reading over his shoulder. "I know her. Whatever she's become, whatever she's willing to do to get what she wants she's never shown interest in anything this indiscriminate. Everything she's done has been targeted. Precise.""Then who," Rhys said, voice tight with barely restrained fury, "and why leave the message with my patrol instead of simply vanishing without a trace, the way you'd expect from someone actually trying to hide this?""Because someone wants you looking exactly where they're pointing," Bianca said slowly, the pieces visibly assembling behind her eyes. "Which means either it's a trap built specif
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