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Chapter 24: Welcome Home?
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MARKED BY THE ALPHA I CAME TO KILL Chapter 24: Welcome Home?
The road gave her time to think, which she wasn't entirely grateful for.For years, Nyra had measured journeys by how quickly they took her away from somewhere. Every posting had been a departure, every road a means of getting farther from wherever she'd last been. She'd never once, ridden toward something instead of simply away from something else.This was the first time she'd found herself counting the miles in the opposite direction.She thought that over slowly as the trees thickened around her, the road narrowing toward the familiar border crossing into Blackthorn territory. She had two lives now, she realized, in a way she hadn't quite let herself articulate before. Magda's house, the Order, the long string of assignments and changing names and rooms she'd never stayed in long enough to call her own.And Blackthorn.Somewhere she was actually returning to.**************She smelled the keep before she saw it, woodsmoke and something roasting, before she'd even cleared the last
MARKED BY THE ALPHA I CAME TO KILL Chapter 23: Magda's Girl
"Are you eating properly?" Magda asked the next day at lunch, picking bits and pieces from the hearty meal as she was wont to do. "I'm eating fine." "Sleeping?" "Well enough." Her mind flashed to those hawks and the messages that followed them. "Have you made any friends? Actual friends?" It was a recurring argument between them, her poor social life. Magda blamed her job. She wasn't entirely wrong. Nyra hesitated briefly. "There is a woman," she admitted. "A healer. Elora. She's..." Nyra searched for the word. "Easy to be around." Now that she really thought about it, Elora and Magda would get along swimmingly. "A friend." Magda smiled, looking very pleased indeed. "Good. And anyone else interesting at this Blackthorn of yours?" "Lucian isn't—" She caught herself, but it was too late. Magda went very still, and dropped her fork. Her smile was getting wider by the second. "Lucian?" she said, testing the name on her tongue. "Lucian." "He's the Alpha. Of
MARKED BY THE ALPHA I CAME TO KILL Chapter 22: There Is a Magda
The house looked exactly as Nyra remembered it. The drive wound long beneath old trees, their branches meeting overhead in a way that turned the approach into something like a tunnel. The house itself sat with its stone walls gleaming soft gold in the afternoon sun, dark green shutters framing tall windows that had always, in Nyra's memory, seemed too large for the rooms behind them. A wide veranda wrapped the front, with wicker chairs still arranged the way they'd always been arranged, and beyond the house she could see the old orchard, grown a little wild at its edges, red apples not yet ready for picking hanging heavy on branches that badly needed pruning. She knew this house the way she knew the back of her palm. The third step up to the veranda creaked if you placed too much of your weight to its left side. One of the parlor's side windows stuck every winter until someone forced it closed with a shoulder. Magda kept sweets in the second drawer of the sideboard, always had, si
MARKED BY THE ALPHA I CAME TO KILL Chapter 21: Want and Suspicion
Blackthorn felt smaller without her in it, which made no sense at all, since nothing about the keep had actually changed. Lucian noticed it in small ways. He glanced toward the training yard out of habit and found it empty of the one person he'd gotten used to seeing there. Her place at the long table sat bare through the evening meal, and more than one pack member's eyes drifted toward it at different times. He told himself it was simply because she'd become a part of his routine, nothing more complicated than that. He told himself many things over the following days that he didn't entirely believe. *************** "You're not listening," Rowan said, halfway through a report on the eastern scouts. "I am." He ran his hand through his hair. "Then tell me what I just said." Lucian looked at him, and found, truthfully, that he couldn't. Rowan's mouth curved upwards. "Exactly." "Say it again." "Scouts spotted unusual movement near the eastern road. Small groups, moving carefull
MARKED BY THE ALPHA I CAME TO KILL Chapter 20: Magda's Letter
Nyra spent the morning helping Lucian repair the low stone wall beyond the stables. It was hardly important work. A section had collapsed after the last heavy rain, and someone had decided it would be easier to fix it before winter made the damage worse. Nyra had expected to be bored. Instead, she found herself enjoying it. Lucian held the wooden frame steady while she fitted the stones into place, their shoulders occasionally brushing whenever they reached for the same piece. She had once studied this wall differently. She'd measured the height, counted the steps from the stable, and noted the line of trees beyond it and the places where the ground dipped low enough to disappear from view. An escape route. Now she was worrying about whether the stones were sitting properly. The thought made her smile. "You're smiling." Nyra glanced at Lucian. "No, I'm not." "You are." "I'm concentrating." "On a wall?" "Stonework requires concentration." Lucian's m
MARKED BY THE ALPHA I CAME TO KILL Chapter 19 : What We Tell Our Friends
Nyra stomped out of the training ground, boiling with more frustration than the session warranted. It wasn't her form. Mira had said as much twice, watching her miss an opening she should have taken easily, distracted in a way that had nothing to do with tired muscles. It was her attention. Or the lack of it. The way her focus kept drifting toward the far side of the yard whenever Lucian's voice carried across it. The way her instincts had started reacting to things before her mind caught up. She didn't like not understanding her own reactions. She'd spent years being certain of exactly what she was and what she wanted. Now, nothing felt quite so certain. Elora was crouched near the infirmary door, sorting a basket of herbs, and looked up as Nyra stomped past. "You look like you lost a fight with yourself." "I made a fool of myself." "Come help me instead. Fighting herbs is much less humiliating." Nyra huffed something close to a laugh and dropped down beside h
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