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CHAPTER FIFTY FIVE : WHAT THE COUNCIL DECIDED
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MY MATE REJECTED ME ON OUR WEDDING NIGHT. NINE MONTHS... CHAPTER FIFTY SEVEN: NOWHERE TO RUN
The message came four days after we returned home.A single line, from one of Kane's own scouts, still watching the old quarry lodge on the chance Bertrand hadn't gone far.He's here. Alone. Moving fast. Come now.Roman was already calling for horses before I'd finished reading it twice."Alone," Kane said, reading over my shoulder. "No allies left, no Tarrow to hide behind, he's cornered.""Cornered men do desperate things," Roman said grimly. "We move carefully. No mistakes this close to the end."—We reached the lodge by nightfall, Kane's scout waiting at the treeline, tension written across every line of him."He knows we're coming," the scout said. "He's been packing since midday. Whatever he's planning, he's planning it fast."We circled the building in silence, Roman's guard fanning out, and I felt my wolf go sharp and focused beneath my ribs.Careful, she said. This isn't Tarrow. This is a man with nothing left to lose.I know.We found him in the back room, a satchel half-pa
MY MATE REJECTED ME ON OUR WEDDING NIGHT. NINE MONTHS... CHAPTER FIFTY SIX: THE ROAD HOME
We left Vantage territory at dawn, the wounded guard well enough now to ride at a gentler pace, and I felt the tension of the past week finally begin to loosen with every mile that put the accounting, the hearing, and everything Tarrow had built behind us."You're quiet," Roman said, riding close beside me as the morning mist burned slowly off the hills."I'm tired in a way that isn't just physical." I let my shoulders drop, some of the careful readiness I'd been carrying since the ambush finally easing. "It's strange. We won. Tarrow's exiled, Bertrand's still out there somewhere but exposed, unable to hide behind Ashwood's trust anymore. Everything that threatened us these past weeks has been answered, one way or another. I keep waiting to feel like it's actually over.""It takes time," Kane said, from my other side, his own posture easier than it had been in days. "Fear doesn't leave the moment the danger does. It lingers a while, checking to make sure it's actually safe to let go."
MY MATE REJECTED ME ON OUR WEDDING NIGHT. NINE MONTHS... CHAPTER FIFTY FIVE : WHAT THE COUNCIL DECIDED
The council deliberated for the remainder of the day, and I spent those hours pacing the guest quarters, unable to settle no matter how many times Roman or Kane tried to reassure me the evidence had been overwhelming."It felt that way to me too," I admitted, sinking onto the edge of the bed for what felt like the hundredth time. "That doesn't mean I trust myself to predict what forty strangers will decide about a man they've known for decades.""Tarrow's own people wouldn't testify against him," Kane said, leaning against the wall near the door, some of the fury from the hearing still simmering beneath his exhaustion. "That should tell the council something on its own. Loyalty like that doesn't come from a man who's innocent.""Or it comes from fear," Roman said quietly. "Which is its own kind of evidence, if the council's willing to read it that way."We didn't have to wait much longer. A summons arrived at dusk, calling us back to the chamber, and I felt my stomach twist tight the
MY MATE REJECTED ME ON OUR WEDDING NIGHT. NINE MONTHS... CHAPTER FIFTY FIVE : WHAT THE COUNCIL DECIDED
The council deliberated for the remainder of the day, and I spent those hours pacing the guest quarters, unable to settle no matter how many times Roman or Kane tried to reassure me the evidence had been overwhelming."It felt that way to me too," I admitted, sinking onto the edge of the bed for what felt like the hundredth time. "That doesn't mean I trust myself to predict what forty strangers will decide about a man they've known for decades.""Tarrow's own people wouldn't testify against him," Kane said, leaning against the wall near the door, some of the fury from the hearing still simmering beneath his exhaustion. "That should tell the council something on its own. Loyalty like that doesn't come from a man who's innocent.""Or it comes from fear," Roman said quietly. "Which is its own kind of evidence, if the council's willing to read it that way."We didn't have to wait much longer. A summons arrived at dusk, calling us back to the chamber, and I felt my stomach twist tight the
MY MATE REJECTED ME ON OUR WEDDING NIGHT. NINE MONTHS... CHAPTER FIFTY FOUR : WHAT TARROW KNEW
The council chamber was packed by midmorning.Forty elders, Draven at the center, and the four bound prisoners seated where everyone could see them.I stood beside Roman and Kane, evidence in hand, and felt my pulse hammering under my ribs.This is it, my wolf said.I know.Tarrow was brought in last. Chained, unhurried, wearing an expression that gave nothing away.He looked calm.Too calm.That should have warned me.—Draven laid out the evidence first;the fabric. Corinne's analysis,Selene's account,the four prisoners, silent but present, undeniable.The room shifted, I felt it, and sympathy was tipping our way.Then Tarrow spoke."May I address the council directly."Draven's jaw tightened. "You'll have your turn.""I'd rather take it now." Tarrow's eyes moved to me. Slow, and deliberate. "Before this council decides my fate based on evidence gathered by a woman whose own judgment is compromised."My stomach dropped."Compromised how?" Draven said."Ask Alpha Cade how long he's sh
MY MATE REJECTED ME ON OUR WEDDING NIGHT. NINE MONTHS... CHAPTER FIFTY THREE: What We Brought With Us
Vantage's border patrol met us before we'd covered the last mile, wary at the sight of a wounded party, bound prisoners, and two Alphas whose packs had no business traveling together unless something had gone badly wrong."Alpha Cade. Alpha Voss." The lead scout's eyes moved over our group, cataloguing the damage. "You weren't expected.""We need Alpha Draven immediately," Roman said, no patience left for formality after two days of road and an ambush neither of us had fully recovered from. "This can't wait for a scheduled audience."The scout took one look at the restrained wolves trailing behind us and nodded, already turning to send word ahead.—Draven received us within the hour, his own expression darkening as he took in the wounded guard, the four bound prisoners, and the exhaustion written plainly across all our faces."Tell me everything," he said, without holdback anything, "starting with why four of my own people are standing here in restraints.""They attacked us two days
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