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CHAPTER NINE: THE NAMES THEY'RE USING

ผู้เขียน: Cypher Williams
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I didn't sleep that night. I lay in the dark going over everything Corinne had told me, turning the name Aisling over in my mind like a stone I couldn't stop touching, until Ivy found me at dawn still awake, staring at the ceiling.

"You look terrible," she said, setting a tray down without asking if I wanted it.

"I feel worse than terrible." I sat up slowly, the twins shifting with the movement, a low ache settling into my hip that had become familiar these past weeks. "Ivy. Did you know? About
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  • MY MATE REJECTED ME ON OUR WEDDING NIGHT. NINE MONTHS...   CHAPTER SIXTY FOUR: SOMETHING COMING

    Roman found me in the nursery, Corwin asleep against my shoulder, and the look on his face told me before he spoke that whatever he'd learned wasn't good."Draven's scouts found something," he said. "Near the border. A camp, abandoned in a hurry, days old. it looked coordinated and very professional.""The Keepers.""We think so. Whoever it is, they moved fast once they had Elowen." He crossed the room, careful of Corwin's sleep, his voice low. "There's more. A rider was spotted leaving that camp alone, heading in this direction. He was Fast and deliberate on where he is ahead to."My stomach tightened. "Toward us specifically.""We don't know for certain. We're not taking the chance." Roman's jaw had gone tight, the same focused calm I'd learned to recognize before real danger. "I've doubled the guard already Corinne's been sent for and Kane knows."Careful, my wolf said, low and sharp, no softness left in her at all. Whatever Elowen told them, it didn't end this. It changed what the

  • MY MATE REJECTED ME ON OUR WEDDING NIGHT. NINE MONTHS...   CHAPTER SIXTY THREE: WHAT ELOWEN KNEW

    Elowen was quiet for a long moment after the woman asked her question, the lantern light flickering across a face that had carried this truth for longer than most packs had kept any single secret at all. "You want the truth about the war," she said finally. "I'll give it to you. But you should understand, before I begin, that the war is not the part of this story that frightened the people who founded whatever organization you belong to." The woman's composure flickered, just slightly. "Explain." "I ended that war, yes. Grieving, exhausted, willing to pay whatever it cost me to stop watching children die for a conflict nobody could even properly explain anymore." Elowen's voice stayed level, ancient and unhurried. "I was punished for it anyway, erased from history, and I accepted that, because I understood, even then, why it frightened them. One woman, holding the will of every warring Alpha in her hands. That's not a small thing to forgive, however good the reason behind it."

  • MY MATE REJECTED ME ON OUR WEDDING NIGHT. NINE MONTHS...   CHAPTER SIXTY TWO: LOOSE ENDS

    "I need to ask you something," I said to Kane, the morning after Corinne's letter arrived, "and I need an honest answer, not whatever you think I want to hear.""Alright.""Selene. What actually happened to her, after the interrogation, I realized this morning I never asked, and neither did you, not once in all the chaos since."Kane's expression shifted, something uncomfortable crossing it. "She's still in Ashwood custody. Held, but not formally charged with anything beyond complicity. I kept meaning to deal with it properly and kept finding something more urgent demanding my attention instead.""That's not an answer that sits well with me.""It doesn't sit well with me either." He rubbed a hand over his face, exhaustion and guilt tangled together. "She gave us everything we needed to find Bertrand's lodge, to understand Tarrow's reach. Whatever she did, she also chose, in the end, to help us stop it. I don't know what justice actually looks like for someone who's both those things

  • MY MATE REJECTED ME ON OUR WEDDING NIGHT. NINE MONTHS...   CHAPTER SIXTY ONE: THE SYMBOL ON THE MAP

    Corinne's reply arrived two days later, this time carrying something more than an apology.Mia,One of Petra's old contacts remembered something. A rider passed through her territory six days ago, before any of this began, asking careful questions about healers who kept secrets for a living. The rider wore no pack colors at all. Deliberately plain, but she described a mark on his saddle, small, easy to miss. A circle broken by three lines, crossing at the center.I've seen that mark once before, Mia. Years ago, in a report a Cade scout filed and nobody acted on, describing unmarked riders meeting near the eastern crossroads. I dismissed it then as nothing. I don't think I can anymore.— CorinneI read it twice, something cold and familiar settling low in my stomach, a memory surfacing from months ago that I'd nearly forgotten entirely."The crossroads," I said slowly. "Roman. The night at the bunker, before everything with Vantage began. You mentioned old scent traces near a crossroad

  • MY MATE REJECTED ME ON OUR WEDDING NIGHT. NINE MONTHS...   CHAPTER SIXTY: WHAT BRAMWELL REMEMBERED

    CHAPTER SIXTY: WHAT BRAMWELL REMEMBEREDBramwell woke to the smell of damp stone and the dull throb of a wound along his temple he didn't remember taking.It came back slowly, the riders at dawn Elowen's sharp, startled cry. The useless, aging strength of his own body throwing itself between her and the men who'd come for her, and failing.He was in a cellar. it was small, windowless, lit by a single lantern someone had left burning out of what felt almost like courtesy.Elowen sat across from him, bound at the wrists, her ancient, weathered face set in a calm that Bramwell had come, over four decades of knowing her, to recognize as her particular brand of fury."You're awake," she said. "Good. I was beginning to think they'd hit you harder than they meant to.""Where are we?.""I don't know. Somewhere they consider secure enough to hold us without worrying about rescue." Her eyes, sharp despite her age, moved toward the door. "They haven't said much. Only that someone wants to speak

  • MY MATE REJECTED ME ON OUR WEDDING NIGHT. NINE MONTHS...   CHAPTER FIFTY NINE: THE TRAIL GONE COLD

    Bramwell's note gave no address, it had no landmark only a region, it was vague and enormous, somewhere east of Vantage's old border.We rode for two days with nothing but instinct and Corinne's half-remembered healer network to guide us.Nothing.Then, on the third morning, a name surfaced. A village, small and forgotten. The kind of place no one thought to look.We rode hard.—The village was empty when we arrived.It was not abandoned, it was empty like someone had left in a hurry.A door hung open. A fire still smoldering, hours cold."They were here," Roman said, crouching beside the hearth. "Recently."Kane found the first sign of trouble near the well. Blood, not much but, enough.My stomach dropped.Careful, my wolf said. Someone else found this place too.I know."Bramwell wouldn't leave blood behind and say nothing," I said. "Unless he didn't have a choice."We searched the small house at the village's edge, the one Bramwell's letter implied, and found it ransacked. The fur

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