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TWENTY THREE: THE HEALER'S NETWORK

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Corinne's contact arrived after dark, an old woman named Petra who moved like every joint cost her effort, though her eyes were sharp enough to make me feel measured the moment she stepped through the door.

"You're the Ashford girl," she said, settling into the chair Roman offered without being asked twice. "Corinne said you were looking for someone who shouldn't exist anymore."

"Elowen," I said. "Do you know her."

"I know of her." Petra accepted the tea Ivy pressed into her hands, back from he
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  • MY MATE REJECTED ME ON OUR WEDDING NIGHT. NINE MONTHS...   CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN: WHAT THE LETTER BROKE

    Kane was in council when the scout arrived, dust still on his boots from the border, asking to see the Alpha directly, no one else, urgent enough that Bertrand let him through despite the meeting still technically in session. "This came for you," the scout said, holding out a sealed letter bearing a crest Kane didn't recognize immediately, and then did, all at once, the shape of it landing in his stomach before he'd even broken the seal. "From Cade territory." The room went quiet around him. Kane broke the seal with hands that weren't quite steady, and read. He read it once, too fast to fully absorb it, and then again, slower, forcing himself to take in every word. "Father of twins". "A daughter and a son". "Born three days ago". "Safe this entire time". The parchment crumpled slightly in his grip before he realized he was crushing it. "Alpha." Bertrand's voice, careful, from somewhere that felt very far away. "What is it?" Kane didn't answer. He was doing the math, the same

  • MY MATE REJECTED ME ON OUR WEDDING NIGHT. NINE MONTHS...   CHAPTER TWENTY SIX: THE ANNOUNCEMENT

    Three days after the twins were born, I asked Roman for parchment, ink, and a moment alone.He didn't ask what for,I suspected he already knew.I sat by the window with Elara asleep against my shoulder and Corwin settled in the basket Ivy had fashioned from an old drawer, and stared at the blank page for longer than I wanted to admit before the words finally came.Good, my wolf said, low and fierce, no hesitation in it at all. Let him read every word and know exactly what he threw away. Don't you dare soften it for him.I won't, I told her.Kane,I am writing to inform you that you are the father of twins, a daughter and a son, born three days ago in Cade territory.Their names are Elara and Corwin. They are healthy, and safe. They have been safe this entire time, which is more than I can say for how I was treated the last time I stood in front of you and the pack I once called mine.I am not writing this to invite you into their lives. I am writing it because they deserve to exist in

  • MY MATE REJECTED ME ON OUR WEDDING NIGHT. NINE MONTHS...   CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE: BORN ON ENEMY GROUND

    It started just after midnight, a tightening low in my back that I mistook for the same discomfort I'd been living with for weeks, until it came again, sharper, and again after that, closer together than anything before it."Ivy." My voice came out smaller than I meant it to. "Ivy, I think—"She was at my side before I finished the sentence, hands already moving with the calm efficiency of someone who'd delivered more children than she could count."Breathe," she said. "You're alright. This is exactly what we've been waiting for."Careful, my wolf said, though even she sounded more focused than afraid, awake in a way I hadn't felt from her before, present and steady. We've got this.I don't feel like I've got this, I told her, gritting through another wave of pain.You will, she said. One breath at a time. That's all this is.Roman appeared in the doorway within minutes, he looked like someone who had run a mile under a minute not too long Ivy sent word I was in labour, and whatever c

  • MY MATE REJECTED ME ON OUR WEDDING NIGHT. NINE MONTHS...   CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR:THE LAST QUIET WEEKS

    The weeks after Petra's visit passed slower than any I could remember, my body too heavy now for the training that had defined most of my days, my wolf restless in a way that had less to do with danger and more to do with waiting.Ivy checked on me daily, sometimes twice, her hands gentle and certain against the impossible tightness of my stomach."Any day now," she said, for what felt like the hundredth time that week. "Maybe two. Your body's getting ready whether you feel ready or not.""I don't feel ready.""Nobody does." She smiled, tired and kind. "Not for the first one. Definitely not for two at once."Roman had taken to hovering in a way he'd have denied if I called it that, finding reasons to be near whatever room I occupied, though he kept enough distance that neither of us had to name what the past weeks had settled into. We hadn't discussed that morning in the bunker again directly, not because either of us regretted it, but because there was no good place to put the conver

  • MY MATE REJECTED ME ON OUR WEDDING NIGHT. NINE MONTHS...   TWENTY THREE: THE HEALER'S NETWORK

    Corinne's contact arrived after dark, an old woman named Petra who moved like every joint cost her effort, though her eyes were sharp enough to make me feel measured the moment she stepped through the door."You're the Ashford girl," she said, settling into the chair Roman offered without being asked twice. "Corinne said you were looking for someone who shouldn't exist anymore.""Elowen," I said. "Do you know her.""I know of her." Petra accepted the tea Ivy pressed into her hands, back from her eastern quarter birth and watching this exchange with the same careful attention she brought to everything. "The network I worked kept records nobody official ever saw, wolves who needed disappearing, usually for their own protection. Elowen's name came through decades before I was even born, but the arrangement outlived the people who made it. We kept moving her, generation after generation, whenever a location started feeling less than safe."My pulse picked up. "She's alive.""As of eleven

  • MY MATE REJECTED ME ON OUR WEDDING NIGHT. NINE MONTHS...   CHAPTER TWENTY TWO: WHAT NEITHER OF US STOPPED

    Ivy was called away that morning, a birth in the eastern quarter that couldn't wait, and Roman offered, almost too casually, to take me down to the bunker himself rather than delay training a full day. I said yes before I let myself think too hard about why that felt different from every other morning we'd trained together. The underground chamber felt smaller than usual, or maybe I only noticed the size of it because there was no one else in it this time, just the two of us and the torches and the particular quiet that comes from being somewhere private with someone you've spent months very carefully not naming what you feel. "Same as always," Roman said, though his voice had a rougher edge to it than the words needed. "Listen,reach,no walls." I closed my eyes and reached for my wolf, and she came easily now, familiar in a way she hadn't been months ago, no fight in the letting go anymore, only trust. Careful, she said anyway, quieter than usual, more warning than instruction. Y

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