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Chapter 42: Not The Calm One
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Marked By The Rogue Alpha Chapter 43: Alpha Croft's Dramatic Little Script
KieranI read it twice and felt the afternoon go out of me.The mud, the race, all of it drained off and left the cold thing underneath. Bloodmoon had gone through the coalition. They'd put it on the record. And I stood there reading the same polite sentence over while something tightened in my chest and stayed tight.Meredith was still close, watching my face instead of the notice. She'd already worked out from my expression that this wasn't Bloodmoon whining down a phone line again."Lay it out," I told Silas."They haven't accused us of anything."He kept his voice level. "That's the clever part. They've just asked, in writing, through the liaison, for assurance that she's safe, that no one's coercing her and that she can speak. If we sit on it, they say the silence is the answer. If we come back swinging, they say a clear conscience wouldn't need to swing." He shrugged. "Either way they've handed us a question we can't put down cleanly.""Then we don't swing." I folded the phone s
Marked By The Rogue Alpha Chapter 42: Not The Calm One
MeredithSera turned back around to face me, and I made myself sit still in the saddle and not look away from her, even though something in me wanted to.Kieran stayed where he was beside his own horse. He didn't step in, and I knew by now that the not-stepping-in was deliberate.The stable boy had found a strap to fuss with. It didn't need fussing with. He worked at it like his life depended on the buckle.I waited. Sera said nothing, and the silence stretched out long enough that I started to feel it crawl up the back of my neck, and I had to fight the urge to fill it for her.Then she looked at me, dead on, with something cold and flat in her eyes that I felt in my chest before I understood it."You want all of us to believe you can't be handled," she said. "That you walked in here and nobody puts a hand on you. But you gave Alarick five years to handle you. Five. So forgive me if I don't bow to the new version overnight."My grip tightened on the reins, and the gelding tossed his
Marked By The Rogue Alpha Chapter 41: The South Run
KieranThe rain line had been a mistake. I knew it the second it left my mouth.I'd only said it to break whatever she was building behind that stare. She'd been winding up to come at me, and I'd reached for the first thing that wasn't the call, and what came out was the weather. Now she was looking at me like I'd grown a second head, and I couldn't take it back.She'd had Alarick handled. I knew that. She didn't need me in there.But I wasn't going to stand in a doorway and listen to him call her weak. Not from him. Not from the man who'd spent years making her exactly that and then acting surprised to find her bent. He still knew where every old wound on her sat. He could press them without lifting a finger, over a phone, three packs away, and I'd had to listen to him do it.So I'd stepped in. And honestly? I'd say it again if he gave me the chance."Being right," Meredith was saying, "doesn't give you the right to walk into a fight I was already winning."We were back to this.Sh
Marked By The Rogue Alpha Chapter 40: The Voice He Thought He Still Owned
Meredith Ring. Ring. The phone buzzed against the table, and his name sat on the screen, lighting up and going dark and lighting up again. Alarick. I didn't pick it up right away. My hand hovered over it. The name did what the name always did. It put me back in the hall in the dress. It put me back in the five years I'd spent waiting, in the promises I'd taken at face value, in the version of him I'd loved before I learned what he chose when it mattered. Something shifted by the door. Just the brush of a sleeve against the frame, and I knew it was Kieran without looking. He'd stayed out in the corridor like he said he would, leaning there where he could hear me but not loom over the table. I didn't mind that he was there. That was the part I'd have to think about later, because some piece of me settled with him at that door, and I didn't have time for what that meant. I took a breath and pressed the green. "Meredith??" His voice came through, and it landed lower in me than I
Marked By The Rogue Alpha Chapter 39: Without Oversight
KieranI read it twice off Sera's phone.A direct welfare call with Meredith. No Alpha present. No Silverthorn authority in the room. Her on the line, alone."No."It was out before the room had finished breathing. My wolf had the answer before my head did, because all I could see was Alarick's voice in her ear and no one standing between them. The pressure came up off my skin before I caught it. The lamp on the desk buzzed in its base. Sera didn't flinch, but she went quiet for a second, which was her version of flinching."Refuse it and we look guilty," she said slowly. "Deny the call and Packline writes it as proof. Silverthorn Won't Let Her Speak. They don't even have to lie. They just print that you said no."I knew she was right.That was the worst part. Bloodmoon had found the one shape where keeping her safe looked exactly like keeping her caged, and there was no clean way to stand in it.My screen pinged.I looked. A trade office. The same neutral house whose man had stood
Marked By The Rogue Alpha Chapter 38: The Man Who Looked Concerned
AlarickThe story was everywhere by mid-morning.I had it open on my screen and I kept refreshing it. Every time I did, the count climbed. The neutral markets had it. The trade boards had it. The packs that leaned Bloodmoon were already repeating it like they'd seen it themselves.I'd wanted this.That was what I kept telling myself, and it kept not being true. The spreading didn't touch the part that mattered. She was marked. Kieran's mark. And every wolf with a phone knew it now.I read the same two lines again.Alpha Kieran Croft removed her from the hall.He'd carried her. I hadn't known that until I read it like a stranger, off a bulletin.I clenched my fist, only stopping when I felt a sharp building pain from my nails biting into my palm.He'd had his hands on her, taken her out in front of his pack, and somewhere in the days after that she'd let him put his teeth in her throat.I made myself stop reading as I looked up to catch the person still talking in front of me.A servan
Marked By The Rogue Alpha Chapter 21: The Proof in the Ledger
MeredithI followed Yara through the packhouse with Hayley beside me. Yara carried the healer ledger against her chest, her steps quick and purposeful. My heart hammered harder with each corridor we passed, and I tried to ignore the way my hands were shaking.This was the first time someone inside
Marked By The Rogue Alpha Chapter 20: The Healer's Ledger
Meredith I sat with Hayley in the east family room, thinking about what she'd said. Medicine starts with healer stock before it ever reaches Tobin's supply system. The idea settled into my exhausted mind slowly, piece by piece. I'd been chasing where the medicine went after Tobin marked it delive
Marked By The Rogue Alpha Chapter 19: The Friend at the Gate
MeredithRelief hit me first when Hayley said she was already close to the gates, followed immediately by panic.Hayley was walking straight into a pack that already distrusted outsiders, and she had no idea what kind of reception she'd get."Stay there," I said. "I'm coming to meet you."I stood u
Marked By The Rogue Alpha Chapter 18: The Door That Stayed Closed
Meredith I sat in the east family room replaying the clerk’s words over and over in my mind. The medicine was released during the assigned collection window. The more I thought about it, the angrier I got. Everyone kept hiding behind procedure and proper channels while Lio was still sick and Ness
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