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CLEO I couldn’t answer. I knelt on the cold stone floor, shaking, my throat aching, grief and terror tangled so completely together that I couldn’t find a single word to push past either one. “Do you understand?” he repeated, softer now, almost gently. I nodded, because I didn’t trust myself to speak, because a desperate part of me believed that he could do exactly what he’d threatened. He straightened, smoothing down the front of his coat like nothing at all had happened, and walked to the door. “Rest,” he said, not bothering to look back at me. “You’ll need your strength for the days ahead.” The door shut behind him, and this time, I heard the unmistakable click of a lock finally sliding into place. I stayed on the floor a long while after that, shaking, my hand pressed against my throat where I could still feel the cold ghost of his fingers. I realized, with a fresh wave of horror crashing through me, that he hadn’t just locked the door tonight. He’d locked it because he’d
Mated To My Alpha Stepbrother 125.
LAURENT The men gathered in my office by nine, maps spread across every surface, trackers and scouts from four different packs crammed shoulder to shoulder because the King had called in favors on my behalf faster than I could keep track of who owed what to whom anymore. I stood at the head of the table and tried to focus on the map in front of me instead of the sound of Cleo’s voice still echoing in my skull. Somewhere cold. I’d barely gotten a sentence before the connection she’d opened slammed shut again. I’d spent every hour since turning those words over and over, trying to wring more meaning out of them than they actually held. “Cold,” I said, cutting into whatever one of the trackers was explaining about scent trails gone dead at the border. “She told me it’s cold where she is. I want lists of every known territory experiencing winter conditions right now, every stronghold built into rock instead of wood.” One of the older scouts frowned. “Alpha, half the northern packs a
Mated To My Alpha Stepbrother 124.
CLEO I waited until night fell and the halls outside my room finally went quiet before I allowed myself to try reaching Laurent. I missed him tremendously. Even knowing the link was open would be worth the effort. I sat on the edge of the bed, pressed my palms flat against my knees, and thought about the wall I’d built in my mind, the heavy iron door I’d slammed shut the first night here to keep Mordeth out.I pictured it now, imagined a small crack forming along one edge, and called out to my mate. Laurent. I pushed the thought out as hard as I could, desperate, aching, praying it reached further than the stone walls around me. For a long moment, nothing answered. My chest tightened with the fear that I’d done permanent damage, that whatever I’d severed that first night couldn’t be mended even a little, not even enough for this. Then a whispered sound stirred, faint and distant, like a voice shouted from the bottom of a well. Cleo? My whole body became rigid, tears springin
Mated To My Alpha Stepbrother 123.
CLEO The next morning, Mordeth was already at the table when I arrived for breakfast. The same cold confidence was stamped across his face as the night before, like sleep didn’t touch men like him the way it touched everyone else. “Sit.” He didn’t look up from whatever he was reading, a thin scroll unrolled beside his plate. “We have much to discuss.” I sat, keeping my face carefully blank, though my mind was still half trapped in everything Maren had told me. Three other black wolves, and none of them survived Mordeth. I forced the thought down, locked it away somewhere he couldn’t see it written on my face. “The ceremony will happen the moment your week ends,” he said, finally rolling up the scroll. “Which works in our favor, because as it happens, that night falls under the full moon. A black wolf’s power peaks under a full moon, little moon. Our child will carry more strength than anything born in generations.” I kept my hands steady around my cup, though my stomach turned
Mated To My Alpha Stepbrother 122.
CLEOI stared at that pale, thin hand hovering in the dark, every instinct I had screaming two different things at once. Run toward it. Run away from it. I’d survived enough in the last few months to know that trusting a disembodied whisper in a strange, locked compound probably ranked somewhere near the top of terrible decisions. But I also knew that standing frozen in this hallway accomplished nothing, and whoever this was, they knew my name. Mordeth’s people wouldn’t need to lure me with whispers. They could simply walk up and take me. I stepped into the dark passage.The air changed the second I crossed the threshold. It was freezing even worse than usual. What exactly was this place? Inside, I was slapped by the smell of mildew and old stone. My eyes struggled to adjust, and for a moment I couldn’t see anything at all except the vague outline of a figure pressed close to the wall. “Who are you?” I kept my voice to a whisper, barely more than a damp breath. “Silent.” The v
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CLEO They led me back to my room in silence, and the door shut behind me without the click of a lock I expected to hear. I stood there a long moment, staring at it, waiting for the sound that never came. There was no bolt sliding into place, or a key turning. I pressed my palm flat against the wood, half convinced I’d imagined it, and pushed. The door opened an inch before I caught it and pulled it shut again, my heart hammering. They hadn’t locked it. So this room was a trap, then. It had to be. Nobody went to the trouble of barring every window in silver and then left the door to my room open, unless they wanted me to try something.I was certain Mordeth was watching, waiting to see what I’d do, ready to punish me the moment I took the bait. Don’t even consider it, little moon. Mordeth’s voice slid into my mind so smoothly I nearly missed the exact moment it arrived. His voice was cold and amused, like he’d been waiting for me to notice the open door so he could warn me again
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