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125. Some truths destabilize kingdoms
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Mine to keep, mine to break 130. Discretion
Alpha King Thane I had learned long ago that power did not announce itself with noise. It moved quietly, rearranging the world while others were still arguing about what they thought they saw.That night, after the ball, after the last of the Silvermist servants cleared the marble floors and the echoes of music finally died, I did not sleep.I sat by the tall window of the guest wing, the moonlight washing the room in silver, and I pressed my palm against the glass as if it could cool the fire in my chest. The image would not leave me—dark hair bent forward in a graceful bow, a shy smile offered to a prince, and there, just above the curve of her collarbone, a mark I had memorized in blood and grief.A claw-shaped crescent.Blessed.Condemned.Lost.I had ruled the Brownclaw pack for over two decades. I had buried enemies, allies, and even my own mate with the same steady hands. I had learned to distrust coincidence. When the Moon Goddess repeated herself, it was never without purpos
Mine to keep, mine to break 129. Birthmark
Nalini I did not know when fear learned my name, only that it began answering whenever someone whispered it.The house felt different that day—too quiet in the way a forest went still before a predator moved. Even the floorboards seemed to listen as I scrubbed them, my fingers raw from lye and water, my back aching from hours bent low. Selene had woken us before dawn, her voice sharp and thin as a blade, and by the time the sun crept through the narrow windows, my body already felt borrowed—like it belonged to someone else who was being punished in my place.I had felt it first in my wolf.A tightness. A restless curl beneath my ribs. Not pain exactly, but awareness—like being watched from inside my own skin.Julie had been unusually quiet too. She kept glancing at the door, her lips pressed together, her fingers twitching as though they wanted to tear something apart. When she finally spoke, it was barely above a whisper.“They’re asking questions.”I pretended not to hear her. Pret
Mine to keep, mine to break 128. Gamma guards
Nalini I had learned long ago how to make myself small.It was a skill carved into me by years of quiet survival—by knowing when to lower my gaze, when to soften my steps, when to become part of the background so thoroughly that even cruelty forgot I was there. That morning, I moved through Selene’s house the way I always did: silently, efficiently, carrying the weight of everything unsaid in the careful balance of my spine.The floorboards were cold beneath my bare feet as I swept the corridor. Dawn light crept through the narrow windows, pale and unsure, turning dust motes into floating stars I was too tired to wish on. My arms ached faintly from scrubbing the night before, and my wolf lay curled deep inside me, restless but quiet, like it was listening for something I couldn’t yet hear.Selene’s voice drifted from the sitting room, sharp and irritated, cutting through the soft morning hush.“…I don’t know why you’d come here. I’ve told you before, there’s nothing special about tha
Mine to keep, mine to break 127. Ashes of a name
Alpha King Thane I had learned, over the years, that a king’s power was not in how loudly he commanded but in how quietly he listened. That night, long after the music had died and the palace corridors had gone still, I listened—to my instincts, to memory, to a wound I had carried so long it had grown ribs around it.Sleep did not come. It never did when the Moon Goddess chose to stir the dead.Nalini’s face kept rising in my mind like a ghost breaking water. Not her eyes—though they were unforgettable—but the mark at her neck. That small, cruelly perfect shape, half-moon, half-claw. Blessed. Cursed. Impossible to forget.I had seen it once before on skin no bigger than my palm.I rose before dawn, when even kings were supposed to rest, and dressed without ceremony. No guards. No announcements. I did not want this investigation known. Not yet. Truth, when handled poorly, became a weapon. And too many people would benefit from this one cutting the wrong way.The first place I went was
Mine to keep, mine to break 126. Cresent claw
Alpha King Thane The hour was late enough that the palace corridors had begun to breathe differently—quieter, heavier, as though the stones themselves listened when men spoke truths they had buried for years.I had ruled a pack long enough to know when a night was about to change the course of bloodlines.King Reuben stood by the tall windows of his private study, his broad back turned to me, his crown set aside on the carved table like a burden he had momentarily laid down. Moonlight washed the room in pale silver, catching on the edges of old maps and war trophies. I could smell the faint trace of aged parchment, iron, and something sharper—unease.My chest hurt.Not the physical ache of battle or age, but the hollow, crushing pressure that had lived inside me since the night my daughter vanished. It had never left. It had only learned how to wait.“I didn’t come to threaten your alliance,” I said quietly, breaking the silence first. My voice sounded steadier than I felt. “Nor to a
Mine to keep, mine to break 125. Some truths destabilize kingdoms
Alpha King ThaneThe moment the last notes of music faded and the ballroom dissolved into polite laughter and clinking glasses, I knew sleep would not come to me that night.It was not the alliance papers waiting on my desk. It was not Reuben’s measured smiles or the weight of Brownclaw’s victory. It was the girl.Nalini.Her name lingered on my tongue like a prayer I was afraid to speak aloud.I left the ballroom long after the other Alphas had retreated to their chambers, my guards trailing me at a respectful distance. The corridors of Silvermist Academy were quiet at that hour, lit by enchanted sconces that hummed softly with lunar energy. The silence pressed in on me, thick and heavy, the way it had the night Diana died in my arms with our daughter’s name breaking on her lips.I pressed my palm to my chest, steadying my breath.I had seen that birthmark before.Not something similar. Not something close.The exact curve. The crescent-shaped shadow tucked just beneath the ear, fain
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