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Chapter 12: The Mark Beneath My Skin

作者: PEM
last update 公開日: 2026-11-09 15:34:28

I woke to a ceiling I didn’t know.

Pale vaulted stone. The smell of crushed herbs laid over something colder and cleaner. A lamp burning low on a table beside the bed, and no window anywhere. I lay still and took inventory the way I had learned to over seven years, hands, feet, breath. All there. My wolf was there too, a small heat curled at the very back of me, so faint I almost missed her.

Alive, she said. It sounded like an accusation.

The last hour came back in pieces. The bell. The hand
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  • My Alpha Rejected Me Because I Will Kill Him   Chapter 12: The Mark Beneath My Skin

    I woke to a ceiling I didn’t know.Pale vaulted stone. The smell of crushed herbs laid over something colder and cleaner. A lamp burning low on a table beside the bed, and no window anywhere. I lay still and took inventory the way I had learned to over seven years, hands, feet, breath. All there. My wolf was there too, a small heat curled at the very back of me, so faint I almost missed her.Alive, she said. It sounded like an accusation.The last hour came back in pieces. The bell. The hand searching through my blood. Kaelith’s eyes gone black. I didn’t remember anything after that, only a sense of being carried, and a heartbeat under my ear that wasn’t mine.Something ached beneath my collarbone. I put my fingers to the place and found skin hotter than the rest. I pulled the neck of the borrowed gown aside.A mark lay there, the length of my thumb. Silver, like a scar healed in moonlight, but the lines were too fine and too even for any scar. They looked drawn. Someone had take

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  • My Alpha Rejected Me Because I Will Kill Him   Chapter 9: The King Comes Downstairs

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    "Master Dame," Ilyra said evenly. "It's late for a house call.""Lady Sorn." He bowed, small and correct. Up close he smelled of clean linen and something sharper underneath, the way a surgeon's hands smell after scrubbing with spirit. "I won't keep you. His Majesty is concerned by her sudden return to Moonfang. Seven years outside the Dominion is hard on a wolf. He wishes me to be certain she is sound."Her return. Not her arrival. He had set the word down like a coin, to see who reached for it. I kept my eyes on the floor and my hands clasped and did not reach.He opened the silver case. Inside, on faded velvet, lay a row of instruments, needles fine as hairs, a short curved blade, a stoppered vial. They shone. My wolf recoiled so hard I almost stepped back, and the skin along my forearms crawled as if the metal were already on me. Run, she said. There was nowhere to run."Roll up your sleeve, please," Dame said pleasantly. "A drop of blood, a look at the eyes. It won't take a m

  • My Alpha Rejected Me Because I Will Kill Him   Chapter 7: The Woman Who Knew My Name

    The key went into the lock and stopped.It wouldn't turn. Someone on the other side pushed hard enough to make the door shiver in its frame, and I heard a low, irritated breath. The key slid out. The boots walked away without any hurry, and the silence that came back was worse than the noise.My nails had gone into my palm. I made my hand open.Ilyra waited until the last echo died before she took her finger from my mouth."I left my own key in the lock on this side," she breathed. "It won't hold forever.""Who was that?""Someone who'll come back."It wasn't an answer, and she knew it. The questions were stacking up faster than I could carry them.A flint clicked twice. The candle caught, and she cupped it low against her palm. The small light carved her face out of the dark, hair pinned tight, a crease between her brows, a tiredness that had nothing to do with the hour."How did you know I'd be here?" I whispered."I didn't, until tonight. You asked the under steward twice

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