LOGINShare
The Lockes' Confession
publish date:
2026-10-26 12:08:37
Latest chapter
REJECTED BY MY ALPHA, CROWNED BY THE KING Silver for Silence
By dawn, Dunmere was ours again, and the price of it was written in smoke across the sky.The families we had rescued were on the road to the palace, under Enforcer guard. The raiders who had not fled were dead or bound.Only one prisoner mattered. The captain.They brought him to the ruined inn at the edge of the square, his hands bound, his cloak torn, his face still carrying that thin, bloody smile from the lane. Ronan posted Enforcers at the door and window, and then he looked at me."You do not have to be here for this," he said quietly. "Prisoners talk differently when a princess is in the room. Sometimes worse. Sometimes not at all.""I am not here as a princess," I said. "I am here as the woman whose village he burned. If he will only talk to power, let him talk to the power he tried to kill."Ronan studied me for a moment, and then he nodded, and stepped back, and let me stand where the captain could see me clearly.The captain looked up, and his smile faltered for the first
REJECTED BY MY ALPHA, CROWNED BY THE KING First Blood
We did not ride into Dunmere. We rode around it, the way Ronan had promised, through the woods where the trees stood black against the orange sky and every snapped twig sounded like a warning."They said they were waiting for the silver princess," I whispered to Ronan as we left the road behind. "If I walk into that village, I walk into a trap made for me.""Then we spring it on our terms," he said. "We find where they are hiding first. We find who is still alive. Then we decide what the trap is for."The Enforcers spread out around us in the dark, quiet as smoke. I had trained with them for one morning, and now I was riding into my first battle beside them. My hands were steady on the reins, until I realised that fear had stopped being the loudest thing in my head. Under it, patient and silver, my wolf was awake.We reached the ridge above Dunmere before midnight. Below us, the village was a ruin of firelight and shadow. Half the houses were burned to their frames. In the square, men
REJECTED BY MY ALPHA, CROWNED BY THE KING The Border Burns
"The border villages are burning," the rider cried. "All of them, at once."By the time Ronan and I reached the great hall, my father was already there, and the map table was already covered in markers. The rider, a boy barely older than I had been when I first poured that bitter tea, stood shaking before the King, trying to report through a throat raw from smoke and shouting."How many villages?" my father asked."Three, Your Majesty," the boy said. "Ashford, Mill Crossing, and Dunmere. They came after dark, from three directions, and they knew where the watchtowers were. They cut the signal fires first."Ronan leaned over the map, his face hard. "That is not a raid. Raiders hit one village and run. Three villages at once, with the signal fires cut, is an army moving on a plan.""And the people?" I asked.The boy swallowed. "Most of Ashford got out. The Enforcers there held the bridge long enough for the families to run into the woods. Mill Crossing is worse. Dunmere —" He stopped, a
REJECTED BY MY ALPHA, CROWNED BY THE KING Training the Silver Wolf
The morning after the Lockes' confession, I woke before dawn and went to the training yard with a sword I had never been allowed to hold and a wolf I was only just learning to hear.The yard was already full. Royal guards in dark leather, Enforcers in grey, young wolves who had grown up with their beasts singing under their skin. They stopped when they saw me, the way a room stops when a stranger walks in wearing a crown that does not quite fit yet.I understood the look. A week ago I had been the wolfless girl they pitied. Now I was the princess they were ordered to respect, and respect from an order is thin stuff.Ronan was waiting by the weapons rack, his arms folded, his face unreadable in the way it always was when he was deciding whether to protect me or to let me be tested."You do not have to do this today," he said quietly. "After last night, no one would blame you for resting.""Resting is what I did for ten years," I said. "While someone put wolfsbane in my tea. I am done r
REJECTED BY MY ALPHA, CROWNED BY THE KING The Lockes' Confession
"You are asking about Vivienne's health behind my back," Damien said, low and furious in the empty garden. "My child. My Luna. Tell me what Corwin told you. Now."I looked at him, and I felt something I had not expected: not fear, and not love, but a cold, clear pity."I will not," I said. "What Master Corwin tells me in confidence is not yours to demand, Damien. You severed every claim you had on me, before witnesses, on the night of the full moon.""So you are plotting against her. Against my heir.""I am plotting nothing," I said. "But if you want the truth about your heir, ask the woman carrying him why she is so afraid of a healer's questions. Ask her where she was, in the weeks before she came home to you."For a second I saw doubt flicker behind his anger. Then Vivienne's voice called his name from the palace path, sweet and worried, and the doubt went out."This is not over, Sera," he said, and turned away.That same afternoon, my father sent the summons I had not dared to ask
REJECTED BY MY ALPHA, CROWNED BY THE KING What Vivienne Carried
The morning after the poisoned wine, the palace woke to whispers. Guards doubled at every door of my wing, and my father sent word that no wine would be poured at my table until Master Corwin had tested it himself.I should have felt safer. I did not. Poison teaches you that the danger was already inside the room, wearing a servant's apron, smiling at your feast.Master Corwin sent for me before midday: a quiet, sealed message asking if I would walk in the herb garden, for my health after last night. That was the kind of sentence people used when they did not want the walls to hear the real reason.Ronan offered to come with me. I told him to stay with the guards and the kitchens, where the real answers were, and walked to the garden alone.Corwin was waiting among the rosemary, an old man with careful hands and a face that had learned, over decades of palace service, how to carry bad news without dropping it."Your Highness," he said, and bowed. "Forgive the secrecy. What I must tell
You May Also Like
Alpha Jax
C.J. Primer803.0K viewsTimber Alpha
Marie Night613.1K viewsAlpha Logan
Bryant722.3K viewsAlpha Leo and the Heart of Fire
Moonlight Muse854.6K viewsAccidentally claimed by the rival alpha
Regina Asari106 viewsREBORN BEFORE THE APOCALYPSE: The First Female Alpha
Ella Coleman 151 viewsTHE ALPHA KING'S FORGOTTEN WIFE
Taiwo 56 viewsSubstitute For The Lycan
Melvin19 views
