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The Thing He Won’t Let Himself Think

Author: Sunkissed
last update publish date: 2026-04-12 18:42:24

EDMUND’S POV

The rumors reached me through Marta.

She came on her regular health check — the fiction Clara had maintained of responsible caretaking that meant Marta had access to the east chambers twice weekly on a schedule that Clara’s people had stopped scrutinizing because it had been unremarkable for so long.

Marta was very good at being unremarkable.

She checked my pulse. She noted my blood pressure. She asked about sleep and appetite with the professional attention of a healer who was doi
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    ISABELLA’S POVClara tried to get up.Not surrender — she didn’t have surrender in her, I’d always known that about her, it was one of the things I’d understood the moment she’d stood in that corridor with her claws at my son’s throat and smiled. Clara didn’t have the architecture for surrender. What she had was the architecture for survival and she used it now — rolling, using her good arm, trying to find the purchase that would get her back on her feet and buy her one more exchange.I let her get to her knees.She looked up at me.In the throne room that she’d occupied for eight months. With the rearranged flag through the window and the Alpha’s chair behind her and the sounds of a battle that had already ended filtering through the walls.She looked at me.I looked at her.Eight months of my pack. Eight months of Edmund in a cell. Eight months of Ramona in grain stores and Marta giving three-word messages and Oswin with his cane and sixty people saying yes by candlelight and all of

  • REJECTED LUNA RETURNS FOR WAR!   Everything Between Us

    CLARAShe’d heard the battle moving closer.Not panicking — she’d promised herself she wouldn’t panic, panic was for people who hadn’t prepared and she had prepared, she had prepared for every version of this she could think of.She’d thought of most of them.Not all.She stood in the center of the throne room when the door opened.Not behind the Alpha’s chair — she’d considered it, the symbolic value of being seated when Isabella entered, the projection of unconcerned authority. She’d decided against it.Standing was honest.Standing said: I see you. I know what this is. I’m not pretending.The door opened.Isabella walked in.ISABELLAShe looked exactly as I remembered.That was the thing that hit first — not the throne room, not the Alpha’s chair with the rearranged flag visible through the window, not the eight months of Clara-as-Luna evident in the specific arrangement of the space.Clara herself.Pretty in the soft deceptive way she’d always been pretty. Long blonde hair. The fa

  • REJECTED LUNA RETURNS FOR WAR!   The Door Opens

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  • REJECTED LUNA RETURNS FOR WAR!   The Night Evergreen Fought Back

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  • REJECTED LUNA RETURNS FOR WAR!   Isabella's Mission Conflict

    ISABELLA'S POVLeon had been back from Ironville for three days, and I was running out of excuses.Excuses for why I hadn't gathered any intelligence while he was gone. Excuses for why I'd spent those eight days worried sick instead of searching his study for useful information. Excuses for why th

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