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Chapter 24: Darius's Fury
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2026-09-18 02:28:38
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The corridor outside his father's study felt longer than it had any right to be. Darius walked it without seeing any of it, boots striking stone in a rhythm too even for how badly everything inside him had come apart, past torches and portraits and guards who straightened as he passed and said nothing, reading something in his face that made them wisely choose silence over greeting. Somewhere behind him, faintly, he heard the study door close, his father alone now with whatever was left of thirty years of carefully guarded silence. By this family. The words kept repeating themselves, louder each time, until they drowned out everything else he tried to think instead. His grandfather had given the order. His father hadn't simply inherited a secret already buried. He'd found Marianne alive, chosen silence over correcting the record, and carried that choice alone for thirty years, right up until tonight. And somewhere in the middle of all of it, a woman named Marianne had spent decades
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The study door didn't creak. It slammed, hard enough to rattle the shelves lining the far wall and send a stack of maps sliding off the edge of a side table, and King Alaric looked up from his desk with the calm, unhurried patience of a man who'd survived far worse entrances than his own son's. Firelight caught the gray threading through his beard, the deep lines around eyes that had watched three decades of border wars and council betrayals without ever quite losing their composure until tonight. Papers he'd clearly been avoiding sat untouched beneath his folded hands, as though he'd been waiting for this exact conversation longer than Darius had known to expect it. "I take it the visit with Lady Selene didn't end well." "She said whatever happened to Aurora's mother belongs to you to explain. Not my mother. Not some old castle rumor. You." Darius crossed the room without slowing, planting both hands flat on the desk between them. "So explain it." Something changed behind his fathe
Rejected By My Alpha, Chosen By His Ruthless Brother. Chapter 24: Darius's Fury
"She said what to you?"Aurora's hands were still shaking when she told him, sitting on the edge of their bed with her arms wrapped around herself, and Darius felt something cold and violent settle into his chest with every word she repeated back to him. He'd left the delegation the moment he heard she'd returned pale and silent from the gathering hours earlier, and one look at her face had been enough to tell him something had gone badly wrong while he wasn't there to stop it."She brought up the portrait, and your mother finding me there." Aurora's voice stayed steady, though he could hear what it cost her to keep it that way. "She didn't shout it or gloat about it. That's what made it worse. She said it the way you'd mention the weather, like it cost her nothing at all to hold that over me. Then she told me to ask Isolde what happened to my mother, and that not everyone who's aware of the answer wishes me well.""That's a threat.""She was careful about how she phrased it. Nothing
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"Lady Aurora. What a pleasure to finally meet the woman everyone's talking about."Selene's smile arrived a full second before her eyes did, warm and carefully practiced, the kind of expression Aurora had learned to distrust on sight after growing up around court politics she'd never wanted any part of. She swept into the receiving hall in pale blue silk, every inch the picture of a gracious visiting Luna, two attendants trailing behind her carrying gifts wrapped carefully in ribbon."Lady Selene." Aurora kept her voice even, matching the performance if not the warmth behind it. "Kingswood welcomes you.""Does it?" Selene's gaze flicked briefly toward Darius, standing rigid beside his father at the head of the hall. "I confess I expected a cooler reception, given everything that's happened between our packs lately. How refreshing to be wrong.""We extend hospitality to all visiting dignitaries, as is expected of us." Darius's voice carried none of the warmth Selene's did, precise and
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"Say that again."Selene didn't flinch at his tone, though the messenger standing behind her did, shifting his weight like the floor might open beneath him. "The girl healed him, my lord. In front of half his guard. Her hands turned silver and the wound closed like it had never happened."Kael set down the cup he'd been holding before he crushed it. "Darius let her onto a battlefield.""He didn't let her do anything, from what I hear. She came anyway." Selene's mouth curved, the particular smile she wore when she'd already decided how to use something before anyone else in the room had finished reacting to it. "Rather fitting, don't you think? The wolf you rejected turns out to be some kind of miracle worker. It must sting.""It doesn't sting." It did, somewhere he refused to examine too closely, an old wound he'd buried under three years of telling himself he'd made the right choice. He shoved the feeling down where it belonged. "It's useful.""Useful how?""Describe exactly what you
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"She just stared at me like I'd grown a second head."Aurora sat on the edge of the infirmary cot, watching Darius's color slowly return while a healer checked the bandage over his side for the third time that morning. The wound had closed enough overnight to stop needing constant pressure, though it still looked raw and angry along the edges, a stark reminder of how close the silver light had cut it. The healer pressed gently at the skin around it, checking for the heat and swelling that would mean infection setting in, and Aurora found herself watching the woman's hands as much as Darius's face, tracking each step out of habit she hadn't quite managed to set down."Who did?" Darius asked, voice still rough with sleep he hadn't gotten enough of."One of the kitchen girls. I walked past her this morning and she dropped an entire tray of bread." Aurora managed a tired smile. "Not the reaction I expected after saving your life.""Give it time." He caught her hand before she could pull i
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