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Chapter 182_The Wolf Beneath My Skin
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2026-11-13 15:08:45
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Rejected as the Fat Mate Chapter 183_Poison in the Palace
Ronan's POV"Nobody touches anything in this kitchen until I say so."The head cook went gray. Behind her, a dozen scullions froze with their hands in dishwater, and the only sound was the fire popping in the great hearth. It was barely dawn. I hadn't slept. My knuckles were wrapped in linen where I'd split them on the paneling, and I had not let go of Tahlia's hand for longer than a few breaths since Ysolde laid that gray liquid in front of us."Majesty," the cook whispered. "Is something wrong?""Where does the Luna's honey come from?""Fenn's, Majesty. The apothecary on Chandler's Lane." She wrung her apron. "He's supplied the palace twenty years. Honey, tinctures, tonics for the household. Always careful, always punctual.""Who orders it?""I do, from the standing requisition. But this honey's special." She turned to a shelf and lifted down a small cloth-covered ledger. "A new blend, for the Luna's table only. It was added to the order two months ago. The crown's request.""The cr
Rejected as the Fat Mate Chapter 182_The Wolf Beneath My Skin
Tahlia's POV"You're lying to me, Cassian."He didn't look away from the road. We were two days south of Greyfen, the fen's black reeds finally sinking behind us, and the column rode in tired silence. "I'm doing nothing of the sort.""You've said 'I'm fine' three times since breakfast, and nobody asked.""You asked at dawn.""I asked how you slept." I nudged my horse closer. "My wolf is pacing, and she's never done that around you. She smells something sour, like metal on the back of the tongue. It's coming off you."His jaw flexed. "That's not possible.""It started after Greyfen. I thought it was nerves." I studied his profile. "It's fear, isn't it? You're afraid of something."For a long moment, he said nothing. Then he exhaled hard."The king told me to watch you," he muttered. "For dizziness, headaches, anything strange. He said you've been rubbing your temples for a week and denying it. I wasn't supposed to say."My face went hot. "He asked you to spy on me.""He asked me to kee
Rejected as the Fat Mate Chapter 181_My Sister's Blade
Tahlia's POV"No."The knife pressed harder against my throat. I felt the point sink into my skin, a thin line of heat, but I didn't flinch and I didn't reach for the hidden blade strapped to my forearm. Maren had a right to look at it and not find me reaching."No?" Maren's voice was barely a breath. "I'm not asking permission.""I know. I'm telling you what I'll do." I held her gaze. "I won't fight you. You can take that knife as far as you like, but I will not lift a hand against my sister to protect a throne.""You're lying.""Cut me and find out."Her jaw tightened. The blade trembled against my pulse. In the silence, I heard the kettle's thin whistle, the water lapping beneath the floor, and the slow, uneven rhythm of her breathing."You think I won't?""I think you've been waiting twenty-six years to feel something besides cold." I kept my voice low and steady. "If this is what you need, then do it. But I don't think it is.""You don't know me.""No. But I know what it is to be
Rejected as the Fat Mate Chapter 180_The Sister Who Chose My Enemy
Tahlia's POV"Maren."She flinched as though I'd struck her. "What did you say?""Maren. It was written on the bottom of the second birth certificate, in the margin, in our mother's handwriting. I didn't understand it until now." I kept my eyes on her, not on the moonstone gleaming on the table between us. "She named you before they took you. Maren Osadebe."She said nothing for a long time. The kettle hissed. Beneath the floor, black water slapped the stilts."I've been Wren Calloway for twenty years," she said at last, hoarse. "Dace gave me the name. Nobody here has ever called me anything else.""I'm not asking you to take it back. I'm telling you it was yours first.""I know whose it was." She pulled the black velvet over the stone as though hiding something obscene. "Sit. You're making me nervous."I sat. She remained standing, arms folded, her bare feet planted on the boards."You said I have no idea what's in the treaty," I said. "Tell me.""I read it three weeks ago. Every pag
Rejected as the Fat Mate Chapter 179_My Other Half
Tahlia's POV"One of us will never leave. I'd like it noted that I read that sentence too, and I'm still saying no."Ronan stood in the stable yard at dawn with his arms folded and his jaw set. I tightened my saddle girth and didn't look at him. Cassian waited by the gate with twenty riders, pretending to inspect his reins."Wray found a procedural delay," I said. "Alaric's hearing is postponed ten days. You told me so yourself.""Which means I have ten days to keep the council from hanging him, and I can't do that from a swamp.""She asked for me alone.""She threatened to kill one of us.""She threatened a hypothetical." I turned to face him. "If I bring an army, she disappears again. She's spent twenty-six years learning how."He stared at me. Then he crossed the yard in four strides, caught my face in his hands, and kissed me hard enough to make me forget the horses."Three words," he said against my mouth. "Every night.""Still alive. Miss you.""Better."Greyfen was three days o
Rejected as the Fat Mate Chapter 178_The Face in the Photograph
Ronan's POV"Nobody paints a scar that carefully from memory, Majesty. Whoever sat for this sat still for hours and let him work from her face."Pelham Orr, master of the Miniaturists' Guild, held the little portrait an inch from his nose, a jeweler's glass screwed into one eye. His shop in the lower city smelled of linseed and crushed lapis. Cassian stood at my shoulder. Outside, six guards pretended to admire the street.I had given myself one hour. A rider waited at the palace gate with his horse already saddled, and every minute I kept the painting from Tahlia felt like theft. But I couldn't send her a face I didn't understand."Can you tell me who made it?""Not by name. The good ones never sign." Orr turned the frame over. "But I can tell you where. This blue in the window is ground from a mineral found only in the Greyfen marshes, three days' ride north. And the brass carries a reed hallmark. One smith in Greyfen stamps it.""Greyfen," Cassian said. "They haven't paid tribute i
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