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Chapter 51_The Crown Doesn't Belong to Me
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2026-09-09 01:54:19
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Rejected as the Fat Mate Chapter 177_The Child Who Disappeared
Tahlia's POV"Twenty-five years. You had twenty-five years to tell me I had a sister."My voice echoed off the cellar walls. The lantern flame shivered between us, and my mother sat on the bottom stair with her hands over her face. Cassian had retreated halfway up the steps, as close to invisible as a man his size could manage."I know.""I asked you about my birth a hundred times. I asked why Corvin never looked at me. I asked why I had no baby pictures, no stories, no one who remembered me small. You told me the midwife died and the records burned. You let me think there was nothing to find.""I let you think what was safest.""Safest for whom?" I crouched in front of her. "Don't say me. Say it plainly."She lowered her hands. Her eyes were swollen, and for the first time in my life she didn't look away. "For me. Partly for me. If I told you, you would have gone looking, and I couldn't survive losing a second daughter."The honesty hit harder than a lie would have."Who took her?""
Rejected as the Fat Mate Chapter 176_Two Birth Certificates
Tahlia's POV"One of these is a lie."I held both certificates up to the lantern, side by side, and my voice came out steadier than I felt. Same parchment, same crimson wax, same registry stamp. Same name, written twice in the same careful hand.My mother stood on the bottom stair with her fingers pressed against her lips."Which one?" I asked."Read them again.""I've read them four times.""Read them properly, Tahlia. Not as a daughter. As the woman who found Corliss's forged betrothal in an afternoon."Cassian had crept down the stairs behind her, and I felt him hover at the edge of the lantern's glow. I didn't turn. I lowered my eyes to the first certificate and made myself see it the way I saw ledgers, as a column of figures that either balanced or didn't.Tahlia Osadebe. Daughter of Seraphine Osadebe and Corvin Osadebe, of the pack of Briar Hollow. Born the fourteenth night of the harvest moon, at the fifth hour before dawn.Corvin was the man who raised me, the one who'd sat at
Rejected as the Fat Mate Chapter 175_The Key My Mother Feared
Tahlia's POV"Put it on the table, Tahlia. Please. Slowly."My mother's voice had dropped to almost nothing. She sat in the small, bare room where the council kept her under guard, her hands folded in her lap, her eyes fixed on my fist. I hadn't said a word since I walked in. I had only held up the little iron key, still dark with Garrick's blood, and let it swing on its leather cord.I set it on the table between us.She didn't touch it. She looked at it the way you look at a snake that's gone quiet."Where did you get that?""From a man who died in my arms three days ago." I kept my voice level, though my hands wouldn't stop shaking. "Garrick Vale. A royal sergeant who followed you across the border twenty-six years ago and helped you forge my life. He had an arrow through his chest, and he used his last breath to give me this. He said you know who gave the order to kill me."The color left her face by degrees, as though someone were slowly draining it from her. "Garrick," she whisp
Rejected as the Fat Mate CHAPTER 174_THE ORDER TO KILL ME
Tahlia's POV"Get up, Garrick. Please. Get up off the floor and tell me why I'm alive."He didn't move. His forehead stayed pressed to the cold stone between my boots, and his thin shoulders shook. Behind me, I heard Ronan's sword shift in its sheath, and Cassian's quiet breath at the door. The healer had stopped packing her satchel.I knelt and took the old soldier by his bony arms. He weighed almost nothing. "Garrick. Look at me."He lifted his face. Tears had cut tracks through the grime on his cheeks. "I swore I'd say it to you first. Before anyone. Before I died, I'd say it to your face.""Then say all of it. Slowly."He let me help him back onto the cot. His hands shook so badly the healer pressed a cup of water into them, and he drank without tasting it. Ronan stepped closer and stopped, close enough to hear and far enough not to loom."The order came on the fourth night of the sweep," Garrick began. "Our commander called the sergeants into a farmhouse. Captain Doran Ketch, a h
Rejected as the Fat Mate CHAPTER 173_THE PRISONER IN THE WALL
Tahlia's POV"He won't speak to anyone but you."Ronan said it before I'd finished dismounting, before he kissed me, which told me how many sleepless nights he'd spent staring at that hidden room. Greywatch's courtyard lay silent under a sky the color of wet slate. I had ridden four days with a hundred soldiers and a note in my mother's handwriting burning against my ribs. The first thing my husband did was take my face in both hands, as though checking that I was real."Alive," I said."Two words would have done.""I'm told three is more romantic."A strained laugh escaped him. Then the exhaustion in his eyes turned grim. "I've questioned him for two days. Cassian's tried. Priya brought a healer and broth. He eats, he thanks us, and he won't say a word about who chained him.""Who is he?""He gave the name Garrick Vale. He claims he served in the royal guard twenty-six years ago." Ronan's jaw tightened. "He doesn't want me, Tahlia. He doesn't want a king or a council. He said, 'Bring
Rejected as the Fat Mate Chapter 172_The Protector
Ronan's POV"He signed his own name."Priya laid the border post ledger flat on the war table, and I stared at the line she'd marked in red. It was the third night since Tahlia rode north. Alaric had four days left before the council's deadline, and my stepmother's empty hiding place still sat in my chest like a stone. I had read forty pages of watch reports. This was the first line that made my blood go cold."Who signs their own name when they're breaking into a vault?" I asked."Someone who thinks the order protects him." Priya turned the page toward me. "The northern scouts kept a gate log at the old fortress. Every visitor, every escort, every pass. Dawn on the day the vault opened, a royal guard entered with a sealed authorization. Teren Hask, escort detail.""Whose authorization?""It only says 'by order of the throne.' No signature.""The throne has two seals now.""Yes, Majesty." She didn't look up. "I've already checked which one. The wax impression in the log is smudged. It
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