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Author: Lade_xo
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By the fourth day of the visit, Ava had developed something like a professional expertise in not being noticed, which struck her, more than once, as a strange kind of skill to have honed so thoroughly by nineteen.

"You'll take the linens to the guest wing before breakfast," Delia told her that morning, not quite meeting her eyes, the way she'd taken to doing all week whenever she handed out instructions that involved keeping Ava somewhere useful and somewhere else entirely from wherever the act
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  • Rejected by My Mate, Married to The Alpha   Her Sister, Dressed Up

    By the second week of the visit, Bree had a wardrobe rotation Ava suspected had been planned out on paper well in advance, color by color, occasion by occasion, with the precision of an actual military campaign."The blue for the morning ride, obviously," Delia was saying, standing in the doorway of Bree's room while two maids sorted through a rack of dresses that hadn't existed in the house a week ago. "It photographs well against the horses, and it isn't too formal for daytime.""And for the dinner tonight?""The green. Definitely the green. It brings out your eyes without looking like you tried too hard." Delia held the fabric up to the light, satisfied. "We want him thinking effortless, not orchestrated."Ava, passing the doorway with an armful of freshly pressed shirts meant for Colt, paused just long enough to take in the scene, the racks of new dresses, the careful staging of effortlessness that had clearly taken hours of actual effort to construct. She kept walking before anyo

  • Rejected by My Mate, Married to The Alpha   Unseen

    By the fourth day of the visit, Ava had developed something like a professional expertise in not being noticed, which struck her, more than once, as a strange kind of skill to have honed so thoroughly by nineteen."You'll take the linens to the guest wing before breakfast," Delia told her that morning, not quite meeting her eyes, the way she'd taken to doing all week whenever she handed out instructions that involved keeping Ava somewhere useful and somewhere else entirely from wherever the actual household activity was happening. "And once that's done, the kitchen needs help preparing for the afternoon reception. Stay in the back rooms today. I don't want any confusion about who belongs where.""Understood," Ava said, and meant it more literally than Delia probably intended, given how well she'd already come to understand exactly where she belonged and did not belong this week.She carried the linens down the long guest wing corridor an hour later, arms full, moving briskly past door

  • Rejected by My Mate, Married to The Alpha   Rogue Talk

    The Council chamber wasn't a room Ava was ever allowed inside, not even to deliver refreshments. She'd carried the trays as far as the heavy double doors, only to have one of the younger warriors posted outside take them directly from her hands."I'll carry them in," he said, not unkindly, just matter-of-fact. "Household staff don't go past this door during a sitting Council meeting. Especially not this one.""I wasn't planning to linger," Ava said, though she hadn't actually been given the chance to plan anything at all.He disappeared inside with the trays, and the door swung most of the way shut behind him, catching for just a moment on its hinge before settling into a narrow gap, not quite closed. Ava told herself she should walk away. She didn't. She set herself against the wall just beside the doorframe instead, close enough to hear, far enough, she reasoned, that it hardly counted as anything more than standing in a hallway that happened to have voices drifting through it."Thr

  • Rejected by My Mate, Married to The Alpha   Behind Closed Doors

    Ava wasn't meant to hear this conversation either, but the study door had been left open a crack, and the hallway outside it was, unfortunately for everyone involved, exactly where she needed to be to reach the linen cupboard."He's staying at least a week," her father was saying, pacing the length of the room if the pattern of his footsteps was any indication. "Possibly longer, depending on how the talks progress. That's our window, Delia. A week to make this work in our favor, and not a day more.""A week is nothing," Delia said, though there was calculation rather than complaint in her voice. "But it's enough time, if we're careful. Bree's already made an impression tonight. Did you see the way he watched her during the toast?""I saw him watching the room," her father said. "I'm not certain that's the same thing as watching Bree specifically.""It's close enough to build on." A pause, the clink of glass against glass, someone pouring a drink. "We need him to see her as more than p

  • Rejected by My Mate, Married to The Alpha   The visiting Alpha

    The formal welcome was held that same evening, hastily arranged but impressively assembled given the hours they'd had to prepare it, the great hall lit with the beeswax candles Delia had insisted on, long tables set with whatever finery the house still had from better years.Ava wasn't seated at the tables. She hadn't expected to be. She found her usual place near the kitchen doorway instead, close enough to help ferry dishes, far enough to stay out of the way of anyone who mattered, which tonight meant everyone except her.From there, she had a clear view of the head table, where her father sat beside Alpha Draven Voss in the seat of honor, and where Bree had somehow maneuvered herself into the chair directly across from their guest, laughing at something with the particular brightness she reserved for people worth impressing.Ava studied him properly for the first time, unhurried now that the chaos of arrival had settled into something more composed. He was younger than she'd expect

  • Rejected by My Mate, Married to The Alpha   Riders at the Border

    The messenger arrived at dawn, half-collapsed off his horse before he'd even reached the gate, and within an hour the entire pack house was awake and moving with a kind of urgency Ava hadn't felt since the night of a border skirmish three winters back.She heard it first from Colt, who came through the kitchen already half-dressed for patrol, grabbing bread without sitting down the way he always did, except this time his hands weren't quite steady."Riders at the northern border," he said, to no one and everyone. "A big contingent. Could be a hundred wolves, maybe more.""A hundred?" Delia's voice climbed a full register. "Whose?""Nobody's sure yet. Scout thinks it might be the Ashwood pack, but that doesn't make sense, they've never come this far south." Colt shoved the last of the bread in his mouth and was already moving toward the door. "Dad wants every warrior at the border by midmorning. Just in case.""Just in case of what," Bree said, appearing in the doorway in her nightclot

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