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The Claiming Demand

ผู้เขียน: Dakota Quinn
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Haydee

"No," I said.

The word landed in the golden hall like a dropped blade.

By evening the hall was full of people who had opinions about my body.

Nightfall's elders wanted Hunter to mark me by moonrise, a claim to wrap my bloodline in their colors before another pack could reach for it. A Silvercrest envoy had already come to the gates under a truce banner, sent by Cole's council, requesting the

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  • Rejected by my Mate, Chosen by his Enemy   The White Den

    HaydeeRourke let the question sit between us, because he wanted me to weigh the size of it before he filled it in."No," I said."It is a sanctuary. A hidden one, up in the northern woods, run quietly for years as a refuge for the worst-off wolves in the territories. The rejected mates, the abused, the ones who ran from forced bonds with nothing. The broken ones your whole crown is supposed to protect."He held my eyes."Ursula owns it, and has for years. Every wounded wolf who ever limped to the White Den for shelter walked straight into her hands, and she has been harvesting and recruiting and remaking them the entire time. The one place in the north that exists to protect the people you love most is hers, and they do not know it."The horror came up in me slow and total. The rejected, the abused, the exact wounded souls I had reopened and sworn to shelter, the people Nell and Ivo and Cora spoke for, the whole mo

  • Rejected by my Mate, Chosen by his Enemy   The Prisoner's Bargain

    I went down to the cell myself, which every advisor I had told me not to do.Rourke did not look like a monster. That was the thing that had always unsettled me about him, from the wolf pit to the harvest to now. He looked like a tired accountant at the end of a long ledger, sitting on the edge of his cot in chains, and when the guards brought me in he rose, polite, as though I had come to discuss terms on a shipment.In a way I had."High Luna." He inclined his head. "Thank you for coming down. I will be plain, the way I have always been plain with you. I am a businessman, and my business is over. Ursula does not keep failed assets, so I am dead the moment I am no longer useful to either of you. I would prefer not to be dead. Everything I know is for sale, and the buyer is whoever keeps me breathing.""Then talk," I said. "And I will decide what it is worth after.""You will want to sit for the first part."He did not smile."Ursula

  • Rejected by my Mate, Chosen by his Enemy   The Veiled Message

    HaydeeI read the card a dozen times, and every time it did more damage.You freed her. I kept her. We each love in our own way. It was not a threat. Ursula did not deal in threats. It was an argument dressed as grief, and the argument was the most dangerous thing she had ever aimed at me, because a part of me could not answer it.She was saying: look what your freedom does. You opened the cages, and within three days a freed woman is dead. My way, the assigned bond that never breaks and never kills, would have kept that woman breathing in her cage another thirty years. Yours set her loose and got her murdered inside a week.Count the bodies, Talitha. Your mercy has a higher body count than my cruelty, and you have worn the crown three days.And the horror of the card was that, on the face of it, she was not wrong.My reforms had loosed the bondquake. The bondquake had killed three men. My freed wid

  • Rejected by my Mate, Chosen by his Enemy   The High Luna's First Accusation

    HaydeeBy dawn the crescent on the dead widow's wall had done exactly what it was carved to do.The old Alpha families came for me before I had finished dressing. They filled my court with a single polished voice, grave and shaking with the pleasure of a knife finally in hand, and laid two words at the foot of my throne.Rebellion. Murder. A queen three days crowned had loosed a killing power on the north, they said, and now carved her own sigil over the bodies of the freed to terrify the packs, and any wolf could see where this ended, in a reign of quiet blood with a woman's mark above every grave."We do not ask you to abdicate," their eldest said, generous as a closing trap. "We are reasonable men. We ask only this. Suspend the reforms. Freeze every change to the bond-law, restore the old ties, halt the bondquake where it stands, until the murderer is found and the north is calm. Prove you are a queen and not a plague. Hand us

  • Rejected by my Mate, Chosen by his Enemy   The Price of Freedom

    HaydeeBy nightfall I knew who the three dead men had been, and it did not make anything simpler. It made it worse.They were old, gray Alphas near the ends of long reigns, and all three had done the same thing with those reigns. Each had taken a Luna against her will decades ago and held her by a forced bond ever since, thirty years, forty, a woman kept like furniture in a fine house by a tie she never chose.These were not innocent men my power struck down. They were jailers.And when the bondquake loosened every forced tie in the north, the black bonds these three had built snapped so hard they killed the men who had spent their lives tightening them.Nobody in my court could agree on what that meant.By morning it had split three ways, and each way had a mouth."Justice," said the first faction, the younger Alphas and half the Lunas, not hiding their satisfaction. "The Goddess Herself could not judge clea

  • Rejected by my Mate, Chosen by his Enemy   The Bondquake

    HaydeeThree days after I took the crown alone, the reports began coming in from every corner of the border territories, and I learned that when you change the oldest law in the world, the world does not thank you quietly.They called it the bondquake.My one refusal at the Moonwell had rolled out through every mating tie in the north, and it had not touched them all the same way. I sat in the council chamber with a widening pile of reports and read what I had done, and it was four different things at once.The mated pairs came first. Wolves bound and happy, who had chosen each other freely years ago, woke to find their bonds gone thin and strange for a day, flickering like a lamp in a draft, terrified, because they had done nothing wrong and something sacred had wobbled under them.Then the rejected mates, cast off on their own ceremony floors, who woke with the old wound torn open and screaming fresh, because I had reach

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