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Chapter Twenty-Three – Kira
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SILVERBORN: THE ALPHA'S REJECTED MATE Chapter Seventy-One - Damien
I brought the restitution proposal to the Council on the twenty-first day, eight days before the moon, and it was the worst morning of my life as an Alpha, and I want to set down exactly how badly it went rather than the version that will end up in the record.I had it assessed properly first. That was Marcus's insistence and it was right. Petra Vane and two clerks from Ashwood spent eleven days putting a number on a hundred and twenty-nine years, working from the three ledgers and sixty years of my mother's research, and what they produced was not a moral document. It was an accounting.Three hundred and eighty-three names, of which Blackthorn's share is thirty-one.If the takings had fallen evenly across four packs by size and border length, Blackthorn's share would have been a hundred and nine.Seventy-eight people.That is the number. That is what a hundred and twenty-nine years of an arrangement bought my pack, expressed in the only currency that means anything: seventy-eight wol
SILVERBORN: THE ALPHA'S REJECTED MATE Chapter Seventy - Nadia
They told me about Callum on the sixth day and they told me badly, which I have decided I prefer.Marcus Bell did it. He came through the door himself rather than sending the warrior on the rota, and he stood just inside it with his hands at his sides and said, "Callum Vane died on the eastern flank on the night of the moon. He went forward with a Draven boy when the line bent. I'm told it made a difference. I don't know if that helps.""Does it usually?""No," said Marcus. "But people keep saying it, so I said it."Then he stood there for a while, which I had not expected."He was on your door for eleven weeks," he said eventually. "He requested the rotation. Did you know that?""No.""He came to me in the first fortnight and asked to be put on it permanently, and I said no, because that is not how a rota works and because I was not certain of his reasons." Marcus's face did not change at all. "He said you'd told him about a girl in Sterling he was too nervous to write to, on a perim
SILVERBORN: THE ALPHA'S REJECTED MATE Chapter Sixty-Nine - Isabel
My father offered me Sterling on the eleventh day, and I turned it down in my own kitchen over a cold cup of tea, and I have not regretted it for a single hour since.I want to record the offer accurately, because it was not a gesture and he did not make it easy."Not the succession," he said. "You know perfectly well the succession isn't mine to hand anybody, and Corrin has spent nine years earning it and would be a perfectly adequate Alpha. I'm offering you the archive.""You're offering me a records room.""I am offering you Sterling's entire information function, reorganised from nothing, with a seat in my briefings and a budget, and I would appoint you tomorrow." He put his cup down. "Isabel. In four months you have done the single most consequential piece of work anybody in this territory has done in a century, and you did it as a private individual with a folder, and I have spent a fortnight being told by my own Beta that if I do not give you an office somebody else will.""Bla
SILVERBORN: THE ALPHA'S REJECTED MATE Chapter Sixty-Eight - Selene
They tried her on the ninth day after the field, in the hall with the round table built without a head, and they did it properly, which surprised a great many people and did not surprise me at all.Reyes insisted on it. That is the part nobody expected. The Alpha of Draven, who had lost thirty-one over sixty-one years to the names in that ledger and six more on a Tuesday night, stood up at the opening of the session and said that if this Council intended to execute an eighty-two-year-old woman it would do so having first given her a hearing of record, with an advocate, in front of witnesses, and that any pack unwilling to sit through that could leave the hall and he would remember which.Nobody left."My people want her dead within the hour," he said, sitting back down. "I am aware of what my people want. My people have wanted things before." He looked around the table. "We have just discovered that this entire territory has spent a hundred and twenty-nine years doing exactly what was
SILVERBORN: THE ALPHA'S REJECTED MATE Chapter Sixty-Seven - Kira
My mother came to Blackthorn on the fourth day after the field, and I let her in, and the whole of the argument I had spent four months rehearsing lasted about eleven seconds."You should not be here," I said."No," said Luna Voss. "Almost certainly not. Where would you like to do this?"That was all. No defence, no preamble, no carriage. She had come in a plain coat with a bag over her shoulder and she stood in the yard of a pack that was not hers and asked me where I would like to do it, and I discovered that I had built an entire speech for a woman who no longer existed.We did it in the east field, which is the largest open ground Blackthorn has and which Damien had cleared of every living soul for a mile in four directions after Leo made him.Because Leo was against it. I want that recorded properly, since a great deal of what happened afterward has been laid at his door by people who were not in the room."Two of the line in one place," he had said, the night before, in the flat
SILVERBORN: THE ALPHA'S REJECTED MATE Chapter Sixty-Six - Council
They counted the dead at first light, because that is the only thing anybody has ever been able to do at first light, and the number was fourteen.Four from Sterling. Six from Draven, who had taken the eastern flank. Three from Blackthorn. One from Ashwood, a woman of thirty-one named Idris Hale who had been standing on the western arc and who had gone forward, alone and without instruction, when the line there began to bend, and who had held the bend long enough for it not to become a break.Nobody who was on that field has been able to explain why the number was not considerably higher.They had counted thirty-one of the grey line coming out of the treeline in the first minute. By the time the last of them went back into it there were eleven, and the eleven did not run; they withdrew in the same unhurried formation they had arrived in, stepping over the wounded on the way out exactly as they had on the way in, and the man at the centre of them walked out last and did not look back a
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