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Chapter 12
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Sealed Wolf, Stolen Crown Chapter 18
POV: Wren"You've been called before the council."Bree said it from the clinic doorway, pleasant, composed, exactly the way she'd said everything in the training yard days earlier, and I felt my whole body go still the way it always did now when she found a reason to speak to me directly."About what.""You'll want to hear it from them." Something in her expression, careful and satisfied at once, told me she already knew precisely how this would go and had come to watch the first part of it herself. "Now, please. They're waiting."I followed her through the corridors with my cane finding the stone floor harder than it needed to, every step building the same dread I'd carried since the training yard, and by the time we reached the council chamber, my hands had gone cold in a way that had nothing to do with the weather.Reeve was already speaking before I'd fully crossed the threshold. "Given the ongoing security concerns along the eastern border, and your repeated claim to intimate kn
Sealed Wolf, Stolen Crown Chapter 17
POV: Wren“They moved the wedding up again.”Tobias said it carefully, like he’d been debating for the last hour whether to tell me at all, and the fact that he’d decided to anyway told me how bad it must have looked from the outside.“How far up.”“Next week.” He watched my face while he said it, and whatever he saw there made him add, quieter, “I’m sorry. I know that’s not what you wanted to hear.”I didn’t answer right away, because I wasn’t entirely sure what my voice would do if I opened my mouth too soon.I’d told myself, standing in the back of that hall last night, half in shadow, watching Bree slide her arm through his in front of the entire pack, that I’d already done the hard part of grieving this. I’d survived the fire circle. I’d survived the training yard. I’d told myself surviving the wedding announcement would just be one more thing on a list I’d already gotten unpleasantly good at getting through.I hadn’t accounted for the way his whole body had gone rigid the second
Sealed Wolf, Stolen Crown Chapter 16
POV: Kade“Smile. You’re supposed to look happy.”My mother straightened my collar with more force than the collar required, standing close enough to keep her voice for me alone while the hall filled up around us. “The whole pack is watching tonight, Kade. Every flicker of doubt on your face becomes a rumor by morning.”“I’m aware.”“Are you.” She studied me a moment longer than I liked, something sharp behind her eyes that made me wonder exactly how much of yesterday’s clinic visit had already found its way back to her. “Because you don’t look like a man about to have his engagement formally presented to the entire pack. You look like a man bracing for something.”I didn’t answer that, because there wasn’t an honest answer I could give her that wouldn’t make things worse.The hall was already crowded by the time Bree found me near the front, dressed in Ashfall colors for the first time, a deliberate choice, and I understood exactly what it was meant to signal to everyone watching. Sh
Sealed Wolf, Stolen Crown Chapter 15
POV: Wren“Hold still, you’re bleeding again.”Marlow had reopened the same shoulder wound twice in two days, both times insisting he was fine right up until the dressing soaked through, and I was starting to suspect he simply didn’t know how to sit still long enough to let anything heal properly.“Doubled patrol,” he said, wincing as I cleaned the edges. “Nobody told my shoulder about the new schedule.”“Your shoulder’s not the one making the decisions here. You are, and apparently badly.” I wrapped the fresh dressing tighter than strictly necessary, mostly out of frustration at how busy the clinic had been since the border posting went up, a steady stream of minor injuries from warriors pushing themselves harder than the extra shifts required. “Two days. If it opens again, I’m confining you to a cot whether you like it or not.”He grumbled something noncommittal and left, and I had exactly long enough to catch my breath before the door opened again.Kade came in alone, no escort, wh
Sealed Wolf, Stolen Crown Chapter 14
POV: Bree“She’s not just an embarrassment anymore. She’s a liability.”I said it to Marisol in the quiet of her study, no council present, no audience to perform for, because the version of this argument that mattered wasn’t the one I’d made in the training yard. That one had been for the pack. This one was for the woman who actually decided things.“You made your point this morning,” Marisol said, not looking up from the reports on her desk. “Loudly, and in front of half my warriors.”“I made a point I stand behind. An omega with no clear loyalty test on record, unsupervised access to sensitive territory, and a documented pattern of proximity to every incident we’ve had this week. If she were anyone else, security would already have opened a formal inquiry. The only reason she hasn’t is that half this council still can’t decide whether they’re protecting the pack or protecting their own guilt over how she was rejected.”Marisol’s pen stopped moving. That was the first sign I’d said
Sealed Wolf, Stolen Crown Chapter 13
POV: Wren“Now do you believe me?”Tobias asked it flatly, dropping the torn strip of cloth on the council table hard enough that it slid halfway across the polished wood before stopping in front of Reeve.Nobody answered right away. That was answer enough.“The patrol made contact last night,” Kade said, before the silence could stretch any longer. “Confirmed sighting, close pursuit, evasion by someone with clear training in border terrain. This is no longer a question of whether there’s a threat. It’s a question of how long it’s been watching us without anyone noticing.”Reeve’s jaw tightened, the particular expression of a man recalculating a position he’d been fully committed to twelve hours earlier. “The council will authorize a full border posting effective immediately. Doubled warriors along the eastern and northern lines, rotating shifts, reporting directly to the Alpha.”Just like that. A full posting, an emergency authorization, urgency in every voice around that table, and
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