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Chapter Eighty-Nine
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"He's gone," I said, the words settling heavy despite the late hour. "Which means he knew to run before we'd even confirmed his name to anyone beyond this household.""Another leak," Rhys said grimly. "Or he's simply careful enough to assume suspicion the moment Elara started asking questions about old debts.""Either way, we've lost him for now," Doran said. "I'll keep a watch on the port's exits, though I confess I don't hold much hope he'll be foolish enough to use any route we're actually monitoring."The investigation stalled there for several frustrating days, careful watches turning up nothing, and I found myself, amid the lingering tension, grateful for the small, ordinary mercy of Marcus's scheduled visits, time that felt, increasingly, like the one steady constant amid everything else still unresolved.It was on one such afternoon, Kai off chasing Sentinel through the small garden behind our house with his usual delighted shrieking, that I found Marcus sitting quietly with W
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Elara took the news with considerably more composure than I expected, settling into her chair with something thoughtful rather than alarmed crossing her sharp features."An old friend," she repeated slowly, turning the phrase over. "Owing me a debt from before I arrived in this port. That narrows things considerably more than you might expect, Elena. I burned very few bridges on my way here, and fewer still that would carry a grudge this patient.""Who?" I asked."Give me a day," she said. "I'd rather hand you a name than a guess."She was as good as her word, arriving at our door the following evening with a single sheet of paper bearing a name I didn't recognize, though her own expression carried something grim and resigned as she handed it over."Castor Ames," she said. "A trade partner from my earliest years here, before my own house had standing enough to refuse his terms. I ended our partnership badly, Elena, over practices I wasn't willing to continue associating with. He's hel
Second Chance for the Discarded Luna Chapter One Hundred Twelve
"The children are accounted for," I said quickly, the words tumbling out as much for my own reassurance as anyone else's, Doran's grim report having sent my heart into my throat before logic caught up with fear. "They're here, under guard, exactly where they've been all day. Whatever cargo that message meant, it isn't them.""Then what is it?" Marcus demanded, already moving toward the door."I don't know," Doran admitted. "But I intend to find out before that ship clears the harbor."We moved quickly toward the southern docks, Marcus's warriors and Doran's own forces converging from separate directions, Corin falling into step beside me with a map of the harbor's layout already sketched from memory."There," he said, pointing toward a modest vessel already preparing to cast off, torches burning along its deck despite the late hour. "Registered under a false name, according to Nessa's harbor logs. I'd wager considerable coin that's our target.""Then we stop it," Marcus said, already
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"We stop waiting for her," I said, the note still clutched in my hand, every person who mattered most gathered in our small sitting room well past the hour any of us should have been asleep. "I'm done reacting to whatever threat she decides to deliver next. We find her, properly, and we end this.""Agreed," Marcus said immediately, something hard and decisive in his voice. "Though finding her has proven considerably more difficult than wanting to, across this entire past year.""She's grown bolder," Doran said, studying the note carefully. "Careless, even, by her own usual standard. Breaching this house directly, leaving evidence behind rather than simply vanishing entirely. That carelessness might finally give us something to work with.""Careless how?" Rhys asked."She had to be close," Doran said. "Close enough to slip past Wren's gap undetected, close enough to know precisely which room held the children, close enough to take that toy without waking anyone. That level of specific
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"Show me," I said, already reaching for my cloak, Rhys close behind me as we followed Corin out into the cool evening air.The trade house sat dark except for a single lantern burning in the records room, Petra waiting anxiously near the door, Nessa's wolf Sentinel pacing a restless circuit around the perimeter as though his own instincts hadn't fully settled since whatever had happened inside."Nothing's missing," Petra said, the moment we arrived. "I checked everything twice. Every ledger, every contract, every piece of correspondence, all exactly where it should be.""Then what did they leave?" Rhys asked.Corin led us inside, toward the heavy oak desk where Elena's own careful ledgers were typically kept, and gestured toward a single item sitting squarely in the center, deliberate and impossible to miss.A child's small wooden toy, carved carefully in the shape of a wolf pup, identical in every detail to one I recognized instantly from home, one that should, at this very moment, h
Second Chance for the Discarded Luna Chapter One Hundred Nine
Verity arrived at our door alone the following afternoon, and something in her carefully composed expression, pale but steady, told me immediately that Marcus had already told her everything."May I come in?" she asked, her voice carrying none of the easy warmth I remembered from our last proper conversation."Of course," I said, stepping aside, old guilt settling heavy and immediate in my chest at the sight of her.She sat stiffly in the chair Rhys offered, declining the tea Petra attempted to bring, and studied me for a long, difficult moment before finally speaking."He told me everything," she said. "The market. The conversation last night. The children's ages, and what that means about when they were conceived." Something flickered behind her careful composure, hurt breaking briefly through before she controlled it again. "I spent the night doing considerable arithmetic I wish I hadn't needed to do.""Verity, I'm so sorry—""Don't," she said, sharper than I'd ever heard from her.
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