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Chapter Forty-Seven
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Second Chance for the Discarded Luna Chapter Forty-Seven
"Two days isn't enough time to properly fortify an escort," Doran said, pacing the length of the council chamber while my father listened with grim, focused attention. "Not for a convoy this size, carrying this much value.""Then we need to know exactly what we're defending against," my father said. "Elena, you've spent more time inside this conspiracy's evidence than anyone else in this room. What does the timeline shift tell you?"I stood at the head of the table, the salvaged correspondence spread before me, and forced myself to think through the pattern rather than simply react to the mounting dread. "She knows we're onto her," I said. "The safehouse raid, the failed frame against Corin, cornering me and Rhys in the palace itself. Every plan she's built has been unraveling faster than expected. Moving up the convoy's departure isn't strength. It's desperation.""Desperate people are considerably more dangerous," Rhys said from his position near the door, arms crossed. "Not less."
Second Chance for the Discarded Luna Chapter Forty-Six
Nessa sat propped against a stack of pillows in the healer's recovery chamber, color finally returning to her face after a week of careful rest, the small wolf pup curled tight against her side exactly where it had refused to leave since the night we found her."You look better," I said, settling into the chair beside her bed."I feel considerably better than I did," she admitted. "Talia says the ribs will still ache for weeks. The rest is healing faster than expected."I studied her a moment, searching for the right way into a conversation I'd been circling since the night we brought her home. "Have you thought about what comes next? Whether you'll stay here, once you're strong enough to travel again."Something flickered across her face, grief and uncertainty tangled together. "There's nothing left for me at Blackthorn," she said quietly. "Not anymore." Her hand drifted absently to the pup's fur, a gesture that seemed to steady her. "My brother was the only family I had left there.
Second Chance for the Discarded Luna Chapter Forty-Five
"Lock down every gate." Doran's voice cracked across the courtyard like a whip. "No one enters, no one leaves, until we've swept every corridor.""How did she get inside?" Rhys demanded, already moving toward the palace steps, his earlier exhaustion burned away by pure adrenaline."We don't know yet," the scout said, struggling to keep pace. "A servant spotted an unfamiliar woman near the eastern wing. Matched the description you gave after the safehouse.""The eastern wing." My stomach dropped. "That's near my chambers.""Elena, stay behind me," Rhys said, already drawing his blade."Absolutely not." I fell into step beside him instead, ignoring the sharp look he threw my way. "If she's here for me, hiding somewhere else doesn't make me safer. It just means I don't see her coming."We reached the eastern corridor at a dead run, guards already stationed at intervals, tension coiling thick in the torchlit air. My father emerged from a side passage, flanked by two of his personal guard,
Second Chance for the Discarded Luna Chapter Forty-Four
I carried the letter back into the main office myself, unwilling to let anyone else deliver news this damning secondhand. Corin rose the moment he saw my face, whatever color remained in his own draining fast."What did you find?"I set the letter on the desk between us, watching him read it, watching his eyes move faster and faster down the page until his hands had gone visibly unsteady around the parchment's edges."This isn't mine," he said, voice cracking on the words. "Elena, I swear to you, I never authorized any shipment delay. I never received any payment.""Your name is on it," Rhys said, stepping closer, something hard and watchful in his stance now. "Your authority, specifically named.""My father knows this office," Corin said, desperation creeping into his voice. "He knows how the correspondence is structured, how authorizations are worded. If he wanted to forge something convincing enough to pass casual inspection, he'd know exactly how to do it.""That's a considerable
Second Chance for the Discarded Luna Chapter Forty-Three
"That's not possible." The words left me before I'd fully processed what Doran had just read aloud. "Corin wouldn't.""The evidence says otherwise," Doran said, not unkindly, though his tone carried no room for argument either. "Partially burned correspondence, found in the safehouse of the woman orchestrating attacks against both kingdoms. It names Ashwood as a contact inside our own merchant houses.""There could be another explanation," Rhys said carefully, watching my face. "A relative. A rival house borrowing the name deliberately to cast suspicion on an innocent man.""Or he's exactly what the paper says he is," Kellan cut in, arms crossed, something hard in his expression. "Elena, you've trusted this man for weeks. Trust doesn't make someone incapable of betrayal. If anything, it makes betrayal easier."I flinched at that, thinking of Damon, of Lyra, of every carefully constructed lie that had nearly destroyed Blackthorn from the inside. Kellan wasn't wrong to raise the possibi
Second Chance for the Discarded Luna Chapter Forty-Two
"You're not seriously letting him go after riders in the dark without you," Petra said, hovering at the edge of Talia's chambers while the healer finished stitching the worst of the gash along Nessa's hairline."I don't have a choice," I said. "Doran split the party the moment the messenger reported those tracks near the eastern border. Half came back with us. Half went after the trail.""And Rhys went with the second half.""Rhys went with the second half," I confirmed, my voice tighter than I meant it to sound.Nessa stirred slightly on the healer's table, eyes fluttering half open. "You should be with him," she murmured, voice still thick with exhaustion. "Not sitting here fussing over me.""I'm exactly where I need to be," I said, taking her hand carefully. "You nearly died tonight. I'm not leaving until Talia tells me you're stable.""Stable enough," Talia said, tying off the last stitch with brisk efficiency. "She needs rest, food, and considerably less excitement than this part
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