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Chapter One Hundred Eleven
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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
Second Chance for the Discarded Luna Chapter One Hundred Eleven
"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
Second Chance for the Discarded Luna Chapter One Hundred Ten
"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.
Second Chance for the Discarded Luna Chapter One Hundred Eight
Marcus arrived at the house that evening exactly as he'd promised, and Rhys met him at the door before I could, something hard and immediate in his stance that told me he'd already heard, through whatever quiet channel this small port apparently still managed, precisely what had happened in the market that morning."You know," Rhys said, not a question."I know," Marcus confirmed, something raw still sitting behind his composed exterior. "May I come in?"I nodded past Rhys's shoulder, and the three of us settled into the small sitting room, Kai and Wren already asleep upstairs under Petra's watchful care, the tension between the two men thick enough that I felt it pressing against my own chest alongside everything else."I want to understand," Marcus said, once we'd settled, directing the words toward me though his eyes flicked, more than once, toward Rhys's steady presence at my side. "Not accusation. Understanding. Why, Elena. After everything that happened between us, after watchin
Second Chance for the Discarded Luna Chapter One Hundred Seven
Time seemed to slow entirely, the market's ordinary noise fading into something distant and unimportant, as I watched Marcus's gaze move from Kai's small, upturned face back to mine, then down again, lingering this time, studying the particular shape of his jaw, the set of his dark eyes, features I'd watched emerge gradually over these past months without ever letting myself fully name what they actually meant."Elena." Marcus's voice came out strange, careful, something uncertain and dawning threading beneath the simple greeting. "I didn't realize you'd be in the market this morning.""Quick errand," I managed, my own voice sounding distant and unnatural to my own ears, every instinct screaming to simply turn and walk away before the moment could stretch any further.Kai, entirely unaware of the significance unfolding around him, tugged impatiently at my hand, pointing with determined, furious enthusiasm toward a stall selling bright, ripe plums. "Want," he announced, the single word
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