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Chapter 22: THE TEST
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Sold To The Ruthless Alpha Kings Of The North Chapter 28: Lady Isolde Varrow
Morgana stared at him.Then her face went careful again, the way a door closes. She stepped back. Her hands dropped to her sides."I'm sorry, Your Majesty," she said."Don't," he said. His voice was hoarse. "Don't be sorry.""I shouldn't have...""You should." He wiped his hand on a cloth. He was still smiling, and he could not make it stop. "You should laugh. You have a good laugh."She did not answer. She only looked at him with those wary dark eyes, and he could see her trying to decide whether he was kind, or cruel, or something she had no word for.He did not blame her. He did not have a word for it either.***The door at the far end of the kitchen opened.Calen heard it before he saw it. The soft click of a latch, the whisper of silk on stone. Then a woman's voice, light and sweet as sugar."Oh. I beg your pardon. I was looking for the Kings."He turned his head slowly.Lady Isolde Varrow stood in the doorway with one hand on the frame. She was tall and pale and lovely, with ha
Sold To The Ruthless Alpha Kings Of The North Chapter 27: Calen Took Morgana To The Kitchen
"For what?""Bread."Brannoch looked at him. She looked at the girl. Then she looked at him again, and Calen saw a dozen questions go across her face and die there, one at a time."Aye, Majesty," she said. "Bread."The kitchen emptied itself of staff with astonishing speed.Within a minute, the end table held a wooden bowl, a sack of flour, a jar of salt, a small crock of yeast, and a pitcher of water. Morgana stood in front of it with her hands pressed flat against her skirt. She stared at the flour as if it were something that might bite."I don't understand," she said, very quietly."You bake," Calen said. "Do it.""Why?"He thought about lying. It would have been easy. He had lied to kings and councils and enemies for a century. But something about the way she was looking at him, braced for a blow, made the words stick in his throat."Because you are pale," he said at last. "Because you have not eaten. Because Sera says you sit and stare at the wall all day. And because I think th
Sold To The Ruthless Alpha Kings Of The North Chapter 26: Have The Kitchen Lit The Oven
The steward went down on his knees in the great hall, and Calen did not feel a thing.That was the part he had always been good at.Master Voss was a thin man with ink on his fingers and sweat on his upper lip. For six years he had kept the grain accounts for the northern villages. For three of those years he had been selling palace grain to smugglers on the Ice Road and writing the missing sacks off as spoiled. Two villages had gone hungry last winter. A child in one of them had died.Calen sat on the lower throne with one boot crossed over his knee and listened to the clerk read the list of numbers. The hall was long and cold. Blue flame burned in the iron braziers, and the light made everyone's face look like a mask."Do you deny it?" Calen asked."Your Majesty..." The steward's voice shook. "I had a family. The prices...""Do you deny it?"A silence. Then, very small: "No, Your Majesty.""Then you will walk the Ice Road," Calen said. "Without boots, without a cloak. If you reach t
Sold To The Ruthless Alpha Kings Of The North Chapter 25: I want Garrett to go back to Thornwick
The second possibility was worse. She was not a lost soul at all. She was a trap. A gift. The covens had sent a girl with Morgana's face, and soon the girl would open her mouth and say the words that would split the three brothers apart."Either way," Theron said, "the witches are involved. Either way, someone is playing a long game with us. And either way, I do not intend to lose.""What do we do?" Sebastian asked."First. Nobody outside this room hears about the moonleaf. Not Garrett. Not the Betas. Not the council.""Done.""Second. We keep her here. Under our roof, under our eyes, and under guard."Calen looked up sharply. "Guard?""Garrett will post two men outside her chamber. They will take every blade from her room. Every sharp edge. Every glass that could be broken." Theron's gaze went to Calen, and it was gentler than Sebastian had ever seen it. "I have not forgotten what she did at the gate, brother. Neither have you. I will not allow it to happen twice."Calen closed his e
Sold To The Ruthless Alpha Kings Of The North Chapter 24: So she's faking
"Apparently not every field.""Where did you get it?" Sebastian asked."I did not get it. I have had it for sixty years. I kept a small bundle from the coven's gate rites." Theron's silver eyes did not move from the leaf. "I put it on a tray last night with eleven common herbs. I asked the girl to name them."Sebastian felt his skin prickle. "And?""She named the other eleven without trouble. Then she picked up the moonleaf. She said she did not know what it was. She said it smelled like rain on stone." Theron paused. "Then she set it apart from the others. She did not know why."For a long moment, nobody spoke. Outside, the wind scraped across the glass.Calen let out a shaky breath. "Rain on stone," he whispered.Sebastian looked at him. "What?""That is what she called it. Back then." Calen's voice had gone thin. "When we first found her in the forest. She had a basket of it. I smelled it on her skin. I said it smelled like the air before snow. She laughed at me.""She never laughe
Sold To The Ruthless Alpha Kings Of The North Chapter 23: Did you hurt her again?
After Morgana left, Theron stood at the window again.He stared at his own face in the frosted pane and thought: She has no magic. She does not know the language. She does not know the blade. She is a bread seller from a dying village.He believed it for almost a full minute.Then he turned and looked at the table by the fire. At the wooden tray of twelve herbs.Eleven of them were still in their neat row.One lay alone at the edge, set apart by a hand that had not known why.He walked over and picked up the moonleaf. He raised it to his face. It smelled of rain on stone, and of snow about to fall, and of a gate he had not stood at in a hundred and twenty years.Nobody outside the Morvain coven had ever known that smell.And the girl who had just sat in his chair had called it by a name that was not a name, and had known exactly where it did not belong.****FEW HOURS LATER*Sebastian was bleeding when the mindlink came.He did not mind. Blood meant he was alive, and being alive was t
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