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THE PRINCE WHO COULDN'T EXPLAIN IT

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Kael Voss had built his entire life around control.

It was the one thing he understood completely, the one certainty he had trusted since childhood, when his father first taught him that a Crown Prince who could not master himself would never be trusted to master anything larger. He had learned to control his temper before he learned to control a blade. He had learned to control his expression before he learned to control an army. Control was the architecture holding up everything he was, and u
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  • THE ALPHA ACADEMY: THE REJECTED HEIR   RETREAT AND RECKONING

    "Run!" Kael's voice cut across the mountainside as he broke cover, already sprinting down the ridge toward them."Lira, move!" Veyra grabbed her arm, hauling her back up the slope. "Now!""He's not attacking directly," Lira gasped, even as she scrambled up the rocky incline. "Look, they're holding position!"She was right. The Hollow Ones had emerged, dozens of them, but they remained clustered near the compound, watching, waiting, rather than surging forward the way they had at the border."A demonstration," Ashen said, reaching them as Kael arrived from the opposite direction. "Not an attack. He's showing us what he's capable of.""I don't particularly want a demonstration," Dorian's voice, absurdly, called out from somewhere further up the ridge, and Lira turned to find him cresting the rise on horseback, considerably out of breath."Dorian? You were supposed to stay at the Academy!""Change of plans," Dorian said, swinging down from his horse. "Rurik got word from a border scout t

  • THE ALPHA ACADEMY: THE REJECTED HEIR   FACE TO FACE

    "Nobody moves," Kael said quietly, hand already on his blade. "Not until we understand what he actually wants.""He wants exactly what that gesture suggests," Veyra said, staring down at the figure waiting patiently at the base of the ridge. "A conversation. Malachai has never been the type to simply attack without theater first.""That's supposed to reassure us," Ashen said."It's supposed to inform you," Veyra said. "Whether it reassures you is your own business."Lira stared down at the man who had haunted the edges of every conversation about the northern threat for days now, finally made real and solid rather than simply a name attached to horror. "I should go down.""Absolutely not," Kael said, the words arriving so quickly they nearly overlapped her own."Kael, if he wanted us dead, those creatures at the border wouldn't have retreated. He wants to talk. I think we should let him.""Or it's a trap," Kael said. "An invitation into a fortified compound surrounded by forces we can

  • THE ALPHA ACADEMY: THE REJECTED HEIR   INTO THE MOUNTAINS

    The terrain shifted dramatically as they pushed further northeast, gentle hills giving way to rocky, ascending ground that made travel considerably slower than any of them had anticipated."How much farther," Lira asked, on their third day of climbing, her breath visible in the increasingly cold mountain air."According to my markers, perhaps half a day more," Veyra said, checking the position of the peaks around them against some internal calculation Lira couldn't quite follow. "The specific location I traced correspondence to sits within a valley just beyond that ridge.""You're certain," Kael asked, not for the first time."As certain as I can be without having stood there myself," Veyra said, an edge of frustration creeping into her voice. "I've answered this question four times already, Crown Prince.""Forgive me for wanting certainty before we potentially walk into an ambush," Kael said."There's no certainty in any of this," Veyra snapped. "There never has been. I'm doing the b

  • THE ALPHA ACADEMY: THE REJECTED HEIR   VERIFICATION

    "We need maps," Ashen said, the moment they'd relocated from the garden to Kael's study, the late hour apparently no obstacle to his sudden burst of focused energy. "Detailed ones. Everything the Academy archives have on the northeastern territory Veyra described.""At this hour," Dorian said, dropping into a chair with visible exhaustion. "Ashen, it's nearly two in the morning.""Malachai Rook doesn't appear to be sleeping either," Ashen said. "I'd rather not hand him a head start.""Fair point," Dorian admitted, though he didn't move from the chair.Kael was already pulling maps from a cabinet, spreading them across the table with practiced efficiency. "Here," he said, tapping a section of terrain marked only sparsely with settlement names. "This is the region Veyra indicated. Considerably remote. Mountainous, mostly unclaimed by any House directly.""Unclaimed is convenient," Rurik said, leaning over the map. "Nobody patrols territory nobody's bothered to claim.""Precisely why it

  • THE ALPHA ACADEMY: THE REJECTED HEIR   THE NAME BEHIND THE SUMMONING

    "Who," Lira said, the single word barely more than a breath.Veyra hesitated, and for the first time since Lira had met her, something that looked genuinely like fear crossed the older woman's composed features."Say it," Lira pressed. "Whatever you're afraid of, saying it out loud isn't going to make it worse than it already is.""You'd be surprised," Veyra said quietly. "His name is Malachai Rook. He is, or was, the last surviving heir of House Rook, another bloodline the Culling supposedly extinguished, alongside your mother's and my own.""Another survivor," Lira repeated. "Like you. Like me.""Not exactly like us," Veyra said. "House Rook's bloodline carried a different gift than the First Alpha's line. Where your blood commands loyalty and unity, House Rook's blood commanded something considerably darker. Domination through fear. Control through corruption of will.""And he's the one summoning the Hollow Ones.""I believe so," Veyra said. "I don't have absolute proof, not yet. B

  • THE ALPHA ACADEMY: THE REJECTED HEIR   ALONE THIS TIME

    "Absolutely not," Kael said, reading the letter a second time as though the words might rearrange themselves into something less alarming. "You are not meeting her alone. Not after everything Sorren told us.""I didn't say I would," Lira said. "I said I need to think about it.""There's nothing to think about.""Kael." She took the letter back gently. "She said this changes everything. After today, after watching those things retreat the moment they confirmed I was there, don't you want to know what she means by that?""Of course I do. That doesn't mean you walk into it unprotected.""She said alone.""She also orchestrated a conspiracy against your life as a personality test," Kael said. "Forgive me if her instructions don't carry much weight with me anymore."Lira sat down heavily, the exhaustion of the day finally catching up with her fully. "What if she's telling the truth this time? What if refusing costs us information we actually need?""Then we find another way to get that inf

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