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Chapter 20: Mole
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THE ALPHA’S BROKEN MATE Chapter 20: Mole
RowanThe third rogue incident made no sense.I had the report spread across my desk alongside the two previous ones, all three side by side, and I’d been staring at them for the better part of an hour trying to find the thread that connected them. Location, timing, targets, method. Nothing lined up cleanly enough to be a pattern but nothing was random enough to be coincidence either.Someone was feeding information to the rogues.That was the conclusion I kept arriving at and kept not wanting to sit with because of what it meant. An inside source. Someone with access to border patrol schedules, pack movement, enough operational detail to keep the incidents just below the threshold of a full response while still doing consistent damage.I pushed the reports aside and looked at the map on the wall.Three incidents. Outer territories, different sectors, nothing taken, two wolves injured. It looked like probing. Testing response times, testing coverage gaps, building a picture of where w
THE ALPHA’S BROKEN MATE Chapter 19: Not Asking
AthenaAmara told me at breakfast.Casually, between bites of toast, the way she delivered most information she considered unremarkable. “I got lost last night and Rowan walked me back.”I set my cup down. “You got lost.”“A little bit.”“Amara.”“I woke up and the corridor looked different.” She took another bite. “He was in his study. He was working.”I looked at her. She looked back at me with those silver eyes, completely unbothered, like she hadn’t just told me she’d wandered a wolf palace alone at what must have been some awful hour of the night.“Why didn’t you come to my room.” I said.She shrugged. “I didn’t want to wake you.”“I would want to be woken.”“You looked tired.”“Amara—”“He was nice about it.” She said it like that settled something. “He walked slow so I could keep up.”I picked my cup back up. Didn’t say anything else because there wasn’t anything to say that wouldn’t come out more tangled than I wanted it to. She’d gone looking for comfort in the middle of the
THE ALPHA’S BROKEN MATE Chapter 18: What the Curse Looks Like
RowanIt happened at two in the morning.I was at my desk, which was where I usually was at two in the morning, working through the rogue activity reports that kept not making sense no matter how many times I read them. Three incidents, outer territories, no clean pattern, no demands, just damage and disappearance.The pain came without warning.Not the dull pulse I’d gotten used to, the low constant reminder that the curse was there and moving. This was different. This was every nerve in my left arm lighting up at once, a white hot thing that started at my wrist and drove straight up to my shoulder, and I knocked the report off the desk getting my sleeve up.The veins had crossed my elbow.I sat very still and breathed through it, both hands flat on the desk, watching the black lines pulse visibly under my skin. Moving. I could actually see them moving, slow and deliberate, branching.I had maybe eight months before they reached my heart.The witch had been specific about that part.
THE ALPHA’S BROKEN MATE Chapter 17: Dinner and Other Battles
AthenaThe dress was red.I hadn’t picked red on purpose, it was just the one that fit the occasion and didn’t make me look like I was trying too hard or not trying at all, which was a narrow target to hit. Chase had looked at it when I’d held it up and said that one without hesitation, which was good enough for me.Amara had opinions about the earrings. I went with hers.She was staying in the east wing with one of the younger female staff who had taken to her with an enthusiasm that Amara had accepted as her due. Her name was Peri, she was maybe nineteen, and within twenty four hours Amara had her completely managed.“Be good.” I told her at the door.“I’m always good.” She said, which was not strictly true.“Be good in a way that Peri can verify.” I said.She considered this distinction. “Okay.”I walked to the dining hall with Chase at my shoulder and told myself it was just dinner. Just a room full of people and food and conversation. I had sat in rooms full of people who wanted
THE ALPHA’S BROKEN MATE Chapter 16: Rurik
RowanHe was already in the east hall when I arrived.Sitting at the far end of the table like he owned it, one ankle crossed over his knee, a glass of something dark in his hand at eleven in the morning. That was Rurik. Always already there, always already comfortable, always making sure you noticed both things.We shared a father. That was the beginning and end of what we shared.He looked up when I walked in, smiled with all his teeth. “Brother.”“Rurik.” I pulled out a chair on my side of the table and sat. Didn’t pour a drink. Kept my hands visible and still, an old habit from negotiation training. Show them your hands, show them nothing’s coming, let them relax just enough.“Congratulations are in order I hear.” He swirled his glass. “The runaway princess has returned. And with a gift.”“Watch your mouth.”He raised both hands, the picture of innocence. “I only meant the child. A daughter, yes? She has your eyes, they say.”“Who says.”“People talk.” He shrugged. “Palaces talk.
THE ALPHA’S BROKEN MATE Chapter 15: Still Counting
AthenaI made a mistake.Not a catastrophic one, nothing that couldn’t be managed, but I let my guard down for approximately forty minutes in the east grounds watching my daughter befriend a wolf, and now I was paying for it by standing in my room thinking about what Rowan had said.I’m bad at this. I’m working on it.Six years ago he wouldn’t have said that. Six years ago he wouldn’t have crouched down to her level in a corridor and answered questions about wolves for twenty minutes with the patience of someone who actually had it and not just the performance of it.People changed. I knew that, had lived it myself, had changed so completely from the girl who’d broken a bond on her knees spitting blood that sometimes I barely recognized her.That didn’t mean I had to do anything with the information.I changed out of the east grounds clothes and sat at the small desk by the window with my sketchbook. Drawing helped me think, always had, my brain settled when my hands were doing someth
THE ALPHA’S BROKEN MATE Chapter 4: Rowan
Rowan's Pov The door slammed shut, the vibration heavy in my heart.I wiped off the blood with the wipes from Lake.“What a bit—” I shot Lake a glare, he paused half way, “your highness, how could you stand up for that omega that doesn't know her place” he grumbled. “It's fine. I hurt her too.
THE ALPHA’S BROKEN MATE Chapter 3 : Athena
Athena“At least, the moon goddess could have mated me to someone easier to keep around, maybe as a mistress. But with her no way” he said distastefully. I staggered back, everything from the previous night flashing through my thoughts, years of pain and humiliation came crashing down.He was like
THE ALPHA’S BROKEN MATE Chapter 2 :Athena
Athena “I should be the one asking that.” His eyes narrowed,I racked my brains for answers, my brain felt foggy, but bits and pieces of last night's encounter came back. I shot up from the bed instantly, a whimper escaped my lips, I hadn't felt it cause the bed supported me but now I did. My ba
THE ALPHA’S BROKEN MATE Chapter 1: Athena
AthenaI tugged at my collar, my head dizzy, everything around me tilted sideways, the heat was growing, which was practically speaking impossible within these four words.“Greetings Your highness” a voice greeted and sauntered off, I could barely make out who it was, my senses were getting duller,
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