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Chapter 33: What She Saw
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THE ALPHA’S BROKEN MATE Chapter 33: What She Saw
AthenaPeri came to my room at two in the morning.I was awake. Had been awake since nine fifteen when I'd opened the window and heard something in the quality of the palace quiet that wasn't right, some instinct firing that I'd learned not to ignore in six years of being a woman alone responsible for a child.I'd stayed in my room because Chase was with Amara and going into the corridor when I didn't know what was happening was tactically stupid, but I'd stayed awake and I'd stayed dressed and I'd had my hand near the door for an hour before Peri knocked.She was pale when I opened it. Not panicked, she'd been getting steadier by the week, but pale."It's over." She said. "They came through the east road. It's dealt with." She paused. "Everyone is okay.""Rowan." I said."He's back inside." She said. "He's okay."I looked at her for a moment."Peri." I said. "Everyone okay means no one died or everyone came back without injury. Which one is it."She pressed her lips together. "He's b
THE ALPHA’S BROKEN MATE Chapter 32: The Longest Night
RowanThe first twenty four hours of the seventy two passed without incident.Which meant nothing except that Rurik was patient, and I already knew he was patient, so I spent those twenty four hours doing what I always did when I was waiting for something to happen that I couldn't entirely predict. I worked. I read the reports. I checked in with the border units at intervals and got the same answer each time, quiet, nothing moving.Quiet was not reassuring. Quiet was Rurik thinking.Lake spelled out the guard rotations personally, something he only did when he didn't trust anyone else to get them right. I let him. He knew what he was doing and this wasn't the moment to manage his methods.Athena put Amara to bed at eight and came out of the inner wing suite around nine, and I heard her moving around in the connecting corridor, then the quiet of her settling in her room. I'd learned the sounds of them in the past week, the small domestic geography of their presence close to mine. Amara
THE ALPHA’S BROKEN MATE Chapter 31: The Ruling
AthenaThe council ruled at ten in the morning.I wasn't in the chamber. Wasn't invited and hadn't asked to be, that wasn't how it worked here, and I'd made my peace with that specific limitation by the time Lake came to find me in the studio with the result.He stood in the doorway with the expression he used when news was neither clean good nor clean bad but somewhere in the complicated middle."Exile." He said. "Formal removal from succession, title retained without function, he leaves Valerian territory within seventy two hours."I set my pen down. "And the faction.""Split." He said. "Bren came down on the right side at the last moment, which pulled three others with him. Marsh abstained, which is as close to a condemnation as Marsh gets." He paused. "Four council members voted against the ruling.""Four.""They'll watch and wait." He said. "They're not Rurik's people specifically, they're the ones who don't like uncertainty and a challenged succession is uncertainty regardless o
THE ALPHA’S BROKEN MATE Chapter 30: Closer
RowanThe inner wing had been empty for three years.My mother had used it before she died, the suite of rooms closest to the Alpha's quarters, connected by a short private corridor that didn't appear on the general palace maps. After her it had stayed empty because no one else had a reason to be there and I hadn't had the energy to make it into something else.I had Lake open it up the afternoon of the second council day, airing it out, fresh linen, the basics. He'd looked at me when I'd given the instruction and I'd looked back and he'd gone to sort it without saying whatever he'd been about to say.Athena brought Amara herself, which I'd expected. She carried two bags and Amara carried the rabbit and the sketchbook and walked the unfamiliar corridor with her head moving in every direction, cataloguing.The new room was larger than the one in the east wing. Higher ceilings, a window seat that was wider than the previous one, a connecting door to Athena's room through which I could h
THE ALPHA’S BROKEN MATE Chapter 29: Two Days
AthenaThe council deliberated for two days.I knew because Lake updated me each morning with the particular careful politeness he used when he was managing information flow, and I received the updates and said thank you and went back to whatever I was doing, and neither of us acknowledged that he was managing me.It was fine. It was the most functional version of being kept informed that I'd experienced in this palace and I wasn't going to complain about it.Amara took the doubled guard with more grace than I'd expected, which meant she'd decided it was interesting rather than restrictive, and had spent the first day interviewing the two guards assigned specifically to her with the focused attention she gave everything she'd decided was worth understanding.By the end of day one she knew both their names, where they were from, whether they had siblings, and which of the palace wolves they personally preferred. The guards, two large serious wolves who had probably never been interview
THE ALPHA’S BROKEN MATE Chapter 28: Before It Breaks
RowanI moved on Rurik on a Thursday.No announcement, no warning, just Lake delivering the summons to his rooms at seven in the morning with two senior guards and the instruction that his presence was required before the full council immediately.I was already in the council chamber when he arrived.He walked in composed, which I'd expected. Rurik was never not composed in public, it was the thing he was best at, the careful surface of him that had convinced half the council he was reasonable and measured and unfairly overlooked. He looked around the chamber, took in the full council seated, took in Lake by the door, took in me at the head of the table, and something moved across his face for exactly one second before the composure locked back into place.He sat.I put the evidence on the table.All of it. Sael's testimony, documented and witnessed. The communication trail between Sael and Rurik's household, three months of it, careful and indirect but there. The rogue incident repor
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,
THE ALPHA’S BROKEN MATE Chapter 6: Rowan
Six years.I had turned every stone in three kingdoms, burned through favors I’d spent a decade accumulating, and she had been here. Here. In the human quarter, behind a glass door with her name stenciled in gold ink like she hadn’t dismantled two kingdoms with her disappearing act.I stood across
THE ALPHA’S BROKEN MATE Chapter 5: Athena
Athena“Useless”“She's a disgrace to the royal family,”“A wolf less hybrid” “She caused the death of her mother.”“A curse.”“A fat one.”Nameless faces whispered around me, drowning me in their curses.“No, No, I didn't, I'm not” I protested weakly against the sea of voices drowning out mine.
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