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Chapter 89: Teaching Aldith to Be Small

Author: Ziri Ink
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Athena

Aldith couldn't work the kettle.

That was how I found out how much we'd taken for granted. She stood in the east wing kitchen at six in the morning, holding it like a live thing, staring at the little blue flame as if it might bite. Eighty seven years old, and for sixty of them she'd lived in a round tower with other people's hands doing everything.

"You press the knob," I said from the doorway. "Then turn."

"I did turn."

"You turned it the wrong way."

"It has a right way?" She looked ge
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  • THE ALPHA’S BROKEN MATE   Chapter 89: Teaching Aldith to Be Small

    AthenaAldith couldn't work the kettle.That was how I found out how much we'd taken for granted. She stood in the east wing kitchen at six in the morning, holding it like a live thing, staring at the little blue flame as if it might bite. Eighty seven years old, and for sixty of them she'd lived in a round tower with other people's hands doing everything."You press the knob," I said from the doorway. "Then turn.""I did turn.""You turned it the wrong way.""It has a right way?" She looked genuinely wounded. "Everyone keeps telling me there's a right way to everything."I laughed and went to help. We stood shoulder to shoulder at the stove, two women with the same mouth, and the flame caught, and she made a small delighted sound that went straight into my chest."There," I said."Oh," she said. "I did it.""You did.""Don't tell Brisa. She'll be insufferable.""She's already insufferable. She taught Ziri to cheat at cards."Aldith's whole face creased. She had a laugh like mine, sid

  • THE ALPHA’S BROKEN MATE   Chapter 88: What Didn't Come Back

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    AthenaAldith walked down those stairs like a woman crossing a river on stones.I kept hold of her hand the whole way. It was dry and light and shook like a leaf, and every few steps she stopped and said "I can't," and I said "Okay, rest," and we rested, and then she went on. Rowan came behind us. I could feel him there, a warm wall at my back, the red cord between us gone quiet.Brisa was at the bottom. Ione beside her. Odalys a step off, arms crossed tight like she was holding herself together.Nobody said anything.Aldith stopped on the last stair. She looked at her daughters, two old women in wet coats, and her mouth worked."You got so old," she said.It was the stupidest thing. It was also the only thing. Brisa made a sound that was half laugh, half sob, and crossed the floor, and then all three of them were holding on in the dark doorway, grey heads together, and I turned my face away because it wasn't mine to watch.Rowan took my hand. I let him."That was brave," he murmured.

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  • THE ALPHA’S BROKEN MATE   Chapter 84: Dawn in the Square

    RowanThe rope was Chase's idea and the knot was Odalys's, and I checked it four times anyway.Silk cord, thin as a finger, dyed red. One end looped loosely around Athena's left wrist over the chain, the other wound three times around my forearm, right over the finished map. She'd stood there letting me fuss with it, saying nothing, which is how I knew she was frightened. Athena jokes when she's fine."Tighter," I said."It's tight.""It slipped.""It didn't slip, you're shaking." She caught my hand. "Rowan. Look at me."I looked. Grey light, her breath fogging, a smear of ink I'd never seen her wash off her thumb. The square behind her was filling. Families first, then guards pretending not to hover, then half the lower town standing at the edges in coats, silent. Someone had brought blankets. Someone always does."If it goes wrong," she said, "you pull. Don't ask me first.""You said you'd hear me.""I will. But pull anyway.""I can't promise that.""I know." She smiled, crooked. "T

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