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THE ALPHA'S FORBIDDEN LUNA chapter 258
POV: Kaelan Ashwood“Hold the lantern lower, Piers. If anyone walks past that window and sees light in the archive at midnight, we will not need a trial. We will be dead before breakfast.”Marcus whispered it, and I felt the air in the archive thicken around us like wet wool. It was the sixth night since Lyra left. We had waited for the fortress to sleep. Maren had given us Hobb’s key and a map of the archive in her own thin hand, and she had stood at the top of the stairs with her arms crossed and a face like iron.“I will keep the door,” she had said. “Go quickly.”Now I stood in front of a plain oak shelf at the very back of the Records hall, in a dusty alcove no student ever entered. The shelf held rolls of tax records from three hundred years ago. Piers ran his small, clever fingers along its edge, feeling for a seam.“Here,” he breathed.A catch clicked. The whole shelf swung inward, silent as a thought, on hinges that someone had oiled recently. Behind it was a narrow stone pas
THE ALPHA'S FORBIDDEN LUNA chapter 257
POV: Lyra Thorne“Tell the table how many floors you scrubbed, little maid. Tell us how many chamber pots. We are all so curious what a Keeper’s daughter tastes like after nine years on her knees.”Hask of Ridgeback leaned back in his chair and let the laughter roll down the long table. It was a fat, ugly sound. Torchlight shone on the silver ridge at his collar. Thirty Alphas and captains lined the benches of Gallowmere’s great hall, red faced with wine, and every one of them was looking at me.I stood at the foot of the table with my hands at my sides. My face was burning. For nine years I had known this feeling. The heat in the cheeks, the hot dry throat, the urge to bow my head and slide out of sight. It rose in me now like a tide, and for one second I let it. I was fourteen again, in a kitchen, with a woman shouting at me about a cracked plate.Then I felt a small, warm weight against my thigh. Tam, standing beside me, had pressed the whistle into my palm.I closed my fingers aro
THE ALPHA'S FORBIDDEN LUNA chapter 256
POV: Kaelan Ashwood“Sit, my boy. You look like a man who has not slept in a week, and I have saved the last of your favorite honey cake. Eat first. Then tell me which of us you suspect.”Elder Vale smiled at me from the other side of his fire, and my heart cracked down the middle.His study was the warmest room in the fortress. I had spent half my childhood in it. Walls of books climbed to the ceiling, and a brass lamp hung over a desk strewn with half finished letters. A kettle sang on the hearth. The room smelled of tea and cloves and old paper, and it smelled, moon forgive me, like safety.I sat in the leather chair I had curled up in at seven. Marcus waited in the corridor with his arms folded. Orla had told me not to come. I had come anyway, because if I stayed away he would know, and because some terrible, childish part of me wanted him to tell me I was wrong.“I suspect nobody,” I said.“Liar.” He poured tea into two thin cups. “You were never a good liar. You could not even s
THE ALPHA'S FORBIDDEN LUNA chapter 255
POV: Lyra Thorne“I lied to you on that ridge, Lyra. Not about the gate. About the book. I did not hear that it was carried out. I carried it myself, and I have been too ashamed to tell you who took it from me.”Corvin said it to the frost. We were standing in the walled garden behind Gallowmere’s kitchens, a small cold square of dead roses and bent apple trees. He had been waiting for me by the gate before the sun was fully up, and he had looked, when I came out, like a man who had not slept in a year.I did not answer at once. My breath hung in front of my face. Behind me, Rhea and Tam had stopped at the kitchen door, and Briar leaned in the shadow of the wall, pretending not to listen.“Say it again,” I said.“I carried the Keeper’s book out of the burning hall.” He looked at his hands. “Your mother put it in my arms in the hallway. Her face was black with soot. She said, run, Corvin, and do not stop for anyone, not even me. I ran.”“Not even her.”“Not even her.” His voice cracked
THE ALPHA'S FORBIDDEN LUNA chapter 254
POV: Kaelan Ashwood“He is dying, Kaelan, and I need you to tell me whether I fight for his life, because the poison is already in his blood and I will not decide this for you.”Orla knelt on the cell floor with my father’s head in her lap and her sleeves pushed to the elbow. The candle guttered. Damon’s face was the color of old candle wax, and his lips were blue, and a thin foam clung to his mouth. His chest jerked. His chained ankle kicked against the stone, and the rattle of it ran up my spine.I had been on my way to bed. A guard had pounded on my door, shouting. Now I stood in the cell doorway, barefoot, in the clothes I had slept in, with the whole dark fortress pressing on my back.“What is it?” I asked.“Foxglove, I think. Hidden in clove tea.” Orla’s voice was clipped and calm. “The cup is there. The guard says it came with the evening meal. A kitchen girl brought it, with a note. For the prisoner’s comfort, from the council’s mercy.”“Which elder sent it?”“The note was not
THE ALPHA'S FORBIDDEN LUNA chapter 253
POV: Lyra Thorne“You left me in a locked room for nine years, and now you want me to forgive you before breakfast? Look at me, Lyra. Look at my face. Tell me you did not know I was alive.”Wren stood in the middle of the guest room with her arms folded and her chin up, still wearing yesterday’s ink on her sleeves. It was barely dawn. Gray light crept through the shutters. Briar had gone to find hot water, and Rhea had gone to find Corvin, and I had been about to sleep when the door burst open and my cousin walked in like a storm.“I did not know.”“You did not look.”“Wren.”“Did you look?” Her voice shook. “Even once? Even for a day? Did you ride one mile outside Ashwood and ask for the Thornes?”The honest answer sat in my mouth like a stone. I could have lied. I wanted to. I was so tired, and the lie would have been so soft.“No,” I said. “I did not.”She flinched as if I had slapped her.“I did not look because I was afraid.” My voice came out raw. “Every night for nine years, I
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