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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
THE ALPHA'S FORBIDDEN LUNA chapter 252
POV: Kaelan Ashwood“Do not shout, Alpha. I have Hobb’s key in my hand, Hobb’s blood on my sleeve, and a packet from a dead man that accuses everyone and names no one. Close the door.”Elder Maren stood in the dark mouth of the archive with a single candle shaking in her fist. Her gray robe was torn at the hem. Her thin, proud face looked ten years older than it had at the council table. Behind me, Marcus drew his blade, and I put a hand on his wrist.“Wait.”“She has the dead man’s key, Kaelan.”“I know. Wait.”We had run from my study through the cold corridors, my boots slamming the stone, all the way down to the archive. The air in there smelled of old leather, mildew, and the faint sweet ghost of clove smoke. Rows of shelves rose into the dark. Rain tapped on the high windows like a patient finger.“You are the one who used the key,” I said.“An hour ago.” Maren’s voice was a dry rasp. “I did not steal it. He put it in my hand.”“Hobb is dead.”“He was not dead yet.” She swallowe
THE ALPHA'S FORBIDDEN LUNA chapter 251
POV: Lyra Thorne“You can have all of it back, Lyra. The land, the name, the gate, the graves. Your cousin free, your uncle at your table. I only need one small thing, and you will hate me for asking.”Titus stood in the corridor outside the crypt with a lantern in his hand and his shoulder against the wet wall, as if he had been waiting there for hours. Maybe he had. The light carved deep lines into his face. Behind me, Briar’s fingers closed around her knife hilt, and I felt Rhea go stiff as a post.“I sent my hawk an hour ago,” I said. My nose was still bleeding, and I wiped it with my sleeve. “Kaelan will know where I am, and what I have seen. So say your small thing quickly.”“Walk with me.”“No.”“Then I will say it here.” He set the lantern on the floor. “Crimson Fang and eight other packs will stand behind a free Thorne territory. Not a gift. A claim, older than Ashwood’s, which your bloodline already holds. We will march to the burned gate, raise your banner, and no Alpha ali
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POV: Kaelan Ashwood“Kaelan, the hawk just landed on your balcony with Lyra’s seal on its leg, and it is bleeding. Someone shot it twice before it crossed the border. Read the message before you do anything stupid.”Orla shook me awake with both hands. Gray light pressed at the window. I had fallen asleep at my desk with my cheek on a map, and my neck felt like a snapped rope. On the balcony, a brown hawk crouched on the rail with one wing hanging wrong. It looked at me with a fierce gold eye and clacked its beak.“Easy,” I said, and held out my wrist. “Easy, brave one.”Orla cleaned the wound and wrapped it while I untied the tube. Inside was a tight roll of thin paper covered in Lyra’s quick, slanted hand. My eyes raced down it, and my heart began to hammer.She wrote about the letter, and the scraped date. She wrote about Wren, and the hand at the gate with a key cut into the ring, and a man in a hood who smelled of cloves and paper. She wrote about the stone and what it had shown
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