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THE ALPHA'S FORBIDDEN LUNA chapter 260
POV: Kaelan Ashwood“Forgive the smoke, my boy. It only makes wolves sleepy. I would never have let it hurt you. Sit down before you fall, and let an old man explain.”The iron door swung open, and golden lantern light poured into the vault. I stood on the stone floor with a vinegar soaked rag pressed over my nose, Piers swaying at one elbow and Marcus braced against the desk, his eyes red and streaming. My legs felt like wet rope. The room swam. And in the doorway, calm as a priest, stood Orrin Vale.He was in his nightrobe, a plain gray one, with a shawl over his shoulders. He looked small. He looked old. He looked exactly as he had when I was seven years old and had a fever, and he had come to sit at my bedside with a book.“Do not come closer,” Marcus rasped, lifting his sword.“Put it down, Enforcer. You will hurt yourself.” Vale stepped inside and set his lantern on the desk with a tender, careful hand. “You have been breathing the smoke for twenty minutes. Your arm is a strange
THE ALPHA'S FORBIDDEN LUNA chapter 259
POV: Lyra Thorne“He dies in your arms, Thorne, and you do not know his name. The Scribe told me everything. He told me you would look at your mate like a stranger. He laughed when he said it.”Hask’s whisper slid across the table like a knife on a plate. For one frozen heartbeat I could not breathe. Then Titus’s fist came down on the wood, and the whole hall jumped.“Enough.”He did not shout. He did not need to. His voice rolled down the benches like a stone, and thirty Alphas went silent. Hask opened his mouth, and Titus stood.“Sit down, Hask, or leave my house. You are not the first man I have thrown out for foolishness, and you will not be the last.”“Crane, you cannot.”“I can. It is my roof.” Titus’s eyes were gray ice. “Doran, you wished to speak?”Doran of Saltmere rose slowly, the pouch of silver coins still in his fist. He bowed to Titus, very slightly, and then, to my surprise, to me.“Saltmere withdraws from this table,” he said. “Until I know whose silver I have been sp
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
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