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CHAPTER SEVENTY EIGHT: THE LEDGER
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"No!!" Rael's hands pressed against the wound, uselessly, blood slipping hot between his fingers no matter how hard he pushed. "No, no, come back!!" Voss's chest didn't move. Then it did. One more time. A shallow, rattling breath dragged up from somewhere that shouldn't have had anything left to give. His eyes opened halfway. "Rael..." Barely a sound. More shape than voice. Rael leaned close, close enough to feel the last warmth leaving his father's skin. "I'm here. I'm right here." "The name." Voss's lips barely moved. "You need , the name." "Don't talk. Save it, just...” "Listen." Something fierce broke through the dying, one final flare of the man who had once commanded a pack. "Soren." Rael went still. "What?" "Soren," Voss said again, and this time it came out clearer, like the effort of saying it had used the very last of him. "Ashwood. It's Soren." His hand, still pressed to Rael's cheek, went slack. His eyes stayed open, fixed somewhere pas
THE ALPHA’S HIDDEN BLOODLINE; His Blood, Her Secret. CHAPTER SEVENTY EIGHT: THE LEDGER
The harbor erupted. Liam felt it before he saw it, the shift in the air, the particular electric charge of violence about to happen. Warriors pouring from three directions at once. Torches. Steel catching firelight. "Get to the water," Aldric shouted, already moving, already putting his body between the boys and the nearest blade. "The ships. Go!" Rael clutched the ledger against his chest like it was the only solid thing left in the world. They didn't make it ten steps. A wall of Thessaly warriors closed the gap between the storage yard and the docks, cutting off the only clear path back to the vessels. Liam counted six. Then eight. Then stopped counting, because counting wasn't going to help him right now. "Liam...” Rael's voice, tight, desperate. Liam didn't think. He didn't calculate. He simply opened his mouth and let seventeen years of training find its own shape. "Stop." The word came out of him low and absolute, carrying a weight that had nothing to do with
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"No," Rael said. Voss blinked. "No?" "You said alone." Rael's jaw was tight, his voice carrying the particular steel he'd developed over years of surviving impossible choices. "I'm not doing that. Not with you." "Rael..." "You faked your death in front of me." His voice cracked on the word death, then hardened right back up. "You let me bury you. I stood at a memorial and said things I meant, about a man who wasn't even gone. I'm not walking off this island alone with you at midnight because you asked nicely." Voss studied him for a long moment. Something in his face flickered, not anger. Something closer to respect. "Fair," he said quietly. "I'm coming," Liam said. Xavier turned. "Liam..." "I'm coming," Liam said again, and there was nothing in his voice that left room for argument. "He's my brother. If he's walking into something tonight, he's not walking into it without me." Voss looked between the two boys, men now, really, though some part of him still seeme
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