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Chapter 6
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THE ALPHA'S REVENGE BRIDE Chapter 6
I woke before the servants came, the way I always had at Blackstone, and for one disoriented moment I reached for the familiar shape of my own room before I remembered where I was.The ceiling above me was wrong. Too high, too far away, painted with a mural of wolves running beneath a full moon that I hadn't noticed the night before, too exhausted by then to notice anything except the size of the bed and the fact that no one had followed me into the room to watch what I did with my grief.I lay there a long while before I made myself move, staring at those painted wolves, tracing the line of the largest one with my eyes until I'd memorized the exact curve of its spine. It felt easier than thinking about the conversation I'd had in the throne room, though my mind kept circling back to it anyway, the way a tongue returns to a sore tooth.‘You've made your reasons very public.’‘No, I didn't.’I hadn't expected honesty. I'd expected denial, or worse, the practiced sympathy men like my fa
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I had imagined this moment more times than I cared to admit.In most versions, I imagined a woman built in her father's image, sharp-eyed and calculating, already searching the throne room for weaknesses before she'd finished her first bow. I had prepared for that woman. I had rehearsed, in the quiet hours before dawn, exactly how little of myself I intended to give her.The woman walking toward me down the long hall was not searching for anything.She walked the way someone walks into cold water, steady because stopping would be worse than continuing, her spine straight in a way that looked deliberate rather than natural. The royal cloak sat unfamiliar on her shoulders, the silver too new against skin that had clearly spent more time in sunlight than any noblewoman I'd met at court. Her hands were folded in front of her, and even from this distance I could see how tightly.She did not look at the throne the way most did, with calculation, gauging distance and posture and exactly how
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(The Bride the Crown Claimed)Horns woke me before dawn. I parted the curtains and froze. Royal soldiers filled the courtyard below, hundreds of them, and as I watched, the silver banner of House Clifton came down from the eastern tower while crimson and black rose to take its place.No battle. No blood spilled to earn it. My father's kingdom was disappearing in complete silence.The King hadn't conquered us with an army. He'd conquered us with a signature.By midmorning the fortress no longer felt like ours. Royal officials moved through the halls with ledgers open, counting grain stores and horses and weapons that had belonged to House Clifton for four generations, while our own guards stood aside at the gates, stripped of their command, watching strangers take their posts without a word of protest left to give.Then the seamstresses arrived. They didn't ask permission before they began.I stood still while they measured me, while our family's colors were folded away and replaced wi
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I didn't mean to say it. The words left me before I'd decided to speak them, quiet, but they landed in the chaos like a stone dropped into still water, and the ripples silenced everyone.Every face turned toward me.My father answered before the messenger could."You don't."Two words. No warmth in them, no explanation, nothing but the flat certainty of a man stating a fact of weather. I had heard my father deny me things before, small things, a dress I'd wanted, a suitor I'd once dared to mention. I had never heard him deny me my own life in quite so few syllables.Something in my chest went cold and small.The messenger, Damon, I would later learn, watched the exchange without expression, and when no one spoke further, he inclined his head, set the second scroll containing the formal terms upon the table, and took his leave with the unhurried calm of a man who had delivered far worse news to far more dangerous rooms than this one.The moment the doors closed behind him, my father ex
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(The Daughter They Chose to Sacrifice)The pup in my lap wouldn't stop shaking. He was the smallest of the litter we'd found near the eastern wall three days ago, half-starved, one ear torn from something that had tried to make a meal of him before the border patrol found him first. I'd been coming to the kennel every morning since, sitting on the cold stone floor with a bottle of warmed goat's milk, waiting for his trembling to slow.It hadn't, not yet. But it would. Everything did, eventually, if you were patient enough to wait it out."There," I murmured, running my thumb along his spine. "You're safe here."I almost believed it myself.The estate ledgers sat open beside me on the bench, columns of grain shipments and border taxes I'd been meaning to review since breakfast. My aunt liked to remind me that noblewomen didn't dirty their hands with kennel work or account books, that there were servants for such things, that a lady of House Clifton ought to be seen at needlework or in
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(The King's Demand)The Royal Council Chamber smelled of old wood and older blood."Has House Clifton forgotten who wears the Crown?"My voice was quiet, but I let it cut through the room like a blade drawn slow enough for everyone to hear the metal sing.The Royal Chancellor cleared his throat and stepped forward, a scroll trembling faintly in his grip. "Your Majesty, House Clifton has again refused to relinquish the disputed borders of Blackstone Fortress. They claim ancestral right supersedes the Crown's decree."A general near the front slammed a fist against the table. "Then take it by force. Clifton has grown too comfortable believing his name protects him.""His army is not small," another countered, leaning forward with brows drawn together. "If we march on Blackstone, we risk dragging three border packs into a war none of them asked for.""Cowardice," the first general spat."Strategy," the second shot back, jaw tight.Voices rose. Chairs scraped. A minister threw up his hand
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