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Chapter 40: Judgment
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2026-06-17 21:21:45
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THE WRONG VOW, MY PERFECT ALPHA Chapter 49: Plain Sight
LENAThe summit grounds were bright beneath the morning sun, but whatever calm the day might have offered was ruined by the fact that Kael was indeed following me but it was close enough to make it obvious to everyone else, but close enough that every time I slowed down or turned around, there he was watching, existing and. Ring impossible. After ten minutes, I stopped in the middle of a garden path and turned to face him.He stopped too.“This is ridiculous.”“No,” he said. “It’s necessary.”“It’s irritating.”“That too.”I folded my arms. “I’m going to a courtyard full of nobles in broad daylight, not marching into enemy territory.”“Those are often the same thing.”I stared at him for a moment, then sighed because unfortunately, that also sounded true. “Do I at least get to know where you’ve assigned the guards?”“No.”“Why not?”“Because if you know where they are, you’ll look for them.”“That is absolutely something I would do.”“I know.”That answer annoyed me more than it shou
THE WRONG VOW, MY PERFECT ALPHA Chapter 48: Watched
LENAI did not sleep and it wasn’t because I didn’t try. Goddess knows I tried very hard, I closed my eyes, turned onto my left side, then my right, then onto my back, then back to my left again as if changing positions might somehow trick my brain into shutting down. It did not.Because apparently being told that someone had poisoned your dessert was not the kind of information a person could simply hear and then sleep peacefully through.Who knew? By the time dawn finally crept through the curtains, I had managed perhaps ten minutes of actual rest and even that had been interrupted by dreams involving tarts, knives and Kael glaring at me while I died in an extremely inconvenient manner.When I finally gave up and dragged myself out of bed, I looked exactly how I felt… terrible.I stared at my reflection while pinning back my hair and sighed. “You look haunted.”My reflection offered no useful feedback. After another moment, I leaned closer, checking for any sign that I had, in fact,
THE WRONG VOW, MY PERFECT ALPHA Chapter 47: The Residue
KAELI stayed in the study long after he was gone, staring at reports I wasn’t reading and hearing none of the noise from the corridor outside. My thoughts kept circling back to the same impossible point.Lena should have been sick.The fact that she wasn’t made the entire thing more dangerous, not less. If someone had poisoned her and failed, they might try again. If they realized she hadn’t noticed anything was wrong, they would assume they still had time.And Lena, being Lena, would probably accept another dessert from the same hand just to avoid seeming rude.I swore under my breath and pushed away from the desk.By the time I reached her room, the corridor was quiet.A single lantern burned near her door, throwing warm light across the stone. I knocked once, then opened it without waiting for permission because if Lena was asleep, she would forgive me eventually or she wouldn’t. Either way, I didn’t care.The room was dark except for moonlight spilling across the bed.Lena was un
THE WRONG VOW, MY PERFECT ALPHA Chapter 46: Tainted
KAELBy the time dinner ended, I knew something was wrong and it wasn’t because of Lena. If anything, Lena had been the only predictable part of the evening. She had accepted the tart with the same reckless lack of suspicion she brought to most things, then eaten it while half the table watched her as though they expected the floor to open beneath her feet.No, Lena hadn’t been the problem, Cara had.The moment she approached our table with that plate in her hand, the room shifted. Adrian had gone still, Raven had gone quiet, and Cara had smiled too brightly, too carefully, like someone performing kindness rather than feeling it. Then Lena had taken the tart, eaten it, and spent the rest of the meal making ridiculous comments while Cara watched her with an intensity that bordered on obsession.I had seen fear before, I had seen guilt too and Cara had looked like both.I said nothing during dinner because a summit hall filled with nobles was not the place to start a war over a suspicio
THE WRONG VOW, MY PERFECT ALPHA Chapter 45: The Note
CARA“Then what exactly are you implying?”“I’m asking why you spent the entire dinner staring at Lena like you expected something to happen.”I opened my mouth, then closed it. I turned away from him and moved toward the table, pouring myself a glass of water just to give my hands something to do.“You’re being dramatic.”“And you’re avoiding the question.”I drank half the glass before setting it down. “You’re imagining things because you’re obsessed with her.”Adrian’s jaw tightened. Yes, let him be angry. Anger was easier to deal with than suspicion.“I’m not having this conversation again,” he said.“Then stop looking at her like she belongs to you.”The words slipped out before I could stop them and the room went still. When I finally turned, Adrian was already looking at me and the expression on his face made my stomach drop because it wasn’t anger, it was realization as if, in that moment, he had just understood something important… something I had never intended to say aloud.
THE WRONG VOW, MY PERFECT ALPHA Chapter 44: Panic
CARABy the time dinner ended, I was certain something had gone terribly wrong. I kept my smile in place until the last possible second, until the nobles began leaving the hall and the servants started clearing the tables, until nobody was paying attention to me anymore. Only then did I turn and walk toward the corridor with what I hoped looked like calm dignity.The moment I was out of sight, I nearly broke into a run.My heart was pounding so hard it felt painful. This is impossible. No, not impossible. Worse than impossible. It was wrong, completely and undeniably wrong.I had watched Lena eat the tart, I had watched her take the first bite while Adrian sat there looking like he wanted to stop her and couldn’t, I had watched her finish half of it, then all of it, then sit there and continue talking as though nothing had happened.Nothing… no coughing, no dizziness, no blood, no collapse. Not even a hint that anything was wrong.She had eaten poisoned food and then spent the rest of
THE WRONG VOW, MY PERFECT ALPHA Chapter 38: Claim
LENAThe banquet was somehow louder than it had been when it started, music drifted through the hall while nobles moved from table to table with glasses of wine in hand, exchanging gossip disguised as conversation. Everywhere I looked, people were smiling, laughing, and pretending they weren’t car
THE WRONG VOW, MY PERFECT ALPHA Chapter 37: Attention
LENAThe next morning, I discovered that standing up to a future queen came with consequences.Namely, people refusing to mind their own business because the moment I stepped into the dining hall, conversations stopped.Well not entirely, just enough, enough for me to notice and enough for me to kn
THE WRONG VOW, MY PERFECT ALPHA Chapter 36: Spectacle
LENAI had discovered something deeply unfair about life and it was that no matter how much you worried about something, it still arrived.The Mooncrest Summit had spent days haunting my thoughts, invading my sleep and ruining perfectly good meals, yet somehow morning came anyway.I stood in front
THE WRONG VOW, MY PERFECT ALPHA Chapter 35: The Mooncrest Summit
LENAThat night, sleep refused to come again. I really should go to bed, goddess knows if Kael would come drag me out of bed before dawn again. Apparently my brain had developed a hobby, that was thinking and I hated it. With a sigh, I rolled over and stared at the ceiling.The house was quiet, pe
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