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Chapter Forty-Nine
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2026-09-13 06:53:48
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The Alpha King's Hidden Luna Chapter Fifty-Seven
Ruth's POVVerrick stood in my great hall like he owned it.He was surrounded by the witnesses I had demanded—Elder Roan, Marcus, three household guards, a scribe to record every word. But none of them seemed to matter. He moved through the space with the easy confidence of a man who had already won, pausing to admire a tapestry here, a portrait there, as if he were touring a property he intended to purchase."Regent Ashford." He turned as I entered, his face arranging itself into an expression of warm concern. "Thank you for receiving me so promptly. I know how demanding the claiming season must be.""High Councilor." I didn't smile. "You traveled through the night. That suggests urgency.""It suggests care." He clasped his hands before him. "What happened yesterday was... extraordinary. I felt it my duty to ensure you understood the implications.""I saved a child's life.""You did." His voice softened with sympathy. "And the Council is deeply grateful. The child's family has alread
The Alpha King's Hidden Luna Chapter Fifty-Six
Ruth's POVThe north wood smelled of pine and fear.I stood at the edge of the observation ridge, watching nine candidates navigate the protection trial below. The scenario was controlled—a staged ambush in hostile terrain, with Silver Crown warriors playing the role of attackers. Each candidate had been assigned a ward to protect: a volunteer from the household staff, trained to follow instructions and stay out of genuine danger.It was supposed to be safe."Lord Vane is struggling." Marcus stood beside me, tracking movements through the treeline. "His ward has been captured twice already.""He's too aggressive." I kept my voice neutral. "He attacks when he should defend.""James hasn't lost his ward once."I watched James move through the trees—smooth, efficient, always positioning himself between threat and charge. He made it look effortless. Made it look natural.I hated how good he was.The morning sun filtered through the canopy, casting dappled shadows across the forest floor.
The Alpha King's Hidden Luna Chapter Fifty-Five
Ruth's POVI did not expose him.The instinct screamed at me through the long hours after the feast—find him, drag him before the candidates, demand to know which of them had brought an Order agent into my home. Make an example. Send a message.But instinct had failed me before.I waited until the manor was quiet. Until the candidates were asleep in their quarters and the servants had finished clearing the great hall. Then I sent for the only two people I could trust with this knowledge.Langmore arrived first.He came from the nursery, still wearing the simple clothes he had chosen for his self-imposed exile from the feast. His face was guarded, careful—the expression of a man who had learned not to hope for anything."You sent for me.""I need your eyes." I closed the door behind him. "And your silence."Idris arrived five minutes later.He had been reinstated three days ago, publicly, with the whole guard watching. I had made a point of it—welcoming him back into service, acknowled
The Alpha King's Hidden Luna Chapter Fifty-Four
Ruth's POVIdris was gone.I found his quarters empty—bed made, belongings cleared, no trace of the man I had defended against my own court's judgment. The guards at the Council seat's gates reported he had left before dawn, traveling north with a small escort.North. Toward Silver Crown territory."We sent word ahead." Marcus appeared at my side as I stared at the empty room. "Your household has been warned. If he approaches the manor, they'll detain him.""If he approaches openly." My voice was hollow. "He knows every entrance. Every patrol route. Every weakness in our security.""I know.""I trusted him." The words felt like broken glass. "I defended him. I refused to charge him when the evidence pointed directly at his seal.""The seal was duplicated. We proved that.""And then Verrick released him. And then he accessed my father's sickroom three times daily." I turned to face Marcus. "What was in those tonics? What was he giving my father instead of Chen's compound?""Chen is ana
The Alpha King's Hidden Luna Chapter Fifty-Three
Ruth's POVMy father was awake.The news reached me in the middle of a formal luncheon with three claiming season candidates—men whose names I had already forgotten, whose faces blurred together in an endless parade of ambition and entitlement. I excused myself before the dessert course, ignoring their protests, and ran through the corridors like a child.I had not run in months.The sickroom was transformed when I arrived. Healers moved with purpose instead of resignation. Langmore stood in the corner, his face pale, his eyes fixed on something I couldn't see. And my father—my father sat propped against pillows, his face gray but his eyes sharp.Those eyes found me immediately."Ruth." His voice was rough. Weaker than I remembered. But unmistakably his."Father."We stared at each other across the room.Nine days ago, I had learned he knew where I was during my three missing years. Nine days ago, I had stopped speaking to him. Nine days ago, everything I believed about our relationsh
The Alpha King's Hidden Luna Chapter Fifty-Two
Langmore's POVI spent three days trying to destroy my own contract.The legal archive of the Council seat was a maze of dust and forgotten parchment, staffed by clerks who looked at me with barely concealed contempt. A foreign Alpha, publicly weakened, barred from the claiming season by his own signature—I was a cautionary tale walking, and they enjoyed watching me search for an exit that didn't exist.The contract was ironclad.Every clause I had signed, every amendment I had agreed to, every commercial entanglement between Blackwood and Silver Crown—they formed a web so perfectly constructed that I could almost admire its architecture. Almost.There was exactly one route out.The Alpha King who had written the contract could void it. Or Ruth could void it publicly, releasing me from the conflict-of-interest provisions with a formal declaration before the Council.I could not ask her to do that.Not now. Not in the middle of a claiming season where forty-six Alphas circled her like
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