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Chapter 97: North to the Weeping Caves
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2026-10-31 08:58:39
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They buried Rowan beside Master Varen in the old garden, where the crocuses had not yet finished blooming and the morning air smelled of rain. There was no court present, no herald, no ceremony. Kael dug the first shovelful of earth himself, and when the grave was filled he stood for a long time with his scarred palm resting on the new soil."He was my cousin before he was anything else," he said at last. "I would like to remember that part of him."Cassian stood at his shoulder and said nothing. There was nothing to add. He had spent years hating the man in that grave, and then years pitying him, and somewhere in the last hours of the cavern both feelings had loosened into something quieter that had no name. He laid a single white flower on the mound, one that Wren had coaxed from the bare ground that morning, and felt Elias's hand settle warm against the small of his back.The Weeping Caves were sealed the following week. Matriarch Sable's guardians carried both halves of the thresh
The Alpha King's Pregnant Omega Chapter 99: What the Stone Remembers
The water erupted in a column of silver steam, and a figure walked up out of the pool as though climbing a staircase no one else could see.Cassian knew the face before his mind could accept it. The wiry frame, the forgettable features, the mild eyes that had stood at the edges of every room in Rowan's study. Grask, the steward no one had ever bothered to look at twice, rose dripping from the black water with the second threshold stone floating at his shoulder."Forgive the theatrics," said Corvane's dry voice from Grask's mouth. "A man gets sentimental about his entrances.""Grask," Rowan whispered. He had gone white to the lips. "You were my servant for ten years.""You were mine for eleven." The borrowed face smiled with Corvane's terrible gentleness. "Did you truly think I would hand a prince the key and walk away? I wore this body the night I taught you to forge your first letter. I have been listening in your shadow since the day you could not meet your cousin's eyes."Kael lung
The Alpha King's Pregnant Omega Chapter 98: The Man Beneath the Mountain
The stairs descended in a long spiral, cut so smoothly into the rock that Cassian knew at once they had not been made by any miner. The lantern on the entrance stone had been the first of many. Every twenty steps another burned in a carved niche, each flame the same clean gold, lighting the way down like a path laid for guests."He wants us to see everything," Elias said quietly, his hand never leaving the hilt of the knife at his belt. "A man who wishes you dead does not light your way.""A man who wishes us dead might want us to feel safe first," Kael said.Behind them the column followed in careful silence, Dorran's guard flanking the covered wagon where both children had refused to remain. Lirian walked between Cassian and Kael now, his small hand tucked inside Cassian's, his golden eyes fixed on the bottom of the stairs. Wren walked beside him, her mother's pendant clenched in her fist. Neither child spoke. The singing grew louder with every step, a single pale note that seemed t
The Alpha King's Pregnant Omega Chapter 97: North to the Weeping Caves
They rode at dawn, eleven days after the vault fell and four days after the children heard the singing.The argument over who would go had lasted most of a night. Aldric wanted a small, fast company of picked riders, no more than thirty, and no children. Matriarch Sable wanted a larger escort with her own council's guardians among them. Elias wanted both children kept as far from the stone as the kingdom allowed. It was Lirian who ended the debate, standing at the head of the council table in his nightshirt with his hair still rumpled from sleep."It is getting louder," he said. "Wren hears it too. If we stay here, it will keep calling us, and we will not know how close it is. If we go, at least we will be with all of you when it happens."Nobody answered right away. Cassian looked at Kael, and the silence between them held the whole weight of the years behind them, every time they had sent the boy away to keep him safe and every time keeping him safe had failed."He is right," Kael s
The Alpha King's Pregnant Omega Chapter 96: An Empty Grave
They opened Rowan's grave at first light, with no ceremony and no witnesses beyond those who already knew too much to be sent away.It lay in the unmarked corner of the castle cemetery where traitors were buried, a patch of ground the groundskeepers mowed but never tended. Kael stood at its edge with his arms folded and his jaw set, watching Dorran and two of Aldric's most trusted soldiers drive their spades into the earth. Cassian stood beside him. Neither spoke. Each shovelful of soil seemed to land in the silence between them like a small stone dropped into deep water."Plain pine coffin," Dorran grunted, scraping the lid clear. "Nailed shut. Nothing special about it.""Open it," Kael said.The nails shrieked as the soldiers pried them loose. The lid came away. Cassian made himself look.Stones. Dozens of smooth gray river stones, packed into the coffin with straw and a few old sacks to give the box its weight. No bones. No cloth. No trace of a man who had once worn a prince's sign
The Alpha King's Pregnant Omega Chapter 95: Ashes and Green
They buried Master Varen at dawn on the third day, in the castle's old garden where the frost had finally withdrawn and the first pale crocuses were pushing through the soil, months out of season.Cassian stood at the graveside with Lirian's hand in his, listening to Kael speak the words. There was no Keeper present to say the old rites, so Matriarch Sable, who had ridden through the night upon hearing the news, spoke them instead in the slow, ancient cadence of her people. When she finished, Wren stepped forward and knelt at the edge of the grave. She laid her palm flat against the turned earth, and a single white flower unfolded between her fingers."He held the door," she said quietly. "I want him to have something that grows."Nobody spoke for a long while. A soldier near the back was weeping without sound. Elias, standing at Cassian's other shoulder, had not taken his eyes from the grave since the first handful of soil fell."I did not trust him," Elias said at last, so low that
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