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Chapter Twenty-Six: What Was Taken
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The Alpha My Sister Wanted Chapter Forty-Six: What He Told Her
They gave us the east garden.Not the formal receiving room. Not Victor's study or Darius's office or any of the spaces in this pack house that had been shaped by years of political decisions and careful management. The east garden, with its overgrown hedges and its cold stone benches and its particular quality of forgotten quiet.Darius's choice.I understood why. Nowhere in this pack house was truly private. But the east garden was the closest thing to it, and the choice of it over any formal room was itself a statement. This conversation did not belong to pack politics. It belonged to the two people having it.Victor had said nothing when Darius announced the location.That silence was louder than anything he could have said.Cassian was already there when I arrived. Sitting on the bench where Caelan and I had spoken, which felt significant in a way I did not fully understand yet. His hands were rested on his knees, and he was looking at the hedge line with the patient stillness of
The Alpha My Sister Wanted Chapter Forty-Five: First Words
They brought us inside before anything real was said.That was Victor's doing. He managed the movement of people the way he managed everything, smoothly, with the appearance of hospitality covering the reality of control. The delegation was directed to the formal receiving room, the one used for pack alliances and political visits, with the long table and the high windows and the particular chill that formal rooms always carried when they had not been used in a while.Cassian did not look at the room when he entered it.He looked at me.I had taken a position near the window, not at the table, not seated where Victor's arrangement of chairs had silently suggested I should be. Ezra stood beside me. Not touching. Not performing anything. Simply there, in the way he had been there since the moment we ran back from the ridge, a warmth at my shoulder that my wolf catalogued and my mind tried to stop cataloguing and failed.Darius sat at the head of the table.Victor sat to his left.Cassia
The Alpha My Sister Wanted Chapter Forty-Four: The Man at the Gates
We ran.Through the treeline and down the path and across the frost-hardened ground toward the pack house with the boundary calls still rising behind us, and by the time the lights of the main building came into view my lungs were burning and Ezra's hand had found the small of my back without either of us deciding that was going to happen.He pulled it away the moment we reached the courtyard.But I felt it for a long time after.The pack house was already awake. Lights in windows that should have been dark, wolves moving through the lower corridors with the particular controlled urgency of people who had been told something was happening and were trying to look like they had expected it. Darius was already at the main entrance, dressed, composed, his Alpha authority wrapped around him like something he had simply reached for on his way out the door.Victor was at the gates.Of course he was.Ezra slowed beside me and his shoulder found mine, just slightly, just enough. I felt the war
The Alpha My Sister Wanted Chapter Forty-Three: The Night Before
I went to the ridge at midnight.Not because I had planned to. Because sleep had stopped being a possibility somewhere around the third hour of lying in the dark with Caelan's words stacked against Victor's and no clean way to separate truth from construction.Ask Cassian about your mother. Ask him specifically about the night she left Moonfall.The pendant warmed before I even reached the treeline.The clearing settled around me the way it always did. My wolf exhaled into the space and the stones and the mist and the almost-full moon overhead, and for the first time since the summons to Victor's study that morning my chest unclenched slightly.I sat with my back against the largest stone.Tomorrow Cassian Valehart was going to walk through those gates.My father, who had redirected an entire pack's resources looking for me and lost his Alpha seat because of it, was going to stand in front of me and I was going to have to decide in real time what seventeen years of a blank space on a
The Alpha My Sister Wanted Chapter Forty-Two: What Luca Saw
I found Caelan in the east courtyard.Not by accident. Darius had quietly extended his movement permissions that morning, a small but deliberate loosening of Victor's escort requirement that told me Darius was managing this situation on a parallel track to whatever Victor believed he was managing.Caelan was sitting on the low stone wall at the courtyard's edge, looking out at the ridge in the distance with the particular stillness of someone who was comfortable with silence in a way that most wolves were not. His escort wolf stood ten paces away pretending to find the far wall interesting.I sat beside him."Victor spoke to me this morning," I said."I expected he would.""He said the pack council removed Cassian. That he did not step down voluntarily."Caelan was quiet for a moment."That is partially true," he said."Which part.""The council did move to remove him. Cassian stepped down before the vote completed." He looked at me steadily. "Victor knows the difference. He chose the
The Alpha My Sister Wanted Chapter Forty-One: What Victor Left Out
The pack noticed.I had known they would. Black Moon Ridge was not a large enough world for two people to walk back through the front door at sunrise with the particular quality of silence between them that Aurora and Ezra carried and have nobody register it.By breakfast the dining hall had that feeling again. The one I was becoming familiar with. Conversations that paused a beat too long when I entered. Eyes that moved toward me and then away with the careful precision of wolves who had decided that looking directly at something was the same as having an opinion about it.Luca handed me tea without comment.That was how I knew it was bad.Luca always had a comment."How bad," I said quietly."On a scale of one to ten." He considered. "Seven. Maybe seven and a half.""Because of the ridge.""Because of the ridge, because of the meeting yesterday, because of Caelan in the east wing, because of the stone." He paused. "Pick one. They are all contributing."Ezra entered the dining hall t
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