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Chapter 9 — The Woman Caelen Was Meeting
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2026-09-22 09:02:37
Ellen R. CondonSereth vanished before Caelen died, and someone used her code to lead him straight into danger. That makes her disappearance even more suspicious. Do you think Sereth is hiding, captured, or already in deeper trouble?
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The Alpha Who Married His Enemy Chapter 9 — The Woman Caelen Was Meeting
Maevra read Edrissa’s name twice.The letters did not change.Edrissa Sorn.Below the name sat three incomplete lines.I believe we have both been given reason to question the reports concerning—The sentence ended there.No signature.No date.No explanation.Rhydan took the parchment from her.“Why would Caelen write to your aunt?”“I was hoping you knew.”“He never mentioned her.”“Edrissa has represented Thornmere at Northern Council meetings.”“So have dozens of officials.”Maevra looked toward the guard who had delivered the letter.“Where exactly was this found?”“Inside the spine of an account book from Prince Caelen’s study.”“Which book?”The guard handed Rhydan a thick volume.Rhydan opened it.Trade records filled the pages.Maevra flipped toward the center and found the damaged binding where the parchment had been concealed.Someone had deliberately hidden it.Taven entered moments later.His expression suggested the fortress had spent the morning inventing new ways to an
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The message from Caelen’s room stayed in Maevra’s thoughts long after Rhydan ordered the corridor searched.Caelen found the money. He missed the buyer.Someone inside Varek Keep knew what they had uncovered.Worse, that person had been close enough to slide a message beneath a locked door and disappear before the guards arrived.Maevra stood beside the window in Rhydan’s private council room, watching morning light creep over the Ravaryn mountains.She had slept for perhaps an hour.Her cheek still carried the thin cut from the assassin’s knife. A fresh Thornmere weapon had been found in a dead guard. Caelen’s ledger contained payments surrounding her father’s death.She should have been thinking about all of it.Instead, she kept staring at the sealed letter on the table.Thornmere’s crest marked the wax.Rhydan stood across from her.“You don’t have to read it here.”Maevra looked at him.“Are you suddenly concerned about my privacy?”“I’m concerned you’ve been staring at that enve
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The dead guard had Maevra’s attention for exactly three seconds.The knife had it for longer.She stood at the entrance of Varek Keep’s old armory while Taven crouched beside the body. Several guards blocked the corridor behind them, preventing the growing crowd from getting any closer.Thornmere steel protruded from the dead wolf’s chest.Again.Maevra folded her arms.“Whoever is doing this lacks imagination.”Taven shot her a dark look.“A Ravaryn guard is dead.”“And someone wants you staring at the knife instead of asking why.”Rhydan stepped around the body.His expression had turned frighteningly calm.“Was he one of the three reassigned from Maevra’s corridor?”“Yes,” Taven said. “Deren Holt. Seven years in the western guard.”“Where are the other two?”“Still missing.”Rhydan looked at the knife.“Does it belong to you?”Maevra’s jaw tightened.“No.”“Recognize the work?”“Military issue. Thornmere stopped making that hilt four years ago.”Taven glanced up.“You’re sure?”“I
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The handle turned again.Maevra moved before the door opened.She snatched the bronze candleholder from the bedside table and pressed herself against the wall beside the entrance.Sariel surged beneath her skin.Blood still scented the room.Fresh enough that whoever had left the handprint could not have been gone long.The door opened slowly.A man stepped inside.Maevra swung.He ducked.The candleholder smashed against the wooden frame instead of his skull.“Luna!”Maevra stopped her second strike.One of the guards from outside stared at her, eyes wide.“What are you doing?”“I could ask you the same thing.”He looked from the weapon in her hand to the room.“Alpha Rhydan ordered us to remain outside.”“Then why are you inside?”“You called.”“I did no such thing.”The guard went still.A heartbeat later, Maevra saw his expression change.Confusion.Then fear.“Someone knocked from inside,” he said.Maevra’s grip tightened.“I heard a woman tell us to enter.”“There is no woman he
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The applause died before Maevra reached the end of the aisle.Good.She preferred hatred she could hear.Rhydan walked beside her through the great hall, his arm steady beneath her hand while hundreds of Ravaryn wolves watched their new Luna as though the title itself had become an insult.Whispers followed them.Some quiet.Some deliberately loud.“Thornmere butcher.”“Caelen’s murderer.”“Shameless.”Maevra kept her face composed.Sariel did not.Her wolf prowled beneath her skin, irritated by every hostile scent in the room.Rhydan lowered his voice.“If you bare your teeth at my court five minutes after becoming Luna, people may misunderstand.”“I’m smiling internally.”“That explains the murderous expression.”Maevra glanced at him.“You’re remarkably talkative for a grieving husband.”His humor disappeared.She regretted the words immediately.Caelen had not been buried.His body was still somewhere inside this fortress while strangers congratulated Rhydan on a marriage neither
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Maevra had faced charging wolves with less hostility than the room waiting for her.Ravaryn’s great hall had been transformed before moonrise.Silver candles lined the long aisle. Black banners bearing the mountain wolf hung from the rafters, joined reluctantly by the white-and-thorn crest of House Sorn. Armed guards stood along every wall.Nobody smiled.Good.Maevra had no intention of smiling either.Lyssara Vane, the healer assigned to prepare her for the ceremony, adjusted the fastening at the shoulder of Maevra’s dark green gown.“You look like you’re attending an execution.”“I nearly was.”Lyssara’s hands paused.“Fair.”Maevra glanced toward the closed doors.“Has Rhydan recalled the troops?”“The order went out twenty minutes ago.”“Thornmere?”“A messenger carried notice of the Concord to the eastern ridge.”Relief came reluctantly.Nobody had crossed the border.Not yet.Maevra looked down at herself.The gown belonged to Ravaryn, but she had refused their silver ceremonia
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