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Chapter Ninety-Six: The Council Meets
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The Alpha Who Threw Me Away Chapter Ninety-Six: The Council Meets
Lucian’s POVFriday morning.The council meets at nine.I have been in the study since five-thirty, which is where I go when I cannot sleep and have stopped pretending that not sleeping is a problem. Selene came down at six and made coffee and sat in her chair and we worked in the parallel quiet of the study for ninety minutes before she went to prepare for the meeting and I stayed to finish reading the last of the testimony submissions Crane’s office has been forwarding.The submissions are thorough.Fenn’s documentation from the southern council. Aldric Voss’s twelve documents. Dain’s account, which arrived yesterday and which is the most detailed of any of them, a thirty-page account of two years of watching the northern petitioners build their strategy and of the moment Dain understood what it was and decided he was not going to be part of it anymore.Dain writes well.He writes the way Selene writes, directly and without softening the difficult parts, and reading his account of t
The Alpha Who Threw Me Away Chapter Ninety-Five: Page Seventy-Two
Selene’s POVI read it standing.Not because I planned to stand. Because I started reading and my legs did not register that they could sit down, that there was a chair behind me, that the library was warm and there was time.Lucian is watching me.I am aware of him the way I am aware of the ground note, constantly and without having to attend to it, and right now the ground note has a different quality than usual, something heightened, the way a sound gets louder when the room goes quiet around it.I read page seventy-two.Then page seventy-three.Then I sit down.Calla wrote about the fifth year of the bond.She wrote about the frequency extending into the territory, which Bowen showed me on page seventy-one. What she wrote on seventy-two and seventy-three is what came after the extension.What came after was this:Edrin and I have been discussing something we have not found in any existing record and have therefore had to reason through ourselves, which Edrin says is fitting given
The Alpha Who Threw Me Away Chapter Ninety-Four: Reth
Selene’s POVI pick up.“Ms. Avery,” Reth says. “I apologise for calling on a Tuesday afternoon without warning.”“You called on a Friday evening without warning last week,” I say. “Tuesday afternoon is an improvement.”A brief pause that contains something close to amusement. “Yes,” he says. “I suppose it is.” He pauses. “I have just come from a meeting with Director Crane.”“He told you about the preliminary finding,” I say.“Yes,” he says. “And about the referral to the misconduct review panel.” He pauses. “He also told me about the formal conversation I am going to be having about my extended regional presence.”“How was that conversation,” I say.“Thorough,” he says. “He was precise about the protocol I should have followed and accurate about the fact that I did not follow it and then he said, off the record, that the flag I filed Friday afternoon was the thing that moved the case.” He pauses. “He said it as a fact, not a commendation. But I understood what he meant.”“Good,” I s
The Alpha Who Threw Me Away Chapter Ninety-Three: Kept Going
Selene’s POVHalsey leaves on Sunday afternoon.She packs her documents with the specific efficiency of someone who came with a problem and is leaving with the shape of a solution, not the solution itself, but the framework of one, which is its own kind of progress. She stands in the entrance hall with her bag and her coat and the expression she has been developing over two days of being in this house as herself rather than officially, which is something slightly warmer than her usual precision without being less precise.“The committee will be in touch this week,” she says. “Probably Tuesday. Crane moves quickly when the scope of something becomes clear to him.”“I will be available,” I say.“You always are,” she says. Not critically. As an observation about the kind of person she has concluded I am.She looks at the house once more before she goes, the way she looked at it from the hall during the installation, the specific assessing look of someone filing something away for themsel
The Alpha Who Threw Me Away Chapter Ninety-Two: What My Mother Wrote
Selene’s POVI read my mother’s letter last.Not because I am avoiding it. Because I read eleven documents first and I want to understand the full context before I read what she wrote, the way you do not read the last page of something important until you are ready to carry what it says.The eleven documents take forty minutes.I sit at the study desk and read them in order, Aldric’s order, which is chronological and begins with the first letter between Harren Calloway and Caden’s father, a man named Drest Voss, dated approximately four months before my birth.The letters are not dramatic.This is the thing about documents that record harmful things — they are almost always ordinary. Business-like. Two men discussing a financial arrangement and an administrative problem in the language of people who have done this kind of thing before and consider it routine. Harren describes the filing. Drest describes his contact in the eastern archive. The money changes hands in two transfers, both
The Alpha Who Threw Me Away Chapter Ninety-One: Twelve Documents
Selene’s POVHe picks up before I finish raising the phone to my ear.“Ms. Avery.” His voice is different from what I expected, though I could not have said what I expected. Quieter. More careful. The voice of someone who has been holding something for a long time and is aware that saying it wrong could ruin the saying entirely. “Thank you for calling quickly.”“Tell me what you have,” I say.A brief pause. Not hesitation. The pause of someone who has organised what they are going to say and is finding the right place to begin.“When my brother died six years ago,” he says, “I was named as secondary executor of his private estate. Not his territory holdings — those passed to Caden. His private affairs. Documents, correspondence, personal records he kept separate from the official governance files.” He pauses. “I did not expect to find anything significant. My brother and I had not spoken in nine years at that point.”“Why had you not spoken,” I say.“Because of what I found fifteen ye
The Alpha Who Threw Me Away Chapter Five: Three People, One Corridor
I have a rule about crying in front of people.I do not do it.Not in front of Mara, who would hold me and mean well and somehow make it worse. Not in front of the pack members who whisper when I pass. Certainly not in front of Lucian Blackthorn, who forfeited the right to my tears the moment he s
The Alpha Who Threw Me Away Chapter Four: What Bowen Knows
Elder Bowen does not rush.This is the first thing you learn about him. He moves through the world at his own pace, deliberate and unhurried, and he has a way of occupying a room that makes you feel like the room was always waiting for him to arrive. He steps into the kitchen now and looks at Mara
The Alpha Who Threw Me Away Chapter Three: What He Doesn’t Say
I do not sleep well.This is not new. Sleep has been a negotiation since the rejection, something I have to coax and bargain with every night. Some nights I win. Other nights I lie in the dark staring at the ceiling of my small room on the third floor and wait for morning to come and end the argume
The Alpha Who Threw Me Away Chapter One: Two Sugars, No Cream
The coffee is always two sugars, no cream.I know this the way I know which floorboard outside his bedroom creaks, which window in the east corridor sticks in the rain, which light switch needs two tries before it catches. Small, useless knowledge that my body collected without my permission. Three
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