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Chapter Thirty-Five: Five In The Morning
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The Alpha Who Threw Me Away Chapter Forty-Five: Talia
Selene’s POVI do not say anything for a long moment.The woman in front of me — Talia — stands very still on the path, her travel-dusted boots planted like she is bracing for something, and I look at her and try to find the place in myself that should be reacting and find that it is several seconds behind the rest of me, still catching up to what she just said.A sister.I have spent twenty-three years believing I was alone in the particular way an only child of a dead mother is alone. No siblings. No extended family that ever surfaced. Just me and Mireille Avery and then, after she died, just me.“You have been looking for me,” I say. “For a year.”“Since my father died.” Talia’s voice carries an accent I do not recognise, something from further east than Ironveil, clipped in places where mine is not. “He spoke of Mireille on his deathbed. Of a daughter he never met because she vanished with her mother before he could find them. He gave me a name — Selene — and very little else. A r
The Alpha Who Threw Me Away Chapter Forty-Four: Mireille’s Daughter
Selene’s POVBowen is sitting up in bed when I come in, propped against pillows Edna has clearly insisted on, and he looks better than he did last night — colour back in his face, the dry edge back in his voice — but he is still a man who collapsed twenty hours ago and his hands, folded on the blanket, are not entirely steady.I tell him about the hearing first. The petition dismissed. Dain’s apology. My standing designation, recorded and independent. He listens with his eyes closing briefly at certain points, the specific closing of a man absorbing relief he has been waiting for without letting himself expect it.Then I tell him about the registry.His eyes open.He does not say anything for a long moment, and something in the particular quality of his silence is different from his usual considered pauses. This one has weight in it. This one looks like a man being asked to remember something he has spent years not remembering on purpose.“Bowen,” I say slowly. “You knew.”He does not
The Alpha Who Threw Me Away Chapter Forty-Three: Something About My Bloodline
Selene’s POVI read the message three times before I show it to Lucian.Ms. Avery — in the course of reviewing your pack governance file for the standing designation, my office cross-referenced your registered lineage against the northern territories’ archive, standard procedure for any formal recognition. A discrepancy surfaced that predates this hearing entirely and has nothing to do with the petition. I think you should see it before it becomes administrative paperwork rather than something explained to you directly. Can you come to the council office this afternoon? — HalseyA discrepancy. Predates this hearing entirely.I stand in the corridor with Mara watching my face and Bowen’s voice still tinny and waiting on the phone in her hand, and I feel the particular vertigo of a week that I thought had found its bottom discovering it has not.“What kind of discrepancy,” Lucian says, reading over my shoulder.“I do not know. She does not say.”Mara lowers the phone from her ear. “Bowe
The Alpha Who Threw Me Away Chapter Forty-Two: Corrin’s Last Word
Lucian’s POVReth holds the document out and neither of us reaches for it immediately.I have had enough of Corrin’s name for one week. Enough of his careful unremarkable face sitting in my study chair, enough of his pleasant voice describing my pack as a story that writes itself, enough of two men he placed in Caden’s delegation moving through my house like something I should have caught and did not. I do not want to read whatever he has decided to say now that everything he built has come apart around him.But I take it anyway, because not reading it does not make it stop existing.It is short. A single page, typed, no flourish, the same flat efficiency Corrin brought to everything else.Alpha Blackthorn. By the time this reaches you the hearing will likely be concluded and I will already be beyond reach of whatever consequence the council decides to pursue. I am not writing to apologise — I do not believe in apologies that arrive only once a plan has failed, and I would not insult
The Alpha Who Threw Me Away Chapter Forty-One: On The Record
Selene’s POVThe room does not move for a moment.I look at Caden. He is looking back at me, steady as always, but there is something underneath the steadiness now that I have not seen from him before — not quite nerves, Caden does not seem built for nerves, but something close to it. The specific stillness of a man who has just had a private intention made public in a room full of people, including the man he is, in some sense, asking it of.“I filed it this morning,” he says, to me, quietly, as if the panel were not three feet away. “Before the hearing. I told you I was not asking for a decision today. I meant that. This was not meant to put you on the spot in front of a council.”“Then why file it today,” I say.“Because Bowen’s letter said I should choose you on my own terms, not as a fallback,” he says. “And I realised waiting for a quieter moment was its own kind of hesitation. I did not want there to be any version of this where you wondered if I meant it, or if it was continge
The Alpha Who Threw Me Away Chapter Forty: The Proposal
Selene’s POVA proposal.The word sits in my chest while the panel files out, while Reth gathers documents, while the room empties around me and I stay seated because my legs have not yet agreed to stand. Lucian is beside me. He has not moved either.“Did you know about this,” I ask him.“No.” He looks as unsettled as I feel. “Halsey did not mention anything to me about your standing. Only the leadership review.”Caden, on my other side, is quiet for a moment. “A proposal from a council panel, mid-hearing, is not standard,” he says. “Whatever it is, they decided it overnight or this morning. It was not part of the original scope.”“Halsey,” I say slowly. “This morning. She told me about the institutional failure. That I had the right to say it.” I look at him. “Maybe this is connected.”We have an hour.Mara finds us in the corridor outside the hearing room — she has been waiting at the council building since nine, unwilling to sit at home not knowing — and when I tell her what Halsey
The Alpha Who Threw Me Away Chapter Twenty-Nine: One Night
Selene’s POVTomorrow.I say the word in my head the way you say something you are trying to make feel real by repeating it. It does not feel real. Twenty-four hours ago we had thirty days and a plan that needed compressing and last night we compressed it and now we have tomorrow and no plan at all
The Alpha Who Threw Me Away Chapter Twenty-Eight: Last Contribution
Lucian’s POVMy father sent the letter to the council.I say it in my head twice before I say it out loud, because saying it out loud makes it real in a way that requires me to then decide what to do with it, and I need the two seconds of internal repetition to find the version of myself that can h
The Alpha Who Threw Me Away Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Full Letter
Selene’s POVNobody speaks.The room holds the specific silence of people who are all separately trying to work out what they do not yet know, and the answer, in this case, is the same for everyone. Whatever is in that letter — the full version, the part Bowen did not mention in the library — nobod
The Alpha Who Threw Me Away Chapter Twenty-Six: What the Letter Said
Selene’s POVI find Bowen in the small library off the council chamber, the room he favors when he wants to think without anyone watching him do it. He is sitting near the window with a book open on his lap that I do not think he is reading, and when I come in he looks up and does not look surprise
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