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Chapter Thirty-Three: Ten O’Clock
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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 Ten: Good People, Bad Timing
Selene’s POVBowen does not do dramatics.This is the thing about him. He does not build to things unnecessarily or draw out a pause for effect the way some older men do when they have an audience. When he says we have a problem he means it plainly, and the fact that he came to the kitchen before s
The Alpha Who Threw Me Away Chapter Nine: Before You Decide
Selene’s POVThe kitchen is too small for three people and everything they are not saying.I look at Lucian standing in the doorway in yesterday’s shirt, collar still open, like he did not sleep either or slept badly and gave up sometime before dawn. His hair is not as composed as it usually is. Th
The Alpha Who Threw Me Away Chapter Eight: The Question Nobody Asked Me
Selene’s POVI do not sleep.This is not a surprise. I lie on my back in the dark of my small third floor room and stare at the ceiling and listen to the pack house settle around me, the old wood contracting in the cold, the distant sound of wind against the east wing windows, and I wait for my bod
The Alpha Who Threw Me Away Chapter Seven: What the Bond Remembers
Selene’s POVDinner is loud in the way that things are loud when everyone is being careful.Eight people around a long table, conversation moving in the practiced way of people who know how to talk without saying anything, and I stand near the serving station with my hands clasped and my face arran
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