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Chapter Thirty-Two: The Weight He Carried
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2026-06-17 05:51:57
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The Alpha Who Threw Me Away Chapter Forty-Eight: The Man At The Door
Selene’s POVI stare at Lucian.“Talia said he was dead,” I say. My voice comes out flat, which is what happens when my mind is moving faster than my composure can keep up with. “She said he died a year ago. She said he told her about me on his deathbed.”“I know,” Lucian says. “That is what you told me.”“Then who is at the door.”“A man who says his name is Edrin Calloway.”I set my mug down on the desk with more care than the moment requires, because my hands need something deliberate to do, and I stand up and I look at Lucian and I try to find the bottom of what I am feeling and cannot.“Come with me,” I say.He does not hesitate. “Yes.”We go downstairs together, and Mara is in the entrance hall with the expression of a woman who has absorbed a shock and is managing it through the familiar discipline of standing very straight and very still. She looks at me when I appear and her eyes say something like I do not know what this is and I am here regardless, which is the most Mara th
The Alpha Who Threw Me Away Chapter Forty-Seven: Quiet Language
Selene’s POVWe sit in the study until the light outside the window goes fully dark.Not talking about anything important. That is the thing I notice, and keep noticing, because it is new — we have spent this entire week talking about nothing but important things, crisis stacked on crisis, revelation stacked on revelation, and now we are sitting in two chairs in a quiet study and Lucian is telling me about a dispute between two farming families on Ironveil’s eastern boundary that the council mediated last month, and I am listening, and somehow that is exactly what this hour needed.Ordinary things.I have missed ordinary things.At some point Mara brings tea without being asked, looks at the two of us in our separate chairs with the particular brightness of someone trying very hard to have no visible opinion, leaves the tray, and closes the door behind her with exactly the amount of care that tells me she is very pleased about something and is containing it through sheer willpower.“S
The Alpha Who Threw Me Away Chapter Forty-Six: What The Window Saw
Lucian’s POVI do not move from the window when she turns and sees me.There is no point pretending I was not watching. She knows I was and I know she knows, and the particular honesty this week has built between us means pretending otherwise would be a step backward neither of us can afford.She looks at me for a moment across the distance between the bench and the window.Then she stands and comes inside.I hear her footsteps on the stairs, the familiar sound of them, and I move away from the window and sit in the chair beside the desk — not behind it, the chair I sat in that first kitchen morning when I stopped having the composure to perform and sat at a kitchen table like a man rather than an Alpha. I have developed a preference for chairs that do not put a desk between me and whoever I am talking to. A small change. The kind that probably only matters to me.She comes in without knocking. I notice she has stopped knocking.She sits in the other chair, the one she sat in during t
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 Thirty: Named Party
Selene’s POVI read the message four times.Not because I do not understand it. I understand it immediately, completely, on the first read. I read it four times because understanding something and being ready for it are two different things and I am trying to close the distance between them standin
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
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