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CHAPTER 16
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"You are a long way from wherever you came from," Lucien said."Not so far," the rogue said. His accent was northern. "Close enough to know what you have inside those walls. Close enough to know it does not belong to you."Lucien looked at him steadily. "Last chance to walk away from this.""Last chance," Lucien said, "to walk away from this."The rogue smiled, and that was his first mistake.His second was throwing the first punch.What happened after that was not a fight in any clean sense of the word. Lucien did not step back. He did not calculate, measure or find a pattern. Something in him that was usually kept behind several layers of composure came forward all at once, and what replaced it was not rage exactly, it was something colder and more total than rage, the part of him that had built this pack out of rubble and buried its dead and sworn, in the specific and unforgiving way that men swore things over graves, that nothing inside these walls would be taken again.He hit the
The Alpha's Enemy's Daughter CHAPTER 23
The training ground was loud that evening.Lucien had been at it since before the sun was fully up, working through combinations with Draven that had long since passed the point of being drills. Draven was one of the few wolves in Ashveil who could still push him properly, who knew when to press and when to pull back and who did not make the mistake of going easy because of who he was sparring with.Lucien valued that more than most things.He landed a clean strike to Draven's shoulder, and Draven rolled with it and came back low and fast, which was the right response, and for a moment they were simply two men working through something physical with everything else stripped away. No pack.No investigation. Just the ground under his feet and the work in front of him.Soren was on the far side of the ground with three younger wolves, running them through footwork drills with the focused impatience of a man who had little tolerance for sloppiness. Lucien could hear him from across the
The Alpha's Enemy's Daughter CHAPTER 22
She found his office on her own.Nobody directed her there. Nobody offered to walk her. She had spent enough weeks in this keep to know its corridors by now, which ones curved, which ones narrowed, which doors belonged to which rooms. She had learned it the way she learned most things, quietly, without announcing that she was learning.She knocked once and did not wait for an answer.Lucien was at his desk, reading something. He did not look up immediately, which she suspected was deliberate. A small power, cheap but effective. She stood in the middle of the room and waited, because she had not come here to be rattled by a man taking his time with a document.He set the paper down and looked at her."You are going to want to close that door," she said.He said nothing. She closed it herself."I want to know who it is," she said. "The person you are protecting. The person who has been using me as a shield while they move freely through this pack."Lucien leaned back in his chair and lo
The Alpha's Enemy's Daughter CHAPTER 21
Lucien continued.He spoke without note and hesitation, without once raising his voice. That alone was enough to make her pay attention. She had been in enough rooms with enough powerful men to know that the ones who shouted were usually the ones who were uncertain. The ones who stayed quiet were the ones who already knew something everyone else was still working out."Whoever did this," Lucien said, moving his gaze slowly across the hall, "was not careless. They did not act on impulse. They understood this pack well enough to know which deaths would cause the most disruption and which direction suspicion would naturally fall." He paused. "That kind of understanding is not something a stranger walks in with. It is something that grows over time….Over the years. From the inside."The hall was very quiet.Alira looked around slowly, keeping her expression neutral. Most faces carried the expected mixture of unease and attention. But there were others, three that she counted, who had gone
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The note was not there when she left the infirmary the previous night.She was certain of it, the way she was certain of most things in that room, because she had made a habit since arriving of knowing exactly where everything was. The bench had been cleared. The shelves were in order. The door had been locked from the outside by Davin, who kept the key on a cord around his neck and took that responsibility with the seriousness of someone who had been told it mattered.The note was on the bench when she came in the next morning.A small square of folded paper, sitting in the centre of the workbench like it had always been there. There was no name on the outside. Nothing to tell her who had left it or how they had gotten in without Davin knowing.She stood in the doorway for a moment and looked at it before she finally summoned the courage to touch it.Wren came in behind her and stopped. "What is that?""I don't know yet," Alira said, glancing at Wren.She crossed the room and unfolde
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The supervision turned out to be Soren himself.Draven had offered. Brix had offered. Wren had pointed out, very reasonably, that she was already in the infirmary and therefore the most logical choice. Soren overruled all of them with the quiet authority of someone who had decided this was his responsibility and was not interested in sharing it.So there he was, arms crossed, leaning against the wall like he had been planted there, watching Alira work.She had been at the bench for an hour. The compound from the cup was small in quantity, and she was being careful, which meant being slow. She could tell it was irritating him. She did not speed up on his account."You are very calm," Soren said, after a long silence, "for someone in your position.""My position," Alira replied, without looking up, "is at a workbench, identifying a compound that will help find who killed two members of this pack. Calm seems appropriate.""Most people in your position would be trying harder to look innoc
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