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CHAPTER 38
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2026-09-12 05:07:11
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Brix let go of the string, and the wolf was no longer where it had been.It dropped sideways, quick and low, and the arrow cracked against the stones and skittered off into the dark. Somebody in the crowd screamed.Somebody else laughed, high and thin, like a person who had run out of other things to do.The wolf did not go for Brix or anyone, as half expected. It turned its head once toward the gates, gathered itself, and ran. It took the courtyard wall in a single jump. Alira heard claws scrape stone, and then there was only the howl, rolling away across the grounds until she could not tell where it ended."After it!" Brix shouted.He did not sound calm anymore. He sounded like a man hauling a runaway cart back onto the road by the reins. He barked a second order, and the shadows along the wall came apart.Wolves stepped out of them, ten or twelve, armed and dressed for the cold, torches already lit. Nobody among them looked surprised.Alira stood very still. She knew most of the gu
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Wren had retired to her quarters an hour earlier, leaving the infirmary draped in deep shadow and heavy silence.Alira rushed inside, the heavy wooden door shutting behind her with a dull thud. She dragged the oil lamp across the wooden bench, its pale yellow flame sputtering to life and casting long, dancing shadows across the rows of stone jars. Her hands were shaking so violently she nearly dropped the glass, but she forced her breathing to steady, lining up the ingredients one by one.Willow charcoal came first, meant to bind whatever residue might still be lingering in his stomach, though she knew in her gut the poison was already surging through his veins. Next was yarrow, used by healers for generations to steady the violent racing of a heart near collapse.Finally, she reached into the dark corners of the bottom shelf for a bitter grey root her mother’s old journals had warned her to touch only in moments of absolute ruin.She did not know the exact chemical breakdown of Brix’s
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"Give him five minutes," the ghost said, his voice dropping into a dry, maddening murmur as he drifted ahead of her. Alira planted one hand flat against the cold stone of the corridor wall, fighting the frantic panic clawing at her ribs. "Why?" she demanded, her voice tight. "Because if you barge into his chambers right behind him, it looks like you are chasing him." "I am chasing him!" she said, her voice a bit higher than it should have been. "Yes, but it does not have to look like it," the ghost reasoned. She clamped her mouth shut and began counting to three hundred in her head, completely losing track twice because her heart was hammering too loud in her ears. She gave up and continued walking. The ghost casually paced beside her, humming something formless and tuneless just to test her frayed nerves. "STOP!" she ordered, her eyes glaring furiously at him. He stopped for roughly eleven seconds before resuming his silent, hovering drift. Lucien's heavy door was s
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From the far side of the room, in a space that looked empty to everyone except the two people who could see him, the ghost said with urgency, “Do not touch that glass.”A cold wave of nausea hit Alira’s throat as she snapped her gaze to Lucien.He was staring down at the dark glass resting in Brix’s hand.Seeing that everyone was watching, Lucien reached out and picked it up.Brix walked back to his chair with a satisfied smile. He picked up his glass and raised it high, and so did everyone else around the table."To survival," Brix said, his tone dripping with a deep, affectionate reverence that felt entirely real. "To the blood we have shed, the peace we have earned, and to the Alpha who keeps us whole."Everyone drank.Alira snatched up her own cup, set it down with a sharp clatter, and looked frantically from Brix to Lucien. She tried, with the desperate, mute plea of someone forbidden from shouting a warning, to scream the truth at him entirely with her eyes.Lucien reached out a
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He always arrived first.It was not a habit people noticed because it had never given them a reason to, but he had perfected the strategy years ago.The man who sat down before anyone else got to watch the room assemble. He got to see who sat where, who avoided whose eyes, who walked in carrying an invisible weight they had not carried yesterday. Information. Pure, raw data, and Brix had never in his life let a single piece of it go to waste.He stood near the stone hearth with a cup in his hand, watching the great hall fill.Soren walked in alongside Draven, deep in an argument, Draven gesturing sharply with his hands the way he always did when the other person was refusing to understand his point.Elder Caius took his usual heavy seat near the head of the table without offering a greeting to a single soul, which was standard for Caius. Two senior border wolves filed in along the right side, both of them still moving with a stiff, guarded limp from the recent rogue attack. Brix not
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The whispers followed them all the way to the upper level. As they rounded the turn near the private wing, she caught a fragment of a hushed discussion between two older guards. Roric's girl... why is he bringing her up here... what is he doing... She locked those voices away in the back of her mind, refusing to let them reach her face. She had spent her entire life building walls behind her eyes to hide what she was feeling, and she was far too skilled at it to break down now. Lucien stopped at a heavy ironbound door on the upper south level. She had been to his administrative study, but she had never been granted access to his private living quarters. The oak door was thicker than the ones below, creaking softly as he pushed it open. The room beyond was expansive, stripped of any needless luxury, built purely from cold stone, dark timber, and functional iron. It was the room of a leader who selected every item for utility rather than comfort. A heavy desk sat near a tall arch
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