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CHAPTER 185: A Different Kind of Protection
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The Alpha's Hidden Debts CHAPTER 185: A Different Kind of Protection
Sera's POV"Two wolves at your door every night, and a third on the road whenever you leave the lodge," Riven said. "That is the minimum."I put down the stylus I had been holding. We were back in the war room at Northesk, long past midnight, with the specialist's report spread across the table and the dead officer's name written in Wren's tidy hand on a sheet of paper between us. Riven had not stopped talking since we got home. He had listed guards, shifts and escape routes, and he had done it in the flat, level voice he used when he was frightened and refused to admit it."Riven," I said."I am not finished. I want a scout riding ahead of you when you travel to the council hall, and I want you to stop going alone to the archive. If someone forged a signature under a dead man's name, they are patient and they are careful, and we have just found the edge of what they hid.""I know.""Then you understand why I am asking.""I understand why you are afraid." I kept my voice gentle. "That
The Alpha's Hidden Debts CHAPTER 184: The Price of a Signature
Riven's POV"A seal is not a confession," I said.Wren looked up from the table where she had spread the stapled page. It was close to midnight in the committee room, and the lamp had burned low enough that I could see the faint brown ridges in the old wax. "I never said it was.""I know. I am saying it to myself." I leaned over the paper without touching it. "Voss has signed thousands of documents in thirty years. A regional Alpha stamps a transfer order the same way a farmer signs for a delivery. It does not prove he knew where the cargo was going.""The cargo was a man," said Sera quietly."Yes. And that is exactly why I want to be careful."She did not argue. She sat on the other side of the table with her hands wrapped around a cup of tea she had not drunk, and I watched her decide to let me work in my own way. It was one of the things I had come to love most about her. She always knew when I was putting a wall around a problem so that I could look at it without flinching.Calder
The Alpha's Hidden Debts CHAPTER 183: The Man My Father Remembered
Cael's POV"Ione," I said.The word came out of me like a breath I had been holding for twenty years. I had not said it aloud since a night in the kitchen when I thought the whole lodge was asleep, and I had not expected to hear it again from a page in my daughter's hand.Sera sat down on the bench beside me. She did not ask a question. She had learned that from Riven, I think, the art of leaving a silence open until the other person walked into it on his own."He was a physician," I said. "Dr. Ione Marrow. He kept a practice on the north road, in a stone house with a cellar. The winter your mother and I ran, he hid us there for three months.""Concealed a hybrid male and his wife," Sera said, reading from the page."That was us." I almost smiled. "He told the patrol we were his cousins from the coast. He lied beautifully. He had a way of looking so tired and so honest that nobody ever thought to check.""What happened to him?""They found out. Someone in the village talked." I rubbed
The Alpha's Hidden Debts CHAPTER 182: The Names They Buried
Sera's POV"Before we begin," said the investigator, "I want you to know you may stop at any time.""I will not need to," I said.She gave me a long look over her spectacles and slid the first folder across the table. Her name was Calder, and she was the calm woman with ink on her cuffs who had sat through Brandt's four-hour confession. We were in a windowless room on the second floor of the council hall, with a single lamp, a pot of tea nobody had touched, and a stack of boxes that smelled of a basement. Wren sat on my left with a notebook open. Two more investigators sat across from us, a thin man named Pruitt and a younger woman who had not yet said anything.Riven had driven me here and then waited in the corridor. He had said he would stand outside the door all day if I asked him to. I had told him to go home and eat something, and he had stayed exactly where he was.I opened the folder.The photograph from the messenger was on top, and I looked at it once more. My old name stood
The Alpha's Hidden Debts CHAPTER 181: The Life After the Hearing
Sera's POV"Something has ended," I told the ceiling, "and I cannot tell what."Riven's side of the bed was empty again, and the morning light lay across the quilt exactly as it had every other morning. The stone sat warm on the table. The ring was on my finger. Nothing in the room had changed, yet I lay there with the odd, hollow feeling of a person who has carried a heavy bag for so long that she keeps reaching for it after setting it down.The hearing was over. The three Alphas were restricted to their territories, and the inquiry would grind on for months. There were no more doors to kick in and no more lists to read at midnight. I waited for the next emergency to announce itself, and the lodge stayed quiet.I got dressed and went downstairs.The kitchen was full. Mara stood at the stove with her sleeves rolled to the elbow, arguing with a pan of eggs. Cael sat at the long table with a mug of tea, reading a letter he kept folding and unfolding. Dex had his boots propped on a secon
The Alpha's Hidden Debts CHAPTER 180: The Last of Them
Sera's POVTeague did not answer me.He sat with both hands flat on the table and stared at a spot just past my shoulder, and I watched his mouth open and close twice without a sound. In the end it was Harrow who broke the silence, and he did it badly."This is an ambush," he said, standing so fast that his chair scraped. "The council cannot accept testimony from a man who was declared dead thirty years ago, or from a girl who has a personal grudge.""Sit down, Alpha Harrow," said the hearing officer."I will not be lectured by...""Sit down." She did not raise her voice, and that was what made it land. "I have heard your presentation, and I have heard the witness. I have also heard something I did not expect, which is a man declining to answer a direct question in an open session." She looked at Teague. "Alpha Teague, do you wish to revise your statement?"Teague swallowed. "I wish to speak with counsel.""That is your right," she said, and she wrote something down. "It is also an an
The Alpha's Hidden Debts Chapter 4: Don't Make It Mean Something
Sera's Pov "You're awake."I opened my eyes. The voice came from the corner of the room. A woman sat there, older, somewhere in her sixties, grey hair pulled back, the kind of face that had seen enough of everything to stop being surprised by most of it. She had a cup of something warm in both han
The Alpha's Hidden Debts Chapter 3: I'll Bite You
Riven’s PovThe radio crackled at half past eleven. I was at my desk working through the week's border patrol reports, a mug of coffee gone cold at my elbow. The lodge was quiet at this hour. Most of the pack had turned in and I preferred it that way. "Alpha." It was Cord, one of my north border m
The Alpha's Hidden Debts Chapter 2: I Won't Beg for What Should Have Been Mine
Sera's Pov"Sera."I stopped halfway across the yard. Della. She had followed me out of the hall, her shawl pulled tight around her shoulders, her breath making small clouds in the cold air. She looked at the bag on my shoulder and then at my face and I watched her put it together in real time."Wh
The Alpha's Hidden Debts Chapter 1: She Is My Fated Mate
Sera's Pov "She actually thought she deserved to be our Luna. How pathetic."I heard every word and kept my eyes forward, my hands loose at my sides, my breathing even. Three years in this pack taught me that much. You didn't react, you didn't give them the satisfaction. You kept your face smooth
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