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Chapter 156: The Complaint Against Herl
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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 179: Cael's Voice
Sera's POV"I will begin with the room," my father said, "because that is where I have spent most of my life."The hall had gone so quiet that I could hear the scratch of the clerk's pen. Cael stood at the speaker's stand with his hands resting on the wood, and he did not glance at any notes. I had heard him talk about the past before. I had heard it late at night in our rooms, and in Bette's kitchen over cold tea, and in Riven's study with a stack of old records between us. But this was different. He spoke in his full voice, a deep, steady voice I had only heard in pieces, and he did not soften a single word for the people listening."It was twelve feet by nine," he said. "I know because I measured it every morning with my feet. One window, too high to see out of. One door, which opened twice a day. I was in that room for thirty years, and in all that time I was told that my wife was dead and my daughter had never been born."A low sound moved through the benches. The hearing officer
The Alpha's Hidden Debts CHAPTER 178: The Three Alphas
Riven's POV"They brought better lawyers than Drenn ever did," Dex muttered."Lower your voice," I said."I am whispering.""You are whispering the way other people shout."Dex slumped back in his seat, and Mara, on his other side, pressed two fingers against his sleeve until he went quiet. The regional council hall was full, every bench taken and the aisles lined with standing wolves. I had sat in this room for fifteen years, and I had never seen it so silent. Word had gone out to every pack in the north, and half of them had sent someone to watch.The regional council had scheduled the hearing within the week. I would have preferred a month, but nobody asked me. The three Alphas had demanded a public session, and a public session was what they got.They sat at a long table across the floor from us, with two legal representatives behind them, and they looked exactly like what they were, men who had never once been told no. Alpha Voss, on the right, was broad and gray-bearded, with th
The Alpha's Hidden Debts CHAPTER 177: Named Specifically
Sera's POVI read the statement once, and then I read it again.The words did not change. They sat on the heavy paper in the same cold, practiced lines, and the paragraph near the bottom stood out as if someone had underlined it in black. I put the page down on the table. A moment later I picked it up again, because my hands wanted something to do."They named me specifically," I said."Yes," said Riven."They called me a threat.""Yes.""To the regional council. Officially. In writing, with three signatures, and copies sent to every pack in the north.""Yes."He stood on the other side of the war room table with his arms crossed and his jaw tight. He had answered each question with a single word, and I understood that it was not because he had nothing to say. It was because he had too much, and he was holding all of it behind his teeth.I waited for the fear to come. I had expected it on the way up from the first line, the old cold thing that used to crawl up my spine whenever someon
The Alpha's Hidden Debts CHAPTER 176: Dominoes
Riven's POV"Elder Brandt is at the north gate," Dex said, "and he came alone."I looked up from the patrol maps. It was barely past dawn, two days after Hale had picked up that telephone, and Dex was standing in the doorway with his boots unlaced, which meant he had run the whole way from the gate."Alone," I repeated."No guards, no driver, and no formal colors. He walked the last mile with a leather case in both hands, and he looks like he has not slept since the statement went out." Dex dropped his voice. "He says he wants to talk to the investigators before anyone else does. He says he would like to be first.""First," Sera said from the table behind me. She had been up before me, as usual, and she put down her pen very slowly. "Hale's statement only reached the council yesterday afternoon.""Then somebody on that list heard about it within hours," I said."Or somebody inside the council told them on purpose." She stood and pulled on her jacket. "Either way, he is not here to fig
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
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
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