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Chapter 32: She Takes the Call
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The Alpha's Hidden Debts Chapter 35: Her Father's Name
Sera's PovMara brought us inside, to the small sitting room off the main hall, and made tea that nobody drank. Coran sat in the armchair near the window, his hands folded on his knees, watching me with those steady, patient eyes. Riven stood near the door, close enough to hear everything, far enough back to make it clear that whatever happened in this room was mine to lead.I sat across from Coran and looked at him properly for the first time.He was older than he had seemed in the dark outside. The white hair, the slow way he held himself, the particular kind of stillness in his face that only came on a person who had been carrying something heavy for a very long time and had learned to move around it without letting anyone see."Tell me from the beginning," I said. "All of it."He nodded once, slow, like he had been waiting for permission and now that he had it, he was going to do it properly."Thirty years ago I was young," he said. "Low rank. I served under a council sub-division
The Alpha's Hidden Debts Chapter 34: What Riven Heard
Sera's PovRiven was already outside when I walked out of the station.He had heard all of it. I knew that without asking. The back room had been small and the walls had been thin, and he had the hearing of a wolf, which meant every word Caden had said about Liora and every word I had not said in return had traveled right through the old wood to wherever he was standing.He did not say anything when he saw my face. He just opened the passenger door and waited.I got in.We drove in silence for a long time. Not the uncomfortable kind. The kind where two people understand that words would just get in the way of whatever was already happening in the air between them.The road back to Northesk wound through the kind of countryside that was beautiful if you were in the right state of mind to notice it, long flat stretches of dark trees, the sky going deep and cold above them. I watched it pass without really seeing any of it.I kept turning over the way Caden's face had looked when I said
The Alpha's Hidden Debts Chapter 33: Neutral Ground
Sera's PovThe ranger station sat at the edge of nowhere, halfway between two territories that had spent years pretending the other did not exist. Old wood, a rusted roof, windows so dusty they barely let in light. No pack markings. No allegiance to anyone. Exactly what neutral ground was supposed to look like.Riven had argued with me about it on the drive over."I go in with you," he said. "That's not up for discussion.""If you go in with me, he won't say what he actually came to say," I said. "He'll say the version he's prepared for an audience.""Then I stay close enough to hear.""The back room," I said. "You stay in the back room and you say nothing unless I call for you."He had gripped the steering wheel and stared at the road for a long moment."Fine," he said. "The back room."Dex took the perimeter without being asked, circling the station with the easy, unhurried movement of someone who had done this a hundred times, his eyes on the tree line instead of us. He caught my e
The Alpha's Hidden Debts Chapter 32: She Takes the Call
Sera's PovI stared at the message on Riven's phone for a long moment, the words sitting there plain and certain.He wants to talk to Sera directly.Riven was watching me, not the phone. Waiting to see what I would do with it, the same way he always waited, without pushing, without hinting at what he thought the right answer was."I'll take it," I said."Sera.""I'll take it," I said again, quieter this time. "Give me the phone."He looked at me for one long second. Then he dialed Caden's number himself and held it out to me without another word.I took it. I pressed it to my ear. I made myself breathe steady before the line connected.One ring. Two. Then the click of someone answering fast, like he had been sitting with the phone in his hand."Sera."I had prepared myself for cold. For the Alpha voice, the one he used when something needed to be handled efficiently and without feeling. I had heard that voice dozens of times, and I knew how to make myself small against it, how to take
The Alpha's Hidden Debts Chapter 31: The First Time She Bled
Sera's PovWe were still standing in the hallway, neither of us moving, the echo of what Riven had just said sitting between us like something neither of us was ready to touch yet.He would have known exactly what you were.I had known it too, the moment he said it, the way you know a thing the instant someone finally gives you the right word for it. I had been carrying the memory for years without understanding what I was carrying."There's something I should tell you," I said. "It matters, I think. For what comes next."Riven tilted his head slightly. "Tell me."I pushed off the wall and moved toward the end of the hallway where there was a small bench against the window. I sat down on it. Not because I needed to sit, but because what I was about to say felt like something that needed a settled body underneath it.Riven came and stood near the opposite wall, giving me the room he always gave me. Not too far. Just far enough."I was seventeen," I said. "About four months into my time
The Alpha's Hidden Debts Chapter 30: What Her Blood Does
Sera's PovRiven moved before I could even think to move myself.He stepped between me and the yard, his body blocking every line of sight the wolves had on me, his shoulders squared like a wall someone had decided to build in the space of a single second. I felt the air shift around him when he moved, something authoritative and heavy, like a door slamming shut."Eyes down," he said. His voice came out low, but it carried, the kind of voice that did not need volume to be obeyed. It was the voice of someone who had never once needed to shout to be heard. "Now."I heard the shift around me, fast, the strange stillness breaking apart all at once. Bodies that had frozen mid motion started moving again, awkward and unsure, like they were waking from something they could not quite explain to themselves. A few of them shook their heads hard, the way you shake water out of your ears. One young wolf put both hands on his knees and breathed slowly, like he was trying to remember how.Riven did
The Alpha's Hidden Debts Chapter 24: Sent
Sera's PovGideon said the word and then went quiet, like he needed a second before he could keep going."Sent," I said. "What does that mean?"He rubbed his hand across his jaw. His eyes did not meet mine right away."The mate bond is real," he said. "I want you to know that first. It cannot be fa
The Alpha's Hidden Debts Chapter 23: Gideon Defects
Sera's PovWe heard him before we saw him, voices in the entry hall, Gideon's low and steady beneath the higher, sharper tones of whoever had met him at the door. Riven was already moving by the time I caught up, fast and purposeful, and I followed close behind, the old volume still open on his des
The Alpha's Hidden Debts Chapter 22: Old Blood, Old Debts
Sera's PovWe moved to his study once the young wolf had been settled in confinement, the hallway quiet around us in a way that felt deliberate, like the whole compound had decided to hold its breath until it understood what had just happened.Riven closed the door behind us and didn't sit down rig
The Alpha's Hidden Debts Chapter 10: The First Crack
Sera's PovI didn't know about the message for a full day.I found that out later, the way you find out most things in a pack, sideways, after the fact, pieced together from things people don't quite say. Riven had it on his desk for a day before he called me in. I didn't know that when I walked in
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