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Chapter 61: The Solar Sovereign
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The Alpha’s Regret: The Hidden Luna’s Return Chapter 121: The Thing That Woke Wrong
The black water rose.It did not surge or crash. It lifted, slowly and smoothly, like a sleeper sitting up in the dark. The whole lake bulged toward the broken ceiling in a single dark dome, and from its crown a shape began to climb out.It was not the First Queen this time.The crown of branches was gone. The borrowed face was gone. What stood on the water was a tall, thin, shivering thing made of black threads, with a hollow where a face should have been and two long arms that hung almost to its knees. It looked like a child’s drawing of a person, done by someone who had never seen one.It turned its head toward the red ship.“That hurt,” said the Devourer.The voice was wrong.An hour ago it had spoken like a tired old woman at the end of a very long day. Now it sounded like something pulled out of sleep by its hair. Every word was ragged and too loud, and underneath it ran a low, grinding hum that I felt in my back teeth.“Everyone behind me,” Killian said.“Killian…”“Behind me,
The Alpha’s Regret: The Hidden Luna’s Return Chapter 120: The Ledger of the Unforgotten
"Not all of them," I repeated.My mother's hand was warm over mine. It was the first time in twenty-two years that I had felt it, and I could not make my mind hold the words she had just said. Her fingers were thin and strong and slightly rough, and I wanted to turn my palm up and hold on until the world ended."Explain," I said hoarsely."Not here, darling.""Mama…""Here is exactly where it must be said." Speaker Vane's voice cut across the clearing, calm as a scalpel. "I will not have this conducted in whispers. There are a hundred and forty ships watching, and every one of them has a gunner who would like very much to hear what happens next."She raised one hand.A thin gray panel slid out of the sleeve of her coat, no larger than a book. She opened it.Inside lay a single page of pale vellum."The Ledger of the Unforgotten," Orsolya said. "The Consensus keeps one volume. Seven copies exist, one for each house, written in iron-gall ink mixed with the blood of the person named. It
The Alpha’s Regret: The Hidden Luna’s Return Chapter 119: The Council's Questions
We rose through the lake like people waking from a long, strange dream.The water thinned around us. The silver stones fell away beneath our feet, and the dome of false stars grew brighter until it broke over my head like a held breath finally let go. I surfaced coughing, one arm locked around my sister's waist, the other still fisted around the strand of white hair that hummed against my palm.The air of the Hollow hit my face, cold and sweet and smelling of cedar."Mama!"Leo was already on the shore, hauling Ace out of the shallows by the back of his tunic. Killian came up beside me with Maya clinging to his neck, shaking water from his hair like a wolf. Behind us Pelari surfaced slowly, one hand pressed flat against his ribs, his silver eyes fixed on the broken ceiling.I dragged Sarah onto the black grass.It was not black anymore.I noticed it only as I knelt there gasping. Green was creeping through the ink-dark blades, thin and bright as the first shoots after a fire. The peta
The Alpha’s Regret: The Hidden Luna’s Return Chapter 118: The Last Line
The floor of faces roared.It was not a sound I heard so much as a pressure, a vast, slow wave that rolled through the water and through my bones until I thought my ribs would crack. Every Keeper the Devourer had ever taken opened their mouths at once. The bent notes straightened, one after another, until the whole chamber rang with a single chord so pure that it hurt to listen to.The heart is in the hollow. The hollow keeps the heart.My mother stood in the center of it, wrapped in a column of silver fire.She was still singing.I could see her mouth moving, I could see the light pouring from her, but the harder I stared, the less I understood what I was looking at. She was a tall woman with silver hair. She was barefoot. She wore a white robe that had been made for someone younger.I knew her.I knew her better than I knew anyone.And I did not know who she was."Killian," I gasped. "Killian, who is she?"He did not answer.I turned my head.He was staring at the woman in the fire
The Alpha’s Regret: The Hidden Luna’s Return Chapter 117: The Name Nobody Will Remember
Nobody spoke.Eight names glowed on the floor of faces, and a ninth flickered beside them like a candle in a draft. My sister hung in the column of dark with the First Queen's eyes in her face, and the whole chamber seemed to lean toward us, waiting for someone to say something that could not be taken back.I did what I always do when the room goes silent and the monitors start to scream.I counted.Eight voices to sing the verse. One voice to sing the last line. One name surrendered, not a life, not a death, but a person erased from the memory of everyone who had ever loved them. The price was not pain. The price was absence."I'll do it," Leo said.His voice cracked on the second word."No," I said."Mama, it's simple. I'm the one who does the math. I can feel how the bond is wound. I know where it'll hold.""Leo.""It should be me." He stood straighter, eleven years old and shaking. "I'm the oldest. I've already decided.""I'll do it," Ace said."Shut up, Ace.""You shut up." Ace's
The Alpha’s Regret: The Hidden Luna’s Return Chapter 116: The Bottom of the Hollow
The water did not drown us.I had braced for the cold, for the crush of black water filling my lungs. Instead the lake closed over my head like a held breath and I simply kept falling, my hair floating around my face, my hand locked in Killian's.I could breathe.It felt like breathing warm air through a wet cloth, but it filled my chest and carried no pain. Around me the others drifted down in a ragged ring, Leo and Ace clinging to each other, Maya's silver hair lifting like smoke, my mother's white robe billowing around her bare legs. Pelari sank slightly apart from us, his eyes wide, one hand pressed flat to his ribs as though checking he was still there."Don't let go," I said, and the words came out as sound, not bubbles."We won't," Leo called back."Mama, look down," Maya whispered.I looked.The lake had no bottom.It had a floor of faces.They stretched beneath us in every direction, thousands of them, set into the dark like stones in a mosaic. Men and women. Old and young. S
The Alpha’s Regret: The Hidden Luna’s Return Chapter 6: The Silver Vengeance
The Grand Ballroom of the Blackwood Manor was a cavern of gold leaf, crystal chandeliers, and the oppressive scent of old money and champagne. Tonight was officially the "Gala of Recovery," a celebration for the pack members who had been healed by the Silver Doctor. But for me, it was a tactical de
The Alpha’s Regret: The Hidden Luna’s Return Chapter 5: The Queen’s Shadow
The morning sun over the Blackwood estate was pale and sickly, filtered through the gray haze of the dying forest. I stood on the balcony of the guest wing, watching the pack warriors train in the courtyard below. From this height, they looked like ants, scurrying to maintain an order that was rapi
The Alpha’s Regret: The Hidden Luna’s Return Chapter 2: The silver Doctor
Five years is a lifetime in the world of the shifted. It is long enough for a forest to regrow, for a pack to forget a "useless" Delta, and for a broken heart to turn into a fortress of ice.I stood by the floor-to-ceiling windows of my private office on the 80th floor of the Silver Rise Medical Ce
The Alpha’s Regret: The Hidden Luna’s Return Chapter 1: The Shattered Moon
The scent of cedar and rain should have been my sanctuary. It was the scent of my home, the Blackwood Pack, and the scent of the man I had loved from a distance since I was a child. Instead, tonight, it was the smell of my execution.I stood in the center of the Pack Square, my feet bare against th
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