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Chapter 96
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Clara's POV I kept my hand raised long after he'd walked out of sight. The lawn lay empty under the new palms. A thin mist drifted across the grass where he had stood, and I watched it close over his footprints one by one until the quad looked as though nobody had ever crossed it. My arm began to shake. I lowered it. My palm still tingled with the shape of his, and I pressed it against my mouth, because I knew I would not be allowed to keep that either. Courteous, I thought. He nodded to me the way you nod to a stranger. It should have been the worst thing I'd ever felt. It was only the second. The worst was still waiting inside me, and it was my turn. I slid down the wall until I sat on the floorboards with my back against the bed and the jar of Pea in my lap. The room was gray and gold and utterly quiet. Someone had folded Lucan's sweater over the chair. It still smelled of him: cedar, smoke, a faint ghost of clove from Gail's bandages. I didn't touch it. I'd decided that
The Alpha’s college Mate Chapter 97
Lucan's POV I nodded to a stranger's window, and then I stood in the middle of a lawn trying to work out why my chest hurt. It wasn't the wounds. Gail had packed those and sworn at me for an hour. This ache sat lower and older, the ache of a hand reaching for a light switch in a house where the wiring had been moved. I knew I'd left someone asleep upstairs. I knew she'd had dark hair. I knew I had wanted, very badly, to turn around. I didn't. The black notebook was in my fist, and my feet seemed to know where it needed to go. The campus was changing as I walked it. I watched it happen in small, patient pieces, the way you watch a tide come in over flats. The hemlocks along the east path had begun to shed their needles in soft brown drifts, and from each bare crown a green spear was pushing up, unfurling into fronds. The air thickened and warmed. Mist lay across the grass in long pale scarves, and the ridge that had stood against the sky for forty-three years was sinking into m
The Alpha’s college Mate Chapter 96
Clara's POV "Clara," I said. "You told me to call you Clara." "Clara." He said it carefully, like a man setting down something hot. "Thank you. I'm sorry. I keep dropping it." "You can drop it as often as you like. I'll keep picking it up." He looked at me for a moment longer. Then he laughed, short and wrecked, and led me up the rest of the stairs by the hand. Gail had cleared the guest quarters in the east wing and left a kettle on the stove, three mismatched mugs, and a note in her cramped hand. Milo is alive and swearing. Do not come to the infirmary. That is a medical instruction. Someone had lit the little fire. Someone had also, God bless her, left a plate of Victoria's rolls under a dish towel. We spent the first hour pretending. Lucan made tea badly and put the milk in first, and I told him so. He said it was a family tradition. I said it was a crime. He sat on the sofa, a lumpy green thing with one cushion permanently sunk, and I curled into his side with my fe
The Alpha’s college Mate Chapter 95
Lucan's POV She didn't flinch, and that was how I knew she'd been expecting it. Clara stood in the failing blue light with a specimen jar held against her sternum like something that might spill. Behind her the loom had gone quiet, a gray frame in a garden of dimming flowers. The vines on the walls hung slack. Across the chamber, two of Declan's wolves were hauling Adan Blackridge to his feet. He went without a fight, a soft, balding man in the ruin of a good suit, muttering the same four words to the floor. I'm owed. I'm owed. Nobody answered him. Gail had promised me Milo would keep his side and his stubbornness, in that order of certainty, and the promise sat in my chest like a breath finally let go. I'd climbed twenty-two steps rehearsing a speech, one sentence per stair. Somewhere between the last step and her face, it had slid out of my head and left only the shape of the hole. "It's all right," she said. "It isn't. I had it whole a minute ago." I leaned on the rail, b
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Clara's POV The weave gave us until dawn. Eliza told us so from the foot of the stair, swaying, her bloody hand finally lowered. The verses had run out of her like water from a cracked jug. "It begins at the edges and works inward," she said. "Slowly, so that the world can get used to itself. By sunrise it will reach us. Whatever you mean to say, child, say it now, in order, while you still have the words to say it with." I didn't argue. I had a list. I'd written it in my head on the way down the stair, and it had only one rule: nobody got a speech. Jasmine came first. Milo had laid her against the pillar before he fell, and she'd woken there with vine burns on her wrists and a bruise rising on her temple. She was sitting up when I reached her, staring at the ink along her forearm. HE IS YOURS. HE IS WAITING. The letters had smeared where she'd been crying on them. "I got it all wrong," she said hoarsely. "I ran at a knife." "You ran at a knife for him. It's the best bad
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Lucan's POV I came back into my body all at once, like a man dropped from a height. Stone under my palm. Blood in my mouth. The cathedral swung into focus in pieces: ten thousand silver blossoms, my mother's raised hand, Clara sunk to the shoulder in the loom with her eyes open and empty. The red cord ran from her wrist to mine, bright as a drawn wire. A wet black shadow fell across it. Adan had stopped swaying. He stood over me with his head lowered and his jaws wide, and he wasn't looking at my throat. He was looking at the cord. The small bright eyes followed it, wrist to wrist, with the dawning, tidy delight of a man who has finally found the one stitch that holds the hem. He didn't need to cut the thread. He only needed to cut the man tied to it. "Mother," I tried to say. It came out as a wheeze. "Ar-enn, sa-ven," she said, faster, and her voice cracked down the middle. The vines drew back from her feet and then, slowly, stopped retreating. Adan lunged. I couldn
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