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CHAPTER 101: MY FATHER'S TRUTH
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The Captain's Forbidden Mate CHAPTER 105: THE ARCHITECT
COLEThe house was as nondescript as it had appeared to the two of us the last time we were here, quiet on the tree line, perfectly maintained so as to appear an unassuming middle-class neighborhood, hiding the danger inside with alarming precision.We crept up on the structure, Astra's pace quick in front, always precise, the others arranged carefully behind, with Noah and Damien near the vehicles if we needed a quick exit, Aiden in quiet stillness as he waited another 22 years to meet this particular monster.The door was open as it was waiting for us. It sent new adrenaline rushing through my veins, but we crossed the threshold together, Lena's hand steady within mine, regardless as that fear still rolled off of us both.Inside the house was elegant but not ostentatious, decades of accumulated wealth displayed but without the flash I was now expecting. Marlow was waiting for us in a study but seated behind a desk, his prisoner, Ivy, bound to a chair beside him. She was frightened b
The Captain's Forbidden Mate CHAPTER 104: THE NEXT MOVE
LENAWe celebrated that evening, briefly, all of us in Cole's apt with takeout and cheap champagne Noah had insisted on buying, but the mood was tainted with the same unease that had permeated every victory since the true battle had begun."Vane's suspended," Damien declared, raising his glass despite the careful constraint around his features. "That is good. That is real.""It is," Aiden agreed, "but not the ending to this that it needs to be. Marlow's still out there, and at far greater risk to us than ever before. Men don't survive being cornered for so long without making sacrifices to secure their escape."The mirth of earlier died away with sobering gravity, the good feeling generated by the day's success overshadowed by Aiden's words.My phone buzzed at some point after midnight, and a feeling of dread settled in my gut as I saw a notification pop up on the quiet screenI opened it instantly, heart pounding in my ears at the image waiting for me there, and nearly cried right th
The Captain's Forbidden Mate CHAPTER 103: THE RECONVENED SESSION
COLEThe stone hall was fuller with elders from packs I had never seen before, and it all seemed so very formal with Corwin and Silverclaw's promised outside oversight. They both stood up among the usual elders surrounding the wall of stone. Lena's hand was still clasped in mine as we looked for our seats. Aiden and Noah were close by while Damien and Astra stood near us. Okafor was near the front of the hall, pale but otherwise well enough after finally arriving here an hour ago, after being protected along the way. Marcus and my father sat on the other side of the room from the front, two men I never thought would get along and find common ground to sit in the same place at the same time together.The mediator, an elder I didn't recognize from an outside pack, silenced the room as the assembly fell silent in respect that filled the hall."We meet today with formal oversight to discuss allegations of misconduct against this council and several individuals involved in decades of a pos
The Captain's Forbidden Mate CHAPTER 102: A LETTER FROM MARLOW
LENAThe letter on my desktop in the dorm became my personal brand of warning bell on some unknown frequency. It sat, nondescript and completely normal next to the textbooks I came back from the classroom to find, giving me the chills all over before I had even read a single word.I called Cole before trying to open it on my own, shaking all over from fear as he arrived shortly after the call. Aiden followed his arrival closely, both men scanning the room before moving to open the mysterious piece of correspondence."No forced entry," Aiden said grimly as he ran a hand along the door and window, confirming the assumption. "Whoever left this had access, or the tools and skill to get in without leaving behind any noticeable proof."Cole's hand met mine as he reached over, and we slowly opened it together, the same handwriting that marked Rhys's letter to Mom taking up the front of this one, though the actual hand itself was clearly different.Miss Corwin. I have watched your investigati
The Captain's Forbidden Mate CHAPTER 101: MY FATHER'S TRUTH
COLEI found my father in the library, two days before the session was due to reconvene. He was in his usual working space, studying some documents, and the moment he saw me, I knew he had been expecting me." Cole," he said, setting aside the papers he had been studying. "I wondered when you would come to speak to me.""You knew I would come.""I hoped you would, but there is a difference, I suppose; not that you would recognize it at the moment." He gestured towards the chair across from his desk, where I sat down for what must have been the hundredth time in my life, and where I always wanted to sit when I was a child, but could never manage it."I want to know everything you know about Vane, about Marlow, about Silverclaw's role in all this, aside from being silent when you should have spoken out," I said, once I was seated. "Tell me what you know, Father."My father was silent for a long moment, studying me with his calm intensity before speaking again"I have known about the pat
The Captain's Forbidden Mate CHAPTER 100: SEMIFINAL
COLE"The rink is louder than I've ever heard it," Lena murmured, the whole student section roaring from the moment warmups started. I gave an absent nod, letting it fade into the particular feel of a game ahead and what it said about the rest of the evening.Lena perched in her usual spot by the rink, press badge around her neck, with her notebook abandoned in favor of a homemade sign (Astra's handiwork, with my jersey number surrounded considerably more enthusiasm than talent). Something like a weightless feeling in my chest as I took in the sight.The first period zipped by with a lot of back and forth as we tested our worth against each and every other, and I lost myself in the particular sharpness that came from a body doing something it knew how to do rather than the constant sense of vigilance I'd been sporting the past few months.We went into the first intermission a tie, the crowd's sheer volume still deafening to those willing to listen within the building itself.Marsh tra
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