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CHAPTER 45: THE SKETCH
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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
The Captain's Forbidden Mate CHAPTER 99: MARCUS'S HOUSE
LENADamien's call pulled me from half-sleep, the sound of his voice rough with exhaustion making me sit up before he even said anything."Someone broke into my father's home," he said. "He's safe, he wasn't there when they did it. He already moved to the safe house Aiden set up, but they were going through everything. All of it. His office, his papers. It's obvious they were after whatever he could have possibly hidden away as leverage."Cole was already on his feet beside me, his phone in hand, alerting the others, and within twenty minutes we were all crowding the usual floor of the usual library, where we had unofficially been working out of this entire time."It's not a coincidence," was Aiden's immediate response after Damien finished telling us exactly what had happened. "Vane knows about the reconvened session, knows it's happening, and he's trying to cover his tracks, remove any other evidence that might show up before we meet again.""Did they find anything?" Astra asked."N
The Captain's Forbidden Mate CHAPTER 98: EVEN DAYS
COLEWe used the morning after emergency session to chart out precisely who had been exposed, the list far too long for our comfort."Okafor, obviously," Aiden drawled, checking names on the whiteboard Noah had dragged into some corner of the library overnight sometime. "Marcus, due to Vane almost definitely suspecting Damien's involvement, considering the openness of tonight's confrontation. Possibly Deborah and Elias in the event his people follow up threads that directly link outside packs with this.""And us", Lena said quietly." We were there. Everyone saw you call him out directly.""Yes", Aiden conceded. "Us too. I was aware of my choice and its repercussions. I still don't regret my decision. But I wouldn't lie and say it didn't cost us the anonymity we had up to last night".A heavy silence settled on the room full of tense people, seven days all of a sudden feeling impossibly short. Yesterday I was still mainly worried about surviving the reconvened session, having made it o
The Captain's Forbidden Mate CHAPTER 97: PRODUCED
LENAThe hour dragged slower than any I'd ever experienced, the hall vibrating with anxious, uncertain energy. Watching to see if Vane would finally honor the promise Aiden had extracted from him.Cole never stopped holding my hand, and I was grateful for the grounding sensation and the effort it took to keep my fingers entwined with his own. The pressure of his grip reminded me that I had nothing to fear when it came to the most terrifying part of that evening, facing a hall of strangers.When Okafor finally emerged, flanked on either side by two council guards through the side door, the hall fell completely silent. Watching her like hawks as she made her way, slowly, purposefully, until she arrived at the raised table.She appeared different than the last time I'd seen her, sunken around the eyes, a bruise forming along one cheekbone that hadn't been there the last time I'd seen her, that careful composure of hers unraveled into something dangerously close to fragile. But here she w
The Captain's Forbidden Mate CHAPTER 96: THE EMERGENCY SESSION
COLEThe stone hall felt different this time than it had at either the claiming or the treaty renewal, charged with tension that had nothing to do with ceremony or what Vane intended to bring to light.We arrived early, making our way along the length of the hall and settling near the back near the exits. Both packs slowly filed in, murmurs of confusion passing from one person to the next at the odd timing of an emergency session.Lena's hand remained tight in mine, both of us sweeping the crowd with the same careful, watchful eyes Astra had trained into us for months.Damien stood near his father, both men radiating tension in a manner that was only mildly different, and Marcus's face remained unreadable save for the same careful mask he'd worn as a defense over two decades of navigating a world that wanted him to disappear.Vane took his place at the head of the raised table, the six other elders filing in around him, and for the first time something about Okafor's empty chair press
The Captain's Forbidden Mate CHAPTER 95: MISSING
LENAOkafor didn't show up for our weekly check-in on Wednesday, and by Thursday morning, it had gone a day too long."She's always shown up," Aiden said, pacing the library corner in a manner I had never seen before. "Always. Never missed one, not in weeks of this. Something's wrong."Cole's hand found mine, both of us feeling the particular kind of dread knowing that yet another person we cared about has been silenced like Sarah Marsh, Rhys, her own husband."What do we do?" Damien asked."Carefully, " Astra said. "Panicking gets us nowhere."Noah was already doing research and managed to find the particular piece of information that sent us into tense silence."Her car," he muttered, finding the link between our last disappearance and Sarah's. "Was found abandoned two counties away yesterday morning. It doesn't show up anywhere in the system as belonging to anyone, but I did a location cross-reference based on her common travel routes, and it doesn't match any she would have reason
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