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The Cursed Alpha's Substitute Bride Chapter 162: I Won't Say Kill Him
They brought Carver in last. He walked between two guards in a plain gray shirt with his hands bound in front of him. Without the glamour he looked like what he was, a tired man of fifty-eight with an upper lip too long for his face. The wolves on the benches stared at him. The ones nearest the aisle flinched, because the face had been in their halls for six years and they couldn't make themselves forget a single line of it. Anna Solberg was the one who spoke. She stood up from the gallery, lean and unadorned, her arms folded. "I won't say kill him," she said. "I've lost enough people to him to know what dead does. I'd say let him be seen." She looked down at the thin gray figure in the aisle. "For six years he went through this territory like a draft under a door. Nobody ever noticed him leave. I want him in the lead cellar under this hall, in a cell with a window, and I want every wolf in Ashveil to be able to walk past it and look straight in." A murmur ran around the room.
The Cursed Alpha's Substitute Bride Chapter 161: I Won’t Ask Forgiveness
He named the declaration, the one he'd drawn up before his youngest daughter was born, the one that called a child *an available bloodline carrier.* He named his wife. He named what he'd asked of her at the eastern lands, and how she'd died, and how he'd told the pack she'd taken sick. He named the candle. He named the fifteen years of the servants' wing and the draft chair at the far end of the table, and he said that all of it had been done by his own hand, not by any of the men who'd advised him. "A man named Carver put a reason in my head," he said. "I took it. I'd like to say I was deceived, and I was, but I was also willing. I looked at my daughter and chose fear. Then I called that duty. I sent her in a carriage at four in the morning to a man the whole territory believed would kill her, and I told her not to embarrass us." A low sound ran along the benches, like wind in a dry field. "I won't ask the pack's forgiveness," my father said. "I haven't earned that. I'll ask
The Cursed Alpha's Substitute Bride Chapter 160: Looking Forward To The Dark
He seemed surprised to hear himself say it. "I've been the person who left others in the dark. I won't be that again tonight." Carver looked at him for a long moment. "Pity," he said. "I was rather looking forward to the dark." --- They carried Vex out on a door. He'd stopped speaking. His hands lay on his chest in strips of linen the Ashveil healer had soaked in honey, and he stared at the ceiling beams while Ironveil's riders lifted him, as though the beams were a long sentence he was trying to finish reading. At the doors he turned his head. His eyes found mine, pale and empty and tired. Then the riders took him into the dark. I went and sat on the great hall steps. The courtyard was cold and quiet. Somewhere behind me Henrik Lien's men were being counted off and disarmed, and Håkon Berge's wolves were carrying broken plates out in wheelbarrows. Every barrow rang, a clatter of cracked iron like dropped pans. The sound would've made me scream a day ago. Now it made me
The Cursed Alpha's Substitute Bride Chapter 159: I Did It For Fifteen Years
"Don't let them make her small." My father said it to the whole hall. His voice came out thin and rusted, the voice of a man drawing a nail out of his own palm. Nobody moved. A cracked plate settled somewhere under the rushes with a small *tink*. The torches hissed. Two hundred wolves stood in the broken light and watched a man of sixty look at his daughter without once glancing at the floor. "That's what she said," he told me. "The last night. Twelve days in the east infirmary, her hair wet at the temples, her hands so cold I kept rubbing them between mine like that would fix it. I brought her broth. She wouldn't take it. She took my sleeve instead, and she pulled me down until my ear was at her mouth." He swallowed. "She said, *Don't let them make her small.* I swore on both our daughters' names. Mira was five. You were three. I said it twice so she'd hear it." "And then you made me small yourself," I said. "I did it for fifteen years." There was no defense in it. "She s
The Cursed Alpha's Substitute Bride Chapter 158: Stop Looking At Me
Not a different man. The same one, late fifties, narrow-shouldered, brown hair thinning at the crown. But suddenly he was *there*, every feature distinct and lasting, a long upper lip, a scar through one eyebrow, a mole at the corner of his jaw. A lined, tired, perfectly ordinary face, the sort you'd see a hundred times and never remember, except now you couldn't help remembering it. I could feel the whole hall committing it to memory. Two hundred wolves would know him in the street for the rest of their lives. Carver put a hand to his own cheek as if it had been slapped. "Stop looking at me." "No," said Håkon Berge, quietly. He and Anna and the other nine had climbed the gallery stairs without any noise at all, ordinary wolves with ordinary faces, and they were standing shoulder to shoulder across the top landing, blocking the only door. Anna had her arms crossed. One of them, a boy of maybe sixteen, kept staring and blinking, like he was filing every line. "We've been lo
The Cursed Alpha's Substitute Bride Chapter 157: Ring It!
Then I thought of Pip on his knees with his palm flat beside the iron. I thought of my father at the long table asking *Is that enough?* and Hedda reaching across a table in a back room. I thought of Caius, sitting outside the stairwell door while I trained, because the markings quieted when I was under him. The knot let go. It came out of me like a splinter drawing itself from a wound, slow and warm. A single silver thread, no thicker than hair, rising from my chest and dissolving in the torchlight. Something inside me that had been clenched since before I could walk uncurled all the way down to my fingertips. The current came back all at once. It wasn't a trickle. It was the whole river. It poured through me from my scalp to my heels, enormous and bright and finally, finally entirely mine, and I heard myself gasp aloud, a sound like a drowned person surfacing. "Ring it," I said. Carver stared at me. "Go on. Ring it twice." His thumb moved on the bell. He rang it once,
The Cursed Alpha's Substitute Bride Chapter 4: What Reva Wants
The fourth night brought Reva to my door.She didn't come to fight, not openly. Reva was far too calculated for the messiness of a direct confrontation. She approached the way apex predators do when they have the luxury of patience: casually, carrying a steaming cup of tea, leaving the door pointe
The Cursed Alpha's Substitute Bride Chapter 3: Servant
By the third morning I understood exactly what Ironveil intended to do with me.Not kill me. Not break me the way the curse had broken the last one. Something slower and more deliberate than that. Something the pack had clearly done before to people they wanted gone without the mess of direct confr
The Cursed Alpha's Substitute Bride Chapter 2: Ironveil
Ironveil was not what I had pictured.I stepped down from the carriage and the cold slapped my bare arms. The gown's torn hem caught on the iron step again. I jerked it free. Lace ripped louder this time. Two dozen wolves stood in the courtyard in human form, lined up like statues along the swept
The Cursed Alpha's Substitute Bride Chapter 1: The Spare
They told me at four in the morning.The seamstress had already dragged me out of bed and shoved me into the center of the room. Candles flickered on the dresser. Cold air licked my bare legs. Hana knelt at my feet with a mouthful of pins and yanked the white lace gown over my hips. The fabric was
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