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The Lycan King's Silver Mate Thor's voice
Bella's POVI didn't cry right away.That was the strange part. I stood at the war room table with my mother's name in front of me, the file open, the evidence laid out in neat, damning columns — and I didn't cry. I just stood there and read it again. And then again. As if reading it enough times would rearrange the words into something that made a different kind of sense.It never did.Four times. Four separate times, someone had looked at a list, seen her name, and made a choice.I kept thinking about the last year. How small she'd looked in the mornings, as though the illness were quietly taking up more space than she was.How she still tried to smile when I walked in, still asked about my day, still wanted to hear about the accounts and the cooperative and the small victories I brought her like offerings — as if enough evidence that things were getting better might convince her to stay a little longer.I'd told her the treatments were coming. Every single visit.*The treatments ar
The Lycan King's Silver Mate Bella's POV
Thor's man returned two days later.He was a quiet, forgettable-looking wolf named Sable, blessed with the strange ability to occupy a room without anyone quite registering his presence. Thor trusted him completely, which I'd decided was endorsement enough. Sable spread a set of documents across the war room table without preamble or small talk, pointed to the relevant sections, and stepped back to wait.I leaned over the table and started reading.The medicines were what stopped me first. A full supply manifest — medical deliveries promised to Moonstone Pack over the past two years. Vaccines, treatments, basic supplies that should have arrived quarterly, all contracted and paid for out of the pack's cooperative fund.I knew about these. I'd set up the contract myself, prioritized it specifically because the elderly members of the pack and the children in the outer settlements were the most vulnerable and the least able to speak up for themselves.I went down the list.Delayed. Delaye
The Lycan King's Silver Mate My wolf
Ronan's POVI read the report three times.Not because the words themselves were unclear — they were precise, exactly what I'd come to expect from Drev. Clean sentences. Specific detail. No unnecessary embellishment. I read it three times because my mind kept refusing it, sliding off the central fact of it the way water slides off stone, unable to find purchase anywhere.Bella. In Thor's palace. Not passing through. Not seeking temporary shelter. *Living* there. For weeks. Under the Lycan King's personal protection, seated at his table, moving freely through his halls.I set the paper down carefully.Then I picked up the heavy inkwell resting at the corner of my desk and hurled it at the wall.It struck with a crack like thunder, ink bleeding down the stone in a dark stain that looked disturbingly like a wound. I stood there breathing hard, my wolf roaring inside my chest with nowhere to go — no outlet, no direction, nothing to tear apart that would actually change anything.*Thor.* O
The Lycan King's Silver Mate Turned back
"I'll quietly assign someone to comb through the Moonstone records. No announcements, no formal inquiry — not yet. Someone I trust, someone who knows how to dig without drawing attention.""If whoever's behind this catches wind of it...""They won't." His tone wasn't boastful — just carried the quiet certainty of a man who had people around him he trusted absolutely. "Eat something," he added, rising and sliding the untouched tray closer to me. "You can't think straight running on empty."I pulled the tray toward myself, mostly because arguing would have cost more energy than I had left.He started for the door, then paused. Turned back."Bella. Whatever this turns out to be — whatever Jesse did or didn't do — none of it makes it your fault for trusting someone you loved."I didn't answer.He left.I sat there with the tray in front of me, the papers scattered everywhere, his words still hanging in the air where he'd left them. I pressed my fist gently against my sternum, right where
The Lycan King's Silver Mate Bella's POV
Bella's POVSleep found me again — and again, it didn't stay.I sat hunched over my desk, Jesse's signature spread out before me, watching the candle burn itself down to nothing while I combed through every page of those records. Twice. Then a third time. Not because I believed I'd overlooked something.But because some stubborn part of me kept hoping that if I stared long enough, the ink would rearrange itself, the handwriting would morph into someone else's, and what I was looking at would turn out to be anything other than what it clearly was.It never changed.By the time the pale light of morning began creeping under the curtains, I had the whole ugly picture laid bare across my desk — organized into neat, damning columns. And it was so much worse than what I'd feared the night before.This wasn't a single account skimmed here or there. It wasn't just the cooperative reserve quietly bled dry. This was systematic. Deliberate. The kind of financial unraveling that only someone with
The Lycan King's Silver Mate The palace
"You've been staring at numbers for..." he checked the angle of the light coming through the window "...at least six hours. Your eyes look like you're trying to start a fire with them and the papers are winning." He moved toward the door. "Get dressed. We're going out.""Thor, I don't think this is the time to...""The papers will be here when you get back." he said simply. "You won't solve it today. Not like this." He looked at me over his shoulder. "Twenty minutes."He left.I sat there for a moment staring at the door. Then I looked at the papers. Then I got up and went to find my riding clothes.***Outside the city walls, the world changed.I had forgotten that. Inside the palace, inside the city, everything was stone and politics and the constant low hum of other people's agendas pressing against the air. But beyond the eastern gate, the land opened up into rolling hills and a tree line that stretched north toward the mountains and the sky was enormous and blue and completely i
The Lycan King's Silver Mate Bella's pov
I muttered against his lips, sounding breathier than I wished, "I'm not some fragile egg, you know." "You don't need to be so kind. I'm not easily broken.A slow smile pinched at the corner of the stranger's mouth as he withdrew just enough for me to see his eyes darken with astonishment and someth
The Lycan King's Silver Mate Bella's POV
Bella's POV I forced my legs up the stairs of the council house. It was the only place I could think of coming to, in order to unwind. In order to breathe without feeling like my chest was collapsing in on itself.I collided into someone, almost losing my balance, but a hand brushed over my back i
The Lycan King's Silver Mate Bella's POV
Bella's POV My father arrived in Ronan's pack. I rushed towards him, ready to tell him what I had seen.“Ronan cheated on me, father. He was even with his beta as well! He is a hypocrite!" I complained to him, my voice cracking with disbelief and anger.A new wave of murmurs began to spread in the
The Lycan King's Silver Mate Bella's POV
Bella's POV “My father's pack was wealthy when I came to yours, why would I depend on you??" I snapped at Ronan.My voice trembled with rage I could no longer contain.Surely he was looking for ways to make me stand back and not leave, because there was no reason we would have to depend on him, un
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