ANMELDENTeilen
Chapter 19: The Jealous Woman
Veröffentlichungsdatum:
24.08.2026 21:51:29
Aktuellstes Kapitel
The Moon's Forgotten Heir Chapter 30: The Queen Without a Crown
They voted at the fourth hour of the afternoon.The tally fell nine to two.Hesper of Frostvein and Osbert of Blackthorn were the only dissenters—Osbert raising his hand despite knowing precisely what the gesture would cost him.Nine votes.Aldren had worn the Crown for only eleven days. Now he stood braced against four hundred years of precedent, nine territories united against him, and a hall lined with forty Hollowmere spearmen who had marched into Blackthorn that morning under the polite fiction of escorting a champion.Aldren’s hand rose slowly toward the band of Moon-silver resting at his throat. I saw the change in his eyes: a sudden, fierce resolve hardening into a decision.He was going to refuse.In that same breath, I saw what his defiance would buy him—a King clinging to his crown against nine united territories inside his own hall.The precise sentence that opens every history of every civil war ever fought.“Don’t.” My voice cut through the gallery and struck the high ra
The Moon's Forgotten Heir Chapter 29: The False Evidence
Ilma sank nineteen heavy stitches into Wulstan’s thigh and coolly informed him that he would limp for the rest of his days.Wulstan merely grunted. “At my age, a limp is a conversational advantage.” Then he turned grey as ash and had to be hauled bodily into a chair.By noon on the fourth day, I stood before the Court with my nose still bleeding in sudden, rhythmic drops that stained the collar of my dress.They had assembled their case with agonising precision.Ordric of Sunscar presented the evidence piece by piece, like a mason fitting one stone against another. Every slab was solid, straight, and undeniable—yet the wall they built from them was a complete lie.I could do nothing but stand beneath the cold light of Blackthorn’s great hall while eleven reasonable men and women made a monster out of me.First came the two letters, then the chapel register, then Dunstan of the east gate stepped forward. He stood stiffly before the council table, one hand raised to take the oath. His v
The Moon's Forgotten Heir Chapter 28: The Rogue Alpha
Wulstan took me out of Blackthorn at four the next morning, which was not in anybody’s plan and was, as far as I can establish, entirely his own idea.“Five days,” he said, throwing a saddle on. “You cannot learn to shift in five days, and I will not insult you by trying. You can learn where a big man’s weight is, and I’d rather teach you that eleven miles from a Court that’s got money on you.”“Where are we going?”“To ask a question I should have asked on the Hollow Road.”We rode north-east into the outlands, which is broken country and nobody’s territory, and by the second hour, it had begun to snow in the small hard way it does in that country, and by the fourth hour Wulstan had stopped talking, which is how I knew we had arrived somewhere.The rogue camps sit in a chain of gullies under the shoulder of a hill with no name on any map. There were perhaps an estimated of four hundred wolves in that country, and I could feel them long before I could see anything, and what I felt mad
The Moon's Forgotten Heir Chapter 27: The Public Challenge
The Court did not wait for the ninth day.They convened at noon with both letters on the table and Hesper’s riders as witnesses, and I stood in the middle of the great hall of Blackthorn while eleven men and women decided out loud what I was, and I had known for a month it was coming, and it did not help by so much as a thread.Ordric of Sunscar did the talking. He is fifty, wide, careful, and he has the worst quality a man can have in a room like that, which is that he is entirely sincere.“I do not say she wrote it,” he said solemnly. “I say it is her hand, and that four of us have compared it to the chapel register where she signed the oath, and that it matches in eleven particulars.” He set it down. “And I say that a woman who can pull the loyalty out of a sworn man’s chest with her fist is not a woman this Court can afford to be wrong about.”“She freed my gatekeeper,” Aldren said sharply.“She unmade an oath, my lord.” Ordric turned to him. “You have told this Court she took a co
The Moon's Forgotten Heir Chapter 26: The Betrayal Letter
I did not tell him. I stood four feet away with my mouth open, then shut it again, and I have never made a better decision in my life or a colder one.The Crown was at his throat. The twelfth cord was in the Crown. Whatever was on the other end of that cord was standing in the room with us as surely as Wulstan ever had, and telling Aldren out loud meant telling it.So I said, “Nothing. Cramp in the shoulder,” and watched him not believe me, then went and got paper.I wrote it at the table by the window with him standing behind me, and I made it four lines, and I put the number in the second one because I had promised him I would.Twelve cords, not eleven. The new one came up out of the floor below the second tier while you were putting it on. Forty-one people in this house can walk into the map room unannounced, and I want that number smaller. Do not say any of this out loud.He read it twice. Then he took the pen out of my hand and wrote underneath, in the hand I had spent a fortnigh
The Moon's Forgotten Heir Chapter 25: Private Morning
I woke before he did, which I am told almost nobody has managed.Grey light through the shutter. His arm across me and gone heavy. On the sill, on the far side of the room, behind the shutter where he had put it, the Moon-silver lay quiet and dark and looked like nothing at all, like a bracelet somebody had taken off, and I lay there for a while and hated it with a completeness that surprised me.“You’re counting,” he said sleepily, without opening his eyes.“I’m not.”“You are,” he murmured. “You do it with your fingers on whatever is nearest. Last night it was my back, which I found difficult to interpret.”“Fourteen,” I said. “The shutter has fourteen slats, and one of them is split.”He laughed, and I felt it under my ear, and there is very little in my life I would trade for that.Then I sat up, because the sun was coming and I had thought of something in the night that would not wait.“We need a way to know."Aldren opened his eyes.“Say that again,” he said, suddenly attentive.
Das könnte dir auch gefallen
Mated to the Alpha Knight
Elizabeth Jane671.3K AufrufeRejected By My Mate
LorreignneScarr1.4M AufrufeAlpha Gray
C.J. Primer1.3M AufrufeAlpha Atlas
Jane Doe1.4M Aufrufedear Alpha, my twins are no longer yours
pricelesS PraisE106 AufrufeThe Alpha's Curvy Mate
Mimi Gift 108 AufrufeCrowned in Moonlight
Tily Iris44 AufrufeA Spy's Gambit: Forsaken by the Pack, Claimed by the Alpha.
midaspen7872 Aufrufe
