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18. Where is Effie?

Author: Jt
last update publish date: 2026-10-07 05:56:10

Alpha Knox Pov

I hadn't slept. Neither had Tobias, by the look of him when he dropped into the chair across my desk that morning, his jaw set in that particular way that meant he'd spent the whole night turning the same thought over and over without finding the bottom of it.

"Call the warrior who had the east wall last night," I said, before he'd even settled.

Tobias didn't argue. He reached for the bond between us and the pack and found the man easily enough, a young warrior named Garrick who
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  • The Prince's Mistake, The King's Heir   31. Pick your choice.

    Effie's Pov "Up," Alpha Knox said, and had me off my feet before I'd even finished drawing breath to object."I can walk," I said, which by now had become less an actual protest and more a kind of ritual between us, words I said because some stubborn part of me refused to stop saying them, even though we both knew exactly how little weight they carried. He carried me up the staircase anyway, Alpha Tobias close behind us both, and heat crawled up into my face the way it always did now, helpless and immediate, the moment either of them touched me like I was something worth carrying carefully rather than simply tolerating.They didn't set me down until we were back in the bedroom, Alpha Knox lowering me onto the edge of the bed with a gentleness that didn't match at all with the tense, unreadable set of his jaw."Why did you leave the room," he asked, no real heat in it yet, just a flat, careful question that somehow felt more dangerous than if he'd simply shouted."I wanted to see Nad

  • The Prince's Mistake, The King's Heir   30. Having a meltdown.

    Prince Jasper PovI was losing my freaking mind, slowly and methodically, one sleepless night at a time.It had been weeks now. Weeks of search parties sent out and returned empty-handed, weeks of warriors combing every village within three days' ride of Hollowmoon and coming back with nothing but tired horses and apologetic faces, weeks of waking up at odd hours convinced I'd caught her scent on the air, only to lie there in the dark afterward feeling like a fool for chasing smoke.That was the part that undid me most, if I let myself be honest about it. The scent.I'd catch it at the strangest moments. Crossing the east courtyard at dawn, that soft, warm note threading through the cold morning air before vanishing so completely I'd stop dead in my tracks, turning in a slow circle like a man who'd misplaced his own reflection. Effie Hartwell her name was. Effie's scent shouldn't have carried anywhere near Hollowmoon's northern reaches, let alone followed me through my own waking ho

  • The Prince's Mistake, The King's Heir   29. Outraged.

    Ava Freemon PovI didn't stop shaking until I was halfway back across the Thornwick grounds, toward the quiet wing where Jasper kept his household and where I'd made myself comfortably, permanently at home these past months.I tossed the damn tart aside.Fury did that to me. It always had, ever since I was a girl learning to master it instead of letting it master me, and by the time the familiar doors finally came into view, I'd worked myself into such a state that I very nearly snapped at the warrior posted outside them simply for having the audacity to greet me.An apology. They'd made me apologize.To her of all people!Two kings, two alpha kings, men whose attention half the unmated omegas in this kingdom would have sold a limb for, had looked at me, Ava Freemon, a woman who'd spent months proving herself worthy of a place in this very palace, and made me bow my head to that fat omega. A woman with a backside the size of a small cart and a face that still, infuriatingly, managed

  • The Prince's Mistake, The King's Heir   28. An apology.

    Effie's Pov Ava never got the chance to land another hand on me.Alpha Tobias crossed that marble floor so fast it barely registered as movement at all, one instant still framed in the doorway and the next already between us, his back to me, putting his whole body between Ava and wherever she'd been reaching next. Alpha Knox was a half step behind him, and when he finally spoke again, I understood, with a cold little jolt, why Ava's face had drained of every bit of its color."Say that again." His voice had dropped into something low and utterly dangerous. "Go on. I want to hear you call her that to my face.""Alpha Knox, I—" Ava's composure slipped straight down the middle, all that vicious words from a moment ago gone like it had never existed. "This isn't what it looks like, I only came to bring a tart, I didn't realize she'd be the one answering the—""I watched you raise your hand to her." Alpha Tobias hadn't moved an inch, hadn't raised his voice at all, and somehow that made

  • The Prince's Mistake, The King's Heir   27. Crazy guests.

    Effie Pov Ava held a covered dish in her hand, something that smelled, even through the cloth draped over it, like a honeyed apple tart still warm from an oven. For one disorienting second, standing there with the door handle still cold under my palm, I thought I might actually be imagining her entirely, conjured up out of some old, half-forgotten nightmare about Hollowmoon and everyone in it who'd ever looked at me like I was something to be managed rather than spoken to. Then her smile, the polite, practiced one she must have worn walking up to the door, faltered and died right in front of me, and I knew with sudden, sinking certainty that I wasn't imagining anything at all. "You." The word came out of her flat and disbelieving, the dish nearly slipping from her grip before she caught it again. "It's actually you." Her eyes swept over me, head to toe and back again, taking in my feet, my hastily laced dress, the loose, unbound state of my hair, with the exact same cruelty I r

  • The Prince's Mistake, The King's Heir   26. Uninvited house guests.

    Effie's Pov "Up," Alpha Tobias commanded, already crossing the room toward me before I'd even finished setting my teacup down."I can walk to the bathroom myself," I said, for what had to be the hundredth time since waking up in this palace, though we both already knew exactly how much weight that protest carried by now. "It's not even that far.""I know you can." He bent and slid one arm beneath my knees, the other behind my back, and lifted me off the bed like I weighed nothing at all, the easy strength of it still something I hadn't quite gotten used to. "I'd still rather carry you.""You say that like it's a reasonable answer." I looped my arms around his neck anyway, because fighting him on it had never once worked and my pride had mostly given up trying. "What if I wanted to walk for the sake of it? What if I missed walking?""Then you can miss it for another day or two, until that ankle's finished healing." He carried me through the open bathroom door, steam already curling th

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