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AURORA'S POVThe dinner is worse than I expected, and I'd expected it to be bad.The great hall is packed with Ashveil nobility, long tables lit by torches instead of the sterile lighting I'm used to in Council chambers, and every single person in the room watches me the way you'd watch something that wandered in off the road and might be dangerous."You're doing great," Kai murmurs beside me, not remotely convincingly."I can feel them staring.""They're definitely staring.""That's not helpful.""I'm not here to be helpful. I'm here for moral support and free food." He steals a roll off my plate, entirely unbothered by the hostile atmosphere in a way I deeply envy. "Also that guy at the end of the table has been glaring at you since we sat down. Might want to address that before he starts something."I follow his gaze to a broad-shouldered Lycan noble near the head of the table, arms crossed, expression somewhere between contempt and open challenge. When he catches me looking, he d
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KADE'S POV"You know her," Rhys says. It isn't a question."I know of her. Same as you do." I don't look up from the map spread across the table, tracing a border line that doesn't need tracing. "Daughter of the two people who built the system we've spent twenty years refusing to join.""That's not what I asked.""It's what I'm answering."Rhys doesn't move, doesn't push, just stands there with his arms crossed, watching me with the particular kind of patience that's always managed to unravel me faster than any direct accusation ever could. We grew up together. He knows exactly how long I can hold a lie before it cracks."Kade.""Drop it, Rhys.""I would, if your face hadn't done something very specific the second she walked into that summit hall." He tilts his head. "You went still. You never go still. Not for Council delegates, not for hostile nobles, not for anyone.""I was surprised.""By what?"I don't answer. The silence stretches long enough that Rhys's expression shifts from
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AURORA'S POVAshveil territory doesn't look like I expected.I'd pictured something bleak, given everything I'd read in the briefing files... a court built on refusal, on twenty years of turning down every hand my parents ever offered. Instead the road winds through forest so dense the canopy blots out the sky, and when it finally opens, the fortress rising on the far ridge looks less like a stronghold and more like something grown out of the mountain itself, all dark stone and sharp lines softened by moss and ivy."It's beautiful," I say, before I can stop myself."Don't let the King hear you say that," Kai murmurs. "Might ruin his whole reputation."The summit hall is smaller than I expected too... a long room with a carved table running its length, windows open to the mountain air instead of sealed behind glass like every Council chamber I've ever sat in. Elder Miriam's assistant briefs us one final time in the corridor outside, reminding me of protocol, of the delicate history be
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Chapter 3 AURORA'S POVThree weeks before the transport, before the briefing folders and my parents' matching worried faces, there's a festival, and a night I still haven't told anyone the full truth about.I think about it now, watching the territory blur past the window as Kai reviews logistics beside me, because it's easier than thinking about what's waiting for us in Ashveil. So I let myself go back to it, the last night I had before all of this became real.The Unity Festival had been going for six hours and I'd shaken what felt like four hundred hands."You're doing the smile again," Kai had said, appearing at my elbow with two drinks. He'd handed me one without asking if I wanted it, which was fair, because I did."What smile?""The one that says you're two seconds from setting something on fire.""I don't have a smile like that.""You absolutely do. Mom has the same one." He'd grinned. "Go take a break. I'll cover for you."I'd slipped away before anyone could catch my sleev
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Chapter 2 ADRIAN'S POVI don't sleep much the night before Aurora leaves.Freya's out cold beside me, or close enough to it, her breathing slow and even against my shoulder. I lie there in the dark running through everything that could go wrong once our daughter crosses into Ashveil territory, and none of the scenarios my mind keeps generating are good ones.I finally give up on sleep around four and find Aurora in the kitchen, already awake, staring at a cup of tea she hasn't touched."Couldn't sleep either?" she asks."No." I sit across from her. "You nervous?""Terrified." She says it easily, no shame in it, which is more than I could have managed at her age. "I keep running the briefing materials through my head. Every noble house, every point of leverage, every way this could go sideways.""That's good instinct. Means you're taking it seriously.""Does the fear ever go away? Doing something like this?"I think about the first time I stood in front of a hostile Council, Freya bes
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Chapter 1FREYA'S POV"They're willing to talk," Elder Miriam says, sliding a folder across the table. "For the first time in twenty years, Ashveil has agreed to send a delegation to discuss treaty inclusion."I stare at the folder like it might bite me. Adrian, seated beside me, doesn't touch his copy either."Why now?" he asks. "They've turned down every overture we've made since the original treaty was signed.""Officially, they cite a change in leadership priorities." Miriam folds her hands on the table. "Unofficially, our sources suggest border incidents have increased over the past year. Skirmishes, resource disputes, a few incidents that could have escalated into something worse. King Ashveil may simply have decided isolation isn't sustainable anymore.""Or someone's pushing him toward the table for reasons that have nothing to do with peace," Adrian says.It's the kind of thing he would have said twenty years ago, back when every offer of goodwill got run through a filter of
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ADRIAN'S POV I have spent days watching her move through my space. Days listening to her breathe in the room next to mine. Days pretending I can keep my hands to myself.I am failing.Claim her. Mark her. Make her understand she belongs to us.Kael has not stopped demanding since the moment she a
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ADRIAN'S POV I kissed her because I could not not kiss her. Because the need was so strong it overrode everything else. Because she was right there looking at me like maybe she wanted this too.She kissed me back. Hard. Desperate. Like she needed it as much as I did.More. We need more. Take her u
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CHAPTER 19 KELVIN'S POV Vanessa does not talk to me unless she has to.Three weeks married and we have nothing to say to each other. She sleeps on her side of the bed. I sleep on mine. We eat breakfast in silence. Pass each other in the hallway like strangers.This is what my father wanted. A po
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FREYA'S POV The penthouse feels too big when I am alone.I sit on the kitchen floor for a while longer before finally standing. My legs are shaky. My whole body still hums with need. With want.I need a shower. Need to wash away the feeling of Adrian's hands on me. His mouth. The way he made me fa
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