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The Professor's Mate Clause FREYA'S POV
Chapter 12 FREYA'S POV"Absolutely not," Elder Miriam says, for the second time in ten minutes."We're not asking to interfere with the negotiations," I say, keeping my voice level even though I want to shake her. "We're asking to relocate to the outpost nearest the Ashveil border. As Council liaisons. That's it.""That's exactly the kind of thing that undermines Aurora's authority, and you know it." Miriam folds her hands on the desk between us. "The moment her parents show up within striking distance of the negotiation, every noble in that court stops seeing her as a legitimate ambassador and starts seeing her as a mouthpiece. You'd be handing Draven Ashveil a weapon."Adrian, seated beside me, hasn't said much, which usually means he's building an argument he thinks will actually land instead of wasting the effort on the first one."With respect, Elder Miriam," he says now, "we're not proposing this out of parental anxiety. We have intelligence suggesting the border incidents are
The Professor's Mate Clause KADE'S POV
Chapter 11 KADE'S POVThe second wolf breaks from the treeline before I've even placed the first.I shove Aurora behind me on instinct, no time to think it through, and catch the flash of gray fur cutting fast through the underbrush to our left. Not one of mine. I know every wolf in my patrols by scent alone, and this one reeks of unfamiliar territory and something sharper underneath... fear, maybe, or desperation."Stay behind me," I tell her again, though I can already feel her refusing before she says a word."There's two of them," she says, low. "One circling from the east."She's right. I catch it a half-second after she does, a second shape moving through the brush on our flank, and something in my chest tightens with an emotion I don't have time to examine properly impressed, mostly, that she clocked it as fast as I did."Rogue wolves," I say. "Not Council, not mine. Could be the same group that's been hitting the border.""Then we need to catch one alive. If they're connected
The Professor's Mate Clause AURORA'S POV
Chapter 10 AURORA'S POV"Border patrol," I repeat, staring at Kade like he's just suggested something insane. "You want me to join a border patrol.""It's tradition," he says, entirely too pleased with himself. "Any Council representative negotiating treaty terms observes our territory firsthand. Can't very well argue about border security if you've never actually seen our borders.""That sounds like something you invented five minutes ago.""It's in the treaty precedent from the original Council formation. Look it up." His mouth twitches, not quite a smile. "Unless you're afraid, Ambassador.""I am not afraid of a patrol.""Then get dressed. We leave in an hour."I do look it up, out of pure spite, and to my genuine irritation, he's actually right — there's a clause buried in decades-old Council precedent about joint territorial observation during treaty negotiations. I spend the ride out to the border trying to figure out if he actually knew that off the top of his head or just go
The Professor's Mate Clause FREYA'S POV
Chapter 9FREYA'S POV"She's called every night like she promised," I tell Adrian, setting my phone down on the kitchen counter. "But something's off. She's too careful on these calls. Too rehearsed.""Rehearsed how?""Like she's reading from a script instead of just talking to me." I lean against the counter, arms crossed. "You know how she gets when she's hiding something. Same as you used to."Adrian looks up from the reports spread across the table, something wry crossing his face. "I never hid anything from you.""You hid an entire supernatural bloodline from me for weeks.""That's different.""Is it?" I raise an eyebrow, and he has the grace to look mildly chastened, which is more than he usually offers me on this particular argument. "I'm not saying she's in danger. I'm saying my daughter has a tell, and she's using it every single night on the phone with me."He sets his papers aside, giving me his full attention the way he still does, twenty years in, whenever something's ac
The Professor's Mate Clause Chapter 8
AURORA'S POV"You must be the ambassador everyone's talking about."I look up from my documents to find a man I haven't met yet standing at the edge of the garden, dark-haired, sharply dressed, with an easy smile that doesn't quite match the calculating look underneath it. He carries himself like someone used to being watched and enjoying it."That depends what they're saying," I reply."Mostly that you held your ground against half the court at dinner without breaking a sweat. That's rare, for a Council delegate." He crosses the garden and takes the seat Kade vacated less than an hour ago, uninvited but not unwelcome, exactly. "Draven Ashveil. Kade's cousin."Something in my chest goes carefully alert. I remember the name from my briefing files — a noble with a claim to the throne that never materialized, close enough to Kade's inner circle to matter, distant enough to be worth watching."Aurora Reed-Metcalfe.""I know who you are." His smile widens slightly. "Everyone in this fortr
The Professor's Mate Clause Chapter 7: KADE'S POV
KADE'S POVI tell myself I was just passing through that corridor.It's not entirely a lie. I do have business in that wing most evenings, checking in with the night guard rotation before I retire. But I also know, if I'm honest with myself, that some part of me had been keeping track of exactly where Aurora's dinner conversation ended and exactly how long it would take her to walk back to the guest wing, and that's not the kind of awareness a man develops by accident."You didn't have to intervene," Rhys says the next morning, dropping into the chair across from me in the war room. "Bram runs his mouth. He always has. He wouldn't have actually touched her.""He was threatening a Council delegate under our roof.""He was grieving loudly at a wolf who happened to be standing nearby. There's a difference, and you know it." Rhys studies me over his tea. "You didn't intervene last month when Lady Corwin cornered the trade envoy from the coastal territories over tariffs. You let that play
The Professor's Mate Clause CHAPTER 35
FREYA'S POVI woke up so warm, like someone had cranked the heat up to a thousand degrees. There was basically a furnace pressed against my back and it took my sleepy brain a second to remember where I was.Adrian's bed. Adrian's arms. Adrian's entire body was curved around mine like he was trying
Last Updated : 2026-03-21The Professor's Mate Clause CHAPTER 31
ADRIAN'S POV She is at my apartment. Safe. Asleep. Come get her but please be gentle. She is fragile right now.I read the text three times, making sure it is real.hoping that I am not imagining it.She is safe. Clara found her. She is safe.The relief is so strong it nearly brings me to my knees
Last Updated : 2026-03-20The Professor's Mate Clause CHAPTER 21
ADRIAN'S POV "Everyone is here. Council is waiting in the conference room."Marcus falls into step beside me as I walk through the main hall. Sixty wolves gathered in one space. All eyes on me. Conversations stop mid sentence. Heads bow. Wolves move aside to let me pass.This is power. This is wh
Last Updated : 2026-03-19The Professor's Mate Clause CHAPTER 25
KELVIN'S POV I sit in the back booth gulping my third whiskey, Derek was getting late. He is always late, just Likes to make people wait. Likes the power it gives him.Nonsense I hate him. Hate his cold eyes. Hate the way he talks about killing like discussing the weather. Hate that my father tr
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