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9 - Who Are You?

Author: Grace Kara
last update Last Updated: 2025-05-14 01:57:31

SELENA

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I woke up slowly, like swimming up from a deep, dark place. My eyelids felt heavy, gritty. For a moment, I didn’t know where I was. The last thing I remembered was the crushing cold, the water filling my lungs, the terrifying certainty of death.

But I wasn’t cold now. I was..... warm. Too warm. And soft. Something incredibly soft was under me, around me. I blinked, my vision clearing.

I was in a bed. A massive bed, bigger than any I’d ever seen, piled high with blankets that felt like clouds. The room. it was huge. Walls the color of cream, a thick, plush carpet on the floor, and furniture that looked like it belonged in an Alpha’s grand hall, not wherever this was.

Sunlight, pale and hesitant, filtered through a gap in heavy curtains.

Panic, cold and familiar, started to prickle at the edges of my mind.

Where was I? How did I get here?

Then, like a physical blow, memoriess slammed into me.

Papa. Mama.

Their faces, lifeless. The blood. Rhys… my brother… standing there,
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  • The Rogue's Reluctant Mate   78 - A Choice

    "what are you going to do?"Austin sat on the edge of the bed beside me, close enough that our shoulders nearly touched. "I'm going to let him think I believe his story about the patrol being a random rogue ambush. I'm going to act concerned but not suspicious. And then I'm going to have Marcus quietly increase the guard rotations in the eastern tunnels, which will make it much harder for anyone to slip back and forth to the rogue territories." He turned to look at me. "And then I'm going to wait.""For what?""For him to run" Austin said simply. "A guilty wolf, given enough rope and no immediate threat, will try to save his own skin. He'll either flee to the rogues fully, or he'll try to strike a deal to protect himself. Either way, his next move will tell us everything we need to know about how deep this goes."It was clever..the kind of thinking that had let him build a business empire in the human world. Instead of striking immediately, he was creating an environment where the gui

  • The Rogue's Reluctant Mate   77 - Consequences

    The use of my title wasn't casual. It was a recognition. An acknowledgment that my position was more than ceremonial. I took a moment to think it through, aware of my responsibility to get this right. "We don't know enough yet," I said finally. "The search teams need to find those wolves. Dead or alive, we need to know what happened. But in the meantime, I think you should talk to people. Not formally. Not as the Alpha demanding answers. Just...talk. Sit with some of the older wolves who remember Roric's time. Find out who really benefited from him. Who was close to him in ways that mattered." Austin was quiet for a long moment, and I could see him turning my words over in his mind, examining them from different angles. "And if I find someone who clearly has guilty knowledge?" "You don't execute them immediately," I said, choosing my words carefully. "You give them the chance to show where their loyalty lies now. And if they choose wrong..." I let that sentence hang. A small smil

  • The Rogue's Reluctant Mate   76 - Missing

    SELENA_____The first real crack in our new order came on a Tuesday, though I didn't know it was Tuesday until Austin mentioned it offhandedly..one of those human world measurements of time that meant nothing in the caverns where the sun never reached. A patrol had gone missing. Not dead. Just..gone. Four wolves, including a seasoned Beta named Corvin who'd been with the pack for over a decade. They'd been assigned to the eastern tunnels, the ones that bordered the rogue territories, and they simply hadn't returned for the evening roll call.Austin found out during his morning briefing. I was in the corner of the main cavern, watching the Omegas work the granary counts, still trying to uncover where the rest of Roric's stolen grain had gone. Lisa had mentioned something about Marcus needing to report on the missing patrol, so I'd stayed close, pretending to be absorbed in inventory lists.Marcus looked physically ill as he told Austin. His face had gone the color of old ash, and hi

  • The Rogue's Reluctant Mate   75 - Sunrise

    I stopped, leaning against the rock wall just inside the tunnel entrance, content to watch her, unseen. This was her time. Her ritual. One she’d discovered in the human world, a small piece of peace she’d carved out for herself. As the sun crested the mountains, flooding the valley below with brilliant, blinding light, she lifted her face to it, eyes closed, as if soaking in its warmth. The sight of her, silhouetted against the dawn, so still, so peaceful, hit me with a force I wasn’t prepared for. It wasn’t lust though.. It was something else entirely. Something quieter. Something that made my chest feel too tight. She must have sensed me. Her posture didn’t change, but she spoke, her voice soft, carried by the wind. “I wondered if you’d come find me.” “I woke up and my property was missing,” I said, pushing off the wall and walking towards her. My tone was light, a deflection. “I was concerned.” She smiled, her eyes still closed. “Liar. You were curious.” I came to stand bes

  • The Rogue's Reluctant Mate   74 - Disarming

    She was silent for a long moment, looking out at the dark valleys. “I’d make it safe,” she said finally, her voice quiet but firm. “Not just safe from outside threats. Safe for the Omegas. Safe for the pups. A place where a kid can sneak out to look at the stars without being afraid of being beaten for skipping a chore. A place where what you are isn’t more important than who you are.” She shook her head, a faint, selfdeprecating twist to her lips. “It sounds naive.”“It sounds like a competent administrative goal,” I said, my tone pragmatic. “A secure, content population is a productive population. Less likely to rebel. It’s just good policy.”She laughed, a soft, genuine sound that was carried away by the roar of the falls. “Always the strategist.”“It’s who I am,” I said. But her words had sparked something. A glimmer of an idea. A way to give her a piece of what she wanted, to channel that quiet idealism into something tangible. Something that would also serve my purposes. “This

  • The Rogue's Reluctant Mate   73 - Question

    The water had gone lukewarm, the steam thinning to a faint haze. We’d stayed in the pool until our fingers pruned, until the immediate, frantic need for connection had been sated, replaced by a deeper, more settled calm. I’d washed the sweat and the lingering scent of the den from her skin, my hands moving over her with a possessiveness that was now more ritual than conquest. She’d done the same for me, her touch firm and sure, scrubbing away the grime of the day, the metaphorical blood of a dozen petty decisions.We dressed in silence, the simple act feeling more intimate than what had happened in the water. The clean clothes ..a fresh tunic and trousers for me, another simple wool dress for her, felt like a new skin. A small reclaiming of order.Back in the Alpha’s den, the pile of ledgers and scrolls still waited, a silent accusation of work unfinished. I looked at them, and for the first time, the sight didn’t coil a knot of pure annoyance in my gut. It was just work. A problem

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