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2025-05-24 20:59:44I tried to smile back at Adara, one of Aine’s litter sisters, waving me over from the doorway.
“Hurry! We were waiting for you!”
I couldn’t drop what I was thinking.
Did the wolf fear my looks were troubling enough to keep us from being together? Maybe the Alpha had the authority to keep us apart, even if I was his mate? Was it even possible?
I would’ve liked to ask Aine about it, but I didn’t think I would ever have a chance, because she was about to be reunited with her mate the next day. Actually, I wasn’t sure I would ever be able to speak with her in private again.
I breathed deep a couple of times, like Tilda had advised, and walked into the room next to the dining hall. The girls greeted me with their bright smiles, motioning for me to approach the long table.
“Are we taking the trays from here, like the maids used to do?” I asked.
“No, but we must enter the hall all together,” replied Arleen, Aine’s other sister.
“Pleas
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I was heading back to the table for the last two soups, when all the wolves clapped with soft chuckles. I turned around and saw Aine had placed a crown of green vines around the Alpha’s head.He removed it right away, giving his niece a sideways look, his lips pursed in the first smile I ever saw in his face. He pointed at his cheek, for Aine to kiss while the others chuckled again.I hurried to serve the last wolf on my end, who was sitting right in front of the Alpha. I was setting the dish before him when I felt the same as a few days earlier, when they had me join the parlormaids: that urgent need to look up, like somebody had just shouted out my name.I breathed deep, ground my teeth, turned around and went back to the side table, where I was forced to stay by Adara, facing the main table but keeping my eye down. I felt my cheeks burn and crossed my hands, knuckles white in my effort to keep myself from looking up at the Alpha.Aine and Arleen
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I tried to smile back at Adara, one of Aine’s litter sisters, waving me over from the doorway.“Hurry! We were waiting for you!”I couldn’t drop what I was thinking.Did the wolf fear my looks were troubling enough to keep us from being together? Maybe the Alpha had the authority to keep us apart, even if I was his mate? Was it even possible?I would’ve liked to ask Aine about it, but I didn’t think I would ever have a chance, because she was about to be reunited with her mate the next day. Actually, I wasn’t sure I would ever be able to speak with her in private again.I breathed deep a couple of times, like Tilda had advised, and walked into the room next to the dining hall. The girls greeted me with their bright smiles, motioning for me to approach the long table.“Are we taking the trays from here, like the maids used to do?” I asked.“No, but we must enter the hall all together,” replied Arleen, Aine’s other sister.“Pleas
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I rested my back against the door to close it and slid down to sit on the cold stone floor, bringing my knees up to my chest. The wolf hurried to my side, sniffing me. I threw my arms around his neck and hid my face against his wet fur.“Good God, my lord,” I panted. “For a moment I thought it was the Alpha with a woman. I was lucky it was his brother, not him, and his wife recognized me. That’s why they let me go. But I know I’ll be in trouble for this.”The wolf went to the bed and brought the black ribbon, dropping it on my knees. My hands were shaking as I covered my eyes, still full of tears. His hands soon touched mine, to undo my clumsy knot, messed up with my hair, and tie the blindfold correctly.“Come, my child,” he whispered. “You’re so cold.”He lifted me in his arms to take me to the bed and tuck me in.“Why did you go back inside? We could’ve left without th
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I turned to the wolf, scared. He glanced at me before jumping out of the pool to the only open window. I gathered our things in a hurry, my heart pounding in my chest.The footsteps walked in past the first arch behind the partition just as I picked up the wolf’s trousers and chest, and ran out to the garden. I threw everything behind a bush and signaled the wolf to hide or leave, because I had to go back to get the lamp. The wolf tried to follow me.“Go!” I whispered, hurrying back inside.I had no idea who else would seek the solitude of the bathhouse at midnight. And I had no idea how I could justify my presence there without telling a lie that would stink worse than my fear.I took a hand to my chest, a burning cold making it hard for me to breathe. The pendant! I didn’t have the queen’s pendant. The wolf had promised to have it fixed and he still hadn’t brought it back.I kneeled down by the lamp, at the edg
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Lucky me, weeding the prince soon required all my attention. I didn’t know where he’d been, but he had as many prickles as Brenan and his two brothers put together the day before. I smiled to myself, because he didn’t stiffen when I ran my fingers through his fur slowly, to make sure there were no thorns left.“Can you lay on your side, my lord?”He raised his head to look at me again. And he was so expressive, it was just like he had shown a questioning frown.“I’d rather take all the thorns off before really bathing you,” I explained, my eyes down.The wolf turned to look ahead again and I thought he’d refuse, but he lay down as I’d asked. He had another ton of thorns on his side, and Ronda had to bring me another bucket for them. I didn’t need to ask him to change sides, and I felt him relax a little more.“Would you mind standing up for a moment, my lord?” I asked whe
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“No, no! The wine from the right and the dishes from the left.”“I thought they were from the right.”“They’re served from the left and picked up from the right.”“What about the drinks, then?”“From the right.”“Who the heck came up with these stupid rules?”“That way, you can serve food and drink at the same time.”“What if we serve everything from the right? Not like we’ll be messing up their digestion, right?”We all turned to Helga, who raised her eyebrows with her hands on her hips. She looked at us for a moment and nodded, sighing. Aine, her sisters, the Beta’s two daughters and I thanked her with big grins. Helga had been chief of parlormaids back in the day, so we’d turned to her for help about how to correctly serve tables.Nobody expected us to be perform a choreography like the human girls u
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Our relaxed mood didn’t change some things that kept going round and round my head.“Nobody is above the law of the Dale,” I murmured.His hand paused on my shoulder and he waited for me to go on.“But that’s what we’re trying to do. You, me, her, even the queen, who knows about us and keeps the secret. How are you so different from the humans you despise?”“What do you mean?”“That girl saw my pendant, and took it from me because she thought she deserved it more than me. They beat me up because that’s what they used to do growing up, and nobody ever told them it was wrong. It’s a matter of education, when you think about it. Nobody taught them they shouldn’t use violence against others, even if they don’t even consider them human.”“Are you taking their side?” he asked, taking offense.“No, but there’s something I only un
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I pulled the mare’s reins when we came out of the forest to the meadow. All of a sudden, I was worried about the princess and the wolf’s reaction.I didn’t expect they would be as patient and understanding as Aine, who was too young to despise humans like they did.I could picture the princess calling me ungrateful and arrogant. And the wolf reminding me the two only things that could make him angry: me trying to see his face before it was time, and me trying to run away.Well, I’d done both. Would I have to face his anger? What would he do to me? And what would I do? Did I still have enough good will to put up with preaching, reproaches, indifference, or whatever they did to show their anger?Aine slowed down her horse too. I was surprised that she only needed to glance at me to nod, grimacing. She guided me without a word to the west, away from the castle, toward the woods stretching out to the mountains. She led me down a trail
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The flapping wings of one of the big ravens from the castle woke us up at sunrise. We had slept together in the pallet, and Aine got up while I still tried to understand what was happening. The raven jumped to her wrist.“Joy coming back?” it cawed, mimicking the princess’ voice.Aine turned to me, grimacing.“I’m in trouble. If my mother sent the message, it means they found out I’m gone and they know I’m with you.”“What? What are you talking about?” I asked, rubbing my face.“You silly. She sent it so I wouldn’t recognize your wolf’s voice. What’s your answer?”I looked up at her and shrugged, not knowing what to do.“I don’t know, Aine,” I murmured. “I’d love to go back to him. But these weeks in the castle…”She didn’t wait for me to say anything else and turned to the raven.&ld
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