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Chapter fifty six: Into the East Wing
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The Wolfless Bride No One Wanted, Except the Alpha Chapter fifty six: Into the East Wing
ELIRAThe silver doors did not burn my skin at all.That particular realization was the very first thing I noticed, and it nearly startled a disbelieving laugh right out of me despite everything. I stood pressed into the deep shadow beside the east wing's back stairwell at nearly two in the morning, one bare hand flattened against the cold iron bars of the service door, and felt absolutely nothing except ordinary cold metal. Heavy. Smooth. No painful sting whatsoever. No blistering rising on my skin.Every single wolf living in this entire estate carefully avoided those particular doors at all costs. The guards themselves wore thick leather gloves whenever they needed to touch them directly. Rurik's own private chamber had been deliberately lined with silver specifically because the metal caused genuine pain to any true wolf who came too near it.But I possessed no wolf of my own. For perhaps the very first time in my entire life, being fundamentally nothing gave me a genuine, tangibl
The Wolfless Bride No One Wanted, Except the Alpha Chapter fifty five: Moving Up the Timeline
ELIRAEvery single candidate remaining at the estate stood packed tightly into the grand hall, whispering nervously among themselves. Several girls were still dressed in their nightclothes, clearly roused straight from sleep. Servants lined every wall in careful rows, and armed enforcers stood posted at each door. I counted eleven men whose collars were buttoned tight all the way up to their throats.Laron waited calmly at the very top of the grand staircase, dressed entirely in black, one hand resting with deceptive ease against the polished marble railing.Lady Aquine stood alone at the foot of the stairs, positioned slightly apart from the gathered crowd. Her face remained carefully blank and composed, but her hands were folded so tightly together that her knuckles had gone completely white. She deliberately did not look in my direction, not even once."Friends," Laron announced, his voice carrying perfectly and effortlessly through the enormous hall. "I sincerely apologize for sum
The Wolfless Bride No One Wanted, Except the Alpha Chapter fifty four: Faster Than Anyone Expected
ELIRADr. Aris refused outright to meet me in the chapel yard that morning."Far too open a space now," he said when I finally found him at dawn, tucked behind the small linen room beside the medical wing. It was a narrow, windowless little room stacked floor to ceiling with folded sheets, smelling strongly of starch and old soap. He pulled the door firmly shut behind us the moment I stepped inside. "They watch that yard closely now, Elira. Every single morning."He stood holding a small leather notebook pressed tight against his chest, almost like a shield he could hide behind. His hands, always so steady in every situation I'd witnessed before, trembled visibly now."Lady Aquine told me a portion of what you found down there," he said quietly. "Not everything. Enough to frighten me badly, though.""Then you already understand we're running desperately short on time.""I do understand that, yes." He opened the small notebook with careful fingers. "Which is precisely why I need to sho
The Wolfless Bride No One Wanted, Except the Alpha Chapter fifty three: A Finger Moves
RURIKOne finger. That was all I wanted in this entire world tonight.Not my whole arm. Not my legs. Not even my eyes, though I wanted those too, desperately. Just the first finger on my right hand, the one that had once learned to hold a pen steady, and a sword, and, in some strange dream that never quite felt like only a dream, a girl's hand reaching for mine in a dark forest.I had spent six long months telling this useless body to move and receiving nothing back for my effort. Tonight I told it again, and this time I meant it in a way that felt different, sharper, more desperate than anything I'd tried before.Elira's fear had been bleeding through the bond all night long, relentless and raw. First the sharp, cold terror from inside that ritual chamber. Then her grief for Niar, heavy and aching. After that, a long, stunned silence that I could barely stand to sit through, knowing she was somewhere in this house right now, awake, staring blankly at some wall, and I could feel every
The Wolfless Bride No One Wanted, Except the Alpha Chapter fifty two: Who Can Still Be Trusted
LADY AQUINE"Laron." I pulled my shawl tighter around my shoulders and let my voice come out tired, worn thin the way it actually was after everything I'd just learned. "You should be asleep at this hour.""So should you, by rights." He stepped into the room wrapped in a dark robe, his silver hair combed neatly even now, in the deepest part of the night. His eyes moved slowly across my desk. Across the candle burning low. Across the pile of papers I'd heaped together in such a hurry. "You're working very late, my dear.""I couldn't sleep tonight." That much, at least, wasn't a lie. "I keep seeing Rurik's eyes open. I can't stop thinking about it."Something in my voice must have carried real enough grief, because his face softened at once into the same gentle, concerned mask he'd worn for six long months. The mask I had once, foolishly, mistaken for genuine kindness."I know how badly you want it to be real," he said, his voice pitched low and sympathetic."I know what I saw with my o
The Wolfless Bride No One Wanted, Except the Alpha Chapter fifty one: Going to Lady Aquine
ELIRAThe guard outside Lady Aquine's private wing had his hand on his sword before I even finished turning the corner."Stop right there."I stopped. Four ledgers pressed against my ribs under my dress, and the weight of them made every step feel wrong, like I was carrying stones instead of paper. My hands were shaking so badly I tucked them up into my sleeves so he wouldn't see."It's past midnight, Miss Montrose.""I know." My voice came out thin and small. I forced it steadier. "Tell Lady Aquine I have proof about her son. Tell her Niar of Thistlewood is being held in the east wing right now, tonight, while we stand here talking."He didn't move. Behind him the tall door stayed shut and dark at the edges. I could hear my own breathing, fast and loud in the quiet hall, and I was sure he could hear it too."Please," I said, and my voice cracked on the word. "If you send me away, someone else dies. I'm not exaggerating. I watched it almost happen to me down there."His jaw worked. He
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