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Chapter thirty-nine: A Redacted Name
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ELIRANiar found the second piece three days later, arriving at my door just after sunset with a look on her face that told me right away she'd found something."I need to show you something," she said, before I'd even fully opened the door. "But not here. Somewhere private."We went to the empty chapel yard, the same quiet corner of the estate that had become our unofficial meeting place for conversations too dangerous to have anywhere someone might overhear."What did you find?" I asked, once we'd settled on the familiar stone bench.Niar pulled a folded piece of paper from her sleeve, handling it carefully, the way one handles something fragile. "I have a cousin who works in the Nightswirl record keeper's office. Not close family, but enough of a connection that she was willing to do some quiet digging when I wrote asking about sealed records connected to the Montrose name."My heart began hammering. "And?""She found a matching entry in the Nightswirl archives. Not the sealed one
The Wolfless Bride No One Wanted, Except the Alpha Chapter thirty-nine: A Redacted Name
ELIRAThe summons came three days later, delivered by a nervous junior clerk from the archive who wouldn't quite meet my eyes as he handed over a formal notice bearing the Council's seal.The bloodline trace ordered by Lord Laron Larkspur has yielded preliminary findings. Miss Elira Montrose is required to present herself at the archive for formal review.I found Niar in the courtyard and showed her the notice. I watched her face shift from confusion to alarm as she read."This is fast," she said. "Faster than I expected, given everything else happening.""Laron's motivated," I said grimly. "He needs something to use against me, especially now, with Lady Aquine watching him so closely."We walked to the archive together. Niar insisted on coming despite the notice specifying my presence alone. Master Colwin met us at the entrance with the same careful, guarded look he'd worn during my first visit weeks earlier."The findings are preliminary," he said, leading us to the same small woode
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ELIRADorian found me again that evening, this time in the small courtyard behind the kitchen gardens, my usual retreat when the estate grew too heavy. I understood right away he'd followed me on purpose, waiting until we were fully alone before approaching."I'm not finished," he said, blocking the narrow path back toward the main house."I told you our conversation was over.""You can't just walk away from three years, Elira. Not like this. Not without even hearing me out properly."Something in his tone had shifted since that afternoon. The pleading edge replaced with something harder. More entitled. My spine straightened instinctively."I heard you fine," I said. "You want money. I said no. There's nothing left to discuss.""You owe me that much, at least." His voice rose slightly, frustration bleeding through his usual careful composure. "Three years of my life, Elira. Three years building a business with your help, only for everything to fall apart the moment you left.""You did
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ELIRAI found Dorian waiting near the small library two days later, standing in exactly the spot where the corridor narrowed enough that I couldn't easily walk past him without acknowledging he was there."We need to talk," he said, echoing Naya's exact words from days before in a way that made my skin crawl."I don't think we do.""Elira." He stepped closer, close enough I had to fight the instinct to back away, close enough I could smell the familiar cologne he'd always worn. A scent that used to mean something entirely different to me before everything I'd learned about him. "Please. Five minutes. That's all I'm asking."I glanced around the empty corridor, weighing whether it would be worse to walk away or worse to stay and hear him out. Eventually curiosity, or maybe simple exhaustion with running from every difficult conversation this estate kept forcing on me, won out."Five minutes," I said. "Then I'm leaving."He relaxed slightly, and I watched him gather himself, his face sh
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ELIRANaya was waiting outside my door the next morning, arms crossed, an expression on her face I hadn't seen since we were children. Something almost sulking under the usual polished composure."We need to talk," she said, before I could even ask why she was there."About what?""About last night. About the fact that half this estate spent this morning talking about you instead of me." Her voice carried an edge I remembered from childhood, the particular resentment she'd always saved for moments when attention went somewhere she hadn't planned for it to go. "Do you have any idea what it was like, standing in that ballroom in the most expensive gown I've ever worn, watching everyone completely forget I existed the moment the Alpha opened his eyes?"I almost laughed at the sheer nerve of it, that she'd manage to make even this moment about her own wounded vanity. "I'm sorry my presence inconvenienced your evening.""Don't be sarcastic with me." She followed me into my room, uninvited,
The Wolfless Bride No One Wanted, Except the Alpha Chapter thirty-five: When You Wake Up
ELIRAI fell asleep that night, still turning over everything that had happened. Lady Aquine's intervention. Laron's barely hidden fury. The three impossible seconds when Rurik's golden eyes found mine across a crowded ballroom. Somewhere in the tangle of those thoughts, the dream-link opened.I found myself standing in the familiar dark forest, ash and pine thick in the cold air, the blood-red sky stretching overhead in a way that had stopped frightening me weeks ago and had become something closer to comfort. A place that belonged only to the two of us.Rurik was already waiting, though not in the massive shadow-wolf form I'd gotten used to seeing here. Tonight he stood as a man, tall against the misty tree line, dressed simply, none of the formal black finery someone else had put him in for the gala. Just himself."You're different tonight," I said, crossing the mossy ground toward him."The link is different tonight," he said. "Stronger. I don't fully understand why, but I think i
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