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48: Trust, Tested
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The Alpha Secret Obsession 49: Draven's Hollow Speaks
"They're already at the gate."The pack member delivering the news was out of breath, and Seraphina was on her feet before he finished the sentence, Rowan rising beside her, the morning light barely through the window."How many," Rowan asked."Six. Formal colors. Not Damian's personal guard. House colors." The pack member hesitated. "They're asking for Seraphina by name. Not by title. Not by claim. Her name."She dressed fast, uniform straightened out of habit more than care, and found Caden already waiting outside the dormitory when she stepped out, dark circles beneath his eyes suggesting he hadn't slept any more than she had. Neither of them spoke about the night before. There wasn't time, and some part of her wasn't ready yet regardless."You don't have to face them alone," he said, falling into step beside her."I know." She didn't look at him. "I'm not asking you to stay back."They reached the main courtyard to find the delegation already arranged in formal lines, six figures
The Alpha Secret Obsession 48: Trust, Tested
"Weeks."Seraphina said the word like it had weight, like she was setting it down somewhere between them where they could both look at it."Weeks, Caden. Before Dene. Before the east gate. Before Isadora was ever taken." She stepped back from him, needing the distance suddenly, needing to see all of him at once instead of just the part standing close enough to touch. "You watched me walk into that council chamber not knowing what your father's own history connected to. You watched me sit in the archive with Dene, guessing blind, while you already had a piece of the answer in your pocket.""I know how it sounds.""Then tell me how it isn't that."He didn't answer right away, and the silence told her more than anything he could have said."You stood in that chapel," she said, voice rising now, everything from the last two months rising with it, "and told me you'd hand me the truth or tell me which part was only a guess. You said that was the promise you could actually keep. And the whol
The Alpha Secret Obsession 47: What Caden Never Finished Saying
"Read it again."Seraphina's hands shook around the wax-sealed paper. Caden stood at her shoulder, jaw tight, and read the lines aloud in a voice stripped of everything but control."Your friend is safe. She was not harmed and she was not dragged. She was collected with courtesy, and invited to Draven's Hollow to discuss her inheritance. The invitation extends to you. Nineteen days remain. D.""Nineteen," Seraphina said. "He's counting for me.""He's counting to remind you he can." Caden turned the paper over, found nothing else, and set it down like it might bite. "Two of my pack saw her leave. Through the east gate at dusk, with two escorts in gray. No struggle.""Isadora wouldn't walk out with them.""Unless she was told something that made her want to.""Or unless she was frightened enough to think it was her only choice." Seraphina paced the small room, past the neatly made bed, past the folder of Blackthorn records left behind. "I'm going after her. Tonight.""No.""Caden.""No.
The Alpha Secret Obsession 46: The Second Claimant
"Say it plainly. Who else could this be."Caden's voice carried sharp across the pack office, every trace of composure stripped away since Seraphina had relayed Orion's fragmented memory an hour earlier. Rowan stood near the window, arms crossed, and Dene sat propped in a chair someone had carried over from the healing wing, refusing to stay in bed any longer than necessary."I don't know yet," Seraphina said. "That's the problem. Orion said the claimant doesn't even know herself.""That narrows very little," Rowan said grimly. "If the claim is bloodline based, and buried the way Isadora's connection was buried, half this academy could theoretically carry some distant thread back to Draven's Hollow or your father's line without knowing it.""Then we start with people who've actually had contact with Damian's faction," Caden said. "Everyone who's been targeted, threatened, or approached since this started. Isadora. Orion himself. Maren, even if she's no longer trusted.""Maren's confir
The Alpha Secret Obsession 45: Orion's Return to Himself
"Say that again."Orion's voice cracked slightly, and Seraphina set down the book she'd brought to read aloud, some habit they'd fallen into these past few days, low voices and ordinary stories filling the healing wing's quiet hours."Which part," she asked."The part where you said you're not going anywhere." His eyes stayed fixed on the ceiling, unfocused, the way they'd been more often lately, some memory clearly working itself loose beneath the surface. "Say it again. I need to hear it while I try something.""I'm not going anywhere, Orion."He nodded slowly, jaw tight, and closed his eyes."There's a room," he said, voice dropping into something flat and distant. "Stone walls. No windows. I keep trying to remember it clearly, and it keeps sliding away the moment I try to hold it still.""You don't have to force it.""I want to force it." His hands had curled into the blanket, knuckles white. "I've spent two weeks letting my mind protect me from whatever happened in that room. I'm
The Alpha Secret Obsession 44: What Isadora Remembers
Dene received them in her recovery room off the healing wing, propped upright against a stack of pillows, a thin bandage still wrapped across her temple, though her eyes had regained all their usual sharpness the moment Isadora set the folder down on the blanket beside her."You found something," Dene said, not a question, already reaching for the pages despite the healer's earlier instructions to rest completely."Something I don't fully understand," Isadora admitted, settling into the chair beside the bed while Seraphina took the other. "A marginal note, added to a Blackthorn marriage record from four generations back. It references witness standing, underlined twice. I think it connects to Draven's Hollow somehow, but I can't parse the old legal phrasing well enough to know what it actually means."Dene studied the page a long moment, her lips moving faintly as she worked through the archaic script, decades of practice clearly guiding her faster through the dense wording than eithe
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