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Chapter 68: The Appeal
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2026-11-08 08:00:39
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The Alpha Secret Obsession Chapter 70: The Hearing
"State your name for the record. Then tell this hall why you should be believed."Judge Pryce said it from the center of a long black table raised on the dais of the great hall. Torches burned in iron brackets along the stone walls. All five packs sat in tiered benches, three hundred students in dark jackets with their faces turned toward the single empty chair in the middle of the floor.Seraphina sat down in it."Seraphina Voss," she said. Her voice carried. "I should be believed because I'm going to show you, not ask."A murmur rolled along the benches. In the front row, Corvin Ashveil rested both hands on his cane and smiled gently at the floor. Beside him sat the empty seat where his granddaughter had sat that morning. Tamsin had moved three rows back to sit by Isadora."You have the floor," Pryce said. "Be brief.""I'll try." Seraphina stood. Ilsa Ashveil, seated at the sponsor's table in her white robe, gave her a single small nod. She had said nothing to Seraphina all evening.
The Alpha Secret Obsession Chapter 69: Evidence
"Don't stop there. Say the rest."Ilsa Ashveil looked at the corridor, at the lamplight spilling through the open pack office door, at the girl beside her on the bench. "Not here. Not with the night bell about to ring over our heads.""You said you knew my mother.""I did. I do." Ilsa's hands tightened in her sleeves. "What I have to tell you needs a quiet room and a clear head. You'll have neither in the next hour."Footsteps came pounding down the corridor. A boy in judge's gray skidded to a stop in front of them, red-faced, clutching a folded notice. "Madam Ashveil. Miss Voss. Judge Pryce sends word."Ilsa took the paper and read it twice. Her mouth thinned."What does it say?" Seraphina asked."By petition of Corvin Ashveil, the hearing is postponed to tomorrow's night bell." Ilsa folded the notice. "So that he may produce a witness.""He asked for time.""He asked for a witness. A man like Corvin never needs a witness unless the truth is against him." Ilsa rose. "Tomorrow, after
The Alpha Secret Obsession Chapter 68: The Appeal
"A council seat is not a pass to walk onto my field, Madam."Judge Pryce said it flatly. She stood with the scroll in both hands and the whole frozen field behind her, three hundred students gone silent in the stands."It is not a pass," Ilsa Ashveil agreed. "It is a sponsorship. I believe the law provides for one.""The law provides for a sitting member of a founding council.""I have sat for twenty-two years.""You have been absent for five.""A seat does not lapse because its holder travels." Ilsa's voice stayed mild. She had not raised it once. "Professor Wren, you taught the charter. Correct me if I'm wrong."Wren had come down from the dais without anyone noticing. He cleared his throat. "Article four. A seat lapses on death, resignation, or removal by vote. Absence is not named.""Thank you.""She resigned nothing," Wren added, with the faint relish of a man who had waited years to say it.A cane tapped twice on the stone. Seraphina didn't turn her head. She knew the sound."Il
The Alpha Secret Obsession Chapter 67: Disqualified
"Say it again. Slowly. So the whole school hears you."Seraphina said it into a silence so complete she could hear the frost dripping from the stand rails. She stood in the open lane with the crimson marker lying on the clerk's tray and three hundred faces turned toward her, and every one of them remembered the last time she had stood on this field.The head judge lowered her scroll. She was a stern woman named Pryce, with iron hair and a voice made for reading verdicts. "I said you are disqualified, Miss Voss. A foreign marker was found in your pouch. Under the law of the Trials, that is theft.""I didn't take it.""It was in your possession.""It was put there."A murmur rolled through the stands. Somewhere in the second row a boy laughed, short and ugly, and someone hushed him too late."By whom?" Pryce asked.Seraphina did not look at Damian. She felt him two paces to her left, perfectly still, wearing his expression of gentle regret like a good coat.*Name him,* her wolf said. *S
The Alpha Secret Obsession Chapter 66: The Trials Begin
"If you drop it in front of three hundred people, I'll pretend I didn't see.""That's comforting, Orion.""It's meant to be." He pushed a flask of tea into her hands, steaming in the frost-bitten dawn. "Drink. It's awful. That's how you know it's working."Seraphina drank. It was awful. She handed it back with a grimace, and he looked far too pleased.The training field had been transformed overnight. Rope lines marked five lanes across the frozen grass, and a wooden dais stood at the far end where the judges sat in black robes with Wren at the center, a scroll across his knees. Behind the ropes, the whole school had packed the stands in their dark winter jackets, scarves wound to their noses, breath smoking in the gray light. Somebody was selling hot chestnuts. Somebody else was losing a bet loudly.Five packs stood in uniform along the starting line. Pack Ashveil stood in the third lane, five figures in silver-trimmed jackets, a silver wolf stitched across every chest."Last night,"
The Alpha Secret Obsession Chapter 65: Two Loyalties
"That's his handwriting," Seraphina said. It was not a question.Tamsin stood frozen at the edge of the bed with the paper trembling in her fingers. "I don't know whose it is. I swear I don't.""Tall, slanted, dropped crossbars." Seraphina took a slow breath. "I've seen it in a ledger and on a council register. It belongs to Corvin Ashveil.""Corvin," Tamsin whispered."You've heard the name.""Of course I've heard it." Her voice cracked. "He's my grandfather."The rain tapped against the glass. Down the corridor a door slammed and a girl laughed, shrill and carefree, the sound of an ordinary Saturday night at a school that had no idea what was sitting in this room.*She is not lying,* her wolf said, low and careful. *She smells like someone who has been holding her breath for weeks.**I know.**Let her speak.*"Sit down," Seraphina said. "Tell me everything. From the beginning."Tamsin sat. She pressed the note flat against her knee and smoothed it over and over, as if she could iron
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