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Chapter 63
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2026-09-05 12:42:05
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KillianFor a long time we simply stay like this, Reya curled up against me, her cheek warm beneath my chin, the library around us is quiet except for the soft rustle of pages and the occasional creak of the old floorboards. Her shadows have settled too: one stretches across the floor like a lazy cat, another tucks itself beneath the table. They watch us with the same patient curiosity as the books. I run my fingers through her hair and feel something like peace settle over me. It is a small thing, and I know how fragile it is. The dream still hangs between us, the trader and the book and Cormac’s absence like a low, steady drumbeat under everything else. But for the moment she is here, and she is calm, and that is enough to make me breathe easier. “You’re very quiet,” I remark, because the silence feels too heavy for me to keep to myself. “You haven’t said a word in a while.” She tips her head and gives me that look, half teasing, half fond. “You usually complain when I’m quiet.
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ReyaThe library is silent except for the soft rustle of ancient parchment and the distant chime of the palace clocks. I sit close to Killian, our shoulders brushing, and the scent of old ink and his masculine musk swirls around us.We are hunched over a series of weather scrolls, our eyes scan the faded calligraphy of an era that’s been forgotten, but my focus has long since drifted away from the text.I can feel the heat radiating off of him, a magnetic pull that makes the fine hairs on my arms stand up. Every time his hand shifts to point out a passage, his fingers graze mine and it sends a jolt of electricity straight to my core.I try to concentrate on the words, but all I can think of is the way his jaw tightens when he is thinking and the deep resonant vibration of his voice when he reads aloud. And that fact that he is beside me through something like this makes it a lot more intimate for me.“This section mentions the selection of the children,” Killian murmurs, his voice dr
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ReyaI already decided that the scroll sitting in front of me is probably useless, yet my fingers continue to unroll it as if the paper might change it’s mind and suddenly offer something new. Most of the ink has faded into ghosts. Where letters remain, they speak of old territorial boundaries, disputes between packs that no longer exist, and trader routes through the northern mountains two centuries ago. Nothing about shadow children. Nothing that could possibly point me towards a hollow or a stone circle or a river that curves like a sleeping serpent. Still, I continue to read, because it is the one thing that I can do.After the dream, everything feels suspicious. Every map, every symbol, every neat coincidence that has nudged us along a particular path now looks like a hand guiding me where someone else wants me to go. Killian told me not to let the dream rule me. He is right. I am trying. But the girl’s warning, You are looking where they want you to look, continues to thread
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SkylarBernice is going to ruin everything if I let her. The thought has been a steady drumbeat in my head ever since I left her room. It isn’t just that she hates Reya… it is because of the way she moves from hatred to action without a second thought. She’d placed a bounty. She’d planted a book in Blackwood’s path. She’d used a witch to slip into Reya’s dreams. Every step has been more reckless than the last, and none of it has been done with the kind of patience that wins wars. I find the witch in a small, dim room where the air smells of herbs and iron. She is preparing the projection, the bowl of dark liquid catching candlelight like a small, dangerous moon. “You’re certain about this?” she asks without looking up. “Calling for the council?” “Yes,” I say. The word feels heavier than I expected it to. She cuts her palm and lets a few drops fall into the bowl. The surface ripples. Magic gathers like fog, slow and deliberate. This spell is different from the one she’d used to
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Bernice“I swear I am going to make you pay for your petty games,” Skylar says before he pushes me inside the office.His threat echoes in the room long after the door had closed.For a moment, I simply stand where he had left me, my fingers are curled around the edge of the table, watching the maps as if they might rearrange themselves into something kinder. They did not.Anger is useful, but only when it is sharpened into purpose. I let the anger burn for exactly as long as it needed to and then folded it into the next move.Skylar believes that he has me cornered.He thinks his men watching the corridor, his blunt demand, and the thinly veiled threat about protection has forced me to choose. He thinks I will stop because he has the power to make staying here uncomfortable. He thinks that I will be cowed by the idea of losing the shelter his protection provided.He is wrong.He has always been wrong about me when he has assumed that I would be grateful for anything that he has offer
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BerniceThe trader looks like a man who has been taught to be invisible and failed at the last moment.He hovers by the door, boots crusted with eastern mud, eyes flickering toward the witch by the fire and then his eyes land on me as if I am the only thing in the room that matters. Nervous men make better mistakes than confident ones.I keep my hands folded on the table and let him squirm for a few heartbeats. The silence does half of my work for me. When I finally speak, my voice is soft enough to make him lean forward. “Did you do it?” I ask, “Is the task done?”He swallows, “Yes.”“That is not an answer,” I say and the way his shoulders tighten tells me that he understands the difference. He told me the scouts had taken the book, that they had asked questions, that they’d bought other items at the same market. He had given them the name I’d told him to give. He keep his face blank, his story consistent. He changed roads twice, slept in different villages, and avoided all tails.
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ReyaThe journey to the northern border took three agonizing days. By the time the heavy wooden carriage finally ground to a halt, the warm green fields of the south were completely gone. I looked out the small window and saw nothing but dark pine trees and a freezing mountain rainstorm that looked
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ReyaThe fairy tale did not even last until midnight. The very second our carriage pulled up to the Oakwood estate, the illusion shattered into a million pieces. We barely made it through the front doors before the first heavy crystal vase came flying across the grand parlor, smashing directly into
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Reya"Stand straighter, Reya. You look like a hunchback standing next to your sister," my mother, Eleanor, hissed the words directly into my ear. She did not actually look at my face while she spoke. Her eyes were completely glued to my younger sister, Bernice, who was currently preening in front
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ReyaThree full days passed, and I quickly realized that living in the guard wing of the Blackwood fortress was basically like being a ghost. Alpha Killian completely kept his word about ignoring me. He did not check on me once. A quiet, elderly omega servant brought a tray of minimal rations to my
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