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Chapter 91

Cassie's POVThey arrived before breakfast.I heard the commotion from our chambers before I even saw them. Voices carrying down the hall, Jonas speaking in that careful measured tone he used when he was trying to manage something delicate.I was still pulling my hair back when Lark appeared in the doorway."You have visitors," he said.Something in his voice made me stop. "Who?""The Vale Pack elders. There are about three of them." He paused. "With gifts."I stood very still for a moment.Vale Pack.My pack. The one I'd grown up in, trained in, believed in. The one I'd slipped away from in the dark like something ashamed of itself.I hadn't heard that name out loud in a long time. It sat strange in my ears. Like hearing a song you used to love before something ruined it for you."Where are they?" I asked."The receiving hall. Jonas put them there. He didn't know where else to put them."I looked at myself in the mirror for exactly two seconds. Then I straightened my shoulders and

Chapter 92

Cassie's POVElla was awake by midday.Not fully. She drifted in and out, her eyes opening for a few minutes at a time before sleep pulled her back under. But by the time the afternoon light was coming through her window at that low slanted angle, she was sitting up against her pillows and asking for water.I was there when she did.I'd come back to check on her after the meeting with the elders. I needed somewhere quiet to put myself and Ella's room was as good a place as any. I'd pulled the chair close and just sat, not thinking about much, letting my mind rest for once.When her eyes opened and stayed open, I leaned forward."Hey," I said.She blinked at me slowly. Like someone trying to remember how the world worked. "Luna,”"I'm here."I poured water from the jug beside the bed and held it out. She took it with both hands, the way someone does when they don't fully trust their grip yet.“Thank you very much for all you do,” She appreciated. Her voice had a tone of sincerity in

Chapter 93

Cassie's POVI'd told myself it wouldn't feel like anything.It was just a place with buildings and trees.A pack land like any other. I'd lived in dozens of places since I left. I'd built something real somewhere else. I was a Luna now, not the girl who used to walk these paths with her head down hoping somebody would notice her.Now, even without saying a word, my presence always gets noticed.“It's just a ride, take it like a vacation outside your pack,” I told myself as I sat on the chariot.I believed about half of it.The gates of Vale Pack came into view just as the morning mist was starting to burn off. They were the same. That was the first thing that hit me. Everything exactly where I'd left it, like the place had just been sitting here waiting, unchanged, while I went off and became someone else entirely.My horse slowed without me telling it to.Lark pulled up beside me on my left. Mark on my right. Neither of them said anything. They didn't need to. Through the bond I fe

Chapter 94

Cassie's PovThe room was dim.Heavy curtains pulled almost all the lights across the windows, leaving just a thin blade of light cutting through the gap. It took my eyes a moment to adjust.The beta was standing near the wall. His physique is quite big but with a quiet face.He has a kind of steady presence you put near a sick Alpha because the pack needs to see someone keeping it together.Daisy was sitting on a stool beside the bed.She saw me the moment I walked in. Something moved across her face, complicated and fast, there and gone before I could name it all. She stood up slowly.I didn't look at her long enough to give it meaning. I looked past her.Then glanced at Jamie. He was propped against the pillows, his eyes open, looking at the doorway. My presence made him look towards me.I don't have a clean word for it.He looked like someone had taken Jamie and turned the brightness down. Everything was still there, the face I used to know, the broad shoulders, the jaw I'd onc

Chapter 95

Cassie's POVI didn't sleep well that night.Vale Pack gave us quarters in the east wing. Clean rooms, good beds, everything a visiting Luna and her Alphas were entitled to. The staff assigned to us was quiet and careful not to look at me too long.A young lowly omega. Our room was guarded by two guards, plus the ones that followed us from our pack.Their hospitality was amicable.I lay on my back in the dark staring at the ceiling.The ring was out there somewhere in this pack. I could feel it the way you feel a storm coming before the clouds arrive. Lark's voice came quietly from beside me. "You're thinking aloud.""Ohh, I'm sorry.""Don't be." He paused and then sat erect. "What is it?"I breathe out."The curse feels too alive," I said. "Too fresh. Someone is still feeding it from somewhere inside this pack,” I turned to look at him in the dark. “Which curse?” He looked utterly confused.He wasn't a healer , so he was oblivious of what I was talking about, as well as everyone

Chapter 96

Cassie's PovCord shifted the linen in his arms.He had the look of a man who wasn't sure if he was in trouble or not. That careful stillness people get when a Luna stops them in a corridor and looks at them the way I was looking at him."Is everything alright?" he asked."I just need to ask you something," I said. "Walk with me."He fell into step beside us without arguing. That was the thing about betas. Obedience was built into them the same way loyalty was. He didn't ask where we were going or why. He just followed me.I kept my pace easy. Unhurried. I didn't want him defensive."How long have you been Jamie's beta?" I asked."Six years," he said."So you were here when Alexa was."A slight pause. "Yes.""Were you close to her?"Another pause. Longer this time. "She was my Alpha's mate. I respected her the way you respect someone in that position." He chose his words carefully. "We weren't close."I nodded like that was all I needed. Let a few seconds pass."Jamie asked you to h

Chapter 97

Cassie's POVI literally froze to the spot. My expression must have given her pleasure. The smile on her face was evident as she strode.Nobody moved. The shock rooted our feet to the floor.The room had gone the kind of still that happens when something impossible walks through a door and everyone present has to decide at the same time whether their eyes are lying to them.Jamie saw her first.Or maybe he'd heard her voice before I turned around. Either way when I looked at him his face had gone completely white. The cup in his hands tilted without him noticing. The warm liquid spilled over his fingers and he didn't feel it."Alexa." Her name came out of him like something he'd been carrying for a long time and had no idea how to put down.She looked at him briefly. Something moved across her face. Quick and complicated and gone before I could name it."Jamie," she said simply.That was all. Just his name. Like an acknowledgment. Like checking a box.He stared at her. His newly cle

Chapter 98

Cassie's POVI didn't sit.Neither did she, after a moment. She had realized that sitting across from me like two people having tea wasn't going to work. She stood by the window instead, arms loose at her sides, looking out at the Vale Pack grounds like she owned them.Maybe she thought she did.I stayed near the door.Not blocking it. Just close enough that I knew exactly how many steps it would take to reach it if I needed to move fast. Old habit. The kind you develop when you've had to run before.The silence stretched.I wasn't going to fill it. That was her job. She called this meeting.She turned from the window eventually. Looked at me the way you look at something you've been thinking about for a long time and are finally seeing up close."You look like her," she said. "Our mother. Around the eyes."Our mother? What on heck is she trying to do? I said nothing. She smiled slightly. Like my silence was the answer she expected. "You didn't know her long enough to remember t

Chapter 99

Cassie's POVWe left Vale Pack just after sunrise.Jamie stood at the gates to see us off. He looked better than he had when we arrived. Still not fully himself, but the fog was gone from his eyes. He stood straight for the first time since we'd gotten there.He looked at me for a long moment before I mounted the horse.There was so much sitting in that appearance. Years of it. Things that probably deserved to be said out loud and never would be.A lot is better left unsaid."Thank you," he said finally."Take care of yourself," I told him.That was all.I took the reins, steadying myself. A gentle squeeze of my legs set it moving.I didn't look back.The ride home was quiet.Lark set the pace. Steady and unhurried, moving through the tree line where the morning light came through in broken pieces. I rode beside him without talking. I didn't have much to say, and he seemed to feel the same way.I was too busy watching him when he wasn't looking.It started with his hand. The one hold

Chapter 100

Lark's POVMy hand was shaking when I woke up.Not violently. Just enough to be noticed when I reached for the water jug on the bedside table and I had to use both hands to keep it steady. I set it down carefully and sat on the edge of the bed for a moment in the grey morning light, willing it to stop.It stopped eventually.It always stopped eventually. That was the part I held onto. It always passed. The shaking, the dizziness, the pressure that gathered behind my eyes some mornings was like something pushing from the inside out. It came, and it went, and I functioned in between and nobody had to know.Cassie was still sleeping. I watched her for a moment before I stood up. She looked younger when she slept. She'd been watching me since we left Vale Pack. I knew she had. I could feel it, those small sideways glances she thought I didn't catch. .I got dressed quietly and left before she woke up.Mark found me in the courtyard before I'd even had a chance to settle back into the

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