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CHAPTER 61

Seraphina's POVGemma didn't ask what was wrong. She poured me a cup of tea and set it in front of me and went back to her dough without a word, and I wrapped my hands around the cup and held on until the warmth seeped into my fingers and the shaking slowed enough that I could lift it to my mouth without spilling."The yearly gathering is in five days," she said over her shoulder while her hands worked the dough. "Marta wants the menu finalized by tomorrow. She's already screaming about the pork order.""Five days?""You didn't know?" She glanced back at me. "Octavia's had the whole house staff running since yesterday. Banners, seating arrangements, guest lists. You'd think the goddess herself was attending."I hadn't known. Every Alpha, Beta, and pack leader in the region would be under Blackthorn's roof in less than a week for the annual summit, and Octavia was already running the staff like the whole event depended on her personally.She always loved the gathering. The gowns, the

CHAPTER 62

Seraphina's POVMy knife kept moving through the carrots. "Different how?""Quieter. More like yourself." She tilted her head and the smile widened and I could see every one of her perfect teeth. "I was worried about you for a while. You seemed distracted. Restless. Not like the Sera I know.""I've been tired. The delegation was a lot of extra work.""Of course it was. You work so hard." She reached across the table and put her hand over mine and the knife stopped. "I want you to know that I see that. I see how much you do for this pack house and I don't tell you often enough how much I appreciate it."Her hand was warm on mine and her eyes were soft and her voice was the exact voice she'd used when she was six years old and told me she loved me an hour before she broke my favorite doll and blamed me for it."Thank you, Octavia.""The gathering is in two days." She pulled her hand back and stood up and smoothed her dress. "I've arranged for you to sit at the secondary table this year.

CHAPTER 63

Seraphina's POVI wore the blue dress and stood in front of the small mirror in my room looking at the woman staring back at me in fabric so fine it felt like water against my skin. The color deepened my eyes to the grey-blue that Dax said he dreamed about, and I hated how beautiful it made me look because I knew the beauty was the point.Octavia had chosen this dress. Octavia had chosen the seat. Whatever was coming would land harder on a woman the room could see.I pulled my hair back and pinched color into my cheeks and walked to the great hall on legs that felt like they belonged to another person.The hall was full. Every seat taken, every table packed with Alphas and Betas and pack leaders from across the region. Candles flickered in the alcoves and the Blackthorn banners hung from the rafters and the noise of a hundred wolves eating and drinking and talking filled the room like a living thing.I found my seat at the secondary table. Closer to the head table than I'd ever been s

CHAPTER 64

Seraphina's POV"Tea." Octavia repeated the word and let it hang. Then she turned to the room. "Tea that stains bed sheets. Tea that leaves bruises on a woman's throat." She pressed her lips together and shook her head slowly. "I wanted to believe that too."A woman at a nearby table put her hand over her mouth. The Alpha from the Silverpine delegation leaned back in his chair with his arms crossed and his face hard."But it wasn't just once." Octavia's voice dropped lower and she stepped to the edge of the platform so the candlelight caught the tears still wet on her cheeks. "Tell them about the patrol schedules."The maid turned another page. "On multiple occasions, the east corridor patrol was removed from the overnight rotation without authorization from the Alpha. Beta Ezra Caine claimed personal responsibility for each change.""When questioned about his whereabouts on the night of the twenty-first," the maid continued, "the Beta stated he was in the war room reviewing border ma

CHAPTER 65

Seraphina's POV"If what?" The word cracked like a whip. "If we knew why you were so eager to give your wife away? Is there a reason, Beta? Is there a woman from the visiting delegation, perhaps, that might explain why you suddenly stopped caring where your wife spent her nights?"Ezra's face drained of whatever color it had left. His mouth opened and closed and the mention of Liora, without her name but with enough precision for him to know that Octavia knew, knocked the words out of him like a punch to the throat."Sit down, Ezra." Octavia's voice was quiet now. "You've done enough."He sat. His legs folded and his body dropped into the chair and his eyes found the table and stayed there."Alpha Vaelorin." Octavia turned back to Dax. "Pack law is clear. An Alpha who beds a mated wolf outside the bond commits a crime against the pack. The punishment is at the discretion of the Alpha council, but tradition demands the lesser wolf be exiled.""Exile is mercy." The voice came from the S

CHAPTER 66

Seraphina's POVI walked until my feet bled and the road turned from packed dirt to gravel somewhere past the second mile marker.The stones cut into the soft skin of my soles and left a trail behind me that any wolf with a working nose could follow. I kept walking. Stopping meant sitting down on the side of a road that led nowhere and thinking about the way Dax had stared at the wall behind my head while he told me to leave or die, and my feet could bleed all the way to the border before I'd let myself do that.The hem of my dress had torn on a root a mile back and the fabric dragged through the dirt behind me, catching on rocks and pulling at my waist with every step.My teeth were chattering and my arms were wrapped around myself and the cold had crept so deep into my body that my fingers had gone white and stiff and the night stretched out in every direction without a single light to aim for.I couldn't see. Other wolves could see in the dark because their wolves fed them sight an

CHAPTER 67

Seraphina's POV"You're no one." The tall one grabbed the rope binding my wrists and lifted me off my feet and swung me toward the back of the cart. "You're an exile on a dirt path with no wolf, no mark, no pack, and not a soul coming to look for you." He dropped me onto the cart floor and the impact jarred through my spine. "You stopped being a person the second you walked through those gates."The flap closed and the inside of the cart went black. I blinked and waited for my eyes to adjust and they didn't because there was no light, just the stench and the sound of breathing and the creak of the wheels as the cart started moving."How many?" I whispered.No one answered. Then a foot nudged my leg and a voice came from somewhere to my left, so thin it sounded like it was coming through a crack in a wall."Don't ask questions.""How many?" I said again."Six. With you." The voice was a girl's. Young. "They brought a boy two days ago and he cried all night and in the morning they opene

CHAPTER 68

Seraphina's POVThe cart stopped and the flap ripped open and daylight hit my eyes so hard I closed them. Hands grabbed me and pulled me out and my feet hit dirt and the smell of the place crawled into my nose before I could see. Blood and mold and the sour stink of bodies that had been packed in too tight for too long.A fence made of sharpened logs circled the clearing and inside it I could see four tents, a fire pit with cold ash, and a long low building that looked like it had been thrown together from scraps.They cut the ropes on our wrists when they pulled us out of the cart and my fingers were so swollen and numb that I couldn't close them. Pria tripped when her feet hit the ground and I caught her arm and held her up and a rogue hit me across the mouth for touching her."No talking. No touching. Line up."Six of us stood in a row in the grey afternoon light while three new rogues walked up and down the line looking us over. They were different from the ones who'd brought us,

CHAPTER 69

Seraphina's POVA long wait. Then her voice, scraped raw. "Don't let them take you, Sera. Whatever you have to do. Don't let them take you.""What did they do?"She didn't answer. Her breathing slowed and the small sounds stopped and I sat with my spine flat to the boards and listened to her sleep and the hate that filled my chest was so thick I could taste it on my tongue.On the fourth morning the bolt on my door slid open and two rogues filled the doorway. One of them reached for my arm and I drove my knee into his groin so hard he folded in half and hit the ground.The other one grabbed my hair and slammed my head against the wall and my eyes went white and my knees gave out and he dragged me out of the pen by my hair while my hands clawed at his wrists and my feet scraped lines in the dirt.They took me to a tent at the far end of the clearing. There was a man inside, one I hadn't seen before, sitting on a cot with his legs open and his shirt off and his eyes already moving over

CHAPTER 70

Seraphina's POVI opened my mouth to answer and nothing came out because what do you say to that. What words exist for a girl on the other side of a wooden wall who just came back from the tent and told you she's always hurt and you can't do anything about it except sit there and listen to her breathe.By the end of that week I was crawling to the bucket because my legs wouldn't hold me when I tried to stand. My arms had gone thin and my ribs were pushing through my skin and the dress I'd been wearing since the night I left Blackthorn hung off me like a sack on a pole.A week in they came for me again. Two of them this time, bigger than the last pair, and they didn't reach for my arm. They kicked the door open and one grabbed my ankles and dragged me across the dirt floor on my back while my nails broke off in the packed earth.The second a hand touched my waist my body locked down and that sound came out of me again, low and rough, and I curled so tight they would have had to snap my

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