Alle Kapitel von I Was Your Dying Omega, Now I'm Your Sovereign Alpha: Kapitel 31 – Kapitel 40

Lola's Pov The chamber had gone completely silent after the hostile council member finished speaking. Every wolf in the room was looking at me. I stood at the claimant position and held the silence for exactly three seconds. Not because I was afraid. Because I wanted every wolf in that room to see that I was not. Then I looked at the verification elder. "I'll present the Seal again," I said clearly. "Right now. In front of everyone." Arthur was on his feet immediately. "The Seal was already verified this morning by a certified elder under established protocol. A second demand mid-session is procedurally irregular and I am formally objecting to..." "The objection is noted," the chamber clerk said. "However the council member's challenge cites founding pack law regarding primary line verification. The council has discretion to require additional confirmation during an active session." He looked at me. "Ms. Nightwood, you are not required to comply. However refusal will be entered

Lola's Pov The safe house was quiet when we got back.Cain did a perimeter check and posted his people and went to the operations room and left us alone in the main space. Williams set his jacket over the back of the chair and moved to the kitchen without asking and I heard the sound of the kettle and cupboards opening.I sat down on the floor.The floor, with my back against the base of the couch and my knees up and my hands in my lap.Williams came back with two mugs and stopped when he saw me. He looked at the floor and then at me and then he sat down on the floor beside me without saying anything about it. He set both mugs between us.We sat there for a while."Two proceedings," I said. "One morning. Both final.""Yes.""If I lose the bloodline test I lose the seat. If I lose the custody hearing I lose the baby, i could walk out with nothing.""You could."I looked at him. "That's not the reassuring thing to say.""You don't need reassurance. You need someone to sit on the floor

Lola's Pov "The contract was supposed to be clean," I said. "That was the whole point of it. I walked into that warehouse because I needed one thing in my life that was exactly what it said it was on paper. Just two wolves who needed something from each other and wrote it down clearly."Williams didn't say anything."You knew what I was to you before I signed my name. You sat across that table and watched me negotiate paragraph six and section eight and the clause about my assets and you already knew." I kept my voice even. "Every conversation we've had since the warehouse. Every time you showed up consistently, every time you said the right thing, every time I thought I was building my own read on who you were." I looked at him directly. "You already knew how it was going to land. I was the only one in the room who didn't.""Yes," he said."That's not a small thing.""I know it's not.""Then explain it to me. The real reason, not the version where you were protecting me."He lean

Lola's Pov "The full primary declaration is forty three lines," Arthur said. "The chamber traditionally requires a minimum of the first twenty to confirm authenticity. Twenty consecutive lines spoken correctly with natural recall and accurate pronunciation." "And the pronunciation. Is it documented anywhere." "There are phonetic guides in the founding records archive. Unofficial transcriptions made by scholars over the years. The problem is that unofficial means exactly that. If the elder suspects the speaker learned from a transcription rather than from a parent or bloodline elder, he can flag the cadence regardless of whether the words are technically correct." "How would he distinguish the two," Williams said. "Pacing. A wolf who learned this as a child in a natural oral setting has a specific rhythm to it. The way you have a rhythm to anything you absorbed young. A wolf who learned it from a document in a crisis at four in the morning tends to pause at the line breaks.”

William's Pov The clerk's hands were not completely steady when he took the document from me.I watched him read it. His eyes moved across the first section and then stopped and went back to the beginning the way eyes do when the first pass does not account for everything on the page. His face changed twice before he reached the halfway point. By the time he looked up his expression was the specific one that meant he understood exactly what he was holding.He found my eyes across the chamber.I nodded once.He reached for his recording stamp with both hands and I went to my seat in the gallery.Cain was two seats down. He leaned close without turning his head fully."The clerk went pale," he said quietly."I know. I watched it.""Tristain's team is going to challenge it the moment it hits the record.""Let them challenge it. The document predates their entire legal framework by sixty years. There is no argument they can build against it that the founding law text itself does not ans