All Chapters of EVEN ALPHAS KNEEL: The Rejected Mightiest Luna : Chapter 91 - Chapter 100

Chapter Ninety TwoPOV: Sera Ashwood"What is it today," I asked before he even knocked, because I always knew when it was him now.The morning of the tribunal I woke up early and lay in the dark and felt the bond warm and present in my chest and thought about everything that was going to happen today and what it meant for everything that came after it. I did not move for a long time. I just lay there and let the weight of the day settle over me the way it always did before something irreversible, that particular stillness that comes right before a door closes behind you for good.Zara's tribunal. Full elder council. Every piece of documented evidence laid out formally and permanently on the record. Whatever Zara said in that room was going to be said in front of witnesses who could not be managed or revised or explained away after the fact, and whatever she was planning to trade or reveal or negotiate was going to land in that room with everyone present and no way to take it back onc

Chapter Ninety FourPOV: Sera Ashwood"How are you," Reuel asked, before I had even finished crossing the corridor toward him.The tribunal concluded at four in the afternoon and I walked out of the elder's council room and stood in the corridor and breathed for a moment, because the inside of that room had been airless in the specific way that rooms were airless when the truth was being laid out on a table piece by piece for three hours and the air could not move properly around it. My legs felt strange under me, the way they do after sitting still for too long while something enormous happens around you.Reuel was in the corridor.He had not been in the room because he had given his formal witness account in the morning session before the tribunal began and had been released, and he was leaning against the far wall with his arms folded and that expression of his, the one that was not performing anything, just waiting. He straightened w

Chapter Ninety SixPOV: Sera AshwoodReuel showed up at my gate that evening and he was not carrying a basket this time and he was not wearing his performative pleasantness and he looked at me when I opened the gate and said, "Come with me."I looked at him. "Where.""Out," he said. "You have been in council rooms and tribunal rooms and your own head for three days and you need to be somewhere that is none of those things."I looked at him for a moment and thought about the bond and the tribunal and everything that was sitting in my chest that I had not had space to process properly and I thought about Kael who was in a strategy meeting with Kelvin that was going to run until midnight and I thought about the quiet place in my chest that had been there since the corridor and I said, "Give me five minutes."His face did something that was not quite a smile but was in that territory."Five minutes," he said. "I am timing you.""You do not own a watch.""I own a very good sense of time,"

Chapter Ninety EightPOV: Sera AshwoodI went to the border the next morning because the border was the place I went when I needed to think clearly and could not do it inside the settlement walls and I stood at the eastern perimeter with my wolf forward and my Veilborn senses stretched out toward the Veil and I thought about Kael's hand over mine on his chest and I thought about Reuel's voice at the ridge saying this is me showing you that I see you and I thought that I was carrying two very different things in my chest right now and I needed to understand both of them before I did anything with either.The bond was Kael. The bond was real and complete and freely chosen and I did not doubt it and I was not going to start doubting it. Zara's distortion was almost entirely gone and what was left of it was thin and fading and the bond underneath it was exactly what it had been the night the moon brightened above the clearing.The small quiet thing was Reuel. And I was done pretending it

Chapter One HundredPOV: Sera AshwoodI woke up on the morning of the one hundredth day since the shift ceremony and lay in the dark and thought about that number and what it contained and I thought that one hundred days ago I had stood on a platform and shifted into something the pack system had not seen in five hundred years and said noted to the man who rejected me and walked away with my shoulders straight and I had not once looked back.Looking back was something I was apparently doing a great deal of now.I got up and dressed and went downstairs and Efa had tea ready and I sat at the table and looked at the morning coming through the window and thought about Kael's hand holding mine in the garden yesterday and thought about the shift in my chest that I had named honestly and thought about Reuel at the border saying I see you and I thought that my life had become considerably more complicated than it had been one hundred days ago and I was not entirely sure whether that was a