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Chapter Twenty -one

Chapter Twenty-One POV: Inez I pressed the phone tight against my ear and kept my voice low, my back against the cold stone of the servant's corridor where no one passing through would think to stop and listen. "It went well today," I said. "The picnic. Nothing seemed out of place." "Good," Zara said. Her voice was calm the way it always was, unhurried, the voice of someone who had never once needed to raise it to get what she wanted. "Your only job right now is making sure that the wedding happens as soon as possible. Once Damien and Sera are bonded, Kael will finally stop looking backward. He will let go of her completely. That is all I need from you." "You are certain of that," I said. "That he will let go, once the bond is formed." "I am certain of very little in this territory," Zara said. "But a completed bond changes what is possible and what is not, even for a man like Kael. He will not spend the rest of his life reaching for something that no longer belongs to reach fo
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Chapter Twenty Two

Chapter Twenty-Two POV: Kael Dravon "Cursed." Kelvin said the word like he hated having to repeat it to me. "That is what they are calling it in the lower district. That the Moon Goddess turned her back on you the night you rejected your fated mate, and now she is letting the pack bleed for it." "And the council believes this." "The council has each lost someone," Kelvin said. "Warriors. Cousins. In three cases, children. They do not need to believe in curses to be afraid of you right now. Fear does not require logic, it only requires loss, and every one of them has plenty of that." "So they sit in my council chamber and nod along while I speak, and then they go home and whisper about curses to their households." "I did not say it was fair," Kelvin said. "I said it was what was happening." "What do you suggest I do about it? Stand in front of them and declare the Moon Goddess has nothing against me. Convince five hundred grieving people that superstition is not the reason their
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Chapter Twenty Three

Chapter Twenty ThreePOV: Kael DravonI was going through Kelvin's intelligence report on Damien when the knock came at the door and I set the papers down and crossed the room and pulled it open and stood there for a full three seconds doing something I almost never did which was absolutely nothing because my brain needed those three seconds to process what it was looking at.Sera.Standing at my door in the evening light dressed like she had somewhere to be, her chin up and her eyes carrying that specific expression she wore when she had already decided how a situation was going to go and was simply waiting for everyone else to catch up, and the mate bond hit me the moment I saw her the way it always hit me, like something that had been running quietly in the background suddenly turning its volume all the way up without warning.My first thought, and I am not proud of this, was that she had come to me. That she had finally come. That wall she had been keeping between us since the cl
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Chapter Twenty -Four

Chapter Twenty Four POV: ZaraI watched Kael carry Sera out of that dining room like she was something precious and breakable and I stood there with my hands folded in front of me and my face arranged into the appropriate expression of concern and thought, she is performing right now, she is absolutely performing and every single person in this room is falling for it completely.Because that was what Seraphine Ashwood did. That was her gift. She walked into rooms and fainted and bled and suffered loudly enough that every Alpha in a ten mile radius forgot everything they were supposed to be doing and came running, and Kael, my husband, the man I had been standing beside for months managing and maintaining and holding together with both hands, was currently sprinting through the corridor with her in his arms shouting at the guards to fetch the pack priest like the world was ending.The world was not ending. Sera was fine. Sera was always fine. Women like Sera were always fine because th
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Chapter Twenty -Five

Chapter Twenty FivePOV: Sera AshwoodI opened my eyes and the first thing I saw was Kael's face and the first thing I felt was anger, clean and immediate and completely clarifying, burning through whatever fake weakness I had been performing and landing me right back in my body with everything switched back on at full volume.I sat up."Sera," he said, reaching toward me. "You need to rest, the pack priest said""I need to leave," I said, and my voice came out exactly the way I wanted it to come out, flat and certain and giving nobody in this room anything to negotiate with. "Where are my guards? I want my guards here right now and I want to go home.""Nobody is trying to hurt you, just listen to me for one""Guards!" I called past him toward the door, loud enough that there was no question about whether I meant it. "I need my guards in here immediately."Kael stood up and put himself between me and the door with that energy he carried when he had decided something was going to go a c
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Chapter Twenty -Six

Chapter Twenty SixPOV: Kael DravonI had given Zara exactly one hour after the pack priest left Sera's room before I went to find her and when I did I closed the door behind me and looked at her standing by the window with her composed face and her folded hands and I thought about Sera unconscious on that bed and something in my chest that had been running cold since the moment she went sideways in that chair turned into something considerably hotter."What did you put in her food," I said."Kael," she said carefully. "I have already told you I had nothing to do with""What did you put in her food, Zara." My voice dropped into that register and I watched her hear it and watched her decide in real time whether the composure was worth maintaining and she decided it was, which told me we were going to be here for a while.I crossed the room and took her arm and walked her backward until she hit the wall and held her there and looked at her face from close enough that she could not perfor
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Chapter Twenty-Seven

Chapter Twenty Seven POV: Sera AshwoodI got home and the first thing I saw was the delegation lined up outside my front gate like they had been there for hours and had collectively decided that patience was a personality trait they were going to perform until I appeared, and I sat in the back of that car for exactly three seconds and reminded myself that I was Seraphine Ashwood and I had survived considerably worse than a delegation on my doorstep and then I got out.My father was standing at the gate and the look on his face when he saw me was the specific look he wore when he had been worried and was converting the worry into something steadier now that the reason for it had resolved itself, and he said my name once quietly and I squeezed his hand as I passed and said I am fine and meant it and kept walking because the delegation was already moving toward me and stopping was going to make this take longer than it needed to.Then I saw who was at the front of it and stopped anyway.
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Chapter Twenty -Eight

Chapter Twenty Eight POV: LyraI was still turning my new plan over in my mind, feeling the shape of it, testing its edges, deciding whether it was solid enough to carry the weight I needed it to carry, when my phone buzzed and I looked down at the screen and felt something cold move through me that I was not going to call fear because I did not do fear, I did inconvenience and I did recalibration and I did whatever came next, but I did not do fear.It was Damien.I read the message once and then I read it again and then I set the phone down and picked it back up and read it a third time because the specific combination of words on that screen deserved the full attention of someone who understood exactly what they meant and what they were threatening."You betrayed me. Everything we built together and you threw me under the moment it suited you. I am coming back and when I do I am going to tell Sera everything. Every compound. Every instruction. Every conversation we had from the begi
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Chapter Twent-Nine

Chapter Twenty NinePOV: Kael DravonThe alarm hit before dawn and I was already moving before the sound of it finished, pulling on my gear in the dark with the specific efficiency of someone who had been doing this long enough that the body handled it without needing the mind to get involved, and I was out of the door and into the corridor before Zara had even lifted her head from the pillow.Kelvin met me at the outer gate with the report already in his hand and his face carrying that controlled urgency he wore when something was bad enough to warrant it but not bad enough to panic over."Eastern border," he said, falling into step beside me. "Three units hit simultaneously. Same formation as last time. They came through two points at once and they are not pulling back the way rogues usually pull back.""How many," I said."Forty confirmed," he said. "Possibly more still moving through the tree line."Forty coordinated rogues hitting two border points at the same time before sunrise
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Chapter Thirty

Chapter ThirtyPOV: ZaraI watched him walk away and I stood in that corridor and I felt everything I had been holding together with both hands for months come apart at once and I let it come apart because there was nobody watching and I was done performing composure for a room that was empty.Last night had meant nothing to him. That was the thing sitting in the center of everything else, sharp and immovable, refusing to be filed away or managed or reframed into something less painful than what it actually was. I had given him last night and I had told myself it would change something, that proximity and warmth and the thing between us that was real regardless of everything else would be enough to shift the direction he was moving in, and he had walked away this morning toward her like last night had not happened at all.I went to my room and the door closed behind me and I stood in the middle of it and looked at everything arranged exactly as I had arranged it and felt something snap
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