Todos los capítulos de The Omega's Crown: Capítulo 1 - Capítulo 10

Prologue — Twenty Years Ago"Give her to me."Lirien doesn't look back.She can't. Looking back means seeing the hall, and seeing the hall means seeing Cedric, and if she sees Cedric she will stop running. She knows this about herself with the cold certainty of someone who has already made the calculation and cannot afford to make it again. So she keeps her eyes on the treeline and her arms tight around the infant pressed against her chest and she runs.Her wolf runs with her. Silver and desperate and saying the same thing over and over in the way wolves do — not words, not exactly, but the shape of words, the direction of them: this way. this way. this way.She follows.Behind her, the Ashvale pack hall is burning.She doesn't look back."Give her to me," Seraphine had said, two months ago, in the voice she used when she wanted something badly enough to pretend she wasn't asking. They were standing in the Ashvale courtyard, late afternoon, and Seraphine had her hands folded in front

CH 002 — THE KING WHO WAITS Kael's POV"You haven't slept in three days, sir."Doran's voice came from the doorway. I did not turn around."You'll find I haven't asked you, Doran.""No. You haven't."The old beta stayed in the doorway anyway. He had been my father's seneschal before he had been mine. He had stood in that exact doorway, in that exact tone, for forty-one years. He had outlasted three kings, two wars, and one wife.He was not going to be moved by a fourth king who would not sleep."Fire's down," he said. "Want me to build it back up.""No.""Three hours to dawn.""I know what hour it is, Doran.""Mm."He did not leave.I stood at the window of the west solar and watched the pines below the Keep move in the wind off the lake. The moon was thin. The road from the south was not visible from this window. I had picked this window for that reason. The road from the south was the only thing I did not want to be looking at, and a man who watches the wrong road for hours is a man

Kael's POV"Show me the Ashvale file."The night-steward did not ask why. He had been at his small desk at the end of the library corridor for twelve hours. He had not slept. He had been pretending not to listen to the silence under my study door for the last forty minutes, and now I was standing in front of him at two in the morning asking him for a file I had not asked for in nine years.He climbed the wooden ladder. He brought the file down with both hands. He set it on the long oak table in front of me."Will there be anything else, sir.""No. Leave me. Lock the door behind you.""Yes, sir."He left. The lock turned. The library went quiet around me in the way a building goes quiet at two in the morning when the only thing breathing in it is a man who has not slept in twenty hours and the wolf at the base of his ribs who has not spoken in three years and is now refusing to.I sat down at the table.Opened the file.The Ashvale bloodline records went back three hundred years. I had

"You are not permitted in this yard, omega."The warrior at the gate did not draw his sword. He did not need to. He was six and a half feet of pure pack muscle in a dark green training tunic, his arms folded across his chest, his face arranged in the particular expression of a man who had been told, recently, that the new omega in the corner room was not to be coddled.It was four in the morning.I had been outside for thirty minutes, walking the courtyard in trousers and a tunic the assistant cook had quietly left at my door at two. I had not been able to sleep. I had decided that a woman who could not sleep in a Keep where she had been called a queen and treated like a beggar might as well learn the geography of the place before the rest of it woke up."I am not asking permission," I said."You are asking permission, omega. You just have not noticed yet.""That is a very generous interpretation of what I am doing."He stared at me.In my life I had only one weapon I had ever fully t

Selene's POV"He's twice your weight, Luna."Riven was standing at the edge of the training yard with his arms folded. He was not looking at me. He was looking at the man across the yard, who was warming up."I noticed.""He's also one of the three best swordsmen in the inner circle.""I noticed that too.""Are you noticing it the way a woman notices a thing she is about to enjoy, Luna, or are you noticing it the way a woman notices a thing she is about to regret.""...Yes."Riven made the small sound at the back of his throat that I had decided, over the past nine days, was the closest he came to laughing. It was the sound a beta made when he was watching his King's wife do a thing he would have to explain to his King later."You can still back out.""Can I?""No. But I am required to offer.""Noted. I am required to decline."He looked at me, finally.His eyes were the same clean steady grey they had been in the rearview mirror of the car ten days ago. He had told me, that night, th