Chapter 11

Three months later, the Moon Council’s judgment on Seraphina reached Ironwood.She was found guilty of using a wolfsbane mechanism to harm another wolf, falsifying a cursed silver wound, submitting repeated misleading accusations, and using the Voss family name to influence Raven Hollow’s internal rulings. The Council barred her from entering any pack’s inner circle of power, placed her under Council supervision until the wolfsbane charges were fully resolved, and stripped the Voss family of its Council seat for three years.The file arrived at the healer station while I was treating a young wolf after his first shift. He tried to keep a grown wolf’s dignity despite the tears in his eyes. I spread herbal paste over his shoulder, reminded him not to force his bones through the change next time, and accepted the crumpled piece of candy he offered as payment.After he left, I put Seraphina’s judgment in the drawer.Her ending had arrived, but my life no longer turned around her.Raven Hol

Chapter 12

“Of course it wasn’t easy.” I looked at him. “It took me a whole life to learn how to put you down.”His breath shook.“I think every day about what would have happened if I had believed you, if I had investigated Seraphina, if I had seen sooner how much the bond hurt you.”“Cassian, those ifs cannot help anyone now.”His eyes reddened, though he still held on to the dignity of an Alpha.“Do you hate me?”I had hated him once. I hated him for telling me to be quiet when I needed to explain, for weighing Seraphina’s tears above my blood, for driving his fated mate to the edge with his own hands. Yet hatred, like love, still required keeping someone in my heart and touching the wound again and again.I wanted that space for myself.“I hated you before,” I said. “I don’t now.”That answer hurt him more deeply than anger would have.“You won’t even give me hatred?”“To hate you, I would still have to give you a place.” I closed the wooden box. “I don’t want to give you one anymore.”Outsid

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