Todos los capítulos de Reborn Before the Mark: I Married His Wolfless Uncle: Capítulo 191 - Capítulo 199

The intermediary crashed into Lorelai hard enough to drive pain through her healing side.She struck the corridor wall with one shoulder.A burning ledger fell into her hands.Flames ran along the outer pages, feeding on oil already poured across the leather. The man who had carried it staggered against her, coughing smoke while guards shouted from the far end of the financial wing.“Take it,” he gasped.Lorelai caught the ledger against her chest.Heat bit through her gloves.The intermediary turned as if to run again, but one knee buckled. Blood darkened the back of his coat beneath the shoulder blade.The approaching guards wore Noctis insignia.None called for a healer.“Inside,” Lorelai ordered.She caught the man by his uninjured arm and dragged him through the nearest evidence-room door. Her wound protested every step, but the guards were already close enough for her to hear s

The corridor outside Corinne’s protected wing smelled of wax, medicine, and a door closed too late.Lorelai stood before the crossed Noctis spears until the last lock turned behind Valerian.Corinne was gone from sight.Not beyond reach. Not yet.“Record the refusal,” Lorelai told her clerk.The pen moved at once.Time.Location.Names of the guards.The active evidence order Valerian had overridden by granting private protection.Lorelai placed the sealed medical seizure notice against the gate so both witnesses could see it.“Send copies to the independent magistrates and the fae delegation. The original remains with Veyr.”Her clerk hesitated. “And Karl?”“Not through the public registry.”The divided-crown accounts had already revealed how far Noctis observation reached. A routine diplomatic message might arrive intact, but Valer

The first councillor’s door closed before Lorelai reached it.The second locked while she was still crossing the corridor.By the third, Noctis guards had stopped pretending the timing was accidental.Lorelai stood outside her apartments with six copies of the petition hidden beneath her Veyr mantle. The original remained under seal with her clerk. Each copy carried the evidence index and enough of the intact law to show what Valerian’s court had removed.A guard stepped across the nearest passage.“This wing is restricted.”“By what order?”“Royal security.”“Show me the seal.”Every route closed one door at a time.Her Veyr clerk leaned closer. “We can return and challenge the restrictions.”“That gives Valerian time to separate the councillors.”“Then what?”“Make refusal visible.”

Karl was already inside the neutral meeting room when Lorelai entered.Two independent guards remained outside the open door. A court clerk sat behind a screened partition with orders to record only the beginning and end of the diplomatic meeting, not the conversation within.The room was neutral by Vespera’s standards.No Noctis banners. No royal servants.No lock controlled from the corridor. Lorelai crossed the threshold.Karl waited until she closed the door herself.Then she went to him.Her arms circled his neck. His hands settled at her waist only after she pressed against him, careful of the healing wound beneath her ribs.For one breath, she allowed the weight of the last hearing to leave her.Half the restrictions had fallen.Her attendants were restored. Independent guards had replaced Noctis escorts. Her correspondence could travel beneath judicial seal without being opened.She still coul

The Noctis guards tried to take Eve before she crossed the tribunal threshold.One stepped between them.The other reached for Eve’s arm.Lorelai caught his wrist before he touched her.“No.”The guard’s gaze dropped to her hand.Behind him, the independent courtroom waited with its doors open. The original dispatch, the burned ledger, and the restored law had already been deposited under joint seal.Noctis no longer controlled the evidence.It still controlled the hallway.“The witness enters through the protected passage,” the guard said.“Alone?”“With court security.”“You are not court security.”His jaw tightened.Eve stood beside Lorelai beneath a plain Veyr mantle. The bruises at her wrists had faded to yellow, but her breathing had already changed.Too fast.Too shallow.Lorelai release