Todos los capítulos de Reborn Before the Mark: I Married His Wolfless Uncle: Capítulo 271 - Capítulo 280

Karl entered the command tent as the assassin came through the rear canvas.The man had timed the attack for the change in runners. One clerk was leaving with the western dispatches, another bending over the casualty slate. For half a second, the center aisle stood open. The blade came for Karl's ribs. He caught the attacker's wrist with one hand and turned. Steel passed across his coat instead of into him.The assassin tried to use the movement to cut upward. Karl drove his forearm against the man's elbow, forced the joint straight, and put him face-first across the edge of the command table.“Alive,” Karl said.The nearest guard had already drawn. He checked the killing strike.The assassin kicked backward, caught the guard in the thigh, and tore one arm free. Karl shifted his grip before the man could reach the second knife at his belt. His wolf surged hard beneath his skin. Kill the threat.End it before another blade found L

The blood chamber doors had barely closed behind them when Valerian ordered the confrontation moved to the throne room. Elisabeth did not resist the guards. That irritated him more than resistance would have.She walked ahead of them with the composure of a queen who still believed the room would rearrange itself around her once she entered it. The intercepted order remained in Valerian’s hand. The royal seal was in the other.He followed her through the inner passage and into the throne room.“Dismiss my guards,” Elisabeth said.“No.”Her gaze moved to the men at the doors. They looked away from her. Not all of them. Enough.Valerian crossed to the long table below the dais and laid the death order flat beneath the nearest lamp.“You used my military channels to kill Lorelai.”“I used Noctharis channels to remove a threat.”“You signed the order,” Valeria

The returning current struck the chamber before Elisabeth could pull her hand from the broken seal.The blood magic turned on the path that had carried it.For one impossible second, the red light beneath the floor held still. Then Vespera received what it had sent.A frame cracked. Blood struck the edge of the table, and a healer stumbled back from the returning force. Elisabeth pressed her bleeding palm harder against the seal.“Hold it.”No one answered.“Hold the connection.”A healer reached toward the working and recoiled when the returning force snapped across the metal. The ritual had not been broken by greater force. That was what enraged her.Someone at the Node had protected the civilians and refused to add a single ounce of power to the return. That restraint enraged Elisabeth more than defeat by force would have. The chamber shuddered. Elisabeth tried to force the working to obey her again.

Karl found Lorelai in the coalition command tent with blood on both gloves. Not much. Enough.She stood over the central table while a custodian moved markers along the eastern routes. Three reports lay open beside her. The nearest lamp caught a dark smear across one glove and another at the edge of her sleeve. Karl stopped inside the entrance. His wolf wanted the distance gone. His body followed before the thought finished. Lorelai looked up.“I am not bleeding that much.”“That is not an answer.”“It is the useful part of one,” Lorelai said.Karl came to the table and held out his hand.“Glove.”Her eyes narrowed. Karl waited until Lorelai placed her left hand in his.Karl loosened the fastening at her wrist and drew the glove off carefully. Dried blood marked her fingers, but the skin beneath was intact except for two shallow cuts near the heel of her palm.“Other.

The first adviser told Valerian the corridor was wrong. He said it carefully, one hand braced on the edge of the royal command map as if the wood might keep the sentence from becoming disloyal.“The opening is too clean.”The marked approach to the Heart Node had narrowed into a weakness where the coalition had looked strongest the day before. Valerian read fatigue becoming opportunity in the line: accessible, possible, closer to Lorelai.“Then use it,” Valerian said.The adviser did not move. “Your Majesty, Vespera has already released the eastern reserve. If we commit the royal guard as well, the capital will have no response force.”“That is what I ordered.”“If Greyhaven advances—”“Let it,” Valerian said.A second adviser stepped forward. “Whitecliff is unstable. We have withdrawals on two occupied roads. If we lose those positions, we cann