All Chapters of Reborn Before the Mark: I Married His Wolfless Uncle: Chapter 71 - Chapter 80

The title crossed the sudden quiet before Lorelai could stop it. It was a battlefield acclamation, not a legal investiture. Witnesses could still turn it into a claim before nightfall.Karl stood in wolf form on the blood-darkened gravel, enormous enough to make the kneeling Darsen officer look small. Greyhaven fighters stared. Healers had stopped moving.Even the captured wolves watched him with the helpless recognition of animals that had already felt his command inside their bones.One title spoken by one witness could become a High Council claim before nightfall.Lorelai stepped onto the stone rise.“No one leaves the ford.”Heads turned toward her.“The wounded remain with the healers. Prisoners stay separated. Every person who saw the transformation reports to the eastern command area.”The Darsen officer rose slowly.“You cannot suppress an Alpha manifestation.”“I

Arthur died before Lorelai could ask another question. The Noctis passage slipped from Arthur’s hand, which fell into the shallow water.Karl pressed two fingers against Arthur’s throat. Nothing. Beyond the reeds, Caesar’s retreat sent cane stems snapping toward the southern channel.The damaged bridge and Noctis border left three withdrawals: reed channel, limestone shelf, and abandoned mill cut. Lorelai remembered the terrain tablet’s mark beyond the mill cut—a replacement horse.While two fighters sealed Arthur’s wet archive pages without forcing them open, she sent the ridge team east and the northern team behind the limestone shelf.The mill entrance had been left deliberately visible. Weighted nets, hooked poles, clean chains, and wet cloth moved with the capture squad. No one followed Caesar’s obvious trail. They moved around him.Lorelai divided the teams before they climbed. The ridge fighters woul

The report of Karl’s survival had already crossed into Noctis territory by the time Greyhaven’s gates opened. No ruined village waited beyond them.The granary roof had been covered, the oil stores were intact behind a new firebreak, and civilians moved through functioning shelter routes while Edda continued directing patrol changes.Maria reported every civilian accounted for, two external stores lost, and one false order stopped before it diverted reinforcements.The procedures had held without Karl. Caesar entered under triple guard while the villagers’ whispers shifted toward the commander they had believed wolfless.Lorelai sensed the wolf in the space everyone left around Karl. He had carried that strength through every day and night of their marriage.Karl saw the blood darkening the wrap around Lorelai’s palm and checked the scrapes hidden beneath smoke and dirt.She answered by pressing a hand beneath his coa

The house stood on the eastern rise, protected by Greyhaven’s inner wall but far enough from the command hall that Lorelai could not hear every change of watch.Karl had understood the distance she wanted. Lorelai arrived with Maria, two porters, and no husband.She unlocked the door herself and inspected the fresh-oiled hinges, shutters, rear entrance, office window, and service path.Two exits were obvious. A third could be forced through the office. The eastern watch platform could observe the roof and reach the house quickly in an attack.Inside, the front room opened toward the eastern road. A narrow corridor connected the kitchen, office, and three smaller rooms without forcing Lorelai to pass through a common sleeping space.She tested every shutter bar and measured the distance between the office desk and both exits. The arrangement would let her work, receive witnesses, or leave without crossing a guard posted by command.Mari

Garrick’s admission followed Lorelai into the chapel workroom: Karl’s right as firstborn Alpha still stood.Garrick carried the portable archive between Tomas and the Darsen witness. Karl and Lorelai followed close enough to confirm every clasp was still closed.Inside the chapel workroom, Lorelai assigned one table to originals and one to independent copies. No record could cross between them without being announced.Garrick opened the case under witness. The birth registry came first, followed by the succession declarations and the sealed family rulings. Lorelai did not sit.She moved between the tables while Garrick opened the birth registry to Karl’s entry. The page named Karl as the first living son of the recognized Ashborne line.No correction had been added beside the birth order. No note classified him as wolfless. Lorelai followed the margin with one gloved finger.“When was his wolf status recorded publicly