Todos los capítulos de Forbidden Mate, Fated Sin: Capítulo 31 - Capítulo 40

Celeste's point of view "Celeste." The voice called again. It was closer now. My whole body went cold when I knew who it was. Priya stepped out from the trees. Her face looked pale. Her eyes looked past me toward the quarry. She seemed to search for someone she thought she would find. "You followed me." My voice came out flat. Shock took away any chance to act normal. "I followed you three times. Today I finally caught up." She walked closer slowly. She looked at my face with a mix of hurt and fear. "I heard a man's voice. It came from the trees before he ran. I did not see him clearly. But I have ideas about who it was. You never tell me the full story." "Priya." "Do not lie to me this time." Her voice broke. It sounded sharp and sad. "I covered for you. I told your mother you were resting. I told Grier you were sick. You disappeared for hours. You only gave me short answers. I deserve better from you. No matter what this thing is." I stayed quiet for a while. I thought

Celeste's point of view"How dare you." I let my voice break just a little. Years of seeing my mother use hurt pride as a tool finally helped with something bigger than small home arguments. "This whole packhas seen me shamed twice in only two months, Grier. Twice. Yet you pick tonight, when we stand alone on a dark path, to charge me with some made up plot just because I left home without telling you myself where I meant to go."A small change crossed his face, the slightest pause, and I pushed into that gap before he could steady himself again."Do you understand the price of these last months for me? My good name. My partner. Even my own mother and father stare at me now as if I were someone unknown, ever since Father spoke the truth that broke every idea I held about my role in this family." My voice rose. Real tears rose too, easier to call up than I had thought, since so much of the pain was not pure act. "And here you stand in the dark, handling me like a lawbreaker only becaus

Celeste's point of view"Stay in this place," Ronan said while he put on the rest of his clothes. "Do not leave this pit until I come back, no matter what noise you hear from that way.""I do not like to follow orders, Ronan." He changed shape while he walked into a quick and fierce form. Then he disappeared into the trees toward the second cry.I did not shake with fear while he was away. I used the time well. I fixed my dress. I planned the exact story I would tell if people at the main house asked why I came back late. I also decided how much of the night I could hide and how much I must keep secret. Fear can help, I knew, but only if I control it. It must not run free in a mind that has more important work.He returned after about twenty minutes. His breath was still a bit fast, but his face looked calm again as usual."A Blackthorn scout went too far south without permission," he said as he sat next to me. "It is nothing worse than a young wolf who wants to prove he is better t

Celeste's pov"You are wrong about this," Ronan said at last. He closed the map so I could not look at it more. "Yes the notes are from your father. I told the truth about that. But he did not give them to me Celeste. He does not even know they left his study.""Someone stole from my own father.""Someone who could get to them much easier than you it seems." He looked at my face carefully. He wanted to see how much this news had upset the calm I had kept these last weeks. "I did not tell you before because I did not want you to think about a puzzle that has nothing to do with our deal.""It has everything to do with our deal if someone else in my house is giving you secrets." I stood up. I fixed my dress with hands that stayed steady. That made me feel a little better inside. "Who is it Ronan?""I do not know. The facts come to me by ways I still cannot follow back to the start." He stood up too. His face looked careful now. "I would tell you if I knew Celeste. A second source I canno

Celeste's point of viewProper rest had escaped me ever since the study. My thoughts kept turning around that burned message and the second betrayer it pointed toward. I remained fully alert, alone beside one weak candle flame, when a quiet tap reached my window. The sound felt too exact for any breeze and too planned for pure chance."Maribel." The name left my lips almost without volume. Surprise tore away the steady face I had tried to rebuild after Grier uncovered those papers. "Why stand outside like that. You could lose your footing.""I managed far steeper climbs in my early days, dear. This narrow edge means little." She grasped the window catch herself and eased it free with fingers stronger than her years suggested. Then she slipped inside using smooth skill that showed she had done the same many times before. "The corridors felt unsafe tonight. Grier has been pressing every servant here ever since that record vanished.""Then why come to me now instead of waiting for daylig