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Chapter 121

Chapter 121Maeve"I don't want it," Rowan said, staring through the windshield at nothing. "The seat. Any of it. He can have it. Let Ronan sit in that chair and see how he likes it."We were parked outside his apartment building at two in the morning with the engine off and the heater ticking as it cooled. Neither of us had moved to get out. My mother had gone home with Mia and Sloane, wrapped in an enforcer's jacket and still wearing her bunny slippers. My father had driven himself home alone, a few minutes behind them, and nobody had said anything about that either. The shoebox of envelopes was still sitting on the back seat behind us, and I could feel it there like a person."You don't mean that," I said."I do. I swear to God I do." He scrubbed both hands down his face. "Everything that family touches turns into a room under a house, Maeve. I don't want any of it. I don't want the name. I want to play hockey and go home to you and never walk into that pack hall again."I understo

Last Updated : 2026-10-27

Chapter 122

Chapter 122The place was already full when we got there. People stood on the steps outside in their coats, breath steaming in the cold, the same way they’d crowded there the morning after the lodge. Except this time nobody stepped aside for me with a smile. This time they just stared, all of them, and the whispering started the second we got out of the car. Some of them had heard about the room under the house. You could see it on their faces…the way their eyes slid from Rowan to me and then away again like looking too long might be dangerous. Some of them looked at Rowan like he’d put those photos on the wall himself.Inside, the round council chamber was packed to the walls. The seven old men and women sat behind their long curved table looking like none of them had slept either. Vivienne Ashcroft was already standing in the middle of the floor in a black dress with her two lawyers behind her, her face carved and calm. When she saw us come in, she didn’t look at Rowan at all. She

Last Updated : 2026-10-27

Chapter 123

Chapter 123Rowan"My son Rowan," my father said, and the whole chamber went so quiet I could hear the oxygen hissing through the little tube under his nose, "can never be allowed to sit in that chair."I didn't move. I couldn't. Maeve's hand was still locked around mine, and I felt her fingers go tight, and that was the only thing keeping me standing.Across the floor, Ronan tilted his head and smiled at me like we were boys again and he'd just told our father I was the one who broke the window."Go on, Mr. Ashcroft," the old councilwoman at the center of the table said carefully. "The council is listening."My father took a long breath. It dragged in his chest. When he spoke again, his voice was thin but steady, the voice he'd used my whole life in this same room when he wanted seven old people to believe something."Last night I told this council the truth about what I did," he said. "About my father, Harold, and the healer he kept under our house. About the envelopes. About the le

Last Updated : 2026-10-28

Chapter 124

Chapter 124Maeve"Absolutely not," Vivienne's lawyer said, already stepping forward with one hand raised like he was stopping traffic. "Councilwoman, with respect, this is absurd. Dean Holloway is in custody on charges of kidnapping and conspiracy. Anything he says is the desperate bargaining of a man trying to save himself. And his daughter," he nodded at Lena with a thin little smile, "is understandably emotional, and pregnant, and in no state to...""We'll decide what's emotional, Mr. Pryce," the councilwoman said, without even looking at him.The lawyer's mouth closed.She looked down the long curved table at the six other council members. None of them said anything out loud. A couple of them nodded. One old man at the far end just shrugged, like he'd seen stranger mornings than this and didn't expect to see many more."Bring him up," the councilwoman said to the enforcers at the side door.Then we waited.Nobody talked. Nobody even whispered anymore. The whole chamber just sat t

Last Updated : 2026-10-28

Chapter 125

Chapter 125Rowan"You had your chance to do it Harold's way," my brother's voice said out of the little phone on the council table, calm and bored and so clear it was like he was standing right there in the middle of the room saying it all over again. "And look where it got you. Dying in a chair, begging. Mine is cleaner. She marries me. She heals whoever I tell her to heal, whenever I say. Nobody needs a room. Nobody needs straps. She does it because she's an Ashcroft wife and that's what Ashcroft wives do. And Rowan gets nothing." A pause, and the sound of ice moving in a glass. "The way it always should have been."I couldn't feel my feet on the floor.Maeve was standing next to me with her hand still locked in mine, and I felt her fingers go cold. Not slowly. All at once, like somebody had poured ice water down her arm. I didn't look at her. I couldn't look away from that phone.On the recording, somebody coughed. A long, wet, dragging cough that went on too long and ended in a w

Last Updated : 2026-10-29

Chapter 126

Chapter 126RowanRonan finally turned his head and looked at her. And for the first time since they'd brought him in that morning, his face did something real. Annoyance. Pure, cold annoyance, like his mother was a fly buzzing around his head at a moment when he had more important things to deal with."She was going to ruin everything," he said, like it was obvious. "She had the papers. She was going to the council. What did you want me to do, Mother? Send her a fruit basket?"Vivienne took her hand off his arm.It was the smallest movement. Her fingers lifted off his sleeve, an inch, two inches, and then her hand came back to her own side, and she stood there holding it against her stomach like it hurt. Then she took a step back. Just one. Enough that there was space between them now, a little strip of stone floor that hadn't been there a second ago.Ronan saw it. I watched him see it. Something flickered across his face, quick and ugly."Mother," he said.She didn't look at him aga

Last Updated : 2026-10-29

Chapter 127

Chapter 127Maeve"Five minutes," Rowan said, standing in the side doorway with his arm stretched across it so the nurse couldn't push the wheelchair through. "You owe me five minutes. You owe me a lot more than that, but I'll take five."The nurse looked over her shoulder at the council table, uncertain. Behind us, the chamber was emptying out in a slow, loud shuffle of people, everybody talking at once now that Ronan was gone, and nobody was paying attention to the little scene happening at the side door except the councilwoman, who'd stopped halfway out of her chair.She looked at Rowan for a long moment over her glasses. Then at Richard, slumped in the wheelchair with his eyes on the floor. Then at Teresa Banks, who was standing nearby with her arms folded."Five minutes," the councilwoman said. "With an enforcer present. And then he goes back to the infirmary, whether he's finished talking or not."Teresa nodded once and walked over.The room off the side of the chamber was small

Last Updated : 2026-10-31

Chapter 128

Chapter 128 Maeve We went out the front doors of the pack hall into the cold. It was late morning now, gray and windy, and most of the crowd had gone. My mother was sitting on the stone steps near the bottom with Mia next to her, both of them bundled in borrowed coats, and Lena Holloway was standing a little way off by herself with her hand on her stomach, looking back at the doors like she was waiting for someone who wasn't going to come out. At the bottom of the steps, leaning against the hood of her little dark blue car with a paper cup of coffee in her hand, was Sloane.She'd been waiting out here this whole time. She hadn't come inside. She looked up when we came out, and her eyes went to my face and then to Rowan's, and she straightened up a little."Bad?" she said."Bad," Rowan said.We sat down on the steps with my mother and Mia. Lena came over slowly and sat down a few steps above us. Sloane stayed by the car but came closer, to the bottom step, holding her coffee."There'

Last Updated : 2026-10-31

Chapter 129

Chapter 129Mia"I'm going," Sloane said, already digging her keys out of her jacket pocket with shaking fingers. "Right now. I don't care where it is. North is north. I'll drive until I find it.""You don't even know what you're looking for," Teresa said from the top of the steps. She came down two at a time and stopped in front of Sloane. "Silverbrook could be a town. A road. A building. A street name. You'll drive in circles for three days and get yourself killed by whoever's guarding those women.""Then I'll drive in circles.""Give me one day. My people are pulling Richard's financial records right now. If there's a ledger with payments to a place up north, there's an address on it. One day, and I'll put it in your hand.""I've waited twenty two years." Sloane's voice cracked down the middle. "Twenty two years, Teresa. Don't you dare tell me to wait one more day."She turned toward her car. Her hands were shaking so hard she dropped the keys on the gravel and had to bend down and

Last Updated : 2026-11-01

Chapter 130

Chapter 130 Mia I didn't tell her it was going to be okay. I didn't know that it was. I didn't tell her we'd find her mother tomorrow or that everything would work out. I'd learned that from her, the afternoon I put my head in her lap and told her the worst thing I'd ever said and she just said, yeah, that was bad.I put my arms around her. That was all. I pulled her against me and held on, and she turned and pressed her face into my shoulder and cried into my shirt until it was soaked through, and I held the back of her head with one hand the way she'd held mine, my fingers moving through her short hair, slowly, over and over.I don't know how long we sat there. Long enough that my legs went numb on the hard floor. Long enough that the crying slowed down to hiccups and then to shaky breathing and then to nothing, just her face in my neck and her hands holding fistfuls of the back of my shirt."I'm sorry," she said into my shoulder."Don't you dare.""I got snot on your shirt.""It'

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