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chapter 301

POV: WREN THORNE"You asked the wrong question last night, little heir. You asked why I poured your tea. You should have asked why the Conclave signed a promise for a child who had not even been conceived."Odalys sat on the narrow cell bench with her back straight and her grey hair loose around her shoulders. I had never seen it down. Without the pins and the gloves and the warm smile, she looked like a stranger wearing my friend's face. The candle in the wall bracket shook in the draught. Water dripped somewhere in the dark.I stood at the bars with the silver tablet wrapped in a cloth against my chest. Selene waited three steps behind me, pretending not to listen. I had not slept. My feet had swollen like loaves, and the baby kept turning, slow and heavy, as if it too were tired."Then I will ask it now," I said. "Why?""Sit, child. You look ready to fall over.""I will stand.""You are as stubborn as Isolde said." A tiny smile touched her mouth and was gone. "Very well. A thousand

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chapter 302

POV: KADE ASHBORN"Your charter took my father's seat, my brother's name, and fifty years of honour. Give them back by sunset, Alpha, or I will teach this courtyard what the old law really looked like."Edric Holt stood on an overturned cart with his fists clenched and his face red from shouting. He had been a captain of the old ranks, a big man with a boxer's nose and a voice that carried to the back walls. Behind him, nearly two hundred wolves filled the Bronze Gate courtyard, packed shoulder to shoulder in the grey morning. They stamped their feet. They shouted. Their breath rose in a great white cloud.I stood on the council steps with Ronan on my left and Selene on my right. My hands were open at my sides. My heart was not."Edric," I said. "Come inside and talk.""I have talked for three months!" A roar of agreement went up. "You talk, and my children eat less each week. A captain's family had grain in winter. Now we are told we are equal, and equal means hungry.""That is not t

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chapter 303

POV: WREN THORNE"You stand there in your fine cloak and talk about fairness. My grandmother was whipped for picking apples in that orchard. Tell me again how equal we are, Lady Thorne."Sera Vell planted her flour dusted hands on the petitioners' rail and glared at me. She was a tall woman of thirty or so, with a baker's strong forearms and dark eyes that did not blink. Her cloak was patched at the elbow. Behind her, a crowd of Vane wolves watched in grim silence.The old hall smelled of wet wool, cold stone, and the apples somebody had brought as a bribe and then thought better of. Pale dawn light slanted through high windows. I sat in a plain chair at the head of the hall, with Kade standing at my shoulder and a cushion tucked behind my back. He had kept his promise about the chair.My hands were damp. I wiped them on my skirt."I cannot answer for your grandmother," I said. "I can only answer for this morning. Tell me what you want.""The orchard on Hollin Rise. It has been Vane g

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chapter 304

POV: KADE ASHBORN"Do not tell Maren I felt it, Kade. If she thinks the baby is coming, she will lock me in a dark room with a blanket over my head. I am not ready to be useless yet."Wren leaned against the stable wall with one hand pressed hard into her side and a bright, brittle smile on her face. It was just past noon. The yard smelled of hay and horse sweat, and a pale sun made her skin look almost transparent. She had been standing a long time. I had seen her wince twice since the hall."That was a pain," I said."That was a twinge.""Wren.""Maren says the baby is days away, not hours. I counted. They are far apart." She lifted her chin. "Please. Let me do this. Let me be the person who spoke to the crowd and not the woman who was carried off."My chest ached. I wanted to pick her up and march her upstairs. I also knew exactly what that would cost her."A few hours," I said at last. "If they come closer together, I tell Maren. No arguments.""No arguments." She squeezed my hand

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chapter 305

POV: WREN THORNE"Wren, someone left a cradle at the north gate before dawn. It is empty, carved with the mountain mark, and pinned to the hood is a note that says, We are coming."Selene stood in the doorway of my sitting room with snow melting on her shoulders and her hand tight on her sword. I had been dozing in a chair with the horse in my lap. I sat up so fast that the cramp in my back caught like a fishhook."Show me.""Wren, you should not...""Show me, Selene."She did. The north gate stood open to a wind that smelled of pine and iron. In the middle of the cobbles, where the road narrowed, sat a cradle of pale wood. It was beautiful. Silver wolves chased each other around its sides, and the mountain and crescent were carved deep into the hood. The gate guards stood in a half circle around it, staring as if it were a coffin."Who left it?" I asked."Nobody saw. The guard at the tower swears the road was empty at the third bell and the cradle was here by the fourth." Selene's vo

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chapter 306

POV: KADE ASHBORN"If your charter is real, Alpha, let it judge a boy with no rank who wants a warrior's seat. If it fails him, you are no better than we were, and I will say so in front of everyone."Lord Harlan Stroud stood in my study with his stick planted between his feet. The fire had burned low, and the candles guttered in a draught from the window. It was long past midnight. I had expected him to demand my head, or at least my crown. Instead he looked tired and very old."Why Cody?" I asked."Because he is the test." Stroud's voice was rough. "I have watched that boy since he was small. He is the son of a dead gate guard, and he was never ranked above a runner. Under the old law, he would carry messages until he died. Yet he followed a killer through the snow with bare feet, and he was the first to see through Edric's crowd.""You noticed that.""I notice everything. It is why I am still alive." He gave a thin smile. "I also noticed that the coin was northern silver, my lord.

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chapter 307

POV: WREN THORNE"You are going to hate me, Wren. I have lied to you for months, and I would lie again to keep him safe. That is the truth I cannot say out loud in daylight."Ivy sat on the edge of the stone cradle in the round chamber beneath the nursery, with her knees drawn up and her green cloak bunched in her fists. She had asked to meet here because nobody else could find the stair. The lantern on the floor threw long shadows up the carved wolves. Her face looked small and tired and much younger than her years.I lowered myself onto a pile of old cushions Kade had left there. My back ached. The baby shifted heavily, like a sack of grain turning over."Start at the beginning," I said."Kade already thinks I am a traitor.""Kade is afraid. That is different." I tried to smile. "Start with the cloak."She let out a breath that shook. "It was stolen. Two weeks ago, from my room. I thought a maid had borrowed it and I did not make a fuss. Then Kade asked me where I went before dawn,

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chapter 308

POV: KADE ASHBORN"She told everyone I died. She stood at my cradle, let them bury a box of ashes, and walked away. Give me one reason, only one, why I should not spit in her face."Sera Vell stood in the back room of Brannock's forge with her arms crossed and her whole body shaking. The fire roared in the hearth behind her. Sparks leapt up the chimney. The air tasted of hot iron and coal smoke. On the other side of the room, Maren sat on a low stool with her hands clasped so tightly that the knuckles were white.I leaned against the doorframe with Wren beside me. She had insisted on coming. She had also insisted on sitting, which I took as a good sign. Brannock hovered at the anvil, pretending to sharpen a chisel."I have no reason," Maren said quietly. "You may spit if you want. I would understand.""That is not an answer.""It is the only honest one." Maren lifted her tired eyes. "Sera, thirty years ago, the old Vane law hunted women who kept the closing verse and the families of s

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chapter 309

POV: WREN THORNE"This is not false labor, Wren. Your waters have not broken, but your body is rehearsing. And the baby is leaning toward the north like a compass needle. I have never seen that in forty years."Maren knelt beside my bed with both hands on my belly and her ear close to my skin. Her grey braid hung over her shoulder. A single candle burned on the table, and the shadows on the ceiling shook every time a pain tightened across my back. It was the deep of the night. The castle slept around us, huge and silent."Leaning?" I gasped."Turn onto your left side. There. Do you feel it?"I did. The whole curve of my belly tilted as if something inside were stretching toward the far wall. The baby was not kicking. It was pulling, slow and steady, like a swimmer against a current. A warm hum rose in my chest, answered by something farther away that I could not name.Maelis stood at the foot of the bed with a bowl of warm water in her hands, her face tight with worry. Dorrin hovered

Last Updated : 2026-10-18

chapter 310

POV: KADE ASHBORN"Lord Kade, I bring greetings from the Moonward Conclave, and a courtesy, which is rare. Your charter is unlawful, your child is promised, and the assessment will not wait for a convenient hour."The man in the white furs bowed with perfect grace. He stood in the middle of the north gate courtyard with frost on his shoulders and a long staff of pale wood in one gloved hand. A silver crescent hung at the top. Two attendants in grey robes waited behind him, silent as posts. His hair was white, his face unlined, and his eyes were the colour of winter sky.Every guard in the courtyard held a drawn blade. Ronan was at my left and Selene at my right. I felt the old rage and the old fear rise in me together, and I held both down."Your name," I said."Halvard Rime, Envoy of the Conclave." His voice was warm and even, like a priest's. "I have ridden nineteen days to be here. Forgive the early hour. I did not wish the Lady Wren to wait in doubt.""The lady is not available."

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