All Chapters of The Wolf King's Reluctant Mate: Chapter 91 - Chapter 100

We did not speak until we reached the far hall, where the stones were thick and the mountain could not easily listen. Sarlen had not said a word since the wall spoke with his voice. Bram met us with a cup of water and a hard look.I turned to Sarlen the moment the door shut. “It used your voice, and you did not call it a liar. Why?”He sat on the low bench. His hands would not stop shaking. “Because the words were true. It is the one thing your mother asked of me. I promised to keep you hidden.” He pressed his palms together to still them. “The thing in the wall only wore my voice to say it.”“Then tell me the rest. All of it.”“The tonic suppressed your wolf. That part you always knew. It also masked your scent so no one could track the bloodline. But there was more.”“How much more?” I asked.“Your mother put the locket in my hand the night of the fire. She said, ‘Keep her away from the mountain. The blood answers old doors.’ I thought she meant the fortress. The elders. Eric. I did

RowanThe three words refused to leave the quiet spaces of my head.Do not bond.I stood on the chalk mark Darius had drawn and watched Adele across the empty space. She swayed once, then caught herself on Sarlen's shoulder.The bond carried her shock and the old smell of fire, and I had taken half a step before I remembered the rule. I stopped. It was the hardest step I had ever taken. My hands wanted to reach for her. I kept them at my side."She said do not bond," Adele said, so the others could hear. "And my mother called her Sovereign. That is all I got."Darius lowered his staff. "A name and a warning. We write down every word while it is fresh, and we decide nothing from one look."

AdeleBram and Lira came back at midday with dust on their cloaks and frost still melting off their boots. We met them in the far hall. Darius had spread a thick wool cloth over the table and hung a heavy tapestry across the wall where Sarlen had touched the stone. ‘The stone is supposed to be deaf here’ has stopped meaning much to any of us.Bram laid the thin ledger on the cloth and gave his report in the same dry order he had found it. When he reached the Silent Gate, nobody spoke. Lira stood at the end of the table and looked at the date and away again. I did not ask her why.Rowan took the ledger an

DariusI felt the change in the air before anyone spoke. Lira’s boots stopped. Rowan’s breath caught and held. Then Adele said what the room already knew: the mark had come after the memory, and it had not been there before.I have no eyes for color, so she described it for me: a thin silver line along the inner curve of the gold crescent she already carried. Then I did what I have always done. I listened with my hands.I knelt and held my palm above her wrist, never touching. Three nights ago I had held the same hand above the seal behind Wren’s ear, and I had noted the shape of what I felt there the way I kept everything I failed to catch in time. I had not checked beneath her hair. I would not make that mistake twice.The warmth above Adele’s wrist took the same cur

Every wolf in the Great Hall remained down on their knees.I looked at Rowan across the empty space. The bond between us was narrow and bright. I could not tell if he stood by choice or because the silver line on my wrist had forced him to stay upright.“Rowan?”“I am here wild cat and I chose to stand with no other pressure,” he replied at once, answering my unasked question. Relief loosened something stuck in my chest. I wanted to believe him but I noted that wanting was not trust.I raised my voice so the whole hall could hear. Only my voice. I kept one eye on the silver line.“Rise. Al