บททั้งหมดของ The Wolf King's Reluctant Mate: บทที่ 101 - บทที่ 108

RowanThe examiner’s order was still echoing off the stone when I put myself between Adele and the moving guards.My aura rolled out hard. Heat and pressure filled the hall. Spears came up on our side. The Alliance guards stopped mid-step.Something in me leaned toward them, hungry, wanting the examiner’s throat. I let it go and thought of Adele’s gold power opening toward Bram like warm water.“Hold,” I said. The word carried the full weight of the fortress. “No one touches the Queen.”Bram’s voice followed at once. “Our spears and claws are ready even though we are not the ones who started this.”The Alliance leader’s calm was gone. &l

I stood in the stone passage until my racing heart finally slowed its beat.Rowan kept careful, arm's length of space between us. I did not even realise when he came here. “What did your mind see inside that dark flash?” He asked.“It was the silver-eyed woman from the ridge again. She looked straight through me and said I am not her daughter. She said I am her literal return.”His granite jaw tightened until the bone clicked. Through the narrow thread of our link, I felt the exact same heavy, freezing dread that had just settled into the center of my chest.“We do not chase that ancient claim alone,” he said, his gold eyes narrowing. “Not after what happened in the hall tonight.And we gave our word to the elders. No contact near any foundation stone that has already been marked by our blood.”“That is true, but we agreed to that before this new situation began. Now the mountain has started answering my thoughts in a common corridor even when hands were tucked inside my long sleeves.

RowanThe hall was quiet after Adele finished reading the order aloud.Every wolf had heard the words. Recoverable prize. Land and protection for the pack that delivered her. Enemy status for the pack that hid her.My wolf stirred under my ribs, low and hot. I held it still. A king who snarled in this hall would only prove the order right about us.I kept a careful distance and spoke first. “No one in this fortress answers that order. We protect our own. That is not a discussion.”Bram’s voice followed, practical as always. “Watches stay doubled. Southern gate stays closed to any rider without my leave. Anyone who whispers

AdeleI read the words again by torchlight in the side hall. Do not let Wren come to the mountain. The ink had not dried. The long tail on Lira’s L looked the same as always.So little time with my sister after ten years apart, and her last act was to stop Bram from running at a wall. He stood very still beside me. Rowan kept an arm’s length of space, the way we had agreed, but the bond carried his anger and fear like heat under stone.“She chose the red cloth on purpose,” I said. “She knew we would want to charge towards the glass. She stopped us.”Bram’s voice came rough. “Then we find another way. I will not sit and wait while that wall keeps her.”