Semua Bab The Night They Killed Me, My Dark Wolf Awakened: Bab 1 - Bab 10

The next day Viola told everyone she had woken in the middle of the night with a cold ache in her chest. Helena promptly ordered a maid to take the blackthorn tonic I drank every day to Viola's room instead.Agatha had written that recipe. I had swallowed it every day of my life, though it was bitter and hard to keep down. After only three days without it, my hands had turned ice-cold, and my chest felt as if a boulder soaked in ice water were pressing down on it. I did not ask for it back. I was afraid Helena would accuse me again of fighting my sister over a bowl of medicine.That was when word came back that the border had been attacked.Going through the granary ledgers, I found seven empty wagons that had no business being on the northern supply line. I wrote a letter that same night telling the patrol to change its route, and I handed the messenger a moonstone charm stamped with my blood seal. When Damian came home wounded, the one at his side was Viola.She set the charm on the

Garrick came down to the cells one last time, carrying a property transfer agreement.He wanted me to hand over the blood seal of Blackstone Manor, to state in writing that the Ashbourne family had never wronged me, and to acknowledge publicly that Viola was the family's only daughter and heir. Helena and my brothers stood behind him. Not one of them would look at the state of me.With tears in my eyes I signed the property transfer, and I pushed the confession back across to him.I wanted to know whether, once I had lost my rank, the manor, and every last bit of usefulness, they would still admit they had raised me.Helena reached out and took the moonstone pendant off my neck. It was the only thing that had come with me when I was brought to the Ashbourne family. She had once told me she would keep it safe for me my whole life. Now she fastened it around Viola's neck herself."What belongs to this house should go back to the daughter of this house."I held her eyes. "If I die down he

Nobody in the temple made a sound.Damian stared at the spike wound in my chest that had not finished closing, and his first reaction was still an Alpha command. "Kneel. Let the healer examine you."The full force of his Alpha power came at me head-on.Nyx did not dodge and did not block. The force hit her the way a wave hits a mountain range at midnight, and it slammed straight back into him. Damian grunted, and in front of the whole pack his knee hit the ground hard, one hand braced on the stone of the altar.Countless times I had lifted my head and taken his orders. Now he found out for himself what it feels like to have someone else's will bend your knees for you.Viola shrieked, "Evelyn is dead! That thing standing there is a monster wearing her body!""Then let us start with my death."Corbin was brought to the front of the platform and read the death record aloud, shaking the whole time. The two guards followed him and testified that Viola had ordered the wolfsbane injected, had

Damian surrendered the Alpha's signet ring and came to see me alone.He blamed all of it on Viola's faked pregnancy, on the rescue she had claimed credit for, on the accusations from the Ashbourne family. He was willing to punish Viola, to give me the Luna's authority back, even to pray to the Moon Goddess for a new fated mate mark between us."I loved you," he said. "I was just buried under lies.""Then let us count the pieces of evidence you had right in front of you."I laid out every chance he had been given, one by one.The border message records could have been retrieved and checked. He chose not to. The pregnancy herb could have been tested. He chose not to. The requisition slip still bore its stamp, and he threw it into the fire himself. The silver wounds were plain on my body, and he told me to keep waiting. In the end, the mate bond carried my dying pain straight to him, and he decided I was feigning weakness to manipulate him."Viola's lies were only a door." I pushed the ha

Three months passed in a blur, and Blackstone Manor had a new name: Nightfall Valley.The territory took in ordinary people who could not shift, weak wolves, and anyone driven out by a violent mate with nowhere left to go. The old banquet hall became a school. The cells where I had been held were torn out entirely and rebuilt as a fully stocked dispensary. Every door could be locked from the inside. Every punishment imposed here had to be supported by a complete record of evidence, and anyone accused had the right to appeal and defend themselves.I never took over Silverpine. I only turned the property that had been taken from me into a home where nobody's dignity was measured by how strong they were.Nyx and I stopped keeping track of who was in charge of the body. When I was calming a child, I stayed in human form. When I was guarding the border, I shifted. Being gentle does not mean swallowing everything, and having fangs does not mean using them however you like.I kept the sealing