Chapter eighty one: Bring Him Before the Council

ELIRAThey didn't untie my hands, not even after Elder Wren's ruling, and I understood why without anyone having to explain it to me. I was still an accused woman in this chamber. Whatever hope the mate-bond law offered, it hadn't been proven yet, and until it was, I remained exactly what Laron had painted me as to every watching face in that room.The chamber emptied slightly while word was sent to bring Rurik down, servants and household staff filing out to make room, though a good number of them lingered near the doors anyway, unwilling to miss whatever happened next. Niar stayed close beside me, her bandaged hand resting lightly on my shoulder, and I was grateful for the warmth of it even through the fear coiling tight in my stomach."What if he can't," I whispered to her, too quiet for anyone else to hear. "What if the dose they've given him since I was taken is too strong, and he just lies there, and nothing happens at all, in front of everyone.""Then we'll find another way," N

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Chapter eighty two: Bound and Brought Forward

ELIRAI stood there with my bound hands held awkwardly in front of me, close enough to touch him but not daring to yet, waiting for Elder Wren to give some kind of direction, waiting for anyone in that chamber to tell me what came next."You may touch him," Elder Wren said finally, her voice carrying a strange gentleness that didn't match the formality of everything else happening in that room. "If that is part of how this bond expresses itself, the Council needs to witness it fully, whatever form it takes."I nodded, my throat tight, and reached down with both bound hands together, since I had no other way to manage it with the rope still cutting into my wrists, and let my fingers rest against the back of his hand where it lay still against the white linen.His skin felt cool. Too cool. Nothing like the warmth I remembered from three nights ago, when his fingers had curled around mine with real, deliberate strength, when his eyes had found mine and held them with that fierce, impossib

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Chapter eighty three: Nothing Happens

ELIRAThe tremor in his eyelids stilled.I stood there, frozen, watching, waiting for something more, but his face settled back into that same blank stillness it had held since they'd wheeled him into this chamber. His chest continued its shallow, mechanical rise and fall. His fingers, which had curled so weakly against mine just moments before, went slack again, resting motionless in my bound hands.The silence stretched on, agonizing, each second feeling heavier than the last."That was involuntary movement," Laron said into the quiet, his voice recovering its earlier smoothness now that the moment had clearly passed without delivering whatever dramatic proof Lady Aquine had promised this Council. "I sympathize deeply with Miss Montrose's evident distress, truly I do. But a single twitch of the fingers does not constitute the kind of recognition pack law requires to override formal charges of this severity.""Give it more time," I said, my voice desperate now, no longer caring how i

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Todos los capítulos de The Wolfless Bride No One Wanted, Except the Alpha: Capítulo 81 - Capítulo 83

Chapter eighty one: Bring Him Before the Council

Chapter eighty two: Bound and Brought Forward

Chapter eighty three: Nothing Happens