All Chapters of FOR REVENGE, I MARRIED THE CRIPPLED LYCAN KING : Chapter 41 - Chapter 50

Selena's POV"That took you long enough," I said as Kael wheeled back into the room."Yes, and I am sorry that this news might upset you, but Drake is here and he insists on seeing you," Kael said."Send him away," I said, shaking my head. "Whatever he has to say, I do not want to hear it.""He says it is about your mother."That stopped me. I looked at Kael, then looked away, then back at him. "Fine," I said. "Take me to him."Kael brought me to the small reception room off the east corridor. Drake was standing near the window when we came in and straightened when he saw me, the way someone straightens when they have been rehearsing something and are trying to remember where they put it."I will be directly outside," Kael said at the door. "One word and I am back in this room." He looked at Drake once — the look that required nothing else — and pulled the door behind him.Drake took a step toward me."Stay where you are," I said. "Respect yourself and do not try anything. You said yo

Kael's POVI wheeled myself with Selena beside me back to the room and Nia behind her."My lady," Nia called, catching up to us at the corridor junction. "I've placed the meal in your room," she said, watching Selena's face for a reaction before continuing. "I tasted it myself to make sure it's safe." She paused. "I'll leave you and the Alpha to yourselves."She turned and left before either of us could say anything.Selena looked at the connecting door, then at me. "She tasted it herself," she said quietly."She did," I said."I am going to have to do something significant for that girl," Selena said, and pushed her door open and went in sheik I went to mine.---My room was dark, the curtain half open the way I always left it. I moved to the desk out of habit, reached for the files I had been reviewing before all of this started, and stopped.I sat in the quiet for a moment, the day settling around me, and became aware of something I had been half-aware of for the last hour without

Kael's POV“Alpha,” Dave greeted tge next morning, his face grim.“What’s the matter?” “We have a court pending case, of the Valen and the Morin family,” he said.“And?”“The hearing is in an hour, I've had the Luna’s maid notify her about it, so she’ll be there too.”The Valen and Morin families had been fighting over the eastern border territory for six months, and they had chosen today of all days to bring it to the council chamber.Both delegations arrived at the same time, which I suspected was not an accident, and seated themselves on opposite sides of the table with the particular rigidity of people who had been arguing so long that their bodies had started doing it automatically. Lord Valen, heavyset and red-faced, opened his mouth the moment I wheeled into the room. Lady Morin, silver-haired and precise, was already speaking before he finished his first sentence.The council chamber descended into two people talking over each other while twelve other people waited to see wha

Selena's POVDave's contact came through at six in the morning.I was already awake when he knocked on the office door, had been awake for most of the night turning the photograph over in my head, and when Dave came in with a folder I sat up straight and held out my hand before he finished crossing the room."Give it to me," I said.He gave it to me.Kael was beside the desk, and we read it together, and neither of us said anything for a long time after we finished.The documents were thorough. Lucien had not been careless — whoever advised him had constructed the agreements carefully, using language that could be argued as preliminary discussions rather than binding commitments if challenged broadly. But the specifics were there. Territorial concessions in the northern corridor. Preferential trade rights for Caldwell Pack that bypassed the standard allied pack agreement structure. A clause that referenced Lucien as the governing authority of the Lycan Kingdom for the duration of the

Selena's POV"Elder Marsh," I said pleasantly. "Elder Fayne. Since you are not reading yours, I assume you are familiar with the contents." I smiled at them both. "I thought you might be."Marsh's face had gone the color of old paper. "I do not know what you are implying—""I am not implying anything," I said. "I am stating it. You met privately with Prince Lucien on four separate occasions during this transition period. Those meetings are not logged in the official council record as required by Article Seven of the council conduct code." I looked around the full table. "Every other member of this council who met with any member of the royal family during the transition period logged those meetings within forty-eight hours. As required. As they have always done." I looked back at Marsh. "You did not. Four meetings, no documentation. That is four separate conduct violations.""Private conversations do not constitute—""Meetings held to discuss council business with a member of the roya