It Was Silver

CHAPTER 11ISOLDE'S POVOrren came for me shortly after midday.I had been sitting beside the cold fireplace for most of the morning, listening to the quiet of the tower. The day before, the courtyard below my window had shaken with the sound of horses leaving the fortress, and the guards outside my door had not said a word about where the King had gone. I only knew that the riders had returned a short while ago, because I had heard the gates open again, and the whole tower had gone still.When the key turned in the lock, I stood up so quickly that the blanket slid off my shoulders.Orren stood in the doorway with a bandage wrapped around his left arm and a dark purple bruise spreading along the side of his neck, as if someone had gripped it very hard. His uniform was stained with mud, and there were deep shadows under his eyes. He looked like a man who had not slept in two days."His Majesty requires your presence in the war room," he said."Why?""He did not say." He stepped aside t

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Do Not Forget What You Owe.

CHAPTER 12RHAELEN'S POVThe smoke from the ruined table was still curling toward the ceiling when I ordered the soldiers to leave the room.They bowed and walked out without a word, though both of them glanced back at the girl before the doors closed. Orren stayed where he was, crouched beside the side table with his eyes on the hole in the wood, and the only sound in the war room was the slow drip of water from the broken clay onto the stone floor."The water from the first pitcher is clean," he said at last, pointing at a wet patch on the floor that had left no mark at all. "Only the second one was poisoned.""Who brought it in?""A maid. She came in through the far door a short while ago and left again at once. I did not see her face."I looked at the girl. She had not moved from the spot where she had stumbled, and her wet skirt clung to her legs, and there was a smear of dust along her sleeve from the table. Her face was very pale, but she lifted her chin when my eyes reached he

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Silver in the Cup

CHAPTER 13ISOLDE'S POVRhaelen did not speak for a long time after he finished reading the letter.He folded it along its creases and held it out to me, and I took it with fingers that no longer felt like my own. I read it twice. Caeldric's neat handwriting had once meant birthday wishes and little notes pushed under my door when I was sick, and now every line sounded like an order."You never told me," Rhaelen said."I didn't think it mattered." My voice shook, and I forced it to steady. "I stopped doing what the Veyrdens told me the day I signed those papers.""Yet your Alpha's son still believes you owe him something.""He always has."I looked down at the letter again, and a cold weight sank into my stomach. Caeldric knew about the guards. The only reason he knew was that I had told him myself, through a stone that was lying at the bottom of my bag. I waited for Rhaelen to notice the same thing, but he only watched my face, and he said nothing."From tonight, every letter that co

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Five Petals

CHAPTER 14RHAELEN'S POVI wrote the letter to the Veyrden Alpha that same night, at my desk in the study, with two candles burning beside me and the door closed.It took four attempts. The first three were so full of rage that I threw them into the fireplace, and the fourth said only what a king needed to say to a lesser Alpha. The girl's inheritance was to be returned in full, every document was to reach my fortress within ten days, and not one Veyrden grain wagon would cross my border road until I held them in my hands.I pressed the Blackthorn seal into the wax and set the letter at the corner of the desk for the morning messenger. Then I leaned back and rubbed two fingers against my temple, where a dull ache had been pulsing for the last hour. It was nothing compared to what I had felt in the saddle, and I told myself I had simply grown used to it.A knock sounded at the door."Enter."Orren walked in. He had washed the mud off his uniform, but the bandage on his arm was already

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All Chapters of The Cursed Alpha King’s Mind-Reading Mate: Chapter 11 - Chapter 14

It Was Silver

Do Not Forget What You Owe.

Silver in the Cup

Five Petals