The Alpha's Mute Mate
Let them wear my silence like a noose.
I descended the grand staircase slowly, deliberately, each step a declaration, a promise that the queen they thought they had broken had learned to sharpen her silence into a weapon.
In the west wing, I found Dorian again—not in the chapel, but in the library, where dust clung to forgotten histories and shelves bowed under the weight of truths too dangerous to name.
He sat in a carved oak chair, one leg crossed over the other, a half-empty glass of wine in his hand, the firelight making his shadows dance like secrets with teeth. He looked up as I entered, his expression unreadable, his eyes a storm held just behind calm.
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