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Chapter Thirty-Six: Before The Hearing
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The Alpha Who Threw Me Away Chapter Seventy: The Solstice
Selene’s POVTalia arrives four days before the solstice.She comes through the front gate in the early afternoon with a bag over one shoulder and a woman beside her who is perhaps thirty, with the kind of face that pays attention to everything it looks at and does not advertise that it is doing so. Talia introduces her as Wren, simply, without the qualifying explanation that people usually attach to introductions when the relationship is new and they are still deciding what to call it.I notice the not-explaining.Wren notices me noticing.We understand each other immediately, which is the best possible beginning.The pack house fills in the way it has been filling in this season, gradually and without drama, people arriving and fitting themselves into the space without requiring the space to rearrange entirely around them. Corvin comes two days after Talia, which I did not know to expect because he did not tell me he was coming until he was already on the road, which is apparently a
The Alpha Who Threw Me Away Chapter Sixty-Nine: What Ordinary Looks Like
Selene’s POVSeven months after the rejection, Ironveil has its first snowfall.It comes overnight, the way the first snow always comes, quietly and without announcement, and in the morning everything is different and exactly the same. The mountains are white at the peaks and the grounds are covered in the particular unmarked stillness of snow that has not yet been walked through, and I stand at the study window with my coffee and look at it and feel something I have been feeling increasingly this season.Contentment.Not happiness exactly, which has always seemed to me a word that overpromises. Contentment is more honest. The specific settled feeling of someone who is in the right place doing the right things with the right people and knows it without needing to announce it.Lucian comes in at twenty past six.He stops when he sees me at the window and then comes to stand beside me, and we look at the snow together without speaking, and the morning does what mornings do now, which is
The Alpha Who Threw Me Away Chapter Sixty-Eight: Slowly
Selene’s POVThe key lives in my coat pocket for three days before I hang it on the hook inside my room door.Not because I am uncertain about it. Because I want to carry it for a while first. Feel the weight of it in the specific way you feel something that means more than its physical dimensions suggest. It is old iron and heavier than you would expect for its size and it warms to the temperature of wherever it is kept, which means after three days in my pocket it is always warm when I reach for it.I reach for it more than is strictly necessary.This is a thing I do not tell anyone. Not Mara, who would find it unbearably sweet and say so at length. Not Bowen, who would nod with the expression of a man who already knew. Not Lucian, who — and this is the part I am still learning to hold — would simply listen and not make too much of it, which is somehow harder to receive than a larger reaction would be.I am learning to receive things.This is its own slow work.The morning after Cor
The Alpha Who Threw Me Away Chapter Sixty-Seven: The Question
Lucian’s POVThree days after Corvin arrives I find Bowen in the library.This is not unusual. Bowen is always in the library when he is not in the kitchen or the council chamber or a corridor he was not supposed to be standing in. What is unusual is that he looks up when I come in and closes his book immediately, which means he was expecting me.“Sit down, Lucian,” he says.I sit.He looks at me with those reading-ahead eyes and I look back and we do not perform anything at each other, which is one of the things I have come to value about Bowen, that he does not require performance and does not produce it.“You are going to ask her something,” he says.I look at him.“Not a question about the border dispute,” he says. “Not about Corvin or the eastern governance review or the Calloway waiver.” He folds his hands. “The other question.”I look at the books on the shelf behind him, old and worn and arranged with the care of someone who considers their order meaningful.“Yes,” I say.“Whe
The Alpha Who Threw Me Away Chapter Sixty-Five: Six Months
Lucian’s POVSix months ago I stood in a clearing and said words I cannot take back.I think about this sometimes, not with the weight I used to think about it, not the specific crushing weight of the first three months when thinking about the clearing meant thinking about her face and what I put on it. Now it sits differently. More like a fixed point I can look at from a distance and understand the shape of, the way you understand the shape of a scar after it has healed — present, permanent, part of the map of how you got here.Here being the study at five forty-five in the morning.Here being the sound of footsteps on the stairs that are hers, which I have known by sound for six months, first with the specific ache of something I had lost before I understood I was losing it, and now with something different, something that does not have a tidy name and does not need one.She comes in without knocking.She has stopped knocking.She sets the coffee on the desk and takes the chair acro
The Alpha Who Threw Me Away Chapter Sixty-Four: After
Selene’s POVThree weeks later.The mornings are different now.Not dramatically. Not in the way this week changed things, which was dramatic enough to last several years of ordinary mornings. Just different in the small accumulating way of things that have shifted and settled into their new positions and stayed there.I still make coffee at five-thirty.I still carry it upstairs.The difference is that some mornings Lucian is already in the kitchen when I come down, and we make it together without discussing whose job it is, and some mornings I am already in the study when he arrives, and he does not look surprised to find me there, and some mornings we are both late because the night before went long and the morning agreed to wait.These are small things.They are not small things.Bowen is better.Edna cleared him for full activity two weeks ago with the specific reluctance of a woman who knows her patient will immediately use the clearance to do too much, which he has done, and wh
The Alpha Who Threw Me Away Chapter Four: What Bowen Knows
Elder Bowen does not rush.This is the first thing you learn about him. He moves through the world at his own pace, deliberate and unhurried, and he has a way of occupying a room that makes you feel like the room was always waiting for him to arrive. He steps into the kitchen now and looks at Mara
The Alpha Who Threw Me Away Chapter Three: What He Doesn’t Say
I do not sleep well.This is not new. Sleep has been a negotiation since the rejection, something I have to coax and bargain with every night. Some nights I win. Other nights I lie in the dark staring at the ceiling of my small room on the third floor and wait for morning to come and end the argume
The Alpha Who Threw Me Away Chapter Two: The Wrong Kind of Attention
I tell myself I imagined it.The smile. The way his eyes found me like he was looking for me specifically, like I was the thing in the room he had come to see. I tell myself it was nothing, the natural curiosity of a man arriving somewhere new, cataloguing faces the way Alphas do. It meant nothing.
The Alpha Who Threw Me Away Chapter One: Two Sugars, No Cream
The coffee is always two sugars, no cream.I know this the way I know which floorboard outside his bedroom creaks, which window in the east corridor sticks in the rain, which light switch needs two tries before it catches. Small, useless knowledge that my body collected without my permission. Three
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