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Chapter 81: Julian Flames

(Kai POV)I walked back through the trees and did not stop.The path from the woods to the compound ran along the eastern edge of the training yard and I took it at the same pace I had left, unhurried, even, the walk of a man who had somewhere to be and not the walk of a man who had just stood in a clearing and watched his mate lie to his face about a foreign Alpha she had been meeting at the border fence in the dark. I kept my hands out of my fists. I kept my jaw loose. I walked.She thought I had killed her mother.She had believed that, had believed it enough to burn a document over it and hand the story to Theo.And now she was meeting Ryan Cross at the border fence in the dark.I stopped walking.I was at the edge of the training yard and I stopped and stood there with the compound in front of me and the woods behind me and I pressed my thumb and forefinger against the bridge of my nose and breathed

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Chapter 82: The Council

(Kai POV)"What briefing," I said."Emergency session." Julian's voice had gone flat. "Inner council only. He cited the rumors as the trigger." He paused. "Harrison is already in the building."I looked at him. "When did he call it.""This morning. Before you went to the woods.""He knew I was going to the woods.""He knows everything you do before you do it," Julian said. "That has always been true and you have always known it." He stood and picked up his jacket from the chair. "You need to report the fence meeting before you walk into that room.""We've had this conversation.""We're having it again." He shrugged the jacket on and turned to face me. "Kai, you are about to sit in front of the inner council in a session your father called, with Harrison already seated, and whatever they are about to do to you would be significantly harder to do if you walked in there having already reported a secu

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Chapter 83: The Suspension

(Kai POV)The vote took four minutes.Four minutes of procedural language and raised hands and the council chair recording each position in the ledger with the same unhurried precision he brought to everything, and when it was done the number was nine to four and the four included Julian and two council members I had not expected and one who surprised me enough that I filed it away without showing anything on my face.Nine to four.Not unanimous. Not even close to unanimous, which mattered in ways that would take time to fully understand. But enough. Enough for the motion to pass, enough for the suspension to be entered into the formal record, enough for Darius to nod at the council chair with the measured gravity of a man who had not wanted this outcome but accepted it because the pack's welfare demanded it.He was very good.I sat and looked at the table while the council chair read the formal language of the

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Chapter 84: Are You Sleeping With Him

(Kai POV)She did not close the door in my face, which I took as permission to walk through it.The kitchen was lit and warm, two mugs on the table with steam still coming off them, a chair pushed back at an angle like someone had stood up recently. Lena was at the counter with a dish cloth in her hands and she turned when I came in and looked at me and did not say anything for a moment, just stood there with the cloth and waited."Where's Theo," I said."Out." She set the cloth on the counter and crossed her arms. "You should have knocked.""I did knock.""You knocked once and opened the door.""You didn't stop me."She looked at the table and then at me. She did not invite me to sit. I stayed near the door with my jacket on and my hands in my pockets and looked at her."What do you want, Kai.""The same thing I wanted in the woods," I said. "An answer."She picked the cloth back up and folded it and set it on the counter again. She went to the table and moved one of the mugs two in

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Chapter 85: The Wrong Question

(Lena POV)I stood at the sink after the door closed and listened to his footsteps go down the step and fade out along the lane, and then I turned the tap on and filled a glass and drank half of it standing there looking at the dark window.No. That was the true answer. I was not sleeping with Ryan.I set the glass down and picked it back up and drank the rest of it.That was also not the complete answer and I knew it and Kai had looked at my face when he asked and whatever he saw there was not nothing, because I had felt it move through me, that quick involuntary thing when the question landed close enough to the true thing that my body responded before I could decide how to hold it. I had covered it fast. I had covered it with anger, which was not difficult because the anger was also real, the question was insulting and he had no right and all of that was true, but I had also been grateful for the anger in a way I am not particularly pr

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Chapter 86: The Woods Alone

(Lena POV)I walked until the lane ended and then kept walking, past the fence line and into the scrubland, not toward the border, just into the dark and the thornbush and the cold air, and when I found a tree with enough root above ground to sit against I sat down and pulled my knees up and pressed my face into them and cried.Not the kind where you feel it coming and decide whether to let it, just the kind that arrives and takes over, ugly and nasal and completely without dignity, the kind where your whole face goes hot and your shoulders shake and you cannot do anything except let it run its course because your body has decided this is happening now regardless of what you think about the timing. I sat against the tree with my face in my knees and I cried and the woods were dark around me and there was nobody to perform anything for so I did not perform anything.I cried about my mother first because she was always first, always underneath eve

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Chapter 87: Theo's Version of This

(Lena POV)The light was on in the kitchen when I came back through the front door, and Theo was at the stove with his back to me, stirring something, and he looked over his shoulder when I came in and said, "Sit down," and turned back to the stove.I sat down.He did not ask where I had been and I did not explain, and the kitchen was quiet except for the sound of the spoon against the pot. He got two bowls from the shelf and filled them and brought them to the table and sat across from me and pushed the breadboard toward me and that was the whole of it, no questions, no careful face, just food on the table and the breadboard and Theo eating with his eyes on his bowl.I ate. The soup was the same one from earlier, reheated, and it was good, and I ate most of it and tore a piece of bread and ate that too, and by the time I put the spoon down, my hands had stopped being cold.Theo took both bowls to the sink and washed them without b

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Chapter 88: The Heir Without A Title

(Kai POV)Julian was already in my quarters when I got back, sitting at the desk with his jacket off and a cup of something hot in front of him, reading through what looked like patrol rotation schedules. He looked up when I came in and looked back down at the papers and said, "How did it go?""She didn't answer the question.""Which question.""Either of them."Julian turned a page. "Sit down."I sat on the edge of the bed and pulled my boots off and set them on the floor and looked at the wall and thought about Lena's face when I asked her and the thing that had moved across it before the anger covered it. Julian let me sit there for a while without saying anything, which was either patience or resignation, and after a few minutes he set the papers down and picked up his cup and looked at me."You know what you need to do," he said."Don't.""Kai.""I know what you're going to say.""Then

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Chapter 89: The Gate

(Lena POV)I left Theo's house before he was awake, writing three words on the back of an envelope and leaving it on the kitchen table where he would find it. Gone to compound. He would know what it meant, and he would not like it, and that was a conversation for later.The morning was cold and grey, the kind of early hour when the Lowlands streets were empty except for the odd light in a window and a dog moving along a fence line. I walked the main road with my hands in my jacket pockets and my breath making small clouds, and I did not let myself think too carefully about what I was doing because I had already done three days of thinking and I had arrived at the same place every time, and thinking more was not going to move me off it.The south gate guard was a woman I recognized from previous rotations, not one of the ones who had ever been particularly friendly and not one of the ones who had ever been particularly hostile, just a face that k

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Chapter 90: The Doctor

(Kai POV)I took her to my quarters because it was the only room in the compound where I was reasonably certain nobody had found a reason to install a reason to listen, and I closed the door and did not offer her anything because she had not come for tea and we both knew it, and she stood near the window with her jacket still on and looked at me and said, "Did you sign the order?""No," I said."Kai.""No." I said it the same way I had said it in the woods and in the corridor and every version of this conversation we had been circling for days, flat and without elaboration, because I had run out of ways to say it that were different from just saying it. "I did not sign an order restricting your access to your mother. I did not know that order existed. I have told you this multiple times, and I will keep telling you because it is the truth, and there is no version of me saying it that is going to sound different from all the other times I

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