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Chapter 21 – The Delegation

(Angelique)Brynn walks into my room without bothering to wait for an invitation.She sets the tin down like she’s granting a mercy she fully expects me to worship her for."Two weeks' worth," she says. "You're welcome."My hands stay where they are.Reaching for it wouldn’t change the bargain.It would only hand her the one thing she wants more than control.My humiliation."Thank you.""Mm."She wanders to the window and runs a finger down the sill, checking it for dust she doesn't pay anyone to clean.Not yet."Big day tomorrow. You should rest. They say a rejection's hard on the one getting rejected. All that fate, torn out by the root."She smiles at the glass."I wouldn't know. Nobody’s ever tossed me aside before."I bite back the sharp retort that rises up.She doesn’t know because she doesn’t have a mating bond with Rene.She’s forcing a union that’s not based on fate, but only her and her mother’s will.Whatever she ends up sharing with Rene, it will never be as strong as th

Chapter 22 – The Severing

(Rene)The bond's been screaming since well before they walked her into the hall.Something electric stretches between us through thirty feet of stone, and every wolf in attendance can probably feel it thrumming.The room hasn't been this full since I was made Alpha of the pack.Mine are placed along the walls, settled and waiting.The Myr are clustered behind Maliyah like she's the only warm thing in the building.She sits in the front chair like she already owns it. Maybe she thinks she will, soon.Brynn stands at my right in something pale and costly, chin up, wearing a title she hasn't been given yet.And Angelique is brought to the middle of the floor by two of my men, because the middle is where the rejected stands.In the open.Where the whole pack watches a destined future disappear in real time.Angelique is wearing a plain dress someone dug up for her.Her strawberry blond hair still chopped short and ragged.Emerald green eyes on the floor, the way I’ve been teaching her.M

Chapter 23 – The Stranger

(Rene)Nobody breathes.A hall full of wolves and the only sound is the doors settling back into position.He stands there and lets us look.My men have him ringed.Six of them, close, ready to shift at the slightest provocation.He doesn't so much as turn his head to count them.That's the first thing that's wrong.A lone wolf walks into a packed Alpha's hall, he's either suicidal or he knows something the rest of us don't.This one looks bored."You're a long way from your roadhouse," I say in a low growl.A ripple goes through the Myr side.Roadhouse.Maliyah's chin comes up. She's fitting pieces together fast and enjoying it."You'd be Rene Beck."His voice is even.Mild.Like he’s asking whether I enjoyed my meal and would I like some dessert."I’ve been looking for you.""You found me. But I suspect you’re going to come to regret that very soon."He smiles at that, showing me all his teeth."I don't think I will."Brynn jumps up from her seat."Rene. Who is this?""Parker Frey."

Chapter 24 – Both of Them

(Angelique)"I'm not leaving without them."The words drop into the middle of the floor and just sit there.Nobody moves.An entire hall full of wolves and not one of them shifts his weight.I spent last night wishing for a way to warn him to go into hiding, and instead Parker walked through the front doors and into the worst room he could have picked.For me. For Zack.He doesn’t owe us anything, yet here he is, risking his life.The bond's still hauling me toward Rene underneath all of it, relentless, picking the one moment every part of me should belong to fear.I shove it back down where it lives and make myself look at the man who just signed his own death warrant.He looks the same as the last time I saw him.Tired around the eyes.Steady in a way that used to make a bad night survivable.I realized he wasn't human when I saw his eyes go gold the day Rene found me.But I never even suspected that he could be an Alpha.There’s no denying it now though.The weight rolling off him

Chapter 25 – Nowhere To Put It

(Rene)Angelique's mouth opens.Nothing comes out, because Parker answers for her."She doesn't have to say it."His tone is flat and almost bored. "I already did. The boy's mine. So is she."The hall takes a breath it doesn't let back out.There it is.The words the dark thing in my chest has been hissing since Brynn came to my office and tossed the words at me so casually.Confirmed by the male who did it.He had her. He put a pup in her. He kept her while I-I shut that thought down before it finishes.The rage that comes up instead is clean and simple, and I let it in like an old friend."Cole."I don't raise my voice."Take him to the dungeons. Perhaps some time alone will teach him better manners."My men move.Parker doesn't."I wouldn't."He says it the way you'd tell a man his shoe's untied.Cole stops, eyes on me, waiting for confirmation."You can open my throat right here," Parker goes on."But people know where I am tonight. People who'd come asking your pack the kind of

Chapter 26 – What I Earned

(Angelique)His rooms smell like him and it affects me immediately.That's the first cruelty, and he's not even here yet.Cole put me inside, shut the door and left.Now it's me and the bond and the dark, and every breath I drag in is full of Rene.Zack's in our room, asleep, alone behind a door I'm not standing on the other side of.Nobody’s watching him.I should have been back with him by now. Broken by the rejection, but still able to fight for him.Parker's locked up somewhere, alive on borrowed time, because of a lie that's chewing through all three of us.And my body won’t stop reminding me that it’s been worked up for days and not allowed release.As if none of the rest of it matters, as long as I get to orgasm.You built this, my wolf says, quiet and vicious. Lie down in it.I wish she’d offer options instead of anger.What else am I supposed to do?When every option I have is terrible, I have to pick the one I can live with.That’s the one where Zack isn’t hurt.When I first

Chapter 27 – Houseguests

(Rene)"He’s not asking for anything."Cole stands in my doorway like he'd rather be down a mineshaft."No food. No demands. We put an Alpha in a bare bedroom and he's sitting on the cot like he's waiting to be called to dinner.""His scent?""Still banked. He’s caged, cornered, and we can't get a clean read off him. I've never seen control hold like that."Of course it holds.Parker Frey spent years pretending to be nobody.A cell doesn't rattle a man who made himself vanish.What I need to find out is why.And where he’s originally from.The answer to the second question should answer the first as well."Leave him there," I say."If he doesn’t want to eat that’s his business, but make sure there’s bread and water available. Aside from that don't touch him, don't talk to him, and make sure he stays put."Cole's gone before I finish.I didn't sleep.I tell myself it's the houseful of Myr wolves and the Alpha under my roof.It isn't.It's the bond, scraping me raw, chafing at me to go

Chapter 28 – The Ice Queen

(Angelique)The herbs go in his juice before he's fully awake.Crushed fine, an extra pinch today, just in case."Tastes yucky," Zack says, same as every morning of his life, and drinks it anyway."I know, bug. Big gulps."He drains the cup and I finally let myself breathe.One more day bought.My body's still sulking about last night.Sore where his hands were, wound tight where he made sure not to finish me.The bond still humming a low note I can't shut off.I shove it down with everything else and get up.The house woke up wrong.I felt it before I even opened my eyes.The air's gone thick with wolves who don't belong here, a dozen new scents stacked over the ones I'd learned to live around.The Myr stayed.All of them, Brynn hissed through my door last night, like it’s my fault.I had no idea Parker was coming, and naming him as Zack’s father was Brynn’s idea.She can’t lay any of it at my door.It doesn’t change the fact that I'm a mouse in a house that went from one cat to twen

Chapter 29 – My Mother's Daughter

(Brynn)"I had to learn about the boy’s parentage from a stranger's mouth. In a hall full of people. While I sat there like a fool who doesn't know what’s happening around her."My mother doesn't knock. She never has. The door just opens and the temperature drops.I don't turn from the mirror. Turning is losing. She taught me that before I could read."I told you there was a child.""You told me there was a bastard."She crosses the room, and in the glass she's still beautiful.Beautiful and cold all the way through.I notice again that we have exactly the same mouth.I've hated it my whole life."You told me the father was some random human, not that a fugitive Alpha would walk into Rene's hall and lay claim to Angelique and the brat.""Because I didn't know he would. I would have stopped him from interrupting if I’d been expecting him."True, for once."I'm not responsible for every stray Angelique left behind in whatever truck stop she was rotting in.""Parker Frey."My mother says

Chapter 30 – The Summons

(Rene)"He's still not eating."Cole's been on the spare-room door for two days and it's wearing on him."Doesn't pace. Doesn't ask for anything. Just sits there like he's already won the part he came for.""He has."I don't look up from the documents I'm not reading."He stopped the rejection ceremony and told everyone Angelique and the brat are his. I’m not sure what else he wants, but he succeeded at sowing those seeds.""So we make him talk.""You want to torture a consecrated Alpha under my roof?"I let that sit. Because god knows, I want that too, but I know the consequences."Tell me how that goes, Cole. Walk me through the morning after."He doesn't. He knows the shape of it as well as I do."Then what?" he says, frustration plain in his voice.“He can’t stay down there forever. I’m sick of waiting outside his door, and the Myr are circling him like he’s a stain they haven’t decided how to scrub out.”“They are. Maliyah’s a houseguest who behaves like she owns the walls.”“So

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