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The Alpha's Wife Was Never His
  1. 1. The Gilded Cage
  2. 2. The Banquet of Shadows
  3. 3. The Ring on the Marble
  4. 4. Midnight Evacuation
  5. 5. The Morning After
  6. 6. The Frozen Borderlands 🔒
  7. 7. The Winterfell Sentinel 🔒
  8. 8. The Crumbling Ledger 🔒
  9. 9. Waking in Frost Peak 🔒
  10. 10. Awakening of the Amber Wolf 🔒
  11. 11. The First Crack in Blackwood 🔒
  12. 12. Whispers in the Snow 🔒
  13. 13. The Forged Treaty 🔒
  14. 14. Letters Unsent 🔒
  15. 15. The First Skirmish 🔒
  16. 16. The Banquet of Deceit 🔒
  17. 17. Blood of Valerius 🔒
  18. 18. The Tracking Hound 🔒
  19. 19. Midnight Confessions 🔒
  20. 20. The Border Collapses 🔒
  21. 21. The Royal Standard Rises 🔒
  22. 22. The Clash of Titans 🔒
  23. 23. Audience with the Sovereign 🔒
  24. 24. The Conditions of Salvation 🔒
  25. 25. The Dawn of the North 🔒
  26. 26. The First Council 🔒
  27. 27. Shadows of the Southern Imperium 🔒
  28. 28. The Royal Archives of Frost Peak 🔒
  29. 29. The Vanguard's Penance 🔒
  30. 30. The Night of Frost Blossoms 🔒
  31. 31. Shadows over the Southern Outpost 🔒
  32. 32. Interrogation in the Iron Cell 🔒
  33. 33. Council in the Crucible 🔒
  34. 34. The Hunt in the Lower Quarter 🔒
  35. 35. The Secret of the Star-Forge Map 🔒
  36. 36. Journey Through the Craglands 🔒
  37. 37. The Threshold of Mount Solitude 🔒
  38. 38. The Trials of the Obsidian Hall 🔒
  39. 39. The Chamber of the Star-Forge 🔒
  40. 40. Forging the Sovereign Crown 🔒
  41. 41. Return to the Capital 🔒
  42. 42. The Festival of the Dark Moon 🔒
  43. 43. Rowan's Sacrifice 🔒
  44. 44. The Sovereign's Miracle 🔒
  45. 45. The Dawning of the War Council 🔒
  46. 46. The March to Bloodstone Ridge 🔒
  47. 47. The First Wave of the Imperium 🔒
  48. 48. The River of Frost & Fire 🔒
  49. 49. The Emperor's Dragon-Batteries 🔒
  50. 50. The Shattered Vanguard 🔒
  51. 51. The Victorious Return to Blackwood 🔒
  52. 52. The Eve of the Golden Dawn 🔒
  53. 53. The Grand Coronation 🔒
  54. 54. The Imperial Emissary's Humiliation 🔒
  55. 55. The Queen's New Dawn 🔒
  56. 56. Tremors in the Permafrost 🔒
  57. 57. The Expedition to the Frozen Sea 🔒
  58. 58. The Maw of the Frostfang 🔒
  59. 59. The Subterranean Sanctuary of Valerius 🔒
  60. 60. Shadows in the Frost 🔒
  61. 61. The Descent into the Ice Chasm 🔒
  62. 62. The Broken Sanctuary of the Second Seal 🔒
  63. 63. The Whispering Gallery of the Deep 🔒
  64. 64. The Lair of the Frost-Cult 🔒
  65. 65. Confrontation with the Wraith 🔒
  66. 66. The Awakening of the Frost-Wyrm 🔒
  67. 67. The Ascent of the Crystal Ridge 🔒
  68. 68. The Fall of Vivianne Vance 🔒
  69. 69. The Collar of the First Queen 🔒
  70. 70. Re-Binding the Abyss 🔒
  71. 71. Ascent from the Chasm 🔒
  72. 72. The War Council on the Ice 🔒
  73. 73. The Battle of the Frozen Strait 🔒
  74. 74. Storming the Glacial Citadel 🔒
  75. 75. The Hearth of Victory 🔒
  76. 76. Rebuilding Ironfang 🔒
  77. 77. The Return March to the Capital 🔒
  78. 78. The Assembly of the Free Packs 🔒
  79. 79. The Whispers of King Malakar's Despair 🔒
  80. 80. Night of the Mated Souls 🔒
  81. 81. Envoys from the Silverfang Basin 🔒
  82. 82. The Secret of the Star-Stone Scepter 🔒
  83. 83. The Consort's Trial 🔒
  84. 84. The Continental Gathering 🔒
  85. 85. The Eve of the Great War 🔒
  86. 86. The Vanguard Marches South 🔒
  87. 87. The Fortress on the Whispering River 🔒
  88. 88. Probing the Continental Shield 🔒
  89. 89. The Cry of the Southern Slaves 🔒
  90. 90. Eve of the First Clash 🔒
  91. 91. The Black Ice of the Whispering River 🔒
  92. 92. The Subterranean Infiltration 🔒
  93. 93. Shattering the Ice 🔒
  94. 94. Rowan's Last Stand at the Redoubts 🔒
  95. 95. The Rout of the Southern Vanguard 🔒
  96. 96. March Across the Salt Wastes 🔒
  97. 97. The Shroud of the Necromancers 🔒
  98. 98. Ambush at the Black Pass 🔒
  99. 99. The Scepter's Radiant Wrath 🔒
  100. 100. At the Gates of the Sunken Spire 🔒
  101. 101. The Subterranean Sanctum 🔒
  102. 102. The Confrontation with Grand Inquisitor Morvath 🔒
  103. 103. The Awakening of the Blood-Altar 🔒
  104. 104. Duel of Shadows and Solar Radiance 🔒
  105. 105. Shattering the Blood-Altar 🔒
  106. 106. Dawn Over the Obsidian Dunes 🔒
  107. 107. The Liberation of the Iron Quarries 🔒
  108. 108. The Burning of the Slave-Ledgers 🔒
  109. 109. Rowan's Sovereign Commission 🔒
  110. 110. The Assembly of the Southern Elders 🔒
  111. 111. The March to the Whispering River 🔒
  112. 112. Return to the High Valleys 🔒
  113. 113. The Council of Reconciliation 🔒
  114. 114. Night of Shared Stars 🔒
  115. 115. Dawn of the Grand Union 🔒
  116. 116. The Sacred Anointing 🔒
  117. 117. The Crown of the Continental Sun 🔒
  118. 118. The Consort's Investiture 🔒
  119. 119. The Grand Marshal's Eternal Oath 🔒
  120. 120. The Feast of One Hundred Thousand 🔒
  121. 121. Foundations of the Great Academy 🔒
  122. 122. The Hospital of the Whispering Spring 🔒
  123. 123. The Disbanding of the Border Fortresses 🔒
  124. 124. The Council of Matriarchs 🔒
  125. 125. The Blessing of the Hearth-Fires 🔒
  126. 126. The Sacred Grove of the First Tree 🔒
  127. 127. Vows of the Sovereign Union 🔒
  128. 128. The Golden Rite of the Mated Souls 🔒
  129. 129. Night of Transcendent Passion 🔒
  130. 130. The Morning After the Dawn 🔒
  131. 131. Springtime in the Commonwealth 🔒
  132. 132. The Royal Heir of House Valerius 🔒
  133. 133. The Grand Marshal's Legacy 🔒
  134. 134. The Continental Parliament of Free Wolves 🔒
  135. 135. The Eternal Dawn 🔒

Chapter 16

The Banquet of Deceit

The Alpha's Wife Was Never His · Elena Vance · 7 min read

The Great Hall of Blackwood Keep reeked of cheap southern perfume, burnt mutton, and suffocating tension. Desperate to assert her legitimacy as the newly elevated matriarch of the pack, Lady Vivianne had ordered a lavish "Banquet of Unity" to be held on the third night following Mira's departure. She had spent forty gold sovereigns from the emergency medical reserves to purchase barrels of sweet Malmsey wine, sugared almonds, and bolt…

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