He Chose Her, So I Claimed My Name

Darragh blocks Fiona from the king in a frosty farmyard at dawn.

Darragh got between me and the king before the frost stopped cracking under my boots.

Darragh

There is no Cairn claim. Her mother died with a broken lodge and a bad name.

The seal she sent your court is a scrap of tin she melted herself in the dark.

He Chose Her, So I Claimed My Name

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“You can keep the stores,” Darragh tells me when he brings her home. He thinks that is mercy. I am Fiona Cairn. For three years I have been his wife, his Luna, and the pair of hands that kept Greywater fed. Our bond was never completed. He never wanted me enough to finish it. Then he seats Ilona at my table. Pregnant. He calls her his Luna and tells me to move my things. He thinks I have no family, no name, no way out. He is wrong. My mother's seal is old. The Alpha King answers old seals. Darragh says I am still his. The Alpha King says I am not his to keep. At the Sun Court, I will sign my name. If Darragh tries to stop me, he will learn what a king's word costs.