Chapter: 🪷🪷 CHAPTER FOUR“You lied to me.”I didn’t bother turning around when his footsteps echoed in the doorway. I’d been sitting at the cracked window since dawn, staring out at his dead kingdom and nursing my rage like a flame. The bond hummed between us, carrying his hesitation, but I refused to acknowledge it.“Sena—”“Don’t.” I finally faced him, letting him see the fury blazing in my eyes. “Protection, you said. The bond was for my protection. But that’s not the real reason, is it?”I’ve been thinking about it all. From the moment he arrived at the auction house to how he was in such a hurry to bind us together.Surely that isn’t because someone like him was solely concerned about my safety.He’s a monster.No way in hell did he do that with my safety in mind.Kael stood silhouetted against the morning light, his silver eyes unreadable. He’d changed from yesterday’s travel clothes into simple black, but nothing could make him look ordinary. Power clung to him like smoke, and through our cursed con
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Chapter: 🪷🪷 CHAPTER THREE“Mate?” The word tore from my throat like broken glass. “Are you completely insane?”Kael’s grip tightened around my waist as he carried me through the auction house’s twisted corridors, my feet dangling uselessly above the ground. His chest rumbled with what might have been amusement.“Hey, I’d suggest you watch your mouth with me little healer.”“Put me down!” I slammed my fists against his shoulders, the silver shackles chiming with each blow. “You can’t just declare someone your mate! That’s not how it works!”“Isn’t it?” He shouldered through a heavy door into the night air, never breaking stride. “Tell me, what do you feel when I touch you?”Heat. The traitorous warmth that had flooded through me the moment those silver restraints closed around my wrists. I pushed the thought away, focusing instead on my rage.“I feel disgust,” I spat. “Terror. The overwhelming desire to get as far away from you as possible.”“Liar.” His silver eyes found mine in the moonlight. “Your magic recog
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Chapter: 🪷🪷 CHAPTER TWO“Move it, princess. Your grand debut awaits.”The guard’s boot connected with my ribs as he shoved me down a stone corridor that reeked of mold and something far worse. My knees scraped against rough granite, the magical shackles making every movement agony. Three days in that cage had left me hollow, but nothing could have prepared me for this.The underground amphitheater stretched before us like something from a nightmare. Tiered stone benches surrounded a circular platform, packed with creatures that made my skin crawl just looking at them. Pale beings with too-sharp teeth. Others wreathed in shadow that seemed to move independently. A woman whose skin shifted colors like oil on water.And the smell. Fear hung thick as smoke, mixed with something metallic that made my stomach lurch.“Welcome to the Obsidian Market.” The guard’s grin showed yellowed teeth. “Premier destination for discerning buyers with particular tastes.”They herded me toward a row of iron cages along the a
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Chapter: 🪷🪷 CHAPTER ONE“Please don’t cry, little one. The fever’s almost gone.”My hands trembled against the child’s burning forehead, silver light threading between my fingers like moonbeams. The magic pulled at something deep in my chest, that familiar ache that came with drawing sickness from another’s body into my own. Worth it, though. Always worth it when I felt the fever break and watched color return to pale cheeks.“There.” I smoothed damp hair from the boy’s face. “Sleep now.”His mother pressed a handful of worn copper coins into my palm, tears streaming down her weathered face. “Bless you, Miss Sena. Bless you.”I closed my fingers around the meager payment, warmth spreading through me that had nothing to do with magic. This cramped room above the bakery, with its shelves of dried herbs and collection of mismatched bottles—this was mine. The first thing I’d ever truly owned.“Bring him back in a week if the cough returns,” I said, helping her bundle the sleeping child in her cloak. “No char
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