Chapter: CHP 4GRACEI had a plan set in motion. The maids eyes were wide with shock and horror as they started to prepare me for whatever occasion Damon had planned.I ignored every one of them. If Damon wanted me paraded, then I’d turn his stage into a mockery. He hadn’t said how I should appear so I would choose the weapon of scandalThey finished with my hair and I stood up like a corpse, my lips sealed and my eyes dead.I walked out of my room for the first time since I got here and the guards cleared their throat, stiffening their back as the flanked me and escorted me towards a hall.Sounds of laughter, smell of food and mixture of different scents hit all of my senses at once and my body recoiled. These were the people who I believed took my mother from me. I balled my palms into fists. I was going to make them pay, starting from Damon.They opened the doors for me and the hall went silent. Like a flower, the guards who flanked me heavily, eased out and let me step out into the hall.Whisp
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Chapter: CHP 3GRACEHatred bounced off of my glare and bounced right back to me. A mirror of how much I felt was looking right at me as Damon withdrew his gaze and turned around signaling everyone to leave.Just before he stepped out of the room, he turned, his eyes dead.“I hope you’ll do what’s right for your family. We may be bonded but don’t mistake my saving you for chivalry. You must pay for what your father has done. One way or another,” he hissed and without waiting for me to say a word, left. The door’s lock echoed and I plopped on the bed.A scream bubbled to my throat and died there, a stone in a frozen river.Not long after, the same maid who’d helped me the first night slipped in, eyes wide and hands trembling. She laid a dress on the bed like it was contraband and backed away as if afraid I’d bite. A thin scrap of paper was pinned to the hem: “be ready by 8.”I stared at the note until the ink blurred. My hands found the fabric and then without thinking, I ripped at it, my claws shred
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Chapter: CHP 2GRACEI staggered.Damon’s hand clamped around my wrist, dragging me against his chest as he bent low. His breath licked my ear.“Well,” he murmured, dark satisfaction curling his voice, “this just makes my work easier.”I shoved him back and without thinking, spat in his face.Gasps ripped through the crowd. He stilled, crimson eyes narrowing as he wiped the saliva with deliberate calm. The corner of his mouth twitched not with rage, but with amusement. That smirk twisted my stomach with disgust. What kind of monster smiled at humiliation?I turned, searching the crowd. My stepmother’s gaze pinned me like a knife. My father’s eyes flickered between my stepmother and I, confusion and a subtle hint of suspicion hiddden in his eyes. The priest bound us anyway. The moment it was done, Damon seized my arm and hauled me outside to his waiting carriage.I ripped free, my fingers trembled, throat burned with the scream I could never release. His gaze lingered on me, sharp, watchful and mo
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Chapter: CHP 1GRACEI should have known something was wrong the moment Father summoned me to the dining hall. He never gathered me with his real family unless it was to allow his wife shame me. To make me the spectacle, the bastard mistake who carried the blood of a woman whose name was forbidden to be spoken.The air was thick with roasted meat and sour wine, but it wasn’t a meal. it was judgment.We stood when he entered. The crows embedded in the blood claw pack seal in his sword, glinted in the moonlight as he walked to his seat.He gave a little grunt of satisfaction. He had always liked these little rituals. It reminded me he was untouchable. My head bowed, though my spine screamed against it.“Rogues have been a terror and we need help, debts have been incurred and I’ve found a solution” he began. The silence lightly disturbed by the scrapping of cutlery against ceramic.“There has been a request for your hand in marriage,” Father dropped, his tone smug and self-satisfied.My chest hollowe
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