Bound To The Lycan King
She was born on the night her mother died and they never let her forget it.
For eighteen years, Ivory Ashwood has lived in the margins of her father's pack—unwanted, unshifted, and hiding violet eyes behind contacts because the last time someone saw their real color, they called her cursed and meant it.
She has learned to be invisible.
She has learned that surviving and living are two very different things and that she has only ever been doing one of them.
On her eighteenth birthday, her father sells her to settle a debt.
But the night does not go the way anyone planned because Lycan King Zion Valdris arrives at Silverstone, takes one look at Ivory across a crowded clearing, and feels three years of constant pain vanish from his chest.
He does not believe in coincidences so he buys her contract before midnight.
Ivory has survived monsters her entire life. She is not impressed by powerful men. She is not going to fall in love with a king just because the universe says she should.
But something is waking up inside her, it is older than the mate bond, older than pack law, older than the Moon Goddess herself and when it fully opens its eyes, nothing in Aeloria will ever be the same again.
Least of all her.
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Chapter: CHAPTER SEVEN IVORY'S POVI did not sleep.I had not expected to. Sleep required a level of physical surrender I had learned to ration carefully, a deliberate relaxing of the architecture I kept constructed around myself at all times, and I was not capable of that here. Not yet. Maybe not for a long time.Instead I sat in the chair by the window and let the night do what it was going to do.It was quieter than Silverstone. That was the first strange thing. The pack house had always carried noise even in the small hours, the particular ambient restlessness of too many people compressed into shared territory, someone always awake, always moving, the creak of floorboards and the low murmur of voices in rooms I was not invited into. I had learned to measure the house by its sounds. I knew what three in the morning sounded like versus two. I knew the specific quiet that meant Edward was working late and the different quiet that meant he had gone to Selena's rooms, and I knew not to confuse the two because the conse
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Chapter: CHAPTER SIX IVORY'S POV"You haven't slept."His voice came from across the seat without warning and I went very still, the way I had learned to go still when something large and unpredictable moved in my direction."You've been awake since we left." He hadn't looked up from his tablet. "You can sleep. It's going to be a long drive."I turned my head to look at him fully for the first time since the car started moving.He was still not looking at me. His eyes were on the screen in his hand, and his face gave nothing away, not impatience, not the particular brand of pointed attention that meant someone was performing not-watching while actually watching. He simply appeared to be reading."I don't sleep in strange places," I said. My voice came out quieter than I intended. More careful.A beat."Valdris won't be a strange place forever."I did not know what to do with that. So I said nothing and turned back to the window.He did not push. He did not fill the silence with justifications or reassurances or the k
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Chapter: CHAPTER FIVEIVORY'S POVThe car was warm.That was the first thing I noticed, the first thing I catalogued and filed away behind the careful blankness I had been wearing since the moment Zion Valdris turned to Edward and said done without a single pause.The car was warm, and it smelled like something I did not have a name for. Clean. Expensive. Like leather that had never had anything spilled on it, and underneath that, was another smell. Cedar, maybe. Rain on stone. The kind of smell that you could never pinpoint.I pressed myself into the corner of the back seat and did not move.There were three of them in the vehicle with me. A man in the front passenger seat who had the particular stillness of someone trained for violence and waiting patiently for permission to use it, and Zion himself. He sat on the opposite end of the back seat, separated from me by an expanse of space he had not tried to close. He was reading something on a small tablet, the light from it turning the planes of his face s
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Chapter: CHAPTER FOUR IVORY’S POV“Very well then,” Edward said with a greedy smile. “She is all yours now.”I sat there frozen in shock, staring at the tall stranger. My brain stopped working for a moment, trying to understand the man before me.He had just bought me, like I was a piece of furniture or a goat at the market. My heart started beating so loud that I could hear it in my ears.No. Not again.I pushed myself up from the stump on shaky legs. The dress on my body felt cold and disgusting, but I didn’t care. I started backing away slowly.“I’m not going anywhere with you,” I said weakly.Zion turned to Edward, completely ignoring my statement. “Prepare the papers. The debt agreement and the marriage contract with Elder Harkin. Bring them now.”Edward nodded quickly like an obedient dog and shouted at one of the warriors standing nearby. The man ran off toward the pack house.Then Zion turned back to me. He took one step closer. He was so tall I had to tilt my head all the way back just to look at his face. Hi
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Chapter: CHAPTER THREE IVORY’S POV“And where do you think you are going sister?” She questioned, twirling the glass of wine like a villain, that she was.“Celeste please, I’m not in the mood.” I responded in annoyance, I have had enough for a day to deal with any of her schemes this evening.“Oh look everybody, the curse of Silverstone pack now gets to dictate who does what.” She said loudly, which drew the attention of almost everyone in the room.She was out to humiliate me tonight.“What exactly is it you want from me, haven’t you taken enough to last a lifetime.” I demanded from her. She laughed and stepped closer to me. “I should be the one asking you that question. Or rather how you ever thought a person like Caden could be your mate.”I gasped in surprise, how did she know?“Surprised much.” She said, lowering her voice to the point it sounded like a whisper. “You think I didn’t notice how you look at him. It’s too bad you got rejected.”“Get lost Celeste.” I muttered.“Oh I will, in just about a—”Before she co
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Chapter: CHAPTER TWO IVORY’S POV“I will not marry him, cursed or not!” I said in tears as I stood to face them.“Just go already, do you know how many times you’ve refused to die!” Selene said before she could stop herself. Edward gave a warning look. But she pressed on with the last of her composure breaking.“You don’t feel pain, do you?” Celeste leaned forward with fake sweetness. “Maybe Elder Harkin would do us all a favour and end your miserable life.”“Listen to us Ivory. This is for the best and a win for all.” Edward supported. I knew they hated me, but this was beyond hatred. It was pure unfiltered evil. More tears flowed down my face as I thought about it.“You’re right,” I whispered. “I don’t have a choice.”I never had.“No you did not, cursed children are fated only for the worst.” Celeste responded to me.”I will send a bag of things to you, see if it fits and work out something…presentable for your ceremony.”After that they sent me back to the basement to prepare, Selene tossed down a bag of Celeste’s
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