The Lycan King's Auction Prize
Devlin Ashford has spent her whole life being the daughter her family always forgot.
Inside the high walls of the Edevane stronghold, built to keep lycans and wolves out and everything else rigidly in, she learned early that love in her family was a privilege distributed by usefulness and she had never been the most useful child.
That distinction belonged to Mara, her older sister, who was beautiful and charming beyond words. When their father arranges Devlin's engagement to Corvin Hale, son of a neighboring chief, it is the first time in her life she has been given something that feels like a future.
Corvin was at least decent and had a bright future as the youngest son of a Chief. Mara decides that's too good a future for someone like Devlin.
Her parents make him choose, marry Devlin and live as just the youngest son of a Chief or marry Mara and become the chief of Edevane.
Corbin makes a choice without thinking twice, he chooses the more attractive sister with a bright future tied to it. Inciting Incident Devlin goes over the wall with just forty coins, a knife and an extra set of clothes. She doesn't make it far before she's captured by slave hunters.
In the borderlands auction market, the mate bond snaps in place between her and the lycan king, Ronan. That night he marks her in his room.
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Chapter: Chapter FiveRonan's POVThe last maid had tried to put hemlock in my tea. One of my guards had caught her before I drank it and she had not even tried to run. Just stood there in the kitchen and looked at him. My beta had wanted to make an example of her and I had let him because I was tired and because the attempt itself had bored me more than it had frightened me. People had been trying to kill me since I was fourteen. The creativity had long since stopped impressing me. But I still needed a maid. Boris had suggested the borderlands auction. He said there was a fresh batch from the chiefdoms, humans mostly, healthy enough. I had not particularly wanted to go myself but I trusted the judgment of exactly three people in my court and I was not sending any of them to pick a maid. I pulled my hood up before we reached the square. The borderlands market was loud and poorly organized, the way it always was. Merchants, servants and hunters moving between stalls, the noise of bidding carrying
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Chapter: Chapter FourDevlin's POVThe sobs had started to die down. Only the redhead had continued to cry for days on end. I wasn't the only one captured. There were others from the five chiefdoms, men and women who had ended up here the same way I had, through bad luck or bad timing or, in my case, jumping over a wall recklessly. I had always thought werewolves capturing humans to use or sell off as slaves were myths parents told their children so they wouldn't wander past the walls of Edevane after dark. I had been so wrong. Eric entered the tent. He walked straight to me and picked me off the floor, turning me around, running his eyes over my arms and legs the way you'd assess an animal before market day. "Your wounds have healed." He said. "You'll fetch me a good price at the auction square." "You're making a big mistake." I seethed. He looked at me with something that felt more like pity than amusement. "It's been a week and no one has looked for you." He said. "That tells me more than enoug
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Chapter: Chapter ThreeDevlin's POVI dragged myself deeper into the forest, terrified at the idea of my father and Corvin sending guards to drag me back inside the walls of Edevane for punishment. Every step cost something. My body made sure I knew it. The headache had settled into a dull continuous throb behind my eyes, and my face still burned where his hand had connected. My wet clothes clung to me, heavy and cold, and the night air wasn't helping. I wrapped my arms around myself and kept moving. Stopping felt like surrender. My foot caught on a branch. I went down hard, hands slamming into the dirt, cheek narrowly missing a root. I lay there for a moment. The rest was welcome, even like this, even face down on the forest floor. I closed my eyes and listened to the sounds of the night around me. Insects. Wind moving through the branches above. Somewhere distant, water flowing. The sound of footsteps disturbed my rest. Not one set but several. I scrambled to my feet.I looked around the forest
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Chapter: Chapter TwoDevlin's POVI had been in my room for the past hour angrily packing but no one had bothered coming up to check on me. They were probably still celebrating the news of Mara's new engagement, I thought bitterly. Sounds of mugs clinking together, the local band playing and loud voices congratulating my father rang out from downstairs. The music drifted up through the floorboards. I could hear laughter. Full, bright, unashamed laughter. Nobody was laughing like that when my engagement was announced. When my engagement with Corvin had been announced there was no fanfare, few neighbours had come to congratulate me when they found out I was getting married to a chief's son. A polite nod here. A brief well-wish there. Nothing that truly looked like joy. I threw my gowns down on the bed angrily as I paced the room, trying to let off some steam. The motion helped nothing. My chest was still a furnace, still burning with something I had no clean word for. Rage, yes. But underneath all t
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Chapter: Chapter OneChapter OneDevlin's POVMy vision goes red as I spot Mara clinging onto my fiancé, giggling at something he whispered in her ears. She sees me seething at the corner and smirks as he places a hand on his chest, fluttering her eyelashes as she gazed into his eyes. My body moved before I could stop it. I crossed the distance between us in just four long strides. "Mara Radcliff, get off him." I yelled as I grabbed her wrist tightly and threw her on the floor."Ow." She yelped as she fell to the ground dramatically. "Devlin." Corvin, my fiancé, gasped in shock as he bent to the floor immediately to check on Mara.I rolled my eyes at Mara as she let her crocodile tears fall. I didn't even shove her that hard. "What is wrong with you?Why would you just push her to the ground for no reason."He asked angrily as he inspected the scrapes on her palms."For no reason." I scoffed. "She was holding YOU, my fiancé, in public." His eyes darkened."We weren't doing anything wrong.""Corvin, d
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