Chapter: Chapter 5: The Angel With Silver EyesAviana's POV I had stopped counting days.What was the point? The days came and went the same way … dark, cold, the thin line of light under the door brightening and fading and brightening again. My body had stopped feeling much of anything since the betrayal. The bond’s absence was a dull permanent ache now, like a missing tooth your tongue kept finding. I had stopped expecting it to feel different.But I hadn’t stopped feeling her.That was the one thing that kept me present. The tiny flicker of life low in my stomach, so small still, so quiet … but there. Every morning I pressed both hands flat against my belly and checked and every morning she was still there and that was enough to make me open my eyes for another day.I don’t know how yet, I told her in the dark. But I am going to get you out of here.I meant it. I just didn’t know how to make it true.Then one evening, the guard brought the food … moldy bread, the usual, I ate it without looking … and when he left I heard it
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Chapter: Chapter 4: What The Moon Gave And TookAviana's POV “Mate.”I could finally feel it in my veins. It felt like an invincible force pulling me to look for something. Like a missing half of my soul.I sat up slowly. The pain in my back was still there … but underneath it something else had woken up too. It felt like a thread attached to the center of my chest being tugged by invisible hands.My emotions were all over the place. I hadn’t expected it to feel like this.I pressed a hand to my chest. My heart was beating too loudly, my eyes had shifted to a bright gold colour.Then the smell hit me.I followed it outside, through the corridor, down the steps, into the garden where the morning was still grey and soft and the dew hadn’t dried yet. The scent hit me like a wave … warm and deep and so achingly familiar that my eyes filled immediately.I knew that scent.I had known it my whole life, it was Phillip.He was standing at the garden’s edge in his training clothes, having just come around the far path, and he stopped when
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Chapter: Chapter 3: The Lycan KingThird Person POV The girl was still breathing hard when Damian pulled out of her and reached for his slacks.He dressed without looking at her. Crossed to the window. Tapped a cigarette from the case on the sill and lit it, watching the city below… it was dark and quiet at this hour, his city, though most of his people had convinced themselves he was dead.He took a long slow drag.He didn’t know how much time had passed when her arms came around him from behind. She felt soft and warm but it didn’t move him one bit.“Come back to bed.” Her voice was low and sweet. “And if you aren’t tired yet I don’t mind taking care of you a little longer.” The silk of her robe slipped from one shoulder as she pressed her high breast closer to his back.“Get out.”She stilled.“Damian, I…”“I said get out.”A pause. Then … “But Damian. I love you.”He crossed to the side table without a word, opened the drawer, and pulled out a thick roll of cash. Held it out behind him without turning around.
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Chapter: Chapter 2: The Only OneAviana's POV I don’t know how I made it back to my room with all the pain I felt.I kept one hand on the wall. Putting one foot in front of the other. Blood dripped off me and hit the floor as I walked passed.I bit down on my lip so hard I tasted more blood. Don’t make a sound. Don’t you dare make a sound.If anyone heard me crying, it would start another round of beating. I knew that from experience. Weakness was an invitation here. So I kept my mouth shut and my teeth pressed into my lip and I moved one slow step at a time down the corridor.I was almost at my door when something hit my back.The scream tore out of me before I could stop it.“Arrgh…” I clawed at my own back, fingers scrabbling at the ruined skin, trying to stop the burning that exploded through every open wound at once. My knees nearly buckled. I grabbed the wall and held on.“You look so funny when you cry like that.”I turned around slowly.Patricia stood a few feet away holding an empty bottle, her perfectly
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Chapter: Chapter 1: Little BirdAviana’s POV Endure it, Aviana. You are not a murderer.The lash came down on my back, splitting the skin open. I squeezed my eyes shut. Clutching my fingers so tight it broke the skin in my palm. You are not a murderer.Another one landed before I could breathe through the first causing more blood to spill down my damages back.I am not a murderer. I screamed it inside my head trying to hold myself together and silence all their voices. I could hear it, I could feel their emotions and it was driving me crazy.Don’t you dare cry. I told myself that too. Don’t you dare give them that.My knees buckled against the rough stone floor of the punishment hall, the crowd made a sound of amusement at my pain. I could see their emotions as clear as daylight. They all wanted one thing and that was to see me dead and rotting. The hall sat at the lowest level of the palace, carved directly into the bedrock beneath the east wing, far enough underground that no sound ever reached the floors above
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