Chapter: Chapter 24: Gone ELIAS'S POVDraven found me just before midday.He came quickly which meant what he had found was not small. He handed me a folded document without a word and I read it standing in the corridor outside Kael's office.By the third line I already knew.Maren. Real name is Maren Voss. No relation to Damien by blood but connected to Ironveil pack for seven years as a covert operative. Trained specifically for infiltration. Three confirmed assignments in that time — all of them involving extracting information from rival packs without detection. Never failed a single one.The dissolved northern pack story was completely fabricated. There was no dissolved northern pack.I folded the document.Draven was watching me with that steady expression of his that meant he had already drawn his own conclusions and was waiting to see if mine matched."Where is she now?" I said."That is the thing," Draven said. "We cannot find her."I was already moving toward Kael's door.KAEL'S POVI read the docume
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Chapter: Chapter 23:Cracks and ShadowsLYRA'S POVI woke up with the elder's words still sitting in my chest.He is your fated mate Lyra. Not an arrangement. Fated.I lay there for a moment staring at the ceiling and told myself very firmly not to think about it.Selene said nothing.Which was somehow more unsettling than if she had said something. Selene always had something to say. Her silence felt like the particular kind a person did when they already knew how something was going to end and had decided to let you figure it out yourself.Selene, I said.Good morning, she said pleasantly.That is all you have to say?It is a good morning, she said. The river sounds nice. You should go outside.I sat up.The bond. That was the thing I kept circling back to. I had felt it from the beginning — that pull toward Kael that I had been telling myself was gratitude or circumstance or simply the relief of being somewhere safe for the first time. But it wasn't any of those things and I had known that for longer than I was willing t
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Chapter: Chapter 22: Truth Between usLYRA'S POVAfter a while I wandered to the playground.I don't know what pulled me there exactly. Maybe I just needed somewhere quiet that wasn't actually quiet — the kind of place where noise existed but none of it was about me.I sat on a low stone wall at the edge of the yard and watched the children running around. Chasing each other. Tumbling. Laughing at things that didn't need to be funny to anyone else. A little girl was trying to get her younger brother to stop eating grass and he was absolutely refusing and she looked so frustrated and so devoted at the same time that I had to press my lips together to stop smiling too wide.I wondered what that felt like.Growing up with space to run. With other children to chase. With grass under your feet and nobody telling you to be smaller or quieter or less.I had grown up with a curtain between my bed and my mother's and the sound of the tin bath being filled on the stove. I had never had a playground. I had never had siblings to be fr
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Chapter: Chapter 21: Temptation all around Lyra's POVThe next morning after waking up I recalled what happened last night between me and Kael. But what I was looking at wasn't his manly built structure — when I looked down I saw his little man standing straight in front of me.I wondered how his wolf would also look like since I didn't see him clearly yesterday because it was dark. But seeing him yesterday he was huge and big with veins all around it and the thought of just remembering was making me feel hot and intense.To make this feeling go away I headed to the bathroom to take a bath.I sank into the warm water and closed my eyes and told myself very firmly to stop thinking about it.Selene laughed.Not out loud. Inside. That quiet ripple of amusement she did when she found something funnier than she was willing to admit.Stop, I said.I didn't say anything, she said innocently.You were thinking it.I was simply observing, she said, that you have been in this bath for seven minutes and have thought about absolutely nothi
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Chapter: Chapter 20:Pains and Relief Three maids came at sunset they were , carrying dresses and pins and small pots of things that smelled like flowers and warm oil. They came into the room Sera and I were sharing like they owned it and immediately started pulling things out and laying them on the bed and talking over each other in fast cheerful voices.Sera sat up from where she had been lying and looked at everything spread across the bed and her face broke into the first real smile I had seen from her since she arrived."Oh," she said. Simply. Like that one word was enough.I understood completely.The dress they picked for me was deep blue. Simple but the fabric was soft in a way I had never felt before, then I touched it just to make sure it was real. One of the maids did my hair with quick practiced fingers and pinned it up in a way that left small pieces falling around my face and I stood in front of the small mirror when she was done and barely recognised myself.Sera appeared beside me in deep green, her dark
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Chapter: Chapter 19:The girl at the borderLYRA'S POVKael found me after breakfast.I had been sitting by the Dawnridge river for an hour, the letter folded in my pocket, the old woman's words still turning over in my head. The water was cold and clear and moved with the particular confidence of something that had been going in one direction for a very long time and had no intention of stopping.He sat down beside me without askingWe were quiet for a moment. After a while"Lyra," he started."I know about the letter," I said.He went still."My mother's handwriting but steadier than I have ever seen it." I kept my eyes on the river. "She wrote it years ago. Someone in this pack has been holding it since before I ever set foot in Ironveil." I paused. "Your father left instructions."The silence that followed was very long."Yes," Kael said finally. Like he had been carrying the word for so long it came out with no weight left in it."How much do you know?" I asked."Everything," he said. "I have known everything since before
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Marked by the forbidden Alpha
Isadora Vane took the wrong path home and ended up in the hands of the most dangerous wolf pack in the region,
She expected to die,
What she did not expect was their Alpha,
Evander Blackthorn is cold, cursed and completely forbidden, the Moon Goddess cursed him with the cruelest punishment she could design, his mate mark kills whoever he claims, and the moment Isadora walked into his keep his wolf looked at her and said mine,
Now he is fighting a curse that wants her dead, a traitor hiding in his inner circle and his own heart that refuses to let her go,
And she is fighting something far more dangerous,
The feeling that going home is no longer the only thing she wants,
Some loves are worth dying for,
The question is whether he will let her choose ??
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Chapter: Chapter 23: Things left UnsaidI got to the bookshop earlier than I needed to,Old habit, the kind that survived everything apparently, including being kidnapped by wolves and kissed by an Alpha in a moonlit bedroom at two in the morning, my body still knew that work started at eight and that arriving ten minutes early was the right thing to do,I was at the door with my key out when I saw him through the glass,Marcus,He was inside arranging books on the shelf the way he always arranged books, methodically like it was something that mattered, and I stood outside the door for a moment and looked at him and noticed how he still looked as charming as before, the dark curly hair and the warm brown eyes and the easy way he moved through a space,And funny enough I was not moved,Not even a little,I stood there genuinely puzzled by this because I had carried a crush on Marcus for five years, five years of Thursday deliveries and rehearsed conversations and hoping he would look up from whatever he was doing and actuall
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Chapter: Chapter 22: Morning after After much thought about it I finally went to sleep,And I thanked God that I did not disturb the others because the last thing I needed was Danny knocking on my door asking why I was awake at two in the morning with my curtain still moving from a window I had not opened myself,The next morning I woke early around six as usual,I lay there for exactly three seconds before I made myself get up and get dressed because lying there meant thinking and thinking meant last night and last night was something I had made a firm decision not to revisit before breakfast,I went downstairs,Ruth was at the stove, Danny was setting plates, Caroline was cutting bread, and the three of them moved around each other in the small kitchen with the easy rhythm of people who had spent weeks holding the same space together, and when I walked in all three of them looked up at the same time,Nobody said anything for a moment,Then Danny said good morning and went back to the plates and that was how I knew he
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Chapter: Chapter 21:Home and Hunted (ii)After he came inside my room he looked everywhere and said it looks very portable and comfySo all I could say was thank you and immediately I felt really nervous My mind started bringing different thoughts of what could happen today and I began to feel restless.Then he spokeIsadora I don't know what you might think of me right now but it's because- because my wolf wouldn't stay still I am attached to you Isa and he kept drawing closer.I kept pushing back until my body landed on the wall and there was no space for me to move again.Then I look at her other side trying to avoid eye contact with him .I felt really hot as he came closer and he finally did then he said.You might not understand what I am about to say. Isa you are my mate and we are meant to bond but I can't and the more I keep resisting the more I keep wanting what I should do with you.I became short of words and really loss as to what I am about to say According to what wren has told me I was able to understand t
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Chapter: Chapter 20:Home and Hunted I screamed his name before I even fully processed that it was him, and then I screamed Caroline's and both of them spun around and their faces did the thing faces do when they see someone they had already started to grieve, that specific crack of disbelief and relief hitting at the same time,Run, I said, I was still running, I did not stop, just grabbed Caroline's arm as I passed her and said run right now and she ran, she did not ask questions, she just ran, and Danny fell into step beside me and the three of us crashed through the undergrowth together with the sounds of the Duskfang wolves somewhere behind us fading, fading, and then gone,We did not stop until we hit the edge of the tree line,The road was there, the actual road, tarmac and lamplight and the ordinary human world sitting exactly where it had always been, and we stumbled out of the trees and stood there breathing hard with our hands on our knees and the forest behind us dark and silent,Danny straightened up first,
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Chapter: Chapter 19:Not yet Goodbye I was given an hour to pack,Which was almost funny because I had arrived with nothing and I was leaving with almost nothing, just the clothes that had been given to me and the small things Wren had pressed into my hands over the weeks, a hair tie, a small pot of something that smelled like lavender, a note she had written and folded twice that she told me not to read until I was home,I held the note for a long moment,Then I put it in my pocket and looked around the room that had been mine for weeks, the window with its view of the courtyard and the forest beyond, the fireplace that Maren kept stocked without being asked, the bed that had been too wide and too warm and nothing like the thin mattress in the cell below and everything like something I had not expected to get used to,I had gotten used to it,That was the inconvenient truth sitting in the middle of everything else,Wren came in without knocking because she had stopped knocking three weeks ago and sat on the bed and watc
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Chapter: Chapter 18:Just one wordThe whole pack was summoned before breakfast I knew because Wren appeared at my door while I was still in bed with her hair scattered and her eyes wide and she said get up, get dressed the Alpha has called a full pack assembly. immediately I sat up because full pack assemblies in this keep had a specific energy attached to them and the last one I attended had involved three people kneeling in the dirt of the courtyard,What is happening I said,I do not know exactly she said but the whole keep is already talking,I dressed quickly and followed her out,The great hall was already full when we arrived,The great hall was long and lit with morning light coming through the high windows, and three hundred wolves packed into it with the specific restless energy of people who had been told something was happening without being told what.I stood at the back with Wren beside me and Cole who had appeared from somewhere on my other side and I looked around at the faces nearest to me and tried
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