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Chapter 29 - Lucien
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BryantSelina gets a twisted pleasure out of prodding Lucien’s feelings for Nora. At least he spent his time investigating the breach rather than fighting with Caelum and Elias over Nora.
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Ashes of Six Chapter 29 - Lucien
The word breach hit me like a slashed vein. Whispers in the halls, pairs of runners, the tower bells clanging out a single cold note. I should have been with the council, playing the heir, instead, the sound had wrenched a string in my chest until it hurt. Not mine. Hers. The bond between us, thin and worn, still alive, buzzed a warning through my bones. Nora outside a wall that should have held. Silver-blooded mercenaries flashed through my mind, killers who didn’t guard, only took. My fists ached as I forced myself forward. Politics could wait. She couldn’t. The bond thrummed again. It wasn’t a voice. It wasn’t a message. It was only a pull under my ribs that said, “Move.” I swore under my breath and did. Every instinct I had lined up in a single direction. Find her. I saw the gardens over and over when I closed my eyes. Moonlight on shattered stone, the path where the wards thinned near the old Aurelian gate, the same place the rumors said she had been on the night of the Hunter
Ashes of Six Chapter 28 - Caelum
I had been pacing the edge of the old Aurelian gardens, half in shadow, half in moonlight, waiting for her to come. The note was simple, direct, and unsigned. Meet me when the moon rises. I knew she would hesitate, but I also knew she wouldn’t ignore it forever. The mate bond had been pulling at both of us since the gardens on the Hunter’s Moon, and tonight it felt even tighter, like a rope wound between our hearts. Then it hit. The shift in the air came first, a faint hum that made my teeth ache, and then the scent rolled in on the wind. Foreign. Wrong. Metallic like blood left too long in the sun. It cut through every other smell in the night, slicing straight into my instincts. My wolf rose before my mind caught up, claws and teeth pressing against my skin as if it could break free without my consent. Nora. I could smell her beyond the wards, her scent bright and alive, tangled with something else. The realization hit hard enough to lock my chest. She was outside. Exposed. Vulne
Ashes of Six Chapter 27 - Elias
The archives swallowed sound, turning the shift of leather and parchment into whispers. I had been there for hours, chasing threads through dust and shadow until my eyes burned and the scent of old ink clung to my skin. Most of what I found were the same half-truths and political rewrites I already knew. Then my fingers brushed a book I was unfamiliar with. I slid the book forward, its spine bare, leather worn smooth by long-forgotten hands. The pages resisted, then sighed open in a cloud of dust. The script was older, the ink a dull copper in the lamplight. And at the top of one page, the words struck me like a heartbeat: The Trial of Flame. I read slower. It spoke of a rite dragons once faced before their power fully awakened, not just a test of strength, but of control. The fire was never the point. The will to master it was. Fail, and both dragon and bondmate were consumed. Pass, and the bond became unbreakable, magic in perfect sync. Then came the phrases that froze me. The
Ashes of Six Chapter 26 - Nora
Sleep didn’t come easily. When it finally did, it wasn’t the calm, dreamless kind I usually sank into. Heat coiled low in my stomach, tugging me through restless shadows until I was no longer in my bed at all. I was in the gardens again, the Hunter’s Moon burning red above me. The air was thick, humid with magic, and the sound of my breathing was louder than the wind through the leaves. Caelum stepped out from between the trees first. His eyes were storm-dark, locked on me like I was prey. He closed the distance in slow, deliberate strides, his hand sliding to the back of my neck. His mouth claimed mine in a kiss that was nothing but possession and heat, his body pressing into mine until I felt every inch of him. His other hand found my hip, pulling me flush against the hard ridge straining his pants. When I gasped into his mouth, he growled low in his chest, the sound vibrating through me. Then Lucien was there, his cool fingers sliding down my arm before his palm covered mine, pull
Ashes of Six Chapter 25 - Lucien
I saw it. Most people would have missed it, but I have spent my entire life watching for the smallest tells. The shift in weight, the faint flare in the nostrils, the way a gaze lingers half a heartbeat too long. Caelum was not just looking at her. He was tracking her as if she were already his. It burned through me, hot and corrosive, settling in my chest like acid. She walked beside him, saying nothing, and he did not need words. His body spoke for him, the low tilt of his head, the faint bend of his frame toward hers as if the rest of the world had ceased to exist. He was the storm she did not know was circling her. I told myself I had no claim. That was the truth, on paper. But truth had never mattered when it came to her. I had felt it in my veins from the moment I first touched her, an echo of something older than reason. My bond was incomplete, frayed, a shadow of what it could be. And I had done nothing to strengthen it. That was my mistake. Now I was watching him take wha
Ashes of Six Chapter 24 - Caelum
I hadn’t had a second to myself since the gardens. The Hunter’s Moon had faded, but the pull of it lingered still, thrumming in my veins. Every rustle in the halls yanked me tight, every echo in the stone hallways made my skin twitch. Every scent in the corridors threatened to be hers, and when it was, my body responded before my mind could catch up, and I was caught between instinct and the fact that she had backed away. The gardens played in bright flashes in my head, her breath hot on my cheek, her fingers under my shirt, her magic curling into mine with no hesitation. She had met me with the same fire I had carried, the same hunger between my ribs until she stopped. I’d convinced myself it was the moon, too fast, too powerful for her. It was like wildfire. She was a wildfire. My wildfire. But the truth gnawed at me. She had stopped herself, and I had no idea why. My wolf hated not knowing. I felt wound too tight now, edges too sharp. Every whisper of cloth against cloth, every
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