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ผู้เขียน: Vireya Flameborne
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Nyra’s hands were still glowing as she sealed the last of the warding spells over my suite door.

None of us spoke.

The mark was gone. But the feeling it left behind wasn’t.

Daxos paced like a caged god at war. Sevrin’s blade never left his grip. And Azric hadn’t stopped scanning the shadows once, his mind already digging into the palace walls for secrets no one else could hear.

A cursed sigil.

Etched onto my door while I stood before a kingdom. Vulnerable. Unknowing.

And now?

Now there would be blood.

Azric froze. “Footsteps. Guard wing. Someone’s running.”

He vanished without another word.

Sevrin was right behind him, moving like smoke and steel.

Daxos stepped in front of me, body tense, jaw tight. “Stay here.”

“I’m not hiding,” I snapped.

“I’m not asking you to,” he said, voice dark. “I’m warning them.”

Less than five minutes later, Azric returned, dragging a guard by the collar of his uniform.

The man was young. Shaking. Eyes darting too fast, like something inside him was already b
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  • BLOODBOUND - THE VAMPIRE TRIALS   THE FOREST IS CALLING

    It didn’t start as a whisper this time.It started as a pulse.A deep, bone-deep thrum that rippled through my blood like a second heartbeat.The mark on my palm, faint for days, flared to life without warning, veins of molten gold streaking up my arm and threading beneath my skin until it looked like roots trying to escape. It hurt, but not in a way I could fight. It was a summons I couldn’t ignore.I was still furious at it.The forest had taken my flame. It had burned me hollow and left me gasping in the dirt. Now, it dared call me back as if I were its tethered hound.And gods help me… I answered.Nyra didn’t even try to stop me. She was already waiting at the threshold of the palace doors when I shoved them open, her satchel slung over her shoulder, the chained book pressed tight against her spine. Her sharp green eyes met mine, and in them, I saw no surprise, only grim certainty.“It’s louder this time,” she said.“It doesn’t stop,” I rasped, flexing my burning hand. “It’s clawin

  • BLOODBOUND - THE VAMPIRE TRIALS   MINDS OF FIRE

    It had been three days since the assassination attempt on Nyra.Three days of locked doors and watchful shadows.Three days of silence that felt like it could splinter bone.Valkhara stood at the window, fingers curled around the stone sill, watching the blackened clouds roll low across the sky. The scent of rain teased the air, but it hadn’t fallen yet. It was waiting—like the rest of them.Sevrin paced the hall outside her room like a caged animal. Daxos hadn’t slept. Nyra remained sealed in the library, surrounded by protective wards, her blood still drying on the marble floor where she’d nearly bled out.And Azric...Azric had stopped speaking altogether.No one could find him. Not really. His body was here, in the castle. But the man? His mind? His presence? Gone.“Where is he?” Valkhara asked for the third time that day, her voice raw.Daxos only shook his head. “We’ve searched every inch of this place. The guards haven’t seen him. No one has.”“He’s hiding,” Sevrin said darkly.

  • BLOODBOUND - THE VAMPIRE TRIALS   WHISPERS

    The crack still ran down the center of the book’s final page, thin as a splinter, dark as ash. No words had returned. No ink. No revelation.Just that damn humming.I’d traced the curve of it over and over again with my fingertips until my skin was raw and my nerves on edge. But whatever was hidden inside that page refused to show itself.“Maybe it’s cursed,” Sevrin said from the far corner of the chamber. “Wouldn’t be the first time the Council tried to bury knowledge behind a spell designed to break minds.”“It’s not cursed,” Nyra snapped, though she didn’t sound sure anymore. “It’s cloaked.”“And cloaked from who?” Sevrin shot back. “Because apparently not from her.” He nodded to me, pacing again like his body couldn’t handle stillness. “Every time she touches it, something pulses. But to the rest of us? Nothing. Not even a flicker.”“She’s changing,” Daxos said, quietly. “We knew that already.”And that, more than anything, shut Sevrin up.The silence that followed was heavy.Like

  • BLOODBOUND - THE VAMPIRE TRIALS   THAT BLOOD OATH

    The palace hadn’t slept since the courtyard trial.Not really.Not when the scent of scorched blood still clung to the marble halls. Not when whispers stirred behind every gilded door. Not when the Council’s fire pit failed to kill me, and instead, fed something even worse.Something they couldn’t control.Couldn’t predict.Couldn’t see.And now, they were unraveling.In the highest chamber of the Council tower, nine robed figures stood in furious silence around a basin of black glass. The flame inside it flickered, and then guttered out completely."She should have burned,” one hissed.“She did,” another spat. “And she rose from it.”The eldest, draped in violet and bone, slammed her fist on the table. “This isn’t rebirth. This is a mistake. An abomination we let survive.”“She was never meant to live past the second Trial.”“No,” murmured the seer at the end, his voice trembling. “She was never meant to remember who she is.”Silence fell like a blade.Then: “It’s the witch. The girl

  • BLOODBOUND - THE VAMPIRE TRIALS   THE STORM WILL RISE

    The courtyard still crackled behind us, the scent of scorched flesh thick in the air like a warning. Blood and prophecy clung to me in equal measure. My steps weren’t graceful, they were raw, each one carved from will alone. I didn’t walk back inside.I stalked.Barefoot. Smoking. Broken.The stone beneath me hissed from the heat of my skin. No one dared speak. No one dared move. The nobles parted like reeds before a storm. My eyes were forward, unflinching. My mates flanked me in silence, radiating rage like shields made of fury.Only when the palace doors slammed shut behind us did the spell break.My knees buckled.Daxos caught me before I hit the floor, his arms locking around my waist with a growl of pure instinct. My head fell against his chest, and I could hear his heartbeat, w

  • BLOODBOUND - THE VAMPIRE TRIALS   EMBERBORN NOMORE

    The scent of sex and sweat hadn’t even faded from the sheets when the knock came.... sharp and final.Daxos opened the door.A scroll floated midair, wrapped in flickering flame.But even as it hovered, that flame didn’t burn.It was hollow.Dead.Mocking.He caught it in one hand and ripped it open.By the time he finished reading, Sevrin had already stepped from the shadows.Azric leaned back against the wall, mouth stained with me.No one spoke.Not until Daxos said, voice like gravel soaked in thunder, “They want her to enter the Emberless Flame.”My robe slipped over my shoulders as I stood. “Then let’s give them a show.”“Valkhara.” Azric’s voice was sharp. “They’re testing you. Publicly. You don’t have to—”“I do.” My voice was steady. “Because if I don’t walk into that pit, they win.”“They’re trying to kill you,” Sevrin snapped.“Then they better aim better this time,” I said, stepping forward, the floor still sticky beneath my feet from our chaos.Nyra met us in the hallway,

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