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CHAPTER 30: Let Her Listen
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BOUGHT BY THE BEAST CHAPTER 130: The Heat in the Dark
His mouth closed over mine before I could form another word, but only for a moment.Caspian kissed me deep and slow, tasting the salt of my skin, the leftover fear, the victory still trembling through both of us. Then he pulled back just enough to look at me properly in the firelight. His silver eyes dragged over my face, my torn sleeve, the soot along my collarbone, the dried blood still streaked near my hairline.His jaw flexed."No," he murmured, voice rough. "Not like this."I blinked up at him, still breathless. "Caspian...""You are covered in war, sweet girl." His thumb brushed my cheek and came away dark. "Ash. Blood. Dirt. I will not take my Queen while the battlefield is still on her skin."Before I could argue, he lifted me again as if I weighed nothing and carried me through the arched doorway into the bathing chamber attached to the royal suite.Steam already curled from the wide stone bath set into the floor, fed by heated pipes beneath the Keep. The water glowed faintly
BOUGHT BY THE BEAST CHAPTER 129: The Execution on the Dais
The bolt never left the string.Caspian moved before Cedric’s finger could complete its pull. He did not run. He did not leap. He hurled his heavy broadsword across thirty feet of open space with a sound like a tearing storm.The broad steel blade caught Cedric straight through the throat, driving his body backward into the velvet-draped throne. The impact shattered the carved wooden backrest, pinning the lord to his own stolen seat.Cedric’s double-barreled crossbow clattered against the marble steps, discharging uselessly into the high ceiling, sending plaster dust raining down over the dais.The five remaining Assembly lords shrieked in horror, scrambling backward like rats in a flooded cellar.Silence fell over the hall once more... heavy, dark, and total.Then, Caspian crossed the granite floor with long, measured strides. He climbed the steps of the dais, reached out, and pulled his broadsword from the dead lord
BOUGHT BY THE BEAST CHAPTER 128: The Trial of Blood
The giant executioner looked down at the thin steel blade in my hand, and a deep, rumbling laugh tore from his throat."That is what you bring to a Trial of Blood, girl?" Varg asked, his voice sounding like two grinding millstones. He lifted his double-headed battleaxe with one arm, the dark steel catching the orange glare of the braziers. "A paring knife?"On the elevated dais, Lord Cedric and the five Assembly lords smiled. It was a cold, arrogant sound that echoed off the black granite walls. They saw a woman in a plum velvet dress standing before a seven-foot pit killer, and they believed the outcome was already written in stone.I did not answer him. I did not smile.I took a slow breath, letting the cold air of the hall fill my lungs. Then my wolf, who had been kept small and quiet for so many weeks, finally stirred in the deepest part of my ribs. She lifted her head, her golden eyes opening behind my eyelids, her ancient instincts aligning with the First Moon Seal resting over
BOUGHT BY THE BEAST CHAPTER 127: The Gate of Thorncross
The heavy wooden carriage rolled through the slush, the iron-rimmed wheels grinding against stone as we reached the outer courtyard of Thorncross Keep. Inside the cabin, the air remained warm, smelling of dark furs and cedar. Caspian sat beside me on the bench, his big hand resting over mine where our fingers were laced together on my velvet lap. He wasn't pinning me or holding me so tight I couldn't move. He was just present, his thumb making slow, steady passes over the back of my hand, his silver eyes watching my face in the dim light of the hanging lantern."You look calm," he said softly, his voice a low rumble above the sound of the wheels."I am calm," I replied, looking up at him. "Because you're awake, and because I know what we're going back to finish."A ghost of a smile touched his mouth. He lifted my hand, pressing a brief, warm kiss to my knuckles before the carriage jolted to a complete stop.Outside, the gates of the Keep had opened without a single shot fired. Word
BOUGHT BY THE BEAST CHAPTER 126: The Mother in the Market
I left the Keep at dawn.Not through the main gates, but through the kitchen courtyard entrance that most people did not know existed, the one Caspian had shown me months ago when he was still teaching me the architecture of a fortress that was becoming mine.I wore a hooded cloak and no crown and the particular expression of a woman who did not want to be stopped by guards asking where their Queen was going at six in the morning without escort.My wolf led.She pulled me through the streets of Thorncross the way a hunting dog pulls toward a scent, that low insistent pressure in my chest that said this way, this way, faster, and I followed because she had been right about everything else and I was done second-guessing the one part of me that had never once been wrong.The merchant district was waking up around me. Vendors setting out their stalls. The smell of bread from the bakeries mixing with woodsmoke and the sharp cold bite of a winter morning that did not care what was hunting m
BOUGHT BY THE BEAST CHAPTER 125: The Cord
I did not move.Caspian's arm was still around me, his breath warm against my shoulder, his heartbeat slowing into the steady rhythm of a man settling into the aftermath of something that had emptied him completely. Through the bond he felt sated and fierce and entirely present, the particular quality of a man who believed, for this brief window, that the world was exactly as it should be.I could not let him feel what I was feeling.Not yet.I locked it down. Buried it beneath the residual warmth of his body and the lingering pulse of pleasure still moving through my muscles and the drowsy satisfaction the bond was carrying between us like something precious being passed from hand to hand.But my wolf was not drowsy.My wolf was standing rigid in my chest, every nerve firing, her attention fixed on my left wrist where the braided cord sat against my skin, soft from months of wearing, the blue and silver threads faded by sweat and weather and time into something that looked like it ha
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