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Chapter 14: Aggie's Table
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BOUND BY REVENGE: The Alpha King's broken bride Chapter 57: The Ruins: Arriving
POV: Nyx (First Person)I smelled it before I saw it.Not smoke, that was nineteen years gone. Something older than smoke. The particular cold of a place that had been closed for a very long time, stone, earth, damp wood and the deep quiet of a structure that had been standing in its own ruin long enough that the ruin had become its natural state.We came through the tree line and I stopped.The Noven estate sat in a clearing that the forest had been slowly reclaiming for two decades. Three walls collapsed to the foundation, nothing left of them but the outline of where they had been, stones scattered and half buried in the earth. The roof entirely gone. Nineteen years of weather and overgrowth had done what the fire had started, pulling the structure back into the land it had been built on, and the clearing around it was not really a clearing anymore, just a place where the trees were younger and thinner because something had burned here once and the forest had grown back around the
BOUND BY REVENGE: The Alpha King's broken bride Chapter 56: The Last Night Before the Ruins
POV: Lucian (First Person)The inn had three rooms.Thorne and Elara took one each, which left the last one for Nyx and me. The innkeeper was apologetic about it bit there was nothing she could do. I looked at Nyx, she looked at the innkeeper, then she picked up her bag and went upstairs without making it a conversation and I followed.The room was medium sized. One bed, one chair, a table with a washbasin, a window that looked north toward the dark shape of the ridge we would cross tomorrow to reach the ruins. She dropped her bag at the foot of the bed and looked at the chair and then at me."I am not going to fight you for it," she said."Good," I said. "Because you would lose."She almost smiled. I saw the edge of it before she turned away, and I pulled the chair to the corner near the door because the door was where I wanted to be anyway and she climbed into the bed fully dressed as neither of us was pretending this was anything other than a practical arrangement between two peop
BOUND BY REVENGE: The Alpha King's broken bride Chapter 55: The Things We Say in the Dark
POV: Elara (Limited Third)"We split at the second ridge," Thorne said, his finger tracing the route on the map between them. "You and Nyx take the eastern approach through the tree line. Lucian and I come in from the north. We rejoin at the old marker stone before the final descent."Elara studied the map. The approach made sense, two smaller groups were harder to track than one party of four, and the eastern tree line would give her and Nyx natural cover for the last stretch. Whoever sent that location burst from the estate had bought them maybe a day before whoever received it could move."We lose two hours with the split," she said."We lose more than two hours if we walk in as a group and someone is waiting on the ridge."She did not argue because he was right, and when Thorne was right she did not waste time performing disagreement. She made a note on her copy of the route and he marked the rendezvous point on his and they folded the maps back to their travel creases. The fire
BOUND BY REVENGE: The Alpha King's broken bride Chapter 54: Moving North: The Land Changes
POV: Nyx (First Person)Something changed on the third day.Not the weather or the road. Something underneath both of those things, something I could not point to or name, that started at the base of my sternum and spread outward slowly the way warmth spread when you stepped into a heated room after a long time in the cold.The land was different up here.Not just wilder, though it was that, or emptier, though settlements had become sparse, scarce and then entirely absent as travelled through. It was something older than those descriptions could reach. The trees were larger. The ground between them was a different color, darker, richer, the soil of a place that had been left alone long enough to become fully itself. The ridges we crested every few hours had a quality that I had no word for, like they had been standing long before anyone thought to put roads through them and had opinions about the arrangement that they had simply been too patient to argue.I kept touching my sternum.I
BOUND BY REVENGE: The Alpha King's broken bride Chapter 53: The Border Inn: Night One
POV: Lucian (First Person)I read the document a third time and then I put it face down on the desk.Someone inside my estate had written those descriptions. The thought produced something in my chest that I did not have a clean name for.Not anger exactly. Anger was simpler than this. This felt like a sensation of a threat that had already moved past the point where I could stop it and was now simply a fact I had to manage, which was the category of threat I found most intolerable.The document stayed face down.The light under her door had been on since we arrived.I sat at the small desk for another ten minutes and looked at nothing in particular and did not examine what I was thinking about. Then I stood up and went to her door and told myself it was operational. We had an insider problem that needed thinking through and she thought fast and caught angles. Besides, the night was long.She opened the door and she was still dressed. “Hey” “Hello” I said backThen she looked at me
BOUND BY REVENGE: The Alpha King's broken bride Chapter 52: Elara and Thorne: The Argument
POV: Elara (Limited Third Person)"The ridge is faster," Thorne said."The ridge is exposed," Elara shot back."We have already lost a day on the new route.""We have also already acquired a tail. Would you like to acquire another one on an open ridge with no cover and nowhere to move if someone is waiting for us?"Thorne looked at her across the map and she looked back at him. The border settlement inn was small and the common room was smaller, a table, two chairs, a candle, and a map of the northern territory spread between them that had been the source of this particular disagreement for the last twenty minutes.He pointed at the ridge line. "Three hours faster. We reach the ruins before dark.""And if someone is positioned on that ridge who knew we were leaving the estate two days before we did, we reach nothing. We become the thing someone finds." She put her finger on the valley road, the longer route, the one that ran through dense tree cover for most of its length and offered
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