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Chapter 51: The Tail
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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
BOUND BY REVENGE: The Alpha King's broken bride Chapter 51: The Tail
POV: Lucian (First Person)Two wolves. They have been moving parallel to us since midday."Those words from Thorne and the camp was already being packed before the last one landed. No fire to douse because we had not yet lit one. Two minutes and we were moving into the trees, the open ground abandoned behind us like it had never been ours.“Stay hidden” I turned and said to Nyx. Thorne and I split without a word.East and west, No discussion required. No assignment of roles. We had done this kind of thing in enough dark forests that our bodies knew which way to go before our minds finished the instruction.I took the east.I did not move fast. Fast was noise and noise was death in a forest at night where two trained wolves were already positioned and alert. I moved with patience. With the controlled stillness of a man who had learned long ago that the person who won in the dark was rarely the person who moved quickest. It was always the person who was most comfortable in it.I heard
BOUND BY REVENGE: The Alpha King's broken bride Chapter 50: First Days North
POV: Nyx (First Person)I was not falling off the horse, I was simply adjusting that was what I told myself anyways. There is a difference and I would like it noted that I maintained my seat for the entire first day and most of the second, which was a considerable achievement given that I had spent precisely zero hours of my twenty three years learning to ride anything and had decided forty eight hours before departure that this was not information anyone needed to have.Thorne noticed first he said nothing about it. He simply looked at me from across the road with the expression of a man filing information he intended to use later.Then Elara noticed second. "You cannot ride," she said, pulling alongside me on the second morning with the specific directness she used when she had decided kindness and efficiency were the same thing."I can ride," I said."You are gripping the mane.""I am resting my hand on the mane."She looked at me. I looked at the road. “Oh Nyx.” The conversation
BOUND BY REVENGE: The Alpha King's broken bride Chapter 49: With or Without You
POV: Nyx (First Person)I walked into his study with my chin up and my decision already made.He moved over and sat behind his desk looking at me directly with calm attention. Waiting for me to say what I had come here for. I gathered up boldness and said "Elara and I will be going north. To my hometown."I felt his eyes scan me slowly. "And why is that?""We need more information on my bloodline to help Mara recover properly. Elara has hit a wall she cannot get around from here."He leaned forward slightly. "The archive should-""It does not have what we are looking for." I did not let him finish. "Someone made sure of that a long time ago. There is almost nothing left. Whatever documentation existed about the Noven bloodline has specifically and deliberately been removed. The only place it might still exist is where my family lived."He looked at me with the careful specific attention he gave everything that mattered. Then: "And if I say no?"I held his gaze. "I did not come here
BOUND BY REVENGE: The Alpha King's broken bride Chapter 48: Dead end (Blocked)
POV: Nyx (First Person)I knew something was wrong twenty minutes in.Not with me. I was doing what Elara had taught me. Sitting still, breathing slowly, keeping myself open without reaching. Mara was there too, pressing forward with the steady determined energy she had been building over five sessions, closer to the surface than she had been even yesterday.The problem was Elara.I could feel it in the quality of her silence. There was the silence she wore when she was working, focused and deliberate, the silence of someone moving through a process with full confidence in the map. And then there was this silence. The silence of someone who had hit a wall they did not expect and were not showing me yet.She ended the session fifteen minutes early."I need to check something," she said.I read her face. Something had shifted behind her eyes, the expression of a person who has understood a problem they do not yet have a solution to."Okay," I said.She left without explaining further an
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