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CHAPTER Thirty-three — After the Applause Dies
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Bella POVThe floor buckled under my feet like the Academy had just taken a punch from something underneath it.I slammed my palm against the wall to keep it from going down as screams ripped through the corridor. Red light tore through the stone seams, hot and wrong, and the pull in my chest snapped tight like someone had yanked a chain attached to my heart.The ritual had started.“Lyra,” I breathed, already moving.I didn’t think, didn’t plan, I ran.Students were scattering everywhere, some crying, some frozen, some shifting half-way like their bodies couldn’t decide what to be anymore. A girl slammed into me, eyes wild. “It’s below”Another tremor cut her off.The Academy groaned like it was alive and didn’t like what was happening to it.I felt it then.That hum, low and steady. The same hum I’d felt in the chamber before they dragged me away. The same one that had hesitated when my blood hit the stone.“It answered,” I whispered.That was worse than failure.I skidded around a
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Lyra POVI shattered the bowl before the blood even finished steaming.Stones cracked. Shards flew. The sound echoed too loud in the chamber, bouncing off walls that had heard worse things than anger but still seemed to flinch at mine.The blood splashed across the etched floor, hissing softly where it met the old sigils, like it was offended I’d denied it purpose.“She was not meant to be there.”The chamber pulsed faintly in response, moonlight bleeding through the cracks in the ceiling like it was listening, like it was amused. The walls always reacted when emotions ran too close to the truth. This place had been fed too many confessions over the centuries to stay neutral.“She wasn’t meant to touch it,” I continued, pacing the circle. “She wasn’t meant to wake anything.”The shadow in the far corner shifted, pulling itself taller, denser, until the darkness felt occupied rather than empty.“You planned for her arrival,” it said calmly.“I planned for her timing,” I snapped. “Not f
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Jake POVThey dragged Bella past me like she was already a problem they’d solved.That was the first thing that snapped something in my head.Not the blood on her hands.Not the alarms screaming like the Academy itself was panicking.Not even the way the stone under my boots vibrated like it wanted to throw us all off.It was the way no one asked why.“Take her to the healers,” one of the elders said, sharp and final, like a verdict. “Contain the wing. Lock it down.”Contain.That word hit wrong.“Wait,” I said, stepping forward. “What happened?”No one answered me.Bella’s head lolled slightly as they pulled her along, but her eyes stayed open. Focused. Too focused for someone who’d just nearly torn herself apart.She looked at me. Not pleading nor scared.“She knows,” Bella rasped, voice barely carrying over the noise. “And she’s not done.”Then she was gone.The doors slammed, the alarms cut off.And suddenly it was too quiet.Lyra touched my arm.I flinched.It surprised both of u
BOUND by BLOOD and MOONLIGHT Chapter Thirty-five — When Blood Lies
Bella POVI stopped telling anyone where I was going. That was the first change.No more explanations, no more “I’ll be back.” No more looking over my shoulder to see who might be watching or pretending not to.If the Academy wanted me blind, I’d move in the dark on purpose.The second change came quietly.I stopped trusting Jake.Not because I wanted to. Because every time I opened my mouth to warn him, I saw Lyra’s voice sitting comfortably in his head, soft and familiar, smoothing over my words before they could land.So I shut up.And I started preparing alone.The place I found wasn’t on any map.The first thing I noticed was the smell.Not blood, not magic. Dust. The kind that settles only when no one’s walked a place for years.It was under the old south wing, past three sealed doors and a staircase that smelled like rust and old magic. The wards there were tired. Not broken, just old. Like they’d been holding their breath for too long.That thing inside me pulled hard as I des
BOUND by BLOOD and MOONLIGHT Chapter Thirty-four — Bound by Blood and Moonlight
Bella POVMy foot slid.I barely caught myself before my blade went too deep into the training post. The wood cracked clean in half, split. Like it had been waiting.Jake cursed behind me.“Bella.”I didn’t turn. My chest was tight, breath sharp, skin buzzing like it always did when the moon sat too high and my control got thin.“I said stop,” Jake added.I finally faced him. “I didn’t lose it.”“You almost did.”“Almost doesn’t count.”He ran a hand through his hair, frustration written all over him. “This isn’t a game.”“Neither is whatever the Academy’s doing to me.”That made him pause.Before he could answer, slow footsteps echoed across the stone.Lyra.She stopped just outside the circle, arms folded like she’d been standing there for ages.“You always trained too late,” she said to Jake, smiling. “I used to tell you that was when instincts got loud.”Jake smiled back.Something in my chest tightened.“She’s pushing herself,” Jake said.Lyra’s gaze slid to me, sharp and measuri
BOUND by BLOOD and MOONLIGHT CHAPTER Thirty-three — After the Applause Dies
Bella’s POV The applause didn’t stop when Jake was led off the platform.That was the worst part.People were clapping like something good had happened. Like they hadn’t just watched the elders humiliate their Alpha and quietly blame an omega for it. Like they hadn’t just seen power bend because the right family walked in at the right time.I stood there, hands clenched, pretending my chest didn’t feel like it was cracking open.The crowd broke into noise. Talking, laughing, speculating. The Academy does that thing it always does; chews on drama and spits out versions that taste better than the truth.“She shouldn’t have been there.” “He chose wrong.” “That Lyra girl though… Did you see her?” “Alpha blood recognizes alpha blood.”I walked passed, because if I stayed one more second, I was going to do something stupid.My boots hit stone hard as I cut through the corridor. Every step felt watched. Like eyes were tracking me from behind walls.Good. Let them watch.They already decided
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