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What freedom costs
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Back Into The Alpha’s Arms What a heart spilt into
TRISTANI didn’t go to combat training.Didn’t even leave the damn office.Instead, I sat in the dark, the only light coming from the fire in the corner and the bottle of whiskey I’d stolen from my father’s stash.She left. She fucking left.My fingers clutched the neck of the bottle tighter as the memory slammed into me again. The way her voice broke. The way her eyes couldn’t even look at me when she said it.I’m freeing myself.She used those words like they meant something noble. Like I was some prison and she was setting herself free. But I wasn't the cage. I was the one trying to keep her from burning the damn world down around her.I drank again, the burn biting down my throat like punishment.The door creaked open. I didn’t look.“You planning on drinking yourself to death or are you just getting a head start on tomorrow's regrets?”Maurice.I exhaled and leaned back in the chair, letting the fire warm one half of my face while the rest stayed cold.He shut the door and walked
Back Into The Alpha’s Arms What freedom costs
ELEANOR “Wait—Elle, just stop for a second. Please.”Tristan’s voice echoed behind me, low and urgent, but I didn’t stop. I kept walking, fast and angry, my boots hitting the stone floor like war drums. I shoved past a guard and stormed down the corridor, heart pounding, fists clenched.“Eleanor!”I spun on him so fast he almost ran into me. My voice came out shaking. “Don’t! Don’t tell me to stop! Don’t ask me to calm down! I heard everything, Tristan!”His eyes flicked toward the council chamber behind him, a flicker of guilt crossing his face before he buried it. “You shouldn’t have been there—”“But I was. I heard every word. You’re going through with the ceremony.”He ran a hand through his hair, jaw tight. “It’s not what you think.”“Really?” I snapped. “Because it sounded a lot like you agreeing to let the Council pick your Luna like it’s a godsdamned auction.”“I didn’t agree to be paraded,” he said sharply. “I agreed to a solution. One the Council practically shoved down my
Back Into The Alpha’s Arms What loyalty demands
TRISTANGods, not this again.The summons came at dawn—delivered with the kind of urgency only the Council could wield like a damn blade. A slip of parchment. A wax seal. One word scrawled in dark ink.Now.I stared at it for a full minute before I crumpled it in my hand.The past few days had already bled me dry.Cedric’s public challenge. The attack on Kate. Damian’s murder—his goddamn tongue in his hand like a message written in flesh. And Eleanor? She’d been avoiding me like I was the one with blood on my hands.I wasn’t in the mood for politics. I wasn’t in the mood for anything but sleep and maybe ten minutes where the world didn’t feel like it was folding in on itself.But they were calling. And when the Council called, I had to answer. Whether I liked it or not.I shoved the door open harder than necessary and stepped into the chamber.The room was circular, high-ceilinged, and thick with the scent of old parchment and damp stone. Torches lined the walls, flickering like they
Back Into The Alpha’s Arms What should have stayed buried
TRISTANFucking perfect.Of course they’d kill him before I got what I needed.The dungeon reeked of iron and rot—sharper today, like something curdled in the air. I moved through the corridor with boots echoing against stone, fists clenched so tight I felt my nails bite skin.He was supposed to talk. Not die.By the time I reached his cell, I already knew. From the silence. From the way Callen wouldn’t meet my eyes when he handed me the ring of keys.But seeing it still felt like a blade to the gut.Damian was slumped forward in the chains, head hanging at an unnatural angle. His throat had been slit deep and clean. His tongue—his fucking tongue—was gouged out and dropped into his open palm like a warning.The blood had dried in layers beneath him, pooling thickly around his boots.“You son of a bitch,” I muttered. Not to the killer. To him.I stepped in, jaw tight, heat thundering behind my eyes.“You couldn’t hold out just one more day?” My voice cracked. “Couldn’t die after you ga
Back Into The Alpha’s Arms What was always there
ELEANOR“He said something strange… said I should ask you.”It’s been two days since Tristan told me that. Two days since the man in chains spat blood and riddles, like he wasn’t already standing on the edge of death.Maybe it’s been hiding in my mind all along.I hadn’t slept properly since. The words echoed through every silence, clawing at the back of my mind when I closed my eyes. What did he mean? And what was hiding in me? Now, I stood by the dungeon stairs with laces half-tied and a chest full of smoke. I couldn’t sit still anymore. Couldn’t keep circling the edge of something this dangerous. Because if the monster behind Cedric had a name, and that name had ever lived inside me, then this blood was already on my hands.And I wouldn’t let another person fall because I kept my silence.Tristan was waiting in the corridor—arms folded, jaw tense, like stone carved in fury. He didn’t say anything as I passed. Didn’t try to stop me. He knew better.The cold hit first as we descende
Back Into The Alpha’s Arms What comes to light
ELEANOR"I'm scared, Mom."The words slipped out before I could catch them. She looked up from the hearth where the fire hissed and flickered, her eyes reflecting the glow. “Scared of what, sweetheart?”“Everything.” I sank into the chair across from her, clutching the edge of the blanket around my shoulders. “After what happened to Kate, I can’t stop thinking. What if I hadn’t gotten there in time? What if next time, I’m too late?”She didn't flinch. Just reached over and held my hand.“You saved her.”“Barely.” My voice wavered. “I’m supposed to be stronger than this. More focused. But I feel like I’m unraveling. And every time I look at Tristan...”She waited, quiet and patient like always.“It’s like I forget we’re at war. He makes me feel… safe. And that scares me. Because I think it’s making me careless.”“You think this love makes you weak?”I shook my head, slowly. “No. I just think it makes me vulnerable. And that’s not the same thing, but… it feels just as dangerous.”She
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