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Bloodbound To The Alpha Beast Chapter 48
AURELIANI did not sleep.Sleep would have required mercy, and there was none to be had.Each time my eyes slipped shut, he was there again, not waiting but moving, pacing the narrow corridors of my skull as though my mind were a cage built solely for his amusement. The night stretched airless around me, canvas sagging overhead, the world reduced to breath and pain and the scrape of something ancient dragging itself back and forth inside my head.‘Dawn,’ Vethros whispered, and the word curled tight around my throat. ‘She said dawn. Do you understand how long that is when you are waiting to be torn open?’I lay rigid on my back, fingers digging into the pallet until my hands cramped, as if I could pin myself to the earth and keep him from pulling me apart from the inside. The fire cracked softly somewhere nearby. A man coughed, wet and broken. Another did not wake at all.My body shook with exhaustion, yet my mind refused to dim.‘You think this will end me,’ he continued, amused now,
Bloodbound To The Alpha Beast Chapter 47
AURELIAN The forest was too quiet. I realized it only when I sheathed my sword at my hip and turned from the lake, the cold water still clinging to my palms. The camp should’ve been stirring by now—early chatter, someone cursing over burnt porridge, boots crunching over pine needles as soldiers prepared for drills. Instead, silence pressed between the trees like a held breath. A thin unease crawled along the back of my neck. I took a step toward the path and the forest air shifted. Birds burst from the branches overhead in a sudden, frantic flurry, wings beating against the sky as if fleeing something unseen. My hand fell to the hilt of my sword. ‘Aurelian,’ Vethros murmured, too low, too calm. ‘You feel it too.’ The earth seemed to pulse beneath my boots. The air thickened, carrying the faintest tremor—like the breath of something massive moving between the pines. Then— A scream. High, sharp, human. I froze. Another scream followed, deeper this time, then shouts—
Bloodbound To The Alpha Beast Chapter 46
AURELIANI couldn’t sleep.Perhaps I drifted for a breath, or slipped into one of his cursed trances, but when my eyes snapped open the world was still dark and the cold had crept into the seams of my tent. My pulse hammered as though I had run miles.And my trousers were wet.A bitter curse tore from me as I tore the blankets aside. “Vethros, you twisted, sick—”My hands trembled as I scrubbed at my face. Sweat clung to my skin; the muscles in my thighs still pulled tight, strung like wire from the dream he had forced into me. Vael’s mouth—Vael’s voice—Vael’s heat sliding over me like a memory that should have been buried deep beneath ruin.Except it wasn’t Vael.Not even close.“Curse you,” I muttered, grabbing the edge of the cot as the disgust rolled up my spine. “Curse you, Vethros.”‘Aurelian.’His voice wasn’t loud—it never had to be—but it curled into the space behind my ear like a cold breath. My shoulders locked. A tremor rippled through my fingers.“You did this to me,” I h
Bloodbound To The Alpha Beast Chapter 45
AURELIANThe smoke followed us like guilt.It clung to the horses’ manes, to the folds of my cloak, to every breath that tried to feel clean. The village had burned hours ago, yet I could still smell it—charred grain, wet ash, something sweeter underneath that I didn’t want to name.We rode slowly through the wreck, boots crunching over what used to be walls. The men spoke in low voices, collecting what could still be used—swords, flour, anything the flames hadn’t turned to shadow. One of them laughed when he found a dozen of wine half-buried in soot. The sound scraped something raw inside me.Before, I would have laughed too. I would have called it justice—the beasts burned Eldoria first, they started this, they deserved to lose something. But now, watching a man drag a blood-stained blanket from the rubble, I couldn’t tell what part of this still felt like victory.If I hadn’t seen what I’ve seen… if I hadn’t been his captive, felt the pulse of what lives beneath their skin, maybe I
Bloodbound To The Alpha Beast Chapter 44
VAELThe first sign that something was wrong was how my breath kept catching in my chest, like my own ribs were reluctant to move. A sharp, dragging pull low in my sternum that didn’t stop, didn’t ease, only tightened whenever I tried to ignore it. I spent two nights convincing myself it was fatigue. A third telling myself it was stress. By the fourth, I knew I was lying.It was him.Aurelian’s presence had begun to thrum along the bond again, faint at first like a distant vibration under the skin, then growing bolder, pressing into me as if some part of him—his fear, his stubborn heartbeat—was brushing against my own. I shouldn’t want it. I should hate how much I noticed it. But every time it flickered, I found myself turning my head toward the west without meaning to.The council hall was suffocating under torchlight, too hot, too bright, wolves whispering in tight groups like flies around a wound. Their voices blurred into each other, carried by nerves they were too proud to admit
Bloodbound To The Alpha Beast Chapter 43
AURELIANThe sun had begun to feel too kind. It filtered through the cracks in the tent and painted soft gold over the ground, warming what little snow clung stubbornly to the grass. Every morning it rose over the camp like mercy, touching the ragged edges of human tents, the smoke curling from fires, the soft murmur of laughter. The world looked alive again, but inside me everything still felt winter.Days had passed since I woke in their care, and still I couldn’t stop listening for the sound of chains. Sometimes I’d reach for them by instinct, expecting cold metal, and find only my skin, bare and unmarked. It left me more uneasy than comforted.My people moved around me as though I were something fragile—half a memory, half a hope. They smiled too easily when I passed, eyes shining, voices lowering to whispers of the prince. They treated me like someone saved, not someone still lost.Vethros’s voice came and went like breath, never loud enough to drown the noise around me, but alwa
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