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Author: Indigo Naz
last update publish date: 2026-03-24 23:51:58

XAHEN.

The shower had been running for forty-five minutes.

I knew because I’d checked four times and the number kept getting worse.

I was pacing. My own living room, back and forth, like something had snapped loose in my legs and they’d stopped taking orders. I was aware of how this looked. I didn’t give a damn how it looked because there was nobody here to see it, which was the only reason I hadn’t already put my fist through the wall.

I’d had a reason for this. I’d stood on that shore and sai
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  • Bound To The Cursed Lycan    87: ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO

    XAHEN.The third bottle went down wrong.I drained what was left anyway, waiting for my thoughts to blur into something manageable. Something that didn't involve red hair and freckles and the way she'd looked at me from across that brothel like I'd personally offended her just by existing.Didn't work.My wolf was gone. Buried so deep I couldn't feel him scratching at my control. But everything else? A mess. Irritation and heat and something uncomfortable lodged in my chest that I refused to examine.I'd tracked her all night without meaning to.Felt her walk into the bar with my council. Felt her laughing like she belonged there, like she wasn't my prisoner, like she had any business being happy. The mate bond pulled at something vital every time she moved, dragging my attention toward her even when I had just gotten back from buying whiskey that clearly wasn't strong enough.The brothel had been my refuge for decades. My council and Nala liked to joke that I spent more time there th

  • Bound To The Cursed Lycan    86

    XAHEN.The shower had been running for forty-five minutes.I knew because I’d checked four times and the number kept getting worse.I was pacing. My own living room, back and forth, like something had snapped loose in my legs and they’d stopped taking orders. I was aware of how this looked. I didn’t give a damn how it looked because there was nobody here to see it, which was the only reason I hadn’t already put my fist through the wall.I’d had a reason for this. I’d stood on that shore and said my cabin and I’d meant it as a test. Keeping my distance from Theodosa for weeks had proved nothing except that distance was something a coward hid behind, and I’d had enough of that. Put her close. Handle it. Handle her. Prove the mate bond wasn’t running me when I wasn’t paying attention.That had been the reasoning.The reasoning was bullshit and I’d known it was bullshit approximately three seconds after she climbed my stairs.She’d walked through the door and I’d pointed at the en-suite w

  • Bound To The Cursed Lycan    85

    THEODOSAMy eyes moved sideways before I could stop them, cutting to where Base and Draven stood with their backs to us, barely out of sight. One turn of either heads and they’d have a clear view of everything happening here.Nala and Afnie were watching from further along the shore. I brought my gaze back to Xahen and said nothing.He studied me. Then the corner of his mouth moved and he began turning away. “We’ll arrange rules and a proper—”“I’d like to honor our deal now.”He stopped.The silence lasted two full seconds.Then he turned back, very slowly.“Do you think I will not take you up on your offer?” His voice was even. “Is that why you dared to do it?”I kept my face level, even if my heart wasn’t. “You’ve honored your end. I’m here. I’d like to honor mine.”“You’ll have plenty of time to honor yours.”His eyes moved over my face.“If you think I won’t call your bluff,” he said, “you can make your way to my cabin.”Oh goddess.I looked at him. He looked right back and his j

  • Bound To The Cursed Lycan    84

    XAHEN.Three ships sat in the water below the watchtower, two flanking one, all being loaded with men and supplies in the particular organized chaos that preceded any departure from my kingdom. I stood at the stairs and watched it come together.The arrangement was simple. The main ship would carry Binny across the river to Duskmire's shore. The two flanking it would follow at distance, watch him cross the border, and once they did, my guards would abandon ship and make their way back. Binny would stay bound in silver for the entire crossing, wrists and ankles, until he hit Duskmire's shore and someone there had the decency to cut him loose. I was leaving them the ship. I had no interest in it coming back across the river onto my land. Let Duskmire keep it.My councilors had materialized on the shore below in clusters, none of them with any official reason to be there.Base and Hale had positioned themselves near the waterline. Base had his arms crossed and was watching the loading pr

  • Bound To The Cursed Lycan    83

    THEODOSA.Nala didn't say anything until we were outside.She walked beside me down the corridor and through the side doors and out into the grey afternoon, and she didn't say a word the whole way, which meant she was either thinking very hard or giving me space to, and with Nala it was usually both at the same time.We were halfway across the grounds before she spoke."How are you feeling.""Fine.""Theo.""I knew he wasn't letting me go." I kept walking, eyes forward. "I've known that for a while. It's not a surprise.""That doesn't mean it doesn't land."I didn't say anything to that.The grounds were quiet at this hour, that particular afternoon stillness where the kingdom had finished its morning and hadn't started its evening yet. The grey sky sat low over everything. Somewhere on the other side of the grounds someone was hammering — probably the crew still working on Nala's ceiling."Binny's going home," I said."He is.""That's what matters."Nala was quiet for a moment. "It's

  • Bound To The Cursed Lycan    82:

    THEODOSA.Afnie's spare room had a window that faced east and let the morning in whether you wanted it or not.I'd been awake for an hour before the light came through, lying on my back staring at the ceiling and thinking about nothing I wanted to be thinking about. The reconstruction on Nala's cabin had started two days ago and the noise was doing things to everyone's patience, so Nala had relocated us both to Afnie's without much discussion about it, and Afnie had put us in the two spare rooms with the efficiency of someone who had been solving problems for a living long enough that other people's crises barely registered as inconvenient.I liked Afnie's house. It was tidier than Nala's and smelled like cedar and something herbal and the kitchen was better stocked and nobody had put a hole in the ceiling recently.I sat up and pushed my hair back and listened to the house.Quiet. Afnie was already gone, probably to the palace. Nala's door was still closed, which meant she was either

  • Bound To The Cursed Lycan    35: THIRTY MINUTE TRIP

    THEODOSA.The bathwater scalded, but I stayed put.I sat with my knees pulled up, watching steam curl toward the ceiling while Nala worked her fingers through my hair. The gentleness of it, the careful way she untangled each knot, was the only thing keeping me anchored. Everything else had gone fuz

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  • Bound To The Cursed Lycan    34: SAVE YOUR TEMPER YOUNG PRINCE

    THEODOSA. What? The words hit with jarring force, but my eyes immediately darted to Binny. He froze for a second, jaw tightening. His hands curled into fists at his sides. I wanted to reach for him, to tell him to calm down, but I wasn’t even sure if I could stop him if he decided to act.I just

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  • Bound To The Cursed Lycan    32: A LIFE FOR A LIFE

    THEODOSA.We stood there staring at the wall of shadows for a long moment, neither of us speaking.Then Binny turned and started walking back toward the trees."What are you doing?" I hurried after him."Finding another way out." His voice was tight, clipped. "There has to be another way.""Binny,

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  • Bound To The Cursed Lycan    36: DO YOU DRINK?

    THEODOSA.My mouth hung open.I stared at the empty spot where Xahen had been standing.He'd just... disappeared. Vanished into nothing.Nala's laugh pulled my attention. She was watching me with clear amusement, her dark eyes dancing."I take it you've never seen a realm hop in action before," she

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