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The Light In Me

Author: Malaika
last update publish date: 2026-03-26 02:59:58
I had been sitting in the room they'd given us for what felt like hours when the guard came.

Not a request. A summons has a different quality to it — the way the door opens, the way the man in the doorway doesn't quite meet your eyes. Wren reached for my hand when I stood and I squeezed her fingers once before I followed him out.

They took me to Ronan.

He was in a chair that probably felt like a throne under normal circumstances. Tonight it looked like the only thing holding him upright. The hea
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Dear reader, please take note that this part is back to Elara's pov

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  • Bound To The Enemy Alpha    The Cage

    I raise my head after hearing the door open. It felt as though whoever was opening the door had to put in a lot of effort. The door must be heavy.“There are already guards in here. I don’t get why you’re locking me in a cage like an animal,” I say, trying to see the person’s face. But the figure stands just a few centimeters beyond the door, far enough to remain hidden from the light and close enough to see it’s figure. The only source of light is a small bulb hanging over my head. The guards turn their backs as I try to help myself up from the ground in the cage they locked me in.“Aren’t you?”. Then I hear it.Her voice. It’s a woman. Her voice is as firm and still as the air in this room. I clench my hands on the bars of the giant cage I’m in. “Let me go, I don’t have anything you could possibly want from me pleaseee”. Not a word from her, nothing!. “Hello?, who are you?”“You wouldn’t know” she says dryly. “ but I know who you are ELARA” My heart drops. This wasn’t a mistake,

  • Bound To The Enemy Alpha    The True Luna

    The air outside was cooler than the room I'd left.I stood for a moment on the path, letting the quiet settle around me, letting the words I'd said in there finish reverberating in my chest. I didn't feel triumphant exactly. I felt — cleaned out. Like something that had been sitting in me for a long time had finally been said out loud and the space it left was unfamiliar but not unwelcome.I started toward the sleeping cabin.The path was familiar by now — Ronan's territory had its own logic, its own way of organizing itself, and I'd learned it over the past weeks the way you learn any place you spend enough time in. The main paths, the quieter ones, the spots where the trees thinned and you could see the sky properly.I was halfway there when I heard it."Please…"A voice. Weak, strained, coming from the left of the path where the undergrowth thickened near the base of the older trees.I stopped."Please… help me…"I turned toward it slowly.The figure was hunched at the base of a wi

  • Bound To The Enemy Alpha    Standing My Ground

    The planning space had become something between a war room and a negotiation table, which meant it was both productive and uncomfortable in equal measure.Maps on one side. Wren's schematics on another. A list of resources that grew longer every time someone added something and shorter every time someone crossed something off. Kael sat at the far end with the focused stillness of a man turning a large problem into smaller ones. Ronan stood to his left, tracking the patrol routes with the patient attention of someone who had done this before and knew how long it took to do it right.Lobos sat across from both of them and said very little, which was its own kind of statement.I set the book on the table.Everyone looked at it."My mother's," I said. "I took it before we left. It has wolf treatments — remedies, healing compounds, things that have been used in pack medicine for a long time." I opened it to the section I'd already marked. "Some of these can be produced in quantity. Healing

  • Bound To The Enemy Alpha    I've Missed You

    Wren looked different.Not dramatically — she was still Wren, still had the particular distracted energy of someone whose mind was always partially somewhere else, still talked with her hands when she got excited about something. But there was something in the way she held herself that hadn't been there before. Steadier. Like she'd found the ground under her feet and stopped being surprised by it."You're different," I said, when she opened the door."Good different or bad different?""Good," I said. "Definitely good."She pulled me inside with the enthusiasm of someone who had been waiting for this and wasn't going to pretend otherwise. The space was exactly as I remembered it and completely different at the same time — the same walls, the same cluttered worktable, but the worktable itself had multiplied. Three surfaces now covered in components I didn't have names for, drawings pinned above them, notes in Wren's cramped handwriting covering every available margin."You've been busy,

  • Bound To The Enemy Alpha    When Do We Leave

    The usual meeting spot had become exactly that — usual.I wasn't sure when it had happened. Somewhere between the breach and the poisoning and the aftermath of all of it, Elara and I had found a corner of the territory that belonged to neither of us specifically and had started using it as the place where the real conversations happened. Not the ones for councils or guards or elders. The ones where we said what we actually thought.She was already there when I arrived."You're thinking about the healing," she said, before I'd sat down."I'm thinking about a lot of things.""Start with that one."I looked at her hands. The burns had faded from livid to something quieter but they were still there — still visible when the light caught them at the right angle, still present in the way she held things sometimes, the slight adjustment she made without acknowledging she was making it."Every time they come," I said, "you pay for it. The first breach — your hands. What you did to bring me back

  • Bound To The Enemy Alpha    Then I’m Wrong

    I woke before dawn and didn't go back to sleep.That wasn't unusual. What was unusual was lying there and not immediately moving — staying in the dark with the ceiling above me and the sounds of the territory settling into its pre-dawn quiet and letting the previous night replay without trying to organize it into something actionable.The fight. The clearing. The moment the first man had stopped and looked at me with shock that wasn't performed — genuine, involuntary, the expression of someone encountering something they'd been told wasn't there. The captive, gone. Lobos tied loosely to a tree with an expression I still couldn't fully read.And underneath all of it, running like a current: the fragment of voice from the window. They're beginning to suspect. We need to lay low.I got up before the thought could finish resolving and went outside.Elara was already there.Not waiting for me — just there, sitting on the low wall near the eastern path with her hands in her lap, watching th

  • Bound To The Enemy Alpha    I didn't know it cost you anything

    The eastern perimeter had been quiet for nine days.That was the part that bothered me.Nine days of clean reports, no movement at the tree line, patrols returning with nothing to say. It should have read as progress. Instead it read as patience — theirs, not ours. The Varka didn't go quiet because

  • Bound To The Enemy Alpha    The Trial

    I don't sleep much. Never have. Sleep requires a kind of surrender I've never been comfortable giving, so most nights I'm awake before the pack stirs, standing at the window with a cold cup of something, watching the dark thin into morning. It's a useful habit. You see things in that hour that dayl

  • Bound To The Enemy Alpha    Fireflies

    Two weeks had passed since the Stone of Rejection, but the whispers followed me like persistent shadows. They clung to me as I made my way toward the training grounds, where morning mist still hung between pine trunks and softened the edges of the world. My pack mates parted before me—not out of re

  • Bound To The Enemy Alpha    The Night I Was Rejected

    The moon hung full and merciless above the pack grounds, its silver glow cutting through the night like a blade. Tonight was supposed to be sacred.Tonight was supposed to change my life.I stood at the edge of the clearing, fingers clenched into the thin fabric of my pale blue dress, my heart pound

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