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Bound by the Cursed Moon chapter 42
POV: Kieran"Tell me honestly," Rhen said, sitting beside me on the broken stone at the ruins, moonlight catching the exhaustion still lingering under her eyes, "do you believe there is a version of this that ends with both of us still standing, Kieran? Or are we simply choosing each other for however many days remain before it costs us everything?""I believe there has to be," I said, though even as I said it, I heard how thin the words sounded against everything pressing down on us. "Rhen, I refuse to accept that the only outcomes available to us are war or losing you. I have spent my whole life being told that duty and want cannot coexist inside the same choice. I am not willing to keep believing that simply because it has always been easier for everyone else to believe it for me.""Easier does not mean untrue." She leaned into me, and I wrapped an arm around her, both of us staring out at the dark tree line where the ruins gave way to open valley. "Dorian gave us five days, Kieran
Bound by the Cursed Moon chapter 41
POV: Rhen"I know what you are to him," Dorian said, stepping out of the shadows near the training ground before I had even reached the gate, his voice low and controlled in a way that made my stomach drop instantly. "I have known for weeks, Rhen. I am simply choosing this moment to finally say it to your face instead of his.""Dorian." I forced my voice steady despite the sudden pounding of my heart. "Whatever you think you know""I know he vanishes for you. I know Maren trains you in secret at the ruins. I know a locket you have worn your entire life carries a crest that should not exist outside the Ashveil family line." He crossed his arms, studying me with an intensity that felt like being pinned in place. "I have covered for Kieran more times than I am comfortable admitting, Rhen, because he is the closest thing to a brother I have ever had. But the announcement has moved to five days, and I am no longer certain covering for either of you is protecting anyone at all.""So what ar
Bound by the Cursed Moon chapter 40
POV: Kieran"We are moving the announcement forward," my father said, and the words hit me with the force of a physical blow. "Five days from now, not eleven. The council believes a shorter engagement period will discourage whatever unrest is stirring at our borders.""Five days." I stared at him across the war table, my mind scrambling to reassemble a future I had not finished bracing myself for. "Father, that is not enough time to properly prepare the treaty ceremonies, let alone""It is enough time to prevent whatever is currently threatening this valley from having a longer window to strike," Alaric said, his voice hard as stone. "I have received three separate reports this week of disturbances near Duskmoor's border, unexplained absences among their household staff, and a creature no one has managed to identify circling far too close to Thornwolf land for my comfort. I am not willing to leave this treaty unfinished a single day longer than necessary, Kieran.""And if moving the d
Bound by the Cursed Moon chapter 39
POV: Rhen"Say it," I said, standing across from Maren in the ruins at dusk, my whole body rigid with the effort of holding still. "You promised me the whole truth once I was steady on my feet. I am steady, Maren. I have been steady for days. Say it now."Maren studied me for a long moment, the fading light catching the deep lines of worry across her face, and something in her posture finally seemed to give way, like a wall too tired to hold any longer. "Your mother already told you part of it," she said. "She told you the line runs both directions.""She did not tell me what that means.""It means the woman who spoke the curse a century ago did not simply curse the Ashveil bloodline, Rhen." Maren's voice had gone very quiet, very careful, the way Kieran's did when a truth carried too much weight to hand over carelessly. "She was carrying an Ashveil child of her own when she died. A child smuggled out of the valley that same night, raised in secret, told nothing of where she truly cam
Bound by the Cursed Moon chapter 38
POV: Kieran"If we are caught here, there is no version of this that ends without war," I whispered, crouched beside Dorian in the shadow of a Duskmoor grain house, my heart hammering harder than it had any right to for a simple conversation. "Tell me this was worth the risk before we go any further.""It is worth it," Dorian said grimly, nodding toward a thin, nervous man pacing inside the half open doorway ahead of us. "That is Renwick's cousin. I have been watching him for an hour, and he has checked over his shoulder more times than an innocent man ever needs to."We slipped inside together, and the cousin startled hard enough to knock over a lantern, catching it before it shattered, his eyes wide with a fear that told me everything Dorian's suspicion had not already confirmed. "You should not be here," he hissed. "Either of you. If anyone sees an Ashveil heir on Duskmoor land eleven days before the engagement""Then you should have thought of that before you forged my Enforcer's
Bound by the Cursed Moon chapter 37
POV: Rhen"You knew," I said, my voice shaking, "you knew about the ruins this whole time, and you let me grow up thinking my own history began the day I was born, not before it."My mother's hands trembled around her cup, the candle between us throwing long shadows across a face that suddenly looked older than I had ever let myself notice. "Sit down, Rhen. Please. If we are finally going to do this, I would rather not do it standing, with you looking at me like I am a stranger."I sat, though every part of me wanted to keep standing, keep demanding, keep pushing until the whole truth spilled out at once instead of in the careful, rationed pieces she always seemed to allow herself. "Start with why you left. Start there, and we will see how much further you are willing to go tonight.""I left because staying would have killed me," she said quietly. "Not from the treaty, not from the packs, but from watching a piece of myself I had already buried try to claw its way back to the surface
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