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Bound by the Cursed Moon chapter 16
POV: Kieran"Sable's not answering," Rhen shouted over the wind, "and that patrol route doesn't take this long even on a bad night, Kieran, something's wrong."We broke through the tree line together and the smell hit me before the sight did, smoke thick and acrid, curling low over the fence line where Malachi Vane's mark had been nailed only hours earlier, and beyond it, flames already licking up the dry grass of the eastern grazing field exactly the way his letter had promised."He didn't wait three days," I said, horror and fury tangled so tight in my chest I could barely separate them. "He wasn't giving us a deadline. He was giving us a distraction."Rhen didn't slow down. If anything, the sight of the fire seemed to strip away whatever hesitation had been left in her, and she moved through the smoke with a speed and certainty that had nothing to do with training and everything to do with blood finally waking all the way up."There," she said, pointing toward a cluster of shapes n
Bound by the Cursed Moon chapter 15
POV: Rhen"Read it," I said, though every part of me wanted to run before Sable finished unfolding the parchment in her shaking hands.We were still standing in the training hollow, the morning too bright and too ordinary for what was happening, and I watched Kieran's jaw tighten as Sable smoothed the letter flat, her voice unsteady in a way I had rarely heard from her."To the last blood of Isolde Thornwolf," she read. "You do not need to be traded. You need only walk to the old ruins alone, at moonrise, three nights from now, and this valley will learn what it means to watch a curse finish what it started. Come willingly, and no innocent burns for your cowardice. Come with guards, and I will know, and the fields will burn regardless."Silence swallowed the hollow whole."He's not asking my father for a trade at all," Kieran said slowly, horror creeping into his voice. "He's asking her directly. He wants her to believe this is her choice, so that whatever happens next, the whole vall
Bound by the Cursed Moon chapter 14
POV: Kieran"Get her inside, now," my father said, voice sharper than I had ever heard it, "because whatever that is nailed to the fence post, it was not left there by accident."I reached the border before the sun had fully cleared the ridge, drawn out of an uneasy half sleep by an Enforcer pounding on my door with news that made my blood run cold before he'd even finished the sentence. The fence line Rhen and Sable had walked two nights ago was marked now, a single silver blade driven straight through a scrap of dark fabric, and pinned beneath it, a scrap of parchment bearing Malachi Vane's seal."What does it say," Dorian asked, already scanning the tree line for movement, hand resting on the hilt at his belt.I pulled the parchment free carefully, mindful of the silver, and read the message twice before I trusted myself to say it out loud. "Three days. He wants an answer in three days, or he burns the eastern grazing fields and every farmstead attached to them, starting with the o
Bound by the Cursed Moon chapter 13
POV: Rhen"I'm not here to make friends with you," Elara said, standing at the edge of the training hollow like she wasn't entirely sure her own feet had agreed to bring her, "but I am here because I think we're both in more danger than either of us has been told."I set down the practice staff slowly, every instinct I had telling me to be suspicious of the Alpha's intended mate showing up alone in the dark, no guards, no announcement, just Elara Duskmoor standing in the moonlight looking like the last person on earth who wanted to be having this conversation."Kieran called off your engagement," I said. "In front of everyone. I'd understand if you hated me.""I don't hate you," Elara said, an odd, tired honesty in her voice. "I hate that my father is apparently in business with men who wear hunter marks on their collars, and I hate that I only found that out because Kieran finally cared enough about something to make me look closer at my own family."That stopped me cold. "Your fathe
Bound by the Cursed Moon chapter 12
POV: Kieran"You can stop looking at me like I'm about to slap you," Elara said, arms crossed tight over her chest, "because the only person I actually want to hurt right now is my own father, and he isn't in this garden."I hadn't expected her to find me here, tucked behind the east wall where I used to hide as a boy whenever the pack house felt too loud, and I liked even less that she'd found me the same night Malachi Vane's threat was still sitting in my chest like a stone."I owe you an apology," I said. "Whatever you think of me after last night, you deserved better than being humiliated in front of both packs.""I deserved better than being handed to you like a border deed in the first place," Elara said, "so save the apology for something you actually control." She sat down on the low garden wall, some of the ice in her posture cracking just slightly. "For what it's worth, Kieran, you didn't ruin anything I wanted. You ruined something my father wanted, which isn't the same thi
Bound by the Cursed Moon chapter 11
POV: Rhen"Again," Sable said, "and this time don't flinch when I swing at your ribs, because a hunter with a silver blade isn't going to wait for you to find your nerve."We'd been at it for an hour in the hollow behind the training grounds, well past the hour any Omega was supposed to be awake, let alone armed with a practice staff and bruises blooming along her forearms. My guard had been lifted two days after the hall, once Alaric decided a scared kennel girl wasn't worth the manpower to watch around the clock, and Sable had wasted exactly zero time deciding I needed to stop being scared and start being useful instead."I'm not flinching because I'm scared of you," I said, resetting my stance the way she'd shown me. "I'm flinching because you hit like you actually want to break something.""Good," Sable said. "Get used to it. The next thing that swings at you in the dark isn't going to care that you're new at this."She came at me again, low and fast, and this time I moved the way
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