Mag-log inShe belongs to a wolf. She's married to the hunter. To the world, Elira Malven is the villainess who stole a princess's betrothed. But her gilded marriage to the legendary war hero, Kael Rennar, is a cage, and her husband has a deadly secret: he is a Wolfhunter, the sworn enemy of her kind. “Why?” The word was a crack in her composure. “Why did you push for this marriage? What do you want from me?” He didn’t turn. A faint, hollow smile touched his lips. “I don’t know why I insisted,” his voice was barely a breath. “I don’t know why I didn’t kill you the moment I suspected what you are.” Her only hope seems to lie with Thane, her true mate, whose touch awakens a primal bond in a dusty library. But he is the one who shattered her heart. “Then why leave?” she asked, raw and painful. “After I begged you—” “Because I was protecting you!” The words tore from him. “You were nobility. The Wolfkiller's wife. And I— I was nobody.” Torn between a hunter haunted by his mercy and a mate haunted by his sacrifice, Elira must choose: remain in a marriage built on a tragic mystery, or risk a love that demands a price neither of them may survive.
view moreA week passed.The days in Stonehearth took on a strange rhythm. On the surface, everything looked normal. People worked the gardens, tended the forge, trained in the yard. Children laughed and ran through the square. The sun rose and set like it always did.But underneath, everyone felt it. The tension. The waiting. The secret that sat in the middle of everything like a stone in a stream, changing the flow of every conversation.Kael felt it most of all.He went through his days mechanically. He trained with Leo in the mornings. He ate meals in the guest house. He nodded to pack members who crossed his path. But his mind was never on any of it. His mind was always on the boy.Kieran.He had not seen him since that night. Elira made sure of it. Every time Kael walked through the square, someone was always between him and the royal quarters. A guard. A pack member. Sometimes Thane himself, standing like a wall of silent warning.But Kael still had the wooden wolf. He kept it in his poc
Queen Lyra woke to screaming.She was out of bed before her eyes fully opened, her hand reaching for the knife she kept beside her sleeping mat. Rokan was already moving, his big body blocking the door as he checked for threats."Elira," Lyra breathed. The scream was her daughter's.They burst into the night. Torches were flaring to life across the square. People were running. Lyra's heart pounded as she pushed through the crowd, following the sound of her daughter's voice.She found Elira in the center of the square, her face white as bone. She was staring at something beyond the crowd. Lyra followed her gaze.Kael stood near the guest house. And beside him, small and still, wa
The morning air was cool. Corin stood at the edge of the training yard, watching the younger children practice. Her mind was not on them. It was on the boy in the guest house.Three days had passed since the encounter on the wall. Three days since she had watched her sister's face go pale at the sight of Kael holding Kieran in the dark. Three days of tension hanging over Stonehearth like a cloud that would not move.Her mother, Queen Lyra, had given her a task."Show the prince around. Let him see our home. Let him see that we are people, not monsters." Corin understood the strategy. Make the boy comfortable, and he would be less likely to cause trouble. Make him an ally, and they might learn things about the capital.Corin was no
The council meeting lasted longer than Kael expected. Queen Lyra asked sharp questions about the capital, about the King's health, about the Regency Council's true intentions. Kael answered with careful honesty. He did not lie. He also did not tell everything. Lyra's eyes missed nothing, but she did not push.Prince Leo sat quietly through it all. He spoke when spoken to. He did not fidget. Kael noticed the boy's eyes kept moving to Corin, who sat near the back of the room. Corin was watching Leo too. A small, strange thing. Two young people in a room full of wolves and politics.When the meeting ended, the sun was low. Lyra said they would talk more in the coming days. For now, the prince would rest, and Kael would be shown to the guest house properly.Kael walked back through the
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