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Truly

Penulis: Leela Wrights
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-08-23 19:11:39

The silence was the first thing I noticed.

Not the absence of sound, but the weight of it. Like the forest had swallowed everything and was waiting for me to speak first. The air was colder here, heavier. It pressed against my skin like a living thing, thick with the smell of damp earth and decay and something older, something that had been sleeping for centuries.

I stood still, my boots planted on the dark soil. The trees were massive, their trunks black and gnarled, their branches woven toget
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    The palace walls rose before me, pale stone against the blue sky, and I felt nothing.Just the hollow echo of exhaustion, a deep and bone-heavy emptiness that had settled into my chest during my time in the forest and showed no sign of leaving.I walked through the gates, past the guards who watched me with careful, unreadable eyes. Their gazes followed me, but I did not meet them. I had spent enough time being watched. I had spent enough time being measured and weighed and found wanting. The forest had stripped me of that need. I knew what I was now.I did not know how to explain it. I did not know if I would ever find the words.~`~`~`~`~`~`|~`~`~`~`~`~`|~`~`~`~`~`~`The corridors were quiet as I made my way to my room. The portraits on the walls watched me pass, their painted eyes tracking my movements with the same silent judgment they had always held. I had walked these halls before, trembling and uncertain, and I had let their gaze shrink me.I walked differently now.My steps w

  • Bound to the Alpha Twins   Truly

    The silence was the first thing I noticed.Not the absence of sound, but the weight of it. Like the forest had swallowed everything and was waiting for me to speak first. The air was colder here, heavier. It pressed against my skin like a living thing, thick with the smell of damp earth and decay and something older, something that had been sleeping for centuries.I stood still, my boots planted on the dark soil. The trees were massive, their trunks black and gnarled, their branches woven together so tightly that I could not see the sky. The light was dim, green-tinted, filtering through the canopy like light through stained glass. It was not enough to see by, but enough to see that I was alone.I turned around. There was nothing behind me. No clearing. No Council. No crowd.Just trees.I took a breath. The air filled my lungs, cold and heavy. I did not know what to expect from this place. I had been told stories. Warnings. The forest would test me. It would strip me down to nothing.

  • Bound to the Alpha Twins   Into the Depths of GreeveWood

    "Today we gather to witness the commencement of the second trial."Darkholme's voice boomed across the desolate clearing. He stood on a raised platform in his official red and black robes.Behind him, Elders Zakira, Torben, and Obelix stood in a rigid row. Elder Maris stood slightly apart from the rest, her eyes fixed on me.To their left, King Aldric and Queen Selene sat in high-backed wooden chairs. Beyond them, high-ranking wolves and representatives from neighboring packs lined the perimeter. Armed guards flanked every rock outcrop, standing at attention with hands resting on the pommels of their broadswords.I stood in the exact center of the clearing, surrounded by hundreds of eyes.Darkholme was still speaking—laying out the laws, invoking long-dead Alphas, detailing the formal terms. The sound reached me, but did not register. It was merely noise.I didn't feel fear, nor anger. There was only a profound numbness, a void sitting behind my ribs where panic ought to have been.My

  • Bound to the Alpha Twins   The Night Before GreeveWood

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  • Bound to the Alpha Twins   A Bond That Cannot Be Ignored

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  • Bound to the Alpha Twins   The Mate Bond

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  • Bound to the Alpha Twins   My World

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