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Ashes at the Border
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2026-04-16 06:14:29
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Bound to the Devil Alpha Ashes at the Border
The room stayed silent for one long breath after the captain spoke.A village destroyed in a single night.No one asked for details because no detail could improve it.King Alaric’s palace moved quickly when fear was involved. Within minutes, the receiving hall filled with guards, councilors, and servants pretending not to listen. Orders flew in clipped voices. Messengers ran. Steel rang against stone as soldiers were summoned to the courtyard.Lydia stood beside Logan and watched the machine of power wake itself.No one told her to leave.No one dared.“What happened there?” she asked quietly.Logan’s eyes remained on the captain. “If they know, they have not said.”But the bond carried something sharper than uncertainty.Recognition.He knew the shape of this kind of fear.The captain straightened when another set of doors opened. King Alaric entered with two councilors at his back, already dressed for command, as though he had been expecting disaster and merely waiting to name it.
Bound to the Devil Alpha The House of Virelle
The name struck harder than Lydia expected.House Virelle.Not Mother. Not family. Not home.A house. A structure built of blood and obligation that had never once felt like shelter.She looked away first.“What do they want?” she asked.The guard shifted uneasily. “They refused to give details, my lady. They said the message must be delivered into your hands.”Logan’s expression darkened. “Then why are you here?”The man swallowed. “Because the king has already been informed.”Of course he had.Nothing entered the palace without passing through Alaric first. Even now, her family could not reach her without crawling through the king’s shadow.Lydia crossed the room and took the folded shawl from the chair. “I’m going.”Logan’s voice stopped her before she could move past him.“No.”She turned sharply. “You do not own every answer in this palace.”“No,” he said. “But I know this one.”The guard took an immediate interest in the floor.Lydia tied the shawl around her shoulders with more
Bound to the Devil Alpha Chosen for a Reason
The west wing felt different after the council chamber.Not quieter. Sharper.Every servant who came near the doors moved like they were walking past a sleeping beast. Food was left outside and collected only after long hesitation. Guards no longer stood close to the entrance. They watched from the far end of the corridor as if distance itself might save them.None of it was because of Logan.It was because of her.Lydia noticed it the moment she woke.The room was empty except for the low fire and the folded dress left across a chair. Her injured hand had been cleaned and wrapped while she slept. She had no memory of anyone touching her.Then the bond stirred.A pulse of strain hit her chest so suddenly she sat upright.Logan.Not pain. Effort.She followed the feeling through the suite and found him in an adjoining room lined with shelves and old maps. He stood at an open window, one hand braced against the stone, shoulders rigid.“You disappear often?” she asked.He did not turn. “
Bound to the Devil Alpha The Bride They Fear
The knock came almost immediately after Logan spoke.Three hard strikes against the door. Urgent. Official.Neither of them moved.Lydia’s pulse was still uneven from what had happened moments ago. Her hand burned where she had touched him. Broken porcelain lay across the floor, broth soaking into the rug, and the room still carried the smell of smoke and fear.Another knock followed.“My lord,” a voice called from outside. “By order of His Majesty, Lady Lydia is to be brought to the council chamber.”Lady Lydia.That was new.Logan’s gaze remained on her. “No.”Silence answered.Then the voice returned, tighter now. “Those were the king’s orders.”“I heard them.”The lock turned.Two guards stepped inside and stopped when they saw the room. Their eyes moved from the shattered bowl to Lydia, then to Logan. Neither looked eager to be there.The older guard cleared his throat. “Lady Lydia is required.”Logan took one slow step forward.Both men stiffened.“She does not go alone.”“The k
Bound to the Devil Alpha Wrong Bond
CHAPTER 4No one called it a marriage after that.They called it an incident.Lydia heard the word twice before they got her out of the hall. Once from the priest, his voice thin with panic as he ordered the guards to move. Once from one of the guards himself, low and furious, as if naming it anything more precise would make it real.She barely remembered leaving.The world had narrowed to sensation. Her palm still burned where the blade had cut it, but the sharper pain was inside her now, somewhere under her ribs, where something hot and foreign had taken hold and refused to let go. Every breath pulled at it. Every step jarred it. And beneath it all, impossible and constant, there was Logan.Not beside her.Inside the bond.A pressure. A temper. A raw, violent restraint that kept hitting her in flashes she could not stop. One moment she was walking; the next she felt the echo of his anger hard enough to make her stomach clench. Then it was gone, replaced by the strain of control so bru
Bound to the Devil Alpha The Binding
CHAPTER 3The ceremonial hall was smaller than Lydia had expected. Not intimate. Not sacred. Just controlled.A narrow stretch of polished stone ran between two rows of black iron braziers, their flames burning low and steady, giving off more shadow than warmth. There were no flowers, no music, no gathered court waiting to witness the joining of two powerful bloodlines. Only a priest in grey robes, three guards standing too stiffly at the edges of the room, and Logan across from her, silent as if he had already left this moment in his mind and was simply waiting for his body to catch up.Lydia stood where they had placed her, dressed in white so pale it made her skin look colder than it was. The sleeves were too long, the collar too high, the whole thing designed less like a wedding dress and more like a ritual garment. Her hair had been pinned back with rough efficiency. No jewels. No veil. Nothing soft.This was not a wedding, It was an arrangement being sealed. She knew that now. S
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