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The seal
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2026-08-16 23:52:47
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Bring Him to His Knees The seal
When I return to the main building after sunrise, I find Vera standing near the entrance to the infirmary with a tray of food in her hands. She smiles when she sees me, but the expression looks practiced rather than natural. “You haven’t eaten,” she says. “Neither have you, apparently.” She laughs softly and lowers her gaze. “I brought something for you.” I accept the tray, more out of habit than hunger. “Thank you.” Her eyes move toward the infirmary doors. “How is the patrolman?” “Alive.” Relief flashes across her face, but then her attention drifts toward the black residue still visible on the edge of my sleeve. “Is that from him?” “Yes.” Her fingers tighten around the edge of the tray she is holding. “It looks like the same thing they found at Ashborn.” I look at her. “How do you know what they found at Ashborn?” She freezes for the briefest fraction of a second. “Everyone has heard about the attack.” “That isn’t what I asked.” Her eyes lift to mine, and so
Bring Him to His Knees Becoming a true Alpha
— Roan The message reaches me shortly after sunset, when Duskmoor is settling into the restless quiet that follows the evening patrols. I am in the middle of reviewing a report from the southern border when one of the guards enters my study without knocking, his breathing slightly uneven from the speed at which he has crossed the compound. He bows his head before speaking. “Alpha, a message came from Ashborn. Sloane has returned.” For one second, everything inside me goes still. My wolf surges toward the surface so violently that I have to grip the edge of the desk, and the first thought that enters my mind is so immediate that I almost say it aloud. ‘Go to her’. I am already imagining the journey, already calculating how quickly I can get there, already feeling the old instinct to put myself between her and whatever danger might still be waiting for her. Then I remember the way she looked at me the last time we stood together. I remember that I am not entitled to appear at
Bring Him to His Knees Vera’s visit
Thane explains what we saw in the sanctuary while I stand beside the table, watching Del’s eyes move from him to me and then back again as the implications become clearer. When he reaches the part about the recent image of someone placing the crystal beneath the pool, Del slowly sits back in her chair. “So someone has been preparing that place.” “For what?” I ask. “That,” she groans, tapping one finger against the ancient manuscript, “is what I have been trying to determine.” She pulls another document toward her. “There is something else. While you were gone, we received a message from Duskmoor.” My body stills. “From Roan?” Del nods. “His people found something in their archives.” I stare at the document she holds out to me. For a second, I do not reach for it. “What did he send?” “Records concerning the Unbound. Old ones. Some of them predate the division between the packs.” I finally take the papers from her, expecting some political maneuver hidden beneath the gesture,
Bring Him to His Knees The crystal
— Sloane By the time Thane and I return to Ashborn, the sun has already begun its descent behind the trees, leaving the sky washed in pale gold and orange. The familiar walls of the compound come into view through the windshield, but instead of feeling the relief I expected, I find myself studying them with a strange uneasiness. Three days ago, those walls had represented safety Now I know how easily someone can move through that safety without being noticed, how a single piece of black crystal hidden inside an ancient ward can turn a fortress into an invitation. Thane slows the car as we approach the gates, and I notice immediately that Kieran is waiting there with four guards positioned behind him. He isn’t pacing, and he isn’t wearing the expression of someone expecting an attack, but something in the rigid set of his shoulders tells me that he has been waiting for us longer than he wants to admit. Kieran’s eyes settle on me the moment I step out of the car, moving over
Bring Him to His Knees With me in the dark
The moment breaks when the image in the pool changes again, and I step away from him so quickly that the sudden loss of his warmth leaves my skin feeling strangely cold. The woman is gone, replaced by a sequence of images that move too quickly for me to understand at first: the sanctuary filled with women, wolves kneeling around the sealed gate, blood being poured into the carvings, and then another scene that makes my stomach twist because I recognize the walls immediately. Ashborn. Not the Ashborn I know now, but the ancient version of it, when the compound is little more than a fortified settlement surrounded by enormous stone walls, and standing inside those walls are several figures dressed in dark robes. One of them turns toward the vision, and although his face is partially hidden, I recognize the symbol carved into the pendant hanging around his neck. It is the same black crystal symbol Kieran found inside the eastern ward. “That’s it,” I breathe. Thane moves closer. “Wha
Bring Him to His Knees Visiting the chamber
SLOANE The words barely leave my mouth before the chamber changes, because the shallow pool at the center of the sanctuary suddenly ripples despite the complete stillness of the air, the surface trembling outward in perfect circles until the reflections of Thane and me disappear beneath the water and are replaced by something else. I step closer without meaning to, my attention fixed on the dark surface as an image slowly forms beneath it, blurred at first and then sharpening into the unmistakable shape of a woman kneeling before the sealed gate, her palms pressed against the black stone while blood runs from her fingertips and disappears into the carvings beneath her. She looks young, much younger than I expected the first Unbound to look, but there is something ancient in the sorrow of her face, something that makes my chest burn before I even understand why. “Thane,” I whisper, and he moves beside me immediately, his shoulder nearly brushing mine as he stares into the pool.
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