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Claimed by Alpha Xorax and his sons The Eastern Prince
Vaelin’s POVI stared at the dark rafters long after the little ghost vanished.The Archive was emptying out. The vassal lords dragged their clanking armor and drunken cheers toward the banquet halls, leaving me standing alone at the edge of the bronze puzzle machine.That silver stare crawled straight under my fucking skin. It wasn't the look of a broken slave. I had pinned him to a damp wall. I had taken him in the dirt. He should be cowering in a scullery corner right now, choking on his own tears and begging the gods for mercy. Instead, he had looked down at me from that balcony like he was holding a knife to my throat.I shoved away from the railing. A crystal decanter sat on a side table. I grabbed the glass, ignored the silver goblets entirely, and drank the winter wine straight. The alcohol bit sharply into my split lip. I wiped my mouth with the back of my hand, smearing the red across my jaw.Tomorrow at dusk, Kaelen and I were trading full-contact steel in the dirt.If I wo
Claimed by Alpha Xorax and his sons The First Trial — Wisdom and Spite
Vaelin’s POVMy fucking head was splitting open.I stood at the edge of the sunken marble floor, gripping the iron railing until the split skin on my busted knuckles tore open again. My jaw throbbed where Kaelen had nearly cracked the bone last night.Across the sunken pit, my brother mirrored my stance.I was an unwashed mess beneath bruised leather and cold steel.Kaelen stood in pristine crimson armor. Not a hair out of place. The only mark on him was the purple swelling under his left eye, but he didn't even flinch when the wall torches flared.His stupid stare bored a hole straight through my skull. He wasn't thinking about the trial. He was probably thinking about what I had done to his pretty little Eastern pet in that dark alcove.We were standing in the belly of the Great Archive, a massive, circular vault buried deep beneath the Citadel, lined with thousands of ancient, rotting scrolls. Fifty Western vassal lords crowded the wrought-iron balconies high above us, staring dow
Claimed by Alpha Xorax and his sons The Morning Reckoning
Vaelin’s POVMy fucking skull felt like it had been split open with a rusted siege hammer.I dragged in a harsh, ragged breath and instantly choked on the stale, metallic taste of dried blood and wine. Rolling over on the heavy wolf pelts sent a blinding, sickening spike of pain straight behind my eyes. Every muscle in my body ached, but the worst of it was my jaw. It throbbed with a pounding rhythm that made me want to rip my own teeth out.I forced my eyes open, glaring at the pale, unforgiving gray light bleeding through the lancet windows of my barracks suite."Fuck," I rasped.I pushed myself up, the room spinning on a nauseating axis, and looked down at my hands. My knuckles were busted to shit. The skin was split open, bruised a deep, ugly purple, and crusted with dried blood.Kaelen’s blood.And just like that, the dam broke. The fragmented, violent pieces of last night slammed into my hungover brain, hitting me harder than a cavalry charge.The damp stone of the storage alco
Claimed by Alpha Xorax and his sons The Pact in the Ash
Asher’s POVThe sound of Kaelen and Vaelin tearing into each other down the stone corridor gave me the only cover I fucking needed.I dragged myself out of the dark alcove. Every muscle screamed with a burning ache that tore through my body.I didn't look back. I wiped the wet heat of humiliation from my face and threw myself headfirst into the unlit maintenance shafts behind the scullery walls.The service tunnels were freezing. I stumbled through the dark, my boots slipping on the slick stone, navigating the maze of iron pipes entirely by memory.When I finally shoved open the timber latch leading into the lower quarters, the wave of weak amber torchlight nearly blinded me. Damn it.The room was mostly empty at this hour, save for a few dying hearths. Lyra sat alone by the corner wash-tub, scrubbing a stack of iron skillets.The moment I stepped into the light, the skillet slipped from her soapy hands and clattered against the stone."Asher…" Lyra gasped, scrambling to her feet. Her
Claimed by Alpha Xorax and his sons Blood Between Brothers
Kaelen’s POVThe torchlight flickered against the damp limestone walls of the lower corridor as I hurried past the endless rows of unwashed scullery doors, my breath coming short and sharp in my throat.Vaelin had vanished down this dark stairwell moments ago. Two guards stood at the other end of the hall. I didn’t care.The thought of my erratic, wine-soaked brother roaming these forgotten halls while Asher was hiding somewhere in the shadows made my stomach twist into a hard, white-hot knot of dread.“My Prince, is everything all right? Are you searching for something?” One of the guards asked as I reached them.“Actually, I’m looking for Vaelin. Did he go this way?”“Yes, Your Highness,” the other guard responded, taking a bow. “He was moving quickly.”I didn’t wait for him to finish. I moved. Vaelin was out of his mind. I quickened my pace, my heavy boots slapping sharply against the blood-stained flagstones, ignoring the dripping moisture leaking from the overhead pipes.Ahead of
Claimed by Alpha Xorax and his sons Cornered in the Dark
Asher’s POVThe lower servant corridors offered no real shelter, only a maze of damp limestone and shadows where the grand airs of the Citadel died away.I slipped into an abandoned stone storage alcove behind the old linen vats and slid down until my knees hit the grit of the floor. Wrapping my arms tight around my waist, I pressed my forehead against my forearm as another wave of sickening nausea rolled through me. The sharp persistent cramps in my lower abdomen felt like a cold fist twisting deep inside my flesh. My breath hitched and I squeezed my eyes shut, cursing the weakness that wanted to put me on the ground right when my vengeance was finally within reach.Not now, I told myself, panting quietly into the dark. Hold it together.Heavy uneven boots echoed down the flagged corridor. The gait was too broad for a servant, too stumbling and aggressive for a sober guard.I froze, pressing myself deeper into the pitch-black recess of the alcove.The footsteps stopped right outside
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