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last update publish date: 2026-01-20 06:49:33

ZANA’S POV

I was sitting on my bed, doing my home work. Suddenly, I heard a knock on my door.

The knock came again, more insistent this time.

I stood and opened the door. An academy guard stood there..

"The princes request your presence," he said “In the East Tower. Immediately."

My heart kicked against my ribs. "Why?"

He arrowed his eyes at me "For the reason you're here, girl. Entertainment."

The word hit me hard. Entertainment.

That's what I was to them. I wasn’t a student or a person. I was
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  • Bound To The Cruel Alphas (SPICY)   Chapter 96

    ZANA’S POVHe didn’t say anything.I looked at him, asking again “Where did you get this?”He was already stepping back. Clearly, he didn’t want to say anything.I said nothing. I didn't know what to say. I wasn't sure there was anything adequate to say. I was just surprised, wondering how he got this necklace.I wrapped the ring back in the cloth and put it in my jacket pocket, against my ribs.I left the observatory.-The walk back to my dormitory was long and entirely silent. The academy at night had a different character than it did during the day.The corridors were emptied out. The sounds had changed. The same spaces felt larger. I moved through it without seeing it. My mind was doing something I didn't have a word for - not thinking, exactly, but turning.It felt like my mind was turning inside me, like it was picking up what I'd been told and looking at it from each side and then putting it down and picking it up again.Romell Lunae.I hadn't known that name before tonight. I

  • Bound To The Cruel Alphas (SPICY)   Chapter 95

    ZANA’S POVI made my way to the observatory without even thinking about it.Why?Maybe I was stupid. Maybe I was curious. Hey, maybe I had nothing better to do.All I knew was that it felt like something was calling to me. The observatory was at the top of the academy's oldest tower.The door at the top was unlocked.I pushed it open and stepped inside.The room was round and high-ceilinged. Moonlight came through the opening.To my surprise, I saw someone I never expected.Standing at the telescope was Headmaster Velis Payne.I stopped.What was he doing here?I stood in the doorway for a moment, genuinely uncertain what to do with this information. I'd assumed a student called me here or the princes even.Not Payne.I stepped inside fully.Payne turned from the telescope.He looked at me for a long moment with an unreadable expression.He said: "Close the door."I closed the door.Payne turned back to the telescope. He was quiet for a moment. I waited in disbelief.He said: "I knew

  • Bound To The Cruel Alphas (SPICY)   Chapter 94

    ZANA’S POVI closed my eyes and tried to focus on my power.I thought about the wind in the forest, the way it moved between trees, how you could feel the direction of it change before you could see the leaves move. I thought about tracking in the cold months as a rogue. I thought about standing in a field at fifteen and feeling the magic inside me move for the first time, and how scared I was because I didn’t even know what this thing inside me was.I reached for it.Not the way the textbook described, not the three-stage formal alignment that Marlowe had just taught us.. I reached the way I always reached -straight in, like reaching for something familiar in the dark, knowing exactly where it was without having to look.The magic answered.It moved inside me the way it always moved - not like something external I was directing but like something that was part of me, that had been waiting with quiet patience for me to need it. I felt it gather. I felt it recognize what I wanted. I

  • Bound To The Cruel Alphas (SPICY)   Chapter 93

    ZANA’S POVThe next day, we had double period for Elemental Magic.The moment I stepped through the classroom door, I could feel that something was wrong.It wasn't anything obvious at first. The room looked the same as always. Professor Marlowe was already standing at the board when I came in, writing out the afternoon's lesson headers.She didn't look up. That was the first sign.Marlowe always looked up.She catalogued every student who entered her classroom the way a warden catalogues prisoners. She was always noting them, marking them present in some internal register before they'd even taken their seats. It was one of the things that made her exhausting to be around.But today she kept her back to the door. I noticed that her chalk was moving with more force than necessary.I took my seat near the middle of the room and said nothing.Around me, the other students were already picking up on the vibe. I watched Petra Voss look at the boy beside her and shake his head - the univers

  • Bound To The Cruel Alphas (SPICY)   Chapter 92

    ZANA’S POVI sat with that for a moment.Then I closed the book and handed it back to Rhea.I reached down, pulled my sock back up, put my boot on, and laced it. I did all of this slowly and without looking up, because I needed something to do with my hands while I thought of what she just said.Last surviving heir.Last surviving heir?!What was this? A movie? A YA fantasy?"There's an explanation for this," I said. "One that doesn't involve any of that." I nodded at the book. "There's a logical explanation that I just don't have yet."Rhea sat down across from me. She held the book in her lap and she looked at me with"I've been looking for one," she said. "For a week, since the classroom. Since the windows." She paused. "I haven't found it.""Keep looking," I said."Zana-""Keep looking," I said again.Rhea was quiet for a moment. Outside the broken glass panes, the noon light was grey. Somewhere in the overgrown green of the greenhouse, something dripped."The mark on your wrist a

  • Bound To The Cruel Alphas (SPICY)   Chapter 91

    ZANA’S POVNow, everyone was looking at me. I could see it in their eyes – they were waiting for me to fuck up, to fail. That way, Thorne could punish me and they could all snicker and laugh.Even Thorne had that look in his eyes, like he was waiting for me to say the wrong thing.Thorne hated me. He made that pretty clear."Your defensive movements weren't just absorbing his force," I said. "They were redirecting it and storing it. By the third block you had used his energy to position yourself rather than spending yours. The counter didn't cost you anything because it was already loaded from what he gave you."Thorne looked at me for a moment. "And how do you generate that repositioning without telegraphing it?""You commit to the surface of the defense," I said. "Whatever's visible has to look like pure defense. Your opponent watches what your arms are doing. Your feet move while his eyes are busy."Thorne was quiet for a second. I could see the subtle look of surprise in his eyes.

  • Bound To The Cruel Alphas (SPICY)   Chapter 12

    AISHA’S POVThat week, I finally felt it.Power.It moved through my veins every time I walked across the academy grounds. I watched everything. I listened to everything. I memorized faces, habits, alliances. I saw who led and who followed. I saw who mattered and who only thought they did. I remind

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  • Bound To The Cruel Alphas (SPICY)   Chapter 15

    DARREN’S POV I sat in the academy common room with my friend, Marcus.He sat beside me. He talked loudly like he always did. He was bragging again. It was the same story but a different girl.“I didn’t even try this time,” Marcus said, laughing. “She got half naked for me just from my smile.”I no

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  • Bound To The Cruel Alphas (SPICY)   Chapter 13

    ZANA’S POVI attended my morning class at the academy.As I walked, I held my books tight against my chest. I just learned that this particular classroom was one of the oldest buildings on the grounds.The walls were made of enchanted stone. I noticed floating runes hovering near the ceiling, glowi

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  • Bound To The Cruel Alphas (SPICY)   Chapter 16

    DARREN’S POV The outdoor training grounds were already loud when we arrived. Professor Aldric stood at the center with his hands behind his back, watching everything.“Pair up,” he called. “This is controlled sparring. Remember that there is no killing intent. In fighting, you must use technique o

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