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CHAPTER 13 — Pack-Binding
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Calista’s voice bled out of Kieran’s phone like poison.“…uses a stolen bloodline to steal my husband. And I’m taking him back.”The host made a sympathetic noise. The crawler at the bottom of the screen read:**LUNA DRAVENNE SPEAKS: “ALPHA VHALOREN IS BEING MANIPULATED.”**I wanted to throw up.Daire stared at the screen, something raw crossing his face before he slammed the emotion back behind a hard, flat mask.“She’s good,” Kieran said. “I’ll give her that.”Daire’s hand curled around the edge of the binding-room shelf hard enough that the wood creaked. “We’re done watching her puppet show,” he said. “We move to the ground I can control.”“Where?” I asked. “You’ve already dragged me through three safehouses and an enclave. You have more secret boltholes lying around?”“Yes,” he said, simply. “One.”***The “one” turned out to be a guarded apartment on the edge of a Nightmoor-heavy district—high enough in the building that you couldn’t accidentally fall out of a window without tryi
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Kieran’s message blinked like a wound.**MARRIAGE RECORD: FLAGGED BY TRIBUNAL AUTHORITY.**For a second, all I heard was my own breathing and the faint buzz of a dying streetlight overhead.“Already?” I asked. “We barely walked away from the registrar.”“Crowe has alerts set for anything with your scent on it now,” Kieran said. “Figuratively. And maybe literally.”Daire’s jaw tightened. “Flagged doesn’t mean annulled.”“It means he’s noticed,” Kieran said. “And is deciding how much he hates it.”My bracelet pulsed, a restless throb under my sleeve.“We filed in human courts,” I said. “Doesn’t that—”“It slows him,” Kieran said. “Doesn’t stop him. Wolf courts matter, too. Especially to Nightmoor.”Daire nodded once. “We need a pack-binding. Something the wolf courts recognize, not just the humans.”I stiffened. “That sounds suspiciously like more ritual and less choice.”“Different kind of ink,” Kieran said. “Nightmoor law won’t ignore a completed binding, even if the Tribunal kicks an
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