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CHAPTER 44 — The Deal

Author: Mercy V.
last update Last Updated: 2025-12-31 14:56:56

The Lunaris shackle closed with a sound that was too soft for what it was.

Not a clank. It's more like a sigh—metal kissing skin and deciding to stay.

Heat flared under the band, then sank inward, a heavy, smoldering ache that threaded through bone and tendon. The bracelet on my other wrist reacted at once, its silver veins brightening in jagged protest.

For a heartbeat, I couldn’t breathe.

Then the burn flattened into something worse: a steady, humming pressure, like a hand pressing down on my pulse from the inside. The glass-singing that had followed me since Frostveil dulled, as if someone had thrown a blanket over it.

Crowe watched my face with professional curiosity. “On a scale of one to ten?” he asked. “Uncomfortable? Agonizing?”

“Boring,” I said, though my voice came out thinner than I liked. “Did you get these off a clearance rack?”

His mouth curved. “Bravado,” he murmured. “Always fascinating what people cling to when power slips.”

He took the second shackle from the cabinet
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