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A BOND THAT SHOULD NOT EXIST
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2026-11-06 19:49:40
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I WOKE UP IN THE BODY OF A VILLAINESS THE WOLF'S WARNING
Chapter 30Kaelen caught me at the arena gate.I was holding my ribs, still sandy, with Lyra on one side of me and Mira, in her apron, on the other. The crowd was breaking up. People kept looking at me and then at the ground, the way you do when you've changed your mind about someone and aren't ready to say it.“Lady Sylvie.”He was ten feet away, wrist wrapped in somebody's torn sleeve. He'd come around the wall fast, and he looked like he had a speech. He opened his mouth. “I only wanted to say that the duel was, that I...”Then the growl started.It came from behind me. Low, rolling, and so deep I felt the cobbles hum under my boots. The back of my neck prickled. Lyra's hand went to her cane. Kaelen stopped dead with one foot still in the air.Valen had come up without a sound, and he wasn't looking at anyone but Kaelen.“Valen,” I said.“I'm not doing anything.”“You are, you're doing it right now.”“That's him. He's not listening to me.” His voice was hoarse. “Kaelen, go.”It was
I WOKE UP IN THE BODY OF A VILLAINESS A DUEL FOR HER NAME
Chapter 29“Thorne scheduled it,” Valen said.He was talking to the floor. The rain had stopped hammering and gone to a steady drum on the shutters, and the messenger had already fled down the corridor, leaving a wet trail.“I found out four days ago. I was going to tell you. I kept thinking tomorrow, and then tomorrow there was something else, and then the pool, and then I...”“You kept thinking tomorrow.”“Sylvie.”“Four days.”“It's a review, it isn't a trial, it's three elders and the priestess, they only want to see if the bond is...” He stopped and started over. “I should have said. There's no good excuse. I just didn't want to see your face.”“Valen.” I'd stopped feeling the floor under my feet. “I'm going to be so angry at you. I mean it. I'm going to be properly, loudly angry, in about a day and a half. Right now there's a letter in my hand.”I broke the black wax with my thumb.Kaelen's writing was tidy and cold. He claimed I'd been promised to him two summers ago, in front
I WOKE UP IN THE BODY OF A VILLAINESS THE ALPHA'S BED CHAMBER
Chapter 28The storm hit after dark, and it hit hard.I was in bed with the shutters latched when the first crack came. It sounded like someone had snapped a tree in half over the castle. Then came a second, longer one, and a roar like cloth the size of a field being ripped in half, and somebody screamed down the corridor. Plaster dust came down on my pillow.By the time I got my boots on, half the guest wing had no roof.“Everyone's out, nobody's hurt,” the housekeeper told me, shouting over the rain. She had a lantern in one hand and a wet shawl over her head. “But there's no dry bed in the whole east end, my lady, and the cellars are flooding, and the only room that isn't...”“Where, then?”She looked at the floor.“The Alpha's suite has a second chamber. Through the connecting door. He said...”“He said what?”“He said it was safe,” she said weakly. A gust blew the lantern flame sideways, and she shielded it with her whole body.---It was a nice room. That was the worst part. A b
I WOKE UP IN THE BODY OF A VILLAINESS A MAID'S FIRST SHIFT
Chapter 27“A gray coat,” I said. “What else? Height, hair, what he asked, which...”“I told you everything.” Mira picked a folded sheet off the pile and put it down again. “I didn't see him. Two girls in the kitchen did. They said he had a pen and a little book and he gave them each a coin, and Marta spent hers on...”A boy yelled outside.It wasn't a play yell. It was high and cracked, and it came from the yard behind the laundry, and Mira dropped the sheet.“Tam,” she said.She was out the door before I could ask who Tam was.---There were three of them. Big boys, fourteen or fifteen, in clean tunics, and one of them had a skinny kid by the front of his shirt, pushed up against the laundry wall with his feet barely touching the ground. The kid was about ten. He had Mira's dark hair and her stubborn chin.“Say it,” the big one was saying. “Say it. Go on. You've got no wolf. Everybody knows. Even the dogs know.”“I do have one, it's just late...”“Wolfless!” The boy to his left laug
I WOKE UP IN THE BODY OF A VILLAINESS THE GIRL WHO WAS A VILLAIN
Chapter 26Supper that night passed without a single thing happening.Lyra poured her own water, like I'd told her. Valen sat between us and watched every cup that came near our end of the table, including the ones for the dogs. Nobody choked. Nobody fell over. Nothing in the room smelled wrong.I should have been relieved. I stayed up half the night anyway, staring at the ceiling, trying to work out whether I'd gotten something wrong or whether I'd just been given a day.The scroll was waiting for me in the morning.It was pinned to the hall door again, next to the old trial notice. This one was longer. Council script, careful, in three columns. At the top: Record of Grievances Against Lady Sylvie Vane, as Submitted to the Elders.People had already gathered. When I came down the stairs they stopped talking.I read it where I stood.Item. The cook's girl, struck across the face for serving tea too hot. Item. A groom dismissed in winter, without wages, for failing to notice a loose st
I WOKE UP IN THE BODY OF A VILLAINESS THE TRIAL OF THE LUNA
Chapter 25The scroll was nailed to the dining hall door the next morning, with a council seal at the bottom.Trial of the Luna. Noon. Open to all.Nobody asked me. Of course nobody asked me.I read it twice, tore my bread in half, and put it down without eating. All night I'd been thinking about the last line on the page I'd left under Valen's inkwell. Tonight, at supper. Lyra and the cup.“You look sick,” said someone behind me.Lyra. She'd come up on her cane without a sound and was reading the scroll over my shoulder.“I'm fine. Lyra, listen, tonight, whatever they serve you at supper, don't touch the wine. Or the water. Or the...”“Why?”“I just, don't. Pour your own. If you can't pour your own, don't drink.”“Sylvie.”“Please.”She looked at me for a long moment. Then she shrugged, and tapped the scroll with one finger.“The rules say you can name a helper. One. Did you read that part?”“No.”“Nobody ever does. They think no one will pick a person who isn't a lady.” She tilted h
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