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Chapter 16: Ashes in Blood
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Kiss Of The Cursed Alpha Chapter 19: The One Who Hungers
LyraThe sarcophagus began to hum.Not a sound, not really, but a pressure in the air, in her blood, in the bond itself.It wasn’t just ancient magic.It was a heartbeat.Hers.Lyra staggered back, but the connection held tight. She could feel the tendrils of something vast and unspeakable wrapping around her soul, dragging her into a memory that didn’t belong to her, and yet somehow always had.The wolf in her went still. Reverent.A pulse answered her from the sarcophagus. Low. Timeless.The stone lid cracked down the center with a shriek of breaking runes.Ronan stepped in front of her, teeth bared, claws out. “Don’t.”But Lyra touched his shoulder and pushed forward.“I have to know,” she whispered.⸻RonanHe should’ve stopped her.Every instinct screamed to drag her back, seal the passage, bury the thing still breathing inside that tomb.But the bond…It wanted this.And worse, she wanted it.Ronan watched as she placed her hand against the cracked lid.And the stone dissolved.
Kiss Of The Cursed Alpha Chapter 18: Whispers Beneath the Stone
LYRAThe ruins breathed.Not with wind. Not with life.But with something ancient and deep, like the inhale of a god long buried beneath rock and regret.Lyra sat beside Ronan, his head resting against her thigh as she cleaned the silver wound with trembling hands and mountain spring water.It hissed against his skin.He didn’t even flinch.Too proud. Too stubborn. Too hers.She watched him carefully, how the bond pulsed between them like a second heartbeat, low and rhythmic, echoing beneath the stone. It had been more alive lately, stronger, powerful.The ruins themselves seem to be listening.She looked around the hollow chamber they’d chosen for shelter. The arches above them were cracked and covered in old runes, their meanings lost, their power lingering.“I’ve been here before,” she said quietly.Ronan stirred. “When?”“I don’t know. I was young. Or… maybe not even born yet.”He frowned up at her. “Lyra”“Don’t look at me like I’m crazy,” she muttered.“I’m not. I’m worried.”Sh
Kiss Of The Cursed Alpha Chapter 17: Teeth At Their Backs
LyraThe forest was a blur of shadows and breathless silence.Each step was a heartbeat. Each heartbeat, a countdown.They were being hunted.Not by mere scouts now, but by a war party.The Crimson Fangs had regrouped.And they were coming.Lyra crashed into the ground, lungs burning, claws half-formed and teeth aching from the strain of the shift she was holding back.Her wolf was clawing at her chest, demanding to take over. To protect. To fight.But they couldn’t stop. Not now.Not when they’d seen what she could do.The magic still flickered beneath her skin like hot coals. Runes pulsed faintly on her arms, ghosting in and out of sight, as if her blood couldn’t decide whether it belonged to ancient gods or mortal wolves.Ronan was just ahead of her, barely. His strides longer, body powerful and fast even wounded. But she could feel it.Through the bond.He was hurting.And he was trying to hide it from her.Idiot.She got herself up and poured more speed into her steps, ignoring t
Kiss Of The Cursed Alpha Chapter 16: Ashes in Blood
LYRAShe didn’t hear the intruder at first.The rain drummed too loudly on the roof of the safehouse, and Ronan’s weight was still a warmth across her side, his hand loose against her hip where they’d fallen asleep tangled in the aftermath of truths too heavy to carry alone.But something shifted in the air.She felt it. Cold. Off.Her eyes opened to dark shadows at the edge of the door. Three. Maybe four. Movement, fast, silent.Her fingers tightened on Ronan’s forearm. “Wake up.”He stirred instantly, instincts sharper than her voice could ever be.In a heartbeat, they were both crouched low, naked bodies wrapped in shadows and tension.Then…Bang.The door exploded inward, blown off its hinges by raw force.Lyra rolled, grabbing the dagger from her boots. Ronan snarled low, already moving, already shifting. His claws caught the nearest intruder in the gut, throwing him across the room in a bloody arc.But the others poured in behind him.Masks.Silver-edged weapons.And the crest h
Kiss Of The Cursed Alpha Chapter 15: What The Bond Won’t Say
LyraShe didn’t speak to him for hours. Not only because she was angry.Because if she opened her mouth, she wasn’t sure what would come out. Maybe rage, sorrow, desperation. Maybe all of it.After hitting the ravine, they moved through the old tunnels in silence, the flicker of rune-lamps throwing jagged shadows across Ronan’s face. He hadn’t looked at her since the bluff, since “Then we sever it.”As if he could sever something carved into the marrow of her bones.She could still feel him under her skin, tight and agitated. The bond didn’t lie. It pulsed with his guilt, his fear, and something more dangerous than either.His love.It would have been easier if he didn’t love her.She would’ve let him go if that bond didn’t burn just like hers.They stopped at the second safehouse before dawn. An old den carved into the side of a moss-covered cliff, hidden behind a waterfall. She slipped inside first, soaked to the skin, heart racing with more than cold.He followed, silent, slow.She
Kiss Of The Cursed Alpha Chapter 14: Ashes Don’t Lie
LyraShe knew something was wrong the second she opened her eyes.No birdsong. No wind. Just a silence that pressed against her skin like cold steel.She was out of bed in seconds.Ronan still slept, sprawled half-naked beneath the tattered quilt, one arm flung toward where she’d been. The sight of him, worn, peaceful, hers, was almost enough to pull her back under the covers.But her instincts screamed louder.She moved toward the window with predator like steps. Pushed the curtain aside just enough to see the woods.Nothing.Then;Thunk.The arrow hit the roof. No hiss of warning. No magic hum.But Lyra knew Reaver steel when she tasted it in the air. Cold, anti-magic, laced with nulling ash. Not meant to kill.Meant to warn.Her body snapped into motion. “Ronan.”No answer.She grabbed the edge of the cot and shoved it aside, exposing the trapdoor beneath. “Ronan, get up. We’ve got company.”His groan was groggy, annoyed. “Didn’t we just survive near-death and emotionally traumatiz
Kiss Of The Cursed Alpha Chapter 13: What the Bond Remembers
LyraThe fire crackled low in the hearth, licking at half-burned logs like it was afraid to burn too brightly. The rest of the cabin was dark, quiet except for the occasional groan of old wood and the steady rhythm of Ronan’s breath.She watched him from across the room, kneeling beside the cot where he lay shirtless, bandaged, and too still.Each second seemed to stretch into an ache.The worst of his wounds were sealed, the silver burned from his bloodstream, but the bruises remained. The kind that wouldn’t fade without time.Her fingers trembled as she dipped the cloth into warm water, wrung it out, and pressed it gently to his ribs.“You shouldn’t be alive,” she whispered, voice low.He didn’t open his eyes, but his lips twitched. “You’re the one who set the world on fire. I just hung on.”She didn’t laugh. Couldn’t. But she wanted to.The vision of him in that Council cell, arms shackled above him, his skin torn open, barely breathing, that would haunt her forever.“I tore throug
Kiss Of The Cursed Alpha Chapter 12: Beneath the Moon
LyraThe sky was raging red by the time she found the end of where the scent led her. .A deep violet twilight stretched over the forest as Lyra stood at the border of one of the Tribunal Moon Council’s strongholds. The compound loomed in the clearing ahead, ringed by silver-lined fences, rune barriers, and patrol wolves.She didn’t feel fear.She felt purpose.She felt rage.And beneath that, burning in her blood, she felt him.The bond didn’t lie. It had thinned to a thread, light and trembling. Ronan was alive, but hurt. Near the edge. She felt the weakness in him like an ache in her soul.They’d taken him.Now they were going to learn what a Hollowborn Heir could do.Lyra stepped forward.The first ward rippled in warning.Silver lines crackled across the perimeter, reacting to her blood, Hollowborn magic recognized and rejected. The spell flared, then hissed out as her power devoured it whole.She lifted her hands.The magic obeyed.Veins glowed violet as the air around her grew
Kiss Of The Cursed Alpha Chapter 11: Split By Fire
LyraThey came at dusk.Council-trained wolves. Another extraction team. Three of them.She threw up a shield of Hollowborn magic around the old temple ruins, sigils flaring in the earth as Ronan stood, blades drawn. The air between them thrummed—full of unspoken things. Regret. Fury. Need.“Lyra,” he said, voice taut, “if they’re Council-fed, they won’t stop.”“I don’t care.”“I do.”She turned to him and by gods, that face. Those eyes. She could taste the moment in her mouth..He already knew what she hadn’t yet said.That she wasn’t going to run.And he wasn’t going to stay.“I’m not leaving you.” Her voice cracked.“You have to,” he said. “They’re not after me.”They were. But she was the prize. The weapon. The heir to something ancient and corrupted.“Don’t,” she begged.But he stepped forward, kissed her like a war cry, mouth brutal and bruising, like it might be the last time.“Live, Lyra,” he said. “Even if I don’t.And then he threw himself at the wolves.The moment he was dr
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