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Masked Desire Chapter 61
Avalon's POVThe practice sword feels good in my hands. Heavy. Real. I've been here for two hours, working through the same sequence over and over until my muscles burn and my mind goes quiet. The combat wing is empty this late. That's how I like it.I raise the sword, pivot, strike. The blade cuts through air with a clean whistle. Again. Pivot, strike. My breathing stays even. This is the only time my head doesn't feel like it's going to split open from all the noise inside.Then the howl starts.It's not like anything I've heard before. Not human, but not animal either. Something in between, something wrong. The sound crawls under my skin and makes every hair on my body stand up. My sword clatters to the floor before I realize I've dropped it.The howl goes on and on. Must be a full minute before it finally dies. When it stops, the silence that follows is worse. Too quiet. Like the whole world is holding its breath.I stand there for a second, heart hammering. Every instinct I have
Masked Desire Chapter 60
Jason sits at his desk, the scent blocker still in his palm when the knock comes. It isn't tentative like Avalon's usual approach, or aggressive like Ivan when he's frustrated. Just firm, composed, deliberate. Three measured raps against the wood that somehow sound official. He expects one of the three—Kaelen with his calculated warnings, Avalon with his careful concern, or Ivan with his barely contained intensity. But the voice that follows doesn't belong to any of them. "Jason?" The voice is calm, unfamiliar, but carries the weight of someone who isn't used to being refused. There's an authority in it that makes Jason's stomach drop, professional and distant in a way that tells him this isn't a social visit. He doesn't open the door right away. His thoughts spiral about the inspection earlier, the near discovery, that drawer he's now checked three times in the last hour. The scent blocker grows slick with sweat in his palm as he stares at the door, heart hammering. *Who is th
Masked Desire Chapter 59
Jason doesn't move.The shadow outside his door lingers, motionless, too still to be a passerby. For a heartbeat, he forgets how to breathe. His hand remains frozen on the door lock. The shape doesn't shift like someone walking past. It stays there, deliberate and patient. *They know I'm here.*Then, as if whoever it is senses he's on the other side, the shadow moves—but not away. It stays. Jason slowly retreats from the door, every instinct screaming at him that something is wrong. His bare feet make no sound on the cold floor. He backs toward his bed, never taking his eyes off that thin line of light at the bottom of the door.The shadow shifts slightly. A small movement, like someone adjusting their weight. Waiting.Jason's heart pounds so loud he's sure they can hear it through the door. His throat feels tight. The bond in his chest thrums with anxiety, making his skin crawl with restless energy.Minutes pass. Maybe five, maybe ten. Time stretches until Jason loses track of how l
Masked Desire Chapter 58
Jason doesn't sleep that night.He lies still on his back, eyes fixed on the ceiling where shadows shift with the wind outside his window. The weight of everything presses down on his chest like a physical thing. Ivan's touch still lingers on his skin, phantom warmth that shouldn't feel so real hours later. Avalon's words keep echoing in his head, cutting through any attempt at peace. And somewhere in the drawer across the room, the scent blocker sits hidden like a ticking bomb waiting to explode his carefully constructed world.His skin hums in strange places. Along his wrist where Ivan's fingers had brushed. At his shoulder where their contact had lasted a second too long. It's like a phantom memory of contact he shouldn't want, shouldn't crave, shouldn't be thinking about at all.The bond used to be just a whisper under his skin, easily ignored most days. Now it's a drumbeat. Constant, loud, impossible to silence. Every heartbeat seems to match its rhythm, and Jason presses his pal
Masked Desire CHAPTER 57
Jason woke slowly, consciousness returning in fragments. His head felt heavy, like it was filled with cotton, and his body ached in ways that suggested he'd been dropped from a considerable height. His skin was clammy, sticky with dried sweat, but the fever haze that had been clouding his thoughts for days had finally broken.The first thing he noticed was the ceiling above him. It wasn't his. The second was the weight of a gaze pressing down on him like a physical thing.He turned his head, movement sluggish and deliberate, and saw Ivan across the room. He was seated in a chair, arms crossed over his chest, eyes fixed on Jason with an expression that gave nothing away. How long had he been sitting there? How long had Jason been unconscious?Jason's heart jumped, a stuttering rhythm that made his chest tight. His throat felt like sandpaper when he tried to swallow. He didn't ask how he'd gotten here—didn't need to. The truth flickered behind his eyes in scattered images. Ivan catching
Masked Desire CHAPTER 56
Jason went down hard.Ivan saw it happening before the others did—the way Jason's knees buckled, the way his eyes rolled back slightly as his body finally gave up the fight it had been waging all day. Maybe all week. The others hesitated for a crucial second. Kaelen tensed but didn't move. Avalon looked torn between stepping forward and maintaining the distance the Council observer's presence demanded.Ivan moved before thought could stop him.He dropped to his knees beside Jason, catching the back of his head just before it could crack against the training room floor. The impact would have been ugly. Jason's skin was burning up under Ivan's palm, fever radiating through him like he was on fire from the inside out."Shit," Ivan muttered under his breath.Chaos erupted around them. The instructor was shouting for medical assistance, his voice echoing off the walls of the combat wing. The Council observer was calling for a runner, her tone sharp and efficient. Other trainees who had fin
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