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The next morning came sharp and cold.Mist rolled off the lake like a silver curtain as the knights prepared our caravan. I had just finished tying back my hair when Norma’s voice echoed across camp.“My lady!” she hissed from behind the supply wagon, eyes wide. “Trouble incoming. Fancy trouble.”I barely had time to turn before I saw her.A glittering entourage.Silk banners. Golden wheels. A carriage so polished I could see my own vaguely irritated reflection in the panels. At the front of it, on a pure white horse, was a woman straight out of a royal painting.Tall. Pale. Hair coiled in perfect curls the color of spun gold.Her dress—a layered thing of icy blue silk and white embroidery—was far too clean for someone claiming to be traveling near rift-infested territory. And behind her rode two more women, all sharp smiles and polished arrogance.Her gaze locked on me first.Then shifted to Alaric.Her expression soured instantly.“Of course,” I muttered under my breath, folding my
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He didn’t deny it.Instead, he reached up slowly—fingers brushing lightly against a spot just beneath my jaw. I flinched, but not from pain. From heat.“You’re covered in ash,” he said simply, voice low and rough like it always got when he wasn’t wearing his usual armor of cold detachment.I swallowed.“So clean it off.”His lips twitched faintly. A spark passed between us—literal this time. Static snapped against his glove and my skin.“Abby,” he murmured like it was a warning.But I didn’t back down.Not this time.A gust of wind swept through the clearing, stirring my hair around my shoulders. I shivered slightly from the chill—and the weight of Alaric’s gaze on me. It wasn’t just professional anymore. It hadn’t been for a while.And it wasn’t just because of the battle.It was everything. The way his hand lingered against my skin. The way he stepped closer like gravity made him do it.Slowly, his hand dropped from my neck to my shoulder. His thumb brushed against the edge of my cl
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She swung her hand wide, and lightning cracked in an arc across the field, lighting up everything in sharp, deadly white. The butterflies disintegrated midair.But the cost was real.Another man—Doran, one of my oldest lieutenants—fell. His leg torn by something bigger than the orcs. A beast I didn’t recognize. Massive. Like a bear, but stitched together from shadow and bone. Its claws were iron.I moved fast, rage and magic swirling up my spine. My blade met the creature’s paw with a crack loud enough to shake the air. Sparks flew where steel met bone.“Damn it—”Abby was already there. “Move!” she shouted.I obeyed instinctively. Stepped back.Her hand lifted, lightning gathering in a spinning ball the size of a boulder, and she threw it with a scream. The blast hit that stitched beast square in the chest, tearing it open in a flood of black smoke and shredded light.The rift pulsed harder now.More creatures. More noise. Blood and rain mixing into mud under our boots.Two casualtie
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ALARIC POVThe next few days. The sky over the southern boundary wasn’t kind.It hung heavy with steel-colored clouds, the kind that promised rain not as a warning—but as a certainty. The horizon blurred where the dark forest met the jagged cliffs, with stone outcroppings stained from old battles and ancient rains. And right there, like a wound splitting the land open, the rift shimmered.From my vantage point on horseback beside Abby, I could feel it.Mana. Thick as iron in the air. The kind of pressure that made lesser mages faint, or at least step back. But Abby? She tilted her head like it was just an interesting breeze.Her red hair—damn that hair—whipped in the wind, crackling faintly at the ends with lightning she didn’t even notice anymore.We rode into the village, if it could be called that.It was no more than a handful of stone houses, thatched roofs slick with moisture, a single abandoned tavern, and a ruined watchtower half-swallowed by the woods. The villagers had evacu
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Alaric glanced sideways at me, his mouth twitching into that frustrating half-smile of his. “Would you have saved me, Abby?” he asked, voice low enough that only I could hear it.“Depends,” I answered smoothly. “Would you have annoyed me into giving up my seat on the door?”That earned a quiet laugh from him. Real and warm. And maybe, just maybe, a flicker of something more in his eyes.The fire cracked again, sending sparks flying up toward the night sky. The meadow stretched out around us—soft grass, distant mountains silhouetted by moonlight, and that subtle scent of rain on the wind.For a long moment, no one spoke. Just the fire, the stars, and the quiet rhythm of knives being sharpened and stew being stirred.Then Norma, because she couldn’t help herself, said very loudly: “Personally, I still think the lady should’ve just zapped that iceberg with lightning and been done with it.”I grinned wide, sparks flickering at my fingertips. “You know what? Same.”An hour later. The fire
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That afternoon felt like stepping into an entirely new version of my life. The grimoire safely strapped in a leather-bound case at my side, Duke Alaric led me through the west courtyard—a part of the castle normally reserved for high-level combat training.Hot sun, glittering sword racks, and stone tiles already scorched by past spells.Sweat ran down my neck just standing there.Alaric, of course, looked annoyingly good. His black training shirt was already off. Tossed lazily onto the railings. That left him in dark trousers and a sleeveless vest open enough to reveal both his collarbones and those sharp, defined abs like some medieval action figure.“Stop staring,” he said dryly.“I wasn’t,” I lied.He gave me that dangerous smirk. “You were.”The grimoire pulsed again on my hip like it could hear us flirting.Alaric tilted his head toward the center circle marked with silver and obsidian chalk. “You’re sure about this?”“I’ve handled lightning.” I stepped forward, squaring my shoul
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