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Chapter 19: The Oath That Wasn't

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"State it plainly," I said. "The exact terms. What the oath required of him."

Ysolde folded her hands in front of her, composed, visibly certain she had nothing left to fear from a simple recitation.

"You understand once this is spoken, it cannot be taken back."

"I understand. Speak it anyway."

"Very well. Before Ronan presented, I bound him to an oath tying any future marriage to the preservation of the Ashguard Voss alliance. The oath carried a silence clause, preventing him from disclosing i
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    The unit surged.I met the first blade and turned it aside with everything the unstable surge still gave me. Wren stayed tight on my left, limited by the damaged shoulder but refusing the gap.“Stay on your feet,” I told her.“I am on them. Watch your right.”Ronan forced himself upright against the wall behind us, one hand pressed hard to the wound across his shoulder and chest. “They are committing the last of their number. No one is circling wide anymore.”“I noticed,” I said.An attacker broke through on Wren’s side. She took the strike on her blade and shoved him back.“Asher’s voice is closer,” she said. “Listen.”I heard it then. Commands cutting through the larger noise of the outer fight, nearer than before.“Relief is coming,” Ronan said. “We only need to hold the line a little longer.”“Then we hold.”The lead wolf of the elite unit pushed forward himself, eyes locked on me. “Finish it before the gap closes.”“You first,” I answered.We crashed together. The impact rattled

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    The first impact drove me back against the archive wall.“Wren, left!” I shouted.She was already there, blade up. “They are trying to cut us apart.”“I see it. Hold the angle.”Ronan took the right side, breathing hard through the cut on his ribs. “Screen wolf is overlapping too far. Pull him in.”“I am trying,” the last screen wolf snarled, blocking a heavy axe strike. “There are too many.”An attacker lunged at me. I met him with full weight and put him down.“Calling power,” Wren said through her teeth. “Use it if you have it.”“I am reaching. It will not settle.”“Then make it settle.”“It is not listening.”Ronan drove his shoulder into another man and forced space. “Left side is thinner. We push there, we might open a path to the yard.”“Do it,” I said. “Now.”We drove left. For a moment the line bent.Then fresh bodies slammed into the gap from the opposite side.“They closed it,” Wren snapped. “They were waiting for the push.”The last screen wolf went down under two blades a

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