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chapter 32 Daughter's burden
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THE ALPHA'S BARGAINED BRIDE chapter 34
The council chamber was heavy with silence, the kind of silence that pressed against your chest and made every breath feel like a confession. Torches burned along the walls, their flames restless, casting jagged shadows that stretched across the carved stone floor. My wrists trembled where they rested against my lap, the cold bite of the shackles digging into my skin. I could hear my heartbeat, frantic, loud, betraying me in this hall of judgment.Beside me, Kai stood tall even with the chains around his wrists. His eyes swept the chamber, searching for an answer in the faces of the council, but when they finally landed on me, they softened. Confusion lived there, threaded with something worse: fear. Not fear of death, not even fear of pain. Fear of betrayal. Fear of me.The council head’s voice boomed across the chamber, cutting through the silence like a blade. “Larissa. You are called here to bear witness. Tell us, is Kai the cause of the chaos that has plagued this pack?”My throa
THE ALPHA'S BARGAINED BRIDE chapter 33 What hurt more?
The night air carried a softness that felt almost cruel. A breeze whispered along the prison corridor, brushing against my skin as though it wanted to comfort me, though it had no right to. The lanterns hanging on the walls flickered gently, throwing shadows that danced on the stone floor. Somewhere far above, an owl called, its voice deep and steady, the sound echoing faintly into the silence. For a place so close to pain and punishment, the atmosphere was strangely peaceful. I wrapped my arms around myself, drawing in a shaky breath. I had asked for this. I had begged the guards to summon Xavier. And now he was here, walking toward me, the weight of his presence filling every inch of space between us. “Larissa,” he said, his voice low, clipped, as if my name itself had become a thorn in his throat. My lips trembled, but I forced myself to meet his eyes. “I need your help.” He stopped a few steps away, his hands locked behind his back, his posture carved from stone. His gaze was
THE ALPHA'S BARGAINED BRIDE chapter 32 Daughter's burden
The stone floor beneath me was colder tonight, though I knew it was not the stones that had changed but me. I had broken inside the council hall, and the echo of that moment kept replaying in my head, cruel as any whip. Angela’s voice, steady and clinical, declaring the proof in my hands a forgery. Angela, the one person I still believed stood beside me, now standing with Selene as if she had never cared at all. The thought circled in my mind until it burned. Why, Angela? What made you turn? Was it fear, was it power, or had you always been against me and I never saw it? I tried to stop the questions from coming, but they rose like poison, choking me. The more I pushed them down, the sharper they struck. I pressed my palms to my ears as if I could silence the storm inside, but all I heard instead was the faint laughter of the guards echoing down the corridor. It was a sound soaked in mockery, a reminder of my fall from Luna to prisoner. Even below me, where Kai still sat in his own
THE ALPHA'S BARGAINED BRIDE chapter 31 shattered truth
The walls of the cell feel like they are pressing in on me, heavier with each passing hour. I told Xavier I would testify against Kai, that I would stand before the council as their obedient Luna-turned-traitor, ready to answer for my part in this endless storm. But that was only half the truth. The real fire burns deeper. Every breath I’ve taken since Selene’s smug smile first cut into me has been heavy with one thought: I will not let her win. She parades around with a belly swollen in deceit, using that unborn child as her weapon, her shield. And Xavier, blind in his rage and grief, cannot see through it. He cannot see that Selene’s greatest weapon is a lie dressed as innocence. So yes, I’ll stand before them today. I’ll answer their questions about Kai, about betrayal, about exile. But when they least expect it, I will drag the truth into the light. I will give them the evidence I’ve carried like a brand against my heart, the proof that Selene’s pregnancy is not Xavier’s. I re
THE ALPHA'S BARGAINED BRIDE chapter 30 Think about it
The silence in the cell was always heavy, like an extra weight pressing down on my chest. I thought I had grown used to it, to the cold stone walls and the stale air that smelled faintly of damp earth, but tonight my mind would not let me rest. Angela’s words still echoed in me, her discovery gnawing at my thoughts. Selene’s pregnancy was not Xavier’s, yet who it belonged to remains a cruel mystery. That secret burned brighter than the torches outside, and though Angela had sworn to find proof, the knowledge alone twisted inside me like a knife. My thoughts spun through every step that had led me here. The betrayal, the trial, the sentence of exile. Xavier’s eyes turned hard against me when once they had been soft, his voice carrying accusations I had never deserved. Then Kai—always Kai. Saving me from the hunters’ chains, pulling me from the brink when death had clawed too close, shielding me when Xavier had left me to the world’s cruelty. I remembered the sharp sting of the needle,
THE ALPHA'S BARGAINED BRIDE chapter 29 I promise
The storm had long since rolled past, leaving the night heavy and damp, but Xavier could not shake the thunder still echoing in his chest. His chambers were dim, lit only by the faint glow of embers in the fireplace and the moonlight cutting across the wide windows. He sat on the edge of his bed, bare to the waist, his shoulders rigid, head bowed. The weight of command pressed heavier than his crown ever could, and in the silence he thought only of the girl in the prison below. Larissa’s face would not leave him. The pain in her eyes as she had been dragged away still carved deep into his chest. He had told himself a dozen times that it was for the good of the pack, that justice had to be seen. Yet each justification crumbled the moment he remembered her trembling hands, her broken voice. She had trusted him, and he had put her in chains. The soft creak of the door stirred him from his thoughts. He did not have to look up to know who it was. Her scent entered the room before she did
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