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Practice

Author: Glazé
last update publish date: 2026-09-19 14:20:24

Kieran’s POV

“Again.”

Juni resets her stance in the training yard, breath short, braid coming loose. Dawn light thins the last of the night chill. Mera’s lock-in loop is already done—lower households counted, doors tested, cellars checked, the marked lady seen walking their lanes without a procession or a speech. The bond still carries the leftover edge of that loop: her determination, their curiosity, one old man’s grunt that might have been respect.

Now her palms are open, feet planted in the
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  • The Alpha’s Forbidden Omega   Held Breaths

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  • The Alpha’s Forbidden Omega   Boredom,Interrupted

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  • The Alpha’s Forbidden Omega   After the Record

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  • The Alpha’s Forbidden Omega   The Road to Stones

    Juni’s POV“If you adjust my collar one more time, I’m biting you.”Kieran’s hands freeze at my throat, then settle, guilty, on my shoulders. Dawn is thin over the yard. Horses stamp. Leather creaks. The escort is already mounted—enough steel to make Crane’s held breath expensive, not enough to look like we are invading a neutral review. The bond is a tight line between us: claim locked, older current awake and restless, as if the bloodline knows the road leads toward paper that wants to define it.“It was crooked,” he says.“It was fine.” I catch his wrist and squeeze until his pulse kicks against my fingers. “I’m marked, not glass. You checked the exits. I checked the exits. Torvin chose our stone. We ride.”He searches my face the way he does before every road that has ever tried to take me from him. Then he nods once. Kisses me once—hard, brief, public—and the household sees it. Good. Let them. Let the south slope and the council and whoever still whispers *omen* see that I leave

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