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Chapter 10: What I Carry
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The Cursed Alpha's Substitute Bride Chapter 145
The nosebleed came about a minute later. I noticed it when the blood reached my lip, and then the trembling arrived in my knees, and then Caius had an arm around me and was lowering us both onto a fallen log without asking permission. "That was the tail end of the thing," I said. "It wasn't even fully wound." "You unpicked seven hundred pounds of stitched-in magic from fifty feet away in about four seconds." He was wiping my face with the cuff of his sleeve, hard and careful. "I watched a marker explode two days ago. I'd like to keep the count of those at one." "You counted my breaths at the Vale." "You counted Pip's all night. I figured I'd count yours." I leaned into him, and for a second nobody in that clearing existed. Magnus came over slowly, wiping his hands on his apron, and sat down heavily on the ground in front of us. Poulsen was tied to the cracked stone with two riders watching him. Simon Madsen had arrived at some point and was standing at the tree line with b
The Cursed Alpha's Substitute Bride Chapter 144: 700 Pounds Of Stitched-in Magic
The nosebleed came about a minute later. I noticed it when the blood reached my lip, and then the trembling arrived in my knees, and then Caius had an arm around me and was lowering us both onto a fallen log without asking permission. "That was the tail end of the thing," I said. "It wasn't even fully wound." "You unpicked seven hundred pounds of stitched-in magic from fifty feet away in about four seconds." He was wiping my face with the cuff of his sleeve, hard and careful. "I watched a marker explode two days ago. I'd like to keep the count of those at one." "You counted my breaths at the Vale." "You counted Pip's all night. I figured I'd count yours." I leaned into him, and for a second nobody in that clearing existed. Magnus came over slowly, wiping his hands on his apron, and sat down heavily on the ground in front of us. Poulsen was tied to the cracked stone with two riders watching him. Simon Madsen had arrived at some point and was standing at the tree line with b
The Cursed Alpha's Substitute Bride Chapter 143: Do The Stone Now
"Amanda can't sleep," Magnus said, quiet, to nobody. "Iron pans crawl across the kitchen at night. The wedding ring came off her finger last week and hit my palm like a nail to a magnet. She cried for an hour." He looked at Poulsen. "You said you could fix that." "And I can. You only have to..." Poulsen made a small gesture with two fingers. The nearest man lunged. Everything happened at once. Rowan was moving before the man's foot left the ground. Caius went past me like a thrown blade, and I heard the first crack, meat and bone, and a scream that cut off short. The riders hit the clearing from three sides. Steel shrieked on steel, boots thudded into needle-carpeted earth, and someone grunted "left!" and someone else answered "got him!" Two of Poulsen's men had drawn short swords and were running straight at Magnus, the only man in the ring without a weapon. Magnus didn't raise his hands. He flinched. That was all. Every blade in the clearing tore out of its owner's gri
The Cursed Alpha's Substitute Bride Chapter 142: Are You From Ironveil?
The village of Tindal sat at the foot of a long ridge. The forge stood at its lower end, door swinging open in the wind, the fire inside dead. A boy of sixteen came tearing out of the dark before we'd fully dismounted, wild-eyed, one sleeve torn. "Are you from Ironveil? Please say you're from Ironveil." "I am," I said. "What's your name?" "Simon Madsen. I work for Master Magnus." He gulped air. "A man took him up the ridge an hour ago. Nice man. Sold him a whole cartload of iron bars at a fair price, all week. Tonight he said he could finally explain what's been happening to the forge. Master Magnus said he'd be back for supper." His voice climbed. "He left his hammer, Miss. He's never gone anywhere without that hammer in fifteen years." I looked past him into the forge. The hammer lay on the anvil, long handle laid across the iron face, and it was moving. Slowly, steadily, the way a compass needle swings, the head was turning toward the ridge, and the handle had stopped whe
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I began forcing everything else away, the fighting, the roaring site, Vex's cold satisfaction, until only the structure of the connection remained clear in my perception. There, buried deep in the flow, I found it, the specific point where something had been grafted onto Pip's natural ability, crude compared to the elegant designs I'd studied in my mother's journal, but powerful enough to hold him regardless. I reached for it with everything I had, applying the opening technique my mother had documented, not forcing, not pushing, simply asking the redirect to release its hold. For a terrible moment, nothing happened. Then Pip screamed, a sound I'd never heard from him before, raw and agonized, and I felt the structure shift beneath my perception, the redirect straining against my attempt to unmake it. "Sera," Aldric's voice, distant but urgent through whatever connection he still maintained. "The marker, it's reaching capacity. If you don't break this now, whatever's contained
The Cursed Alpha's Substitute Bride Chapter 140
I began forcing everything else away, the fighting, the roaring site, Vex's cold satisfaction, until only the structure of the connection remained clear in my perception. There, buried deep in the flow, I found it, the specific point where something had been grafted onto Pip's natural ability, crude compared to the elegant designs I'd studied in my mother's journal, but powerful enough to hold him regardless. I reached for it with everything I had, applying the opening technique my mother had documented, not forcing, not pushing, simply asking the redirect to release its hold. For a terrible moment, nothing happened. Then Pip screamed, a sound I'd never heard from him before, raw and agonized, and I felt the structure shift beneath my perception, the redirect straining against my attempt to unmake it. "Sera," Aldric's voice, distant but urgent through whatever connection he still maintained. "The marker, it's reaching capacity. If you don't break this now, whatever's contained
The Cursed Alpha's Substitute Bride Chapter 4: What Reva Wants
The fourth night brought Reva to my door.She didn't come to fight, not openly. Reva was far too calculated for the messiness of a direct confrontation. She approached the way apex predators do when they have the luxury of patience: casually, carrying a steaming cup of tea, leaving the door pointe
The Cursed Alpha's Substitute Bride Chapter 3: Servant
By the third morning I understood exactly what Ironveil intended to do with me.Not kill me. Not break me the way the curse had broken the last one. Something slower and more deliberate than that. Something the pack had clearly done before to people they wanted gone without the mess of direct confr
The Cursed Alpha's Substitute Bride Chapter 2: Ironveil
Ironveil was not what I had pictured.I stepped down from the carriage and the cold slapped my bare arms. The gown's torn hem caught on the iron step again. I jerked it free. Lace ripped louder this time. Two dozen wolves stood in the courtyard in human form, lined up like statues along the swept
The Cursed Alpha's Substitute Bride Chapter 1: The Spare
They told me at four in the morning.The seamstress had already dragged me out of bed and shoved me into the center of the room. Candles flickered on the dresser. Cold air licked my bare legs. Hana knelt at my feet with a mouthful of pins and yanked the white lace gown over my hips. The fabric was
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