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Chapter 62 Discovery

ผู้เขียน: Aurora Lee
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The bunker door hung open.

It should not have.

The heavy metal slab had been sealed from the outside, bolted, locked, chained. The padlock now lay on the ground in two clean pieces, as if split from the inside.

The small shack above us creaked in the wind, abandoned and forgettable, just as we had intended.

But beneath it—

Beneath it was our certainty.

And that certainty was gone.

“She was here.”

The words sounded smaller underground.

The lantern light flickered against concrete walls d
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    SeraphinaWhen Aurelion told me he intended to announce our bond publicly, I forgot how to breathe.Not because I didn’t want it.Because I understood exactly what it meant.We were standing on the western parapet when he said it. The wind had been steady, the sea calm in a way that felt deliberate. His voice was calm too — not impulsive, not romantic — but resolute.“I will announce it at the gathering.”Not I’m thinking about it. Not Perhaps we should.I will.I had nodded.Of course I had.What else was I going to do? Argue with a king in front of three commanders and a sky full of listening dragons?But later, alone in my chamber, the weight of it settled into my bones.Announcing a bond — even one not yet sealed fully — wasn’t just romantic.It was political.It was territorial.It was… final in a way.If he declared me publicly as his intended mate, the dragons of Emberhold would see me not as guest, not as Madrigal, not as curious anomaly —But as future queen.I stood in fro

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    AurelionI knew the moment she stepped into my private dining chamber that something in me had already shifted beyond recall.She wore no disguise.No shadowed hood. No layered concealment.Just low-slung dark pants and a fitted top the color of the sea at dusk. Her hair was braided in twin plaits over her shoulders, and sunlight from the tall arched windows caught in the copper threads woven through it.She sparkled.Not magically.Not overtly.But as if the light itself preferred her.I watched her cross the room toward the small table set near the hearth, and my dragon stretched lazily beneath my skin, pleased in a way that felt territorial and deeply satisfied.Mine.Already possessive.She smiled when she noticed me staring.“What?” she asked, sliding into the chair across from me.“Nothing,” I said. “You simply seem… lighter today.”Her lips curved. “The sea was lighter too.”I felt it again — that subtle alignment that had settled after last night’s storm.The barrier had not m

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    SeraphinaI didn’t sleep the night after he kissed me.Not because I was afraid.Because I was awake in a way I had never been before.The air felt different. My skin felt different. Even the castle seemed to breathe differently. The ripples that had haunted the cliffs for weeks were gone — not faded, not hidden — gone. The barrier felt… steadier. Quieter.And him.Every time I thought of his mouth on mine, the music returned.Not loud this time. Just a low harmonic hum in my bones.I sat cross-legged on my bed long after midnight with three different books open around me — ancient volumes borrowed from Emberhold’s restricted shelves. If I was going to navigate this bond, I needed to understand it.Dragon mating bonds were written about in reverent tones.The bond is a call, one text said.It is recognition, not possession.The dragon knows. The soul answers.Another was more grounded.The bond heightens compatibility. It amplifies resonance between two beings whose temperaments, stre

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    SeraphinaI don’t pull away.I should.I know I should.He’s the king. The most powerful dragon in this realm. The one who carries duty like armor and speaks of restraint like law.But when his lips meet mine, something inside me answers before my mind can form a single coherent thought.So I lean in.I don’t hesitate. I don’t question it.I rise slightly on my toes, fingers tightening in the fabric of his shirt, and I kiss him back.And the world changes.It isn’t just warmth. It isn’t just the thrill of being wanted. It isn’t even just desire.It’s resonance.The moment our mouths part and press together again, deeper this time, I feel it reverberate through my bones — not pain, not heat, but music. Real music.Notes unfurl inside my chest, rising like a chord struck on a thousand unseen strings. I can hear it. Not with my ears, but with something older. The sound builds — layered, harmonic, wild.His hand slides to my waist, steadying me, and the music swells.The air around us

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