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chapter 8: The Castle silence
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The Lycan King's Obsession chapter 8: The Castle silence
~~~Aurelia POV~~~I reached Castle Vorhaven before the sun did.The servants' gate sat at the back, around the side of the cliff, a plain iron door with a lantern hanging beside it. A guard checked my name against a list, looked me up and down like I was a parcel, and waved me in.Inside, it smelled like bread and woodsmoke. Servants hurried past with trays and baskets, and nobody spared me a glance. It was nothing like the night of the ball."You are late," a voice said.Mrs. Harlow stood at the end of the corridor with her hands folded in front of her. The sky outside had barely turned gray."The sun isn't even up," I said."Dawn means before the sun, not with it." She turned and began to walk. "Keep up."I kept up.She led me through a maze of halls, and halfway through, we crossed a pair of tall doors that were standing open. I slowed down without meaning to.The ballroom.In daylight it looked smaller and emptier. The chandeliers hung dark. Maids were sweeping the marble where hu
The Lycan King's Obsession chapter 7: A Needle and a Thread kin to Sacrifice
~~~Aurelia POV~~~"Go to school," Aunt Kathy rasped."I'm not leaving you like this.""I'm not dying, Hazel. It's a cold." She tried to sit up and failed. "If you stay home, people will talk. And we can't afford talk."I looked at her flushed face, the cup of tea she hadn't touched, the way her hand shook when she pushed the blanket away."I'll come straight back after class.""Hazel.""Straight back."She sighed and let her eyes close. That was as close to a yes as I would get.----The school was buzzing before I even reached the gates.I could hear it from the cliff road. Students huddled in clusters, whispering, laughing, leaning toward each other like they were passing around a treasure."I heard she was seven feet tall.""No, she was a witch. A real one. That's why the king let her run.""My cousin says the king had her executed that same night.""He didn't. She's still out there. Someone saw her."I kept my head down and walked through the middle of it all, books pressed to my
The Lycan King's Obsession chapter 6: The Moon Charm
~~~Aurelia POV~~~I didn't stop running until the castle lights were gone.The cliff road was empty. Wind tore at my gown and the sea roared somewhere below. I kicked off my shoes and kept going barefoot, one hand over my mouth so I wouldn't sob out loud.Draven's fingers around my wrist. Cordelia's smile.They were alive. Both of them. Standing in a warm ballroom like nothing had happened, while I had died in the dark.No. No. I couldn't let this breath. They needed a taste of their own medicine.I was given a second chance of life, and clearly, this was the moon's way of saying, go for it. My palm burned. I looked down. The glove had slipped and the cut had opened again, a thin red line across my skin.A drop of blood gathered at the edge.No.I clenched my fist. That strange hum stirred in my veins, eager, like it was just waiting for someone to point at."Not now," I whispered.It took a long time to go quiet. When it did, I was shaking, and not just from the cold.I wrapped my h
The Lycan King's Obsession chapter 5: The Wolf Behind the Mask
~~Aurelia POV~~Hazel's heart said yes before I did.It leapt so hard I felt it in my teeth. My fingers twitched toward his open palm like they belonged to someone else.And they did.I curled them into a fist and stepped back."No."The word dropped into the ballroom like a stone into a still lake.Oh my goodness. I had just rejected the Lycan King.Somewhere to my left, a woman gasped. A glass clinked. The nearest couple stopped dancing mid-turn, and the silence spread outward until even the musicians faltered."Is she crazy?""Seems the girl wants a death sentence."I ignored them. My fingers had gone numb against the side of my dress.Ravik's hand was still extended. He looked at me the way a man looks at a locked door he has never been refused entry to."No?" he repeated."I don't dance." My voice stayed level, though my knees did not. "Thank you for the offer, Your Majesty.""You know who I am.""Everyone knows who you are. You're standing in the middle of your own ballroom, and
The Lycan King's Obsession Chapter 4: Dance with Me
~~~Aurelia POV~~~I didn't stop running until the cottage came into view.My legs were shaking. My head felt stuffed with cotton, and something warm was dripping over my lip. I touched it, and my fingers came away red.Great. A nosebleed.I leaned against the garden gate and tried to breathe. The cold had settled deep in my bones, like someone had scooped the heat out of me and poured it onto the ground. Whatever I had done in that alcove, it hadn't been free.That girl's blank stare kept flashing in my mind. That slack hand.Let go.And she had.I pressed my sleeve to my nose and pushed the gate open.----Aunt Kathy was at the table sorting dried herbs into jars. She looked up when I walked in, and the jar in her hand stopped halfway to the shelf."Hazel.""I'm fine.""You're bleeding.""It's just a nosebleed."She crossed the kitchen in three steps and caught my wrist. Her eyes dropped to my palm, to the thin red line the metal clasp had left, and went very still."Did you use it?"
The Lycan King's Obsession Chapter 3: Power of an Omega's blood
~~~Aurelia POV~~~"Hazel! Hazel, wait!"I had barely stepped through the school gates when something small and fast crashed into my side."You waved at me," Daisy said, grinning up at me, curls bouncing. "You actually waved back yesterday. Did you finally crawl out of your shell? Usually you just do this tiny nod and pretend you're invisible."I blinked. "Did I?""Every single day. Like I'm going to tell on you." She hooked her arm through mine and dragged me toward the steps. "Come on. I saved you a seat in herbology. And if you say no, I'll tell Uncle Ravik you're being mean to me."I almost tripped."You wouldn't.""Try me." She laughed. "He'd just stare at you until you apologized. He does that to the whole court. It's terrifying."I laughed with her before I could stop myself.It felt strangely warm. Daisy talked the way other people breathed, never pausing, her stories tumbling over each other. Which teacher was secretly afraid of the sea. Which boy got caught kissing the headma
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