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CHAPTER 46: The New Assignment
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2026-03-01 03:49:45
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[POV: Viggo]We cracked a bottle of cheap synthetic red in the common room. It tasted like chemicals and burned going down, but tonight, it was the best thing I’d ever drunk."You beat a Warlord!" I roared, the sheer disbelief still buzzing in my veins. I grabbed Neoma by the waist and spun her around, lifting her feet off the floor.She laughed, a breathless, surprised sound, gripping my shoulders tight. "Viggo! Put me down! I’m going to be sick!"I set her on the sofa carefully, my hands lingering on her waist for a second too long. She looked like a wreck—dirt-streaked face, torn suit, bruising blooming across her skin like storm clouds—but she was smiling. A real smile. Not the guarded, cynical smirk she used to wear like armor in the Dregs."You made her yield!" I grinned, crouching in front of her. "The Ice Bitch knelt! Did you see her face? Did you see the look in her eyes when you put that knife away?""I saw it," Neoma winced, clutching her side. Her smile faltered into a gri
The Obsidian Covenant #1: The Rejected Mate's Ruin CHAPTER 106: The Mercy
[POV: Barzil]Killing her would be easy. Sparing her was a statement.I stood at the edge of the tunnel, my hand locked on the hilt of my sword. The leather grip was slick with my own sweat. The arena was a vacuum—fifty thousand lungs holding a single breath. The silence pressed against my eardrums, heavier than the roar had been.In the center of the sand, Neoma stood over the fallen Commander.Ishara lay paralyzed. The weight of her de-powered armor—two hundred pounds of dead steel—pinned her to the earth. Her eyes were closed. Her neck was bared. She was waiting for the cut.By Highblood law—by the Iron Law that governed every heartbeat of our species—Ishara was dead. She had yielded, yes. But in a duel of honor, the victor claimed the life to cleanse the insult.I waited for it too. My muscles coiled, ready to flinch at the spray of arterial blood. The Dregs taught survival, and survival meant eliminating threats. Ishara was a threat.But Neoma didn't cut.She looked up.Her viole
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