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Chapter 6
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2026-07-29 01:35:49LYRA
"Come to me before tonight and apologize to the families…I mean it." His eyes searched my face. "I'm trying to give you a way back." "You gave me a way out three years ago," I said quietly. "You chose the other direction." His expression hardened. "Because you were—" "Guilty." I finished it for him. "I know…You've mentioned it hundred times you fucking hypocrite!" "Your attitude isn't helping you." "Neither is your hand on my arm." I held his gaze. "Last time…Let go." He let go and I turned toward the door but the shove came from nowhere. One hard flat palm between my shoulder blades with no warning and I stumbled straight through the door behind the buffet table before my brain had finished processing that it was happening. The darkness swallowed me whole and the door slammed shut. The lock drove home with a sound that went straight through me like cold water. I spun around and hit the wood with both palms. "Darian!" I yelled in anger and horror, not expecting he'll do this to me. "Open this door right now." Then his voice came through the seal, muffled but deliberate. "When you're done performing and you're ready to have a real conversation." His footsteps faded and I stood in the dark with my hands against the door and told myself to breathe, but I was failing badly. My lips trembled and my eyes burned, from betrayal and reminding me of my wolf. The cellar was built for temperature. Airtight. Soundproofed by design, the kind of construction that kept the pack's wine stores at perfect cool and kept every sound I was making from traveling more than three feet in any direction. Nobody was going to hear me. I knew this the way I knew things now, quickly and without hope, the part of my brain that prison had sharpened into something ruthless. The dark pressed in. And my lungs began to disagree with me…. Panic attack slips in, because I've gone through this horror many times in the prison. The edges of my vision softened. The cold stopped feeling like cold and started feeling like nothing. I thought, with a strange quiet clarity, that this was a terrible and deeply undignified way to end here. In a wine cellar because a man who used to love me had run out of patience. My eyes closed, slowly….I can't breathe so I let go. But the door burst open and I felt strong arms sliding under my knees and one around my back, pulling me up and out of the dark before I'd even fully registered that the door had moved. "Hey…." The voice was low and close, but there was a hint of authority in it, right beside my ear, warm against the cold of the cellar air. "Stay with me…Keep your eyes open mate." Mate? I tried to listen to him. "There you go." The arms adjusted, steadying me. "Breathe in….You're out. I've got you." I pulled in a breath of real air and my body seized on it like something drowning. And then ....deep in the hollow place where I thought my wolf, Ash, had gone silent three years ago, a howl tore through me. Coming from somewhere inside me I had given up completely. “Mate,” Ash whispered, like a woman waking slowly from a sleep she had never chosen. Her voice cracked at the edges with three years of silence. “My mate. He's here.” My eyes opened fully.
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Zaren's Pov My shoulders ached by the time I reached Ashbourne, I didn't want any attention so I didn't use any means of conveying myself down here aside from my wolf. I wanted nothing aside from her scent and to see that she was still breathing.Then the courtyard opened, and every careful plan I had made burned away.Selene stood on the stone steps like a painting someone had paid too much for. She's in a pale dress and a lot of unnecessary jewelleries adorned on her. In her fingers was a piece of bread, still warm enough that a thin thread of steam lifted from the crust. She looked at Lyra with disgust and threw the bread on the floor. It hit the dirt near Lyra’s feet who had been asking questions but they ignored her.And to my horror Lyra bent and picked it up.For a moment I could not hear the courtyard. I could only hear my own blood. Gold slammed across my vision so hard the world narrowed to her hands, thin and careful, brushing dirt from food that should never have touched
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Zaren’s POVI was sitting at the head of the council table, surrounded by elders who had spent the better part of an hour discussing numbers, routes, trade agreements, and territorial access but none of it was reaching me.My fingers rested against the polished wood while an elder from Oakwood Pack continued explaining the terms of the business agreement. Maps had been spread across the table, sealed documents placed beside them, and several wolves were already arguing over percentages.I heard the words but I simply wasn't listening.My mind was somewhere else.With Lyra.I could still feel the faint pull of the mate bond in my chest. It had been there since I woke, quiet but persistent, like someone tugging at a thread tied directly around my heart.Was she eating? Was she sleeping?Had Kael hurt her again?
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Lyra’s POV“I didn't bring it.” My voice shook, but I forced myself to keep my eyes on Kael.“I threw it away.”For a second, nobody moved, then Kael's face changed.The anger in his eyes deepened until the brown of his irises disappeared beneath a violent red glow. His jaw tightened, and his fingers curled into fists at his sides.“You threw it away?”He stepped toward me.I instinctively moved backward, but my injured body betrayed me. My shoulder struck the wall, and pain shot down my back.Kael lifted his hand and I closed my eyes.“That's enough, Alpha Kael.”Darian's voice came from behind him and Kael's raised hand remained suspended in the air. Darian stepped between us, his expression strained as he looked at Kael.“Please…She's barely standing.”
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Lyra’s POV“You stupid, ungrateful child!”My father’s yell was still ringing through my ears when his palm struck my cheek.My head snapped sideways, and the force of the blow sent me crashing onto the hardwood floor. Pain exploded across my face, followed by the sharp sting of my shoulder hitting the edge of the table.For a moment, I couldn't breathe. I lay there with one hand pressed against the floor, my hair falling across my face as I tried to steady myself.Ash stirred inside me.So faint I almost wondered if I had imagined it.For three years, my wolf had learned silence. Pain had taught her to hide, and Ironmoor had taught both of us that fighting back only made the punishment worse.But she was trying now…trying to rise and trying to protect me.My fingers curled against the floor as I pushed myself upright.My father's face was red with fury.“How dare you defy us?” he shouted, stepping toward me. “What the hell were you thinking? That you could become a warrior of Silver
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Zaren's Pov Touch her and you'll lose everything you've built! The warning wasn't mine.My wolf had surfaced so violently that my vision blurred at the edges.I clenched my fists until my nails dug into my palms.“You wouldn't try that...”My father's gaze never wavered. “Whoecer your mate is, She is the cure to your curse.”The words struck harder than they should have.I already knew. I had spent years hearing the same thing whispered behind closed doors. Every healer, every priestess, every royal physician had eventually reached the same conclusion.My curse was eating away at me.Slowly and silently and somewhere along the way, the ancient laws of our bloodline had decided that my mate's blood could cure it.A convenient solution.A beautiful woman brought into the royal family, bonded through blood, drained of what made her mine, and turned into nothing more than medicine.I had refused that fate long before I knew Lyra existed. Now that I had found her, there was no force on ea
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