All Chapters of Wolf’s Bane and Roses: Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

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51: Passed out

FELYNDRAI seeped back into consciousness. The ground was cold, biting my skin. The stench of urine filled my nose, and I was pulled back to the whips slashing my back.“Please, Nyxora. Don’t.” I had begged Nyxora. Body trembling from what she was going to do to me. I had seen what she did to tribute women. I was sure of what she could do to me.A cough got blocked in my throat as she grabbed my neck and pressed it so hard my eyes dilated.“Luna. Bitch!” She spat, and her spit drooled down my face.“I won’t remind you again.” She warned and shoved me away violently.“Tie her up and throw her in the well.” She ordered, and a scream tore from my mouth.“Noooooo!”“Please!” I begged, my body shivering from fright and the trauma of being dipped inside a basin of freezing water my first day here by Nightbane.“Do it now!” She commanded, and the water swallowed another scream of plea from me.I couldn’t trash. Couldn’t fight.My limbs were tied. And I felt the world close in on me. I was go

52: The offer

FELYNDRAThe gate opened for the first time, and I staggered to my feet. Two guards walked in along with Nyxora’s handmaid.My heart raced in my chest. To say I wasn’t scared meant I was lying.Anna undid the bind in my hands. Her face was even crueller than that of Nyxora.“Follow me.” She instructed.The guards held the doors open, and I followed Anna, withLegs threatening to succumb to the trembling ground.As we walked up from the dungeon, I realised even if I had screamed all day and night, no one would hear me. There was a reason it was called the dungeon.“If I were you, I would hide where no one would see me.”I halted in my tracks. Did I just hear her speak?Nyxora’s maid had never spoken to me before. Even if she had, not in this manner.“Get moving,” She nudged her head, and I snapped out of whatever daze I was in, and the nerves in my feet started working again.“The Luna is dangerous,” she said, turning into another hallway.“You can’t win her.” She added, and my lips pa

53: Loona

NYXORATwo days before.I heard the king’s beta had arrived from his trip. We weren’t close friends, but thinking about the events that had been happening, I needed an ally. Besides, what better time to ask for Nightbane’s forgiveness than the time he’s happy for the arrival of his most trusted friend?I didn't apply any rouge. I wanted him to know how I was, except I wasn’t.I would tell him that I would fix the rumour, and if he asked how? Then I would say, “It was a rumour to distract our enemies. To make them think we are vulnerable.”Nightbane would believe it. He might even want to have me amongst his counsels about war and would start seeing me through different eyes.I’m intelligent, and the breeder is not.I walked as regally as I could. Got a few glances from servants but paid them no attention. As much as I hated looking ugly without makeup, I had no choice but to do this.Everything I’ve worked for was at stake.Sooner or later, my parents would know I wasn’t their child,

54: Roses

FELYNDRAI healed.My wounds healed.I know I shouldn’t trust Nyxora, but what choice did I have?Again, I dreamt of a crying baby, and for the first time, my breast leaked with milk.I tilted my head upward and grabbed the book again. I was supposed to feed Nightbane the soup thrice, but after that heat incident, I didn’t feed him again, and now, I did not have the ingredients.I slammed the book closed and exhaled.“I’ll just reject him outwardly.” I said to myself.“That is easier and more effective.” I added and got up to leave.I was going to reject him and leave. That way, he wouldn’t be able to trace me and our child.My legs took me out of my chamber in search of him. I noticed my senses had sharpened.I could hear distant sounds as if they were near as well as smells.It wasn’t like I didn’t have these abilities before. It was just that they had become too sharp for a fox like me.I collided with a soft body, and the same feeling of knowing lingered again.“Anna?” I gasped; m

55: little flame

FELYNDRA The child clung to my chest as though their tiny body knew what my heart refused to admit. we were leaving, and there was no coming back. I had dreamt of this day. Imagined it everyday and now it is here. Except that my footman was not with me. I had strapped Roses tight to me with a woven cloth, the same way wolves mothers in my homeland carried their young when the woods were too dangerous to leave them crawling. My fingers shook as I tied the last knot, pulling the cloth across my shoulder and beneath my breastbone until her soft warmth pressed fully against me. Her faint scent of milk and innocence filled my nostrils, settling deep in my lungs like a reminder of everything I had lost and everything I was about to gamble. My chamber was cold that night, the fire dying, embers glowing faintly like dying stars. The walls gazed back at me as if they knew I wouldn’t return. My lips curved into a bitter smile. Yes, I did return from the woods with Anna and Selen

56: The fox kingdom

FELYNDRAThe forest swallowed me whole, and yet it was not wide enough to contain the storm in my chest.Roses.My child. My daughter.Every time her tiny fingers clutched at me, every time her soft breath brushed my skin, the truth became heavier, louder. I had been right. I had known in my bones, in the hollow ache in my womb, that she was not dead. She had been hidden, stolen, and used as a weapon against me.Nyxora's name was a poison in my mouth. I hated that I couldn't help the tribute women that died as a result of her hunting me. But now that I've left, I hope they will be safe.What mattered was that I have my child with me and I would die before I let Nyxora touch her again.The woods stretched endless before me, every tree a black sentinel, every shadow a possible hunter. My cloak clung to my damp body, heavy from the stream, dripping against my legs. My boots squelched in the mud, slowing me down, but I dared not stop.The air smelt of moss and iron, and my wound stung whe

57: Not to date

FELYNDRA I had never been here before, but something deep in my chest pulled at me, urging me forward. Roses let out a soft sigh, as if she too knew we had arrived at the place fate intended.“Stay quiet, little fox,” I whispered into her hair. “If they don’t kill me, maybe they’ll spare you.”Guards appeared before I could take another step. Not wolves but foxes. Their ears were sharper, their eyes brighter, their movements were fluid and sly. Their weapons weren’t raised yet, but the suspicion in their gaze almost cut me in half.One of them stepped forward, his voice sharp. “Who are you, stranger? And why do you trespass on our territory?”I adjusted Roses in my arms, baring my teeth like a cornered animal. “I’m no stranger. I am a mother, and I will not be turned away. Kill me if you must, but not my child.”The guard’s eyes darted to Roses, who blinked up at him with innocent calm. “The babe…” He faltered.“Don’t be deceived. Foxes have been tricked before.” Another giard sna

58: Roses

NIGHTBANEThe silence in my chamber was heavier than stone.I sat on the edge of the bed, staring at my hands. They were not the hands of a king tonight. Not claws meant to tear throats, not fists made for war. They were just… empty.I had spent my whole life believing a crown was a weight only I could bear, but it turned out guilt was heavier.Felyndra was gone.She had walked out of Grithim… out of my reach, and for once in my damned life, I could not bring myself to be angry. My wolf stirred faintly inside me, weak, coughing against the chains of his dying body, but he did not rage. He only whimpered. And I, too, sat in the quiet with him.How could I blame her?I had lied to her. I had taken her choices away. I had let her believe I was a monster in bed and a liar in light. When she looked at me with those eyes that were like shattered glass and stormwater, I saw everything I had done reflected in them. And still… she had stayed long enough to leave me something.The tray still sa

59: True fox princess

FELYNDRAThe chamber they had given me smelled of cedar and smoke. Too grand for someone like me. The walls were lined with heavy fox-fur tapestries, the bed too wide, too soft. Even the lanterns burned a low amber, giving the illusion of warmth when all I felt was a weight pressing down on my chest.Roses whimpered against me, small fists curling in her sleep where she was strapped close to my breast. I rubbed her back through the wrap, rocking gently on my heels, whispering a hush even though no one was listening. My eyes never left the door.When it finally opened, my heart jumped out of my chest.The Queen stepped in without invitation. Her presence filled the room before her body did . She was tall, regal, every inch of her draped in scarlet silk and foxhide trimmed with white. Her crown was not of gold but woven branches tipped in silver, simple and sharp. Her eyes cut through the dimness and fixed on me.“You are restless,” she said. Her voice was low, steady. Too calm.I clutc

60: Heat in the wrong place

NYXORAThe midwife’s words waslike honey in my ears.“Today is your fertile day, Luna. The perfect time. If the Alpha King mates you tonight, you will carry his heir.”“At last,” I thought to myself.At last, Felyndra was gone. Out of the palace, out of my shadow, out of Nightbane’s reach. It was finally my turn to hold him, to bear him a child. My lips curved in triumph as I dressed in silk so sheer it clung to every line of my body. Anna laced my hair with perfume, and my skin slick with oils. I was ready.I stepped into his chamber with a confidence I hadn’t felt in months. He was seated at the edge of his bed, half-dressed, shadows cut into his face. His midnight eyes lifted to me …. not with hunger, not with warmth. With cold steel that plunged my heart.“Alpha,,” I whispered, letting my robe fall from my shoulder. “I’ve come to give my…”“Stop.” His voice cut through the air like a blade and I froze.My lips parted. “But…“Stop trying,” he said again, harder this time around.

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