All Chapters of Fated to the Blind Alpha M/M Romance: Chapter 71 - Chapter 80

The cold steel of Beta Gavin’s broadsword hovered on Jace’s throat.The air was suffocatingly still, smelling of gunmetal, oiled leather, and winter frost. "It doesn't matter if I love Elias or not...drop the satchel," Gavin growled, his voice a dangerous, trembling rasp. "Now."Jace looked at the man who had stood by Elias’s side while crushing on him secretly. Slowly, without looking away from Gavin’s dark, pained eyes, Jace let his fingers uncurl.The canvas bag hit the flagstones with a dull thud."You're running," Gavin stated, his jaw clenching so tight a muscle leaped in his temple. "While Elias sits upstairs planning a lake house for you... you are packing your bags to sneak away like a coward in the night.""I am not a coward, Gavin," Jace whispered, his voice cracking with an agony so profound that the Beta flinched.Jace reached inside the inner breast pocket of his tunic.Gavin’s hand tightened on his hilt, br

The blizzard outside th gates was a howling wall of white fury.Snow drifts rose waist-high against the perimeter walls, the arctic wind screaming through the frozen pine branches like a legion of dying ghosts.Emerging from the service passage, Jace pulled his dark woolen hood low over his brow.Waiting in rigid formation in the clearing were twenty colossal, armored dire-wolves. Atop each beast sat an elite foreign rider clad in silver plate armor, their spears held aloft, their white-furred mantles billowing in the gale.At the front of the column, sitting atop a monstrous frost-grey stallion, was Commander Vane.Vane swung down from his saddle, his heavy silver greaves crunching into the deep snow. His icy grey eyes locked onto Jace through the swirling blizzard."You are twenty minutes late, Your Highness," Vane called out over the roar of the wind."I am here now, aren't I," Jace replied, his voice dead with no warmth. "Let us f

The black wooden hull of The Foreign Star groaned against the icy piers of Frost-Deep Bay as the morning gale whipped the dark ocean into churning foam.High on the quarterdeck, Jace Lacewood stood frozen against the carved mahogany railing, his fingers clutching the thick wool of his heavy fur-lined traveling cloak. The arctic wind tore at his long silver-grey hair, stinging his pale cheeks, but he couldn't force himself to step down into the shelter of the royal cabin.His eyes remained fixed on the jagged black cliffs rising two miles behind the harbor.Don't come, Jace prayed silently into the storm, a bitter tear freezing against his eyelashes before it could slip down his cheek. Please, Elias... stay in bed. Let Gavin tend to your wounds. Heal your body.. Don't come for me...And yet, deep within his chest, where their permanent mate mark pulsed with a heavy, aching thrum, another voice screamed with desperate, selfish hunger.Find me. Please...reach out for me, cut down these g

The storm outside the master bedchamber fell in heavy, relentless sheets against the leaded glass windows, rattling the heavy frames with every gust of the mountain wind.Inside, the room was cold and dark.Alpha Elias sat motionlessly by the stone hearth in a high-backed leather chair. He was shirtless, his broad, bronze chest wrapped in thick linen bandages that were already turning dark crimson near his left ribs. The dragon-glass dagger wound from the High Summit duel had torn wide open three nights ago when he threw his body into the freezing ocean waves to chase The Northern Star.His raven-black hair hung damp over his forehead, and his pale, clouded grey eyes stared blankly toward the dark window.In his human form, the veil of total blindness had returned. The vibrant, crystal-clear world he had seen through his wolf's eyes on the sea-cliffs was gone, replaced once again by the familiar, suffocating silence of absolute dark.He couldn't see anything. He couldn't see the dark b

Three days and three nights passed over the Northern coast like a long dark nightmare.For seventy-two continuous hours, Beta Gavin and fifty loyal Blackwood warriors refused to leave the shores of Frost-Deep Bay. They dived into the freezing surf, dragged heavy iron nets through the reefs, and searched every sea cave for ten miles down the coast.They found nothing.The ocean had swallowed Alpha Elias whole.On the fourth morning, a heavy, gray fog blanketed the beach. Gavin stood near the water's edge, his face hollow, his eyes bloodshot and swollen from lack of sleep. His broadsword hung loosely in his hand, its steel dulled by salt rust and sea brine.Doctor Thorne walked up behind him, placing a gentle hand on the Beta's trembling shoulder."Gavin..." Thorne whispered softly, his own voice hoarse with grief. "We must stop. The men are collapsing from hypothermia. He... he is gone."Gavin didn't answer for a long time. He stared out at the flat, silent black water.A single, bitter