Lahat ng Kabanata ng Bound to The Enemy of My Mate : Kabanata 121 - Kabanata 130

The frost came in the night, a white killer breathing across the fields.Elira stood at the edge of the northern plot at dawn, the dead clover crisp under her boots. Each leaf was edged in glassy ice, the green beneath already turning black.“It’s early,” Kael said from behind her, his breath a cloud in the air. “Two weeks early.”They’d known it was coming. The mountain air had held that metallic bite for days. But knowing and seeing were different things.The emergency council meeting wasn’t in the mansion. It was in the field, with the evidence dying around them.“We have two choices,” Kael said to the gathered representat

The Great Hall of the Royal Palace was a masterpiece of intimidation.Elira stood at the threshold, her hand on Kael’s arm, and felt the weight of a thousand eyes. The room was a sea of silk, jewels, and masks—the night’s theme, “A Symphony of Stars,” demanded opulent disguise. Silver filigree, feathers, and velvet obscured faces, but not intentions. The air thrummed with whispered politics and the cloying scent of night-blooming jasmine, a perfume that did nothing to mask the sharper scent of fear and ambition.At the far end, on a dais under a canopy of sapphire silk, sat the King. He looked older than Elira remembered, his kindness etched with new lines of weariness, but his eyes lit when they landed on Kael. Beside him, the Queen was a statue of frost, her smile carved from ice. And to her right, stan

The road to Cinderfell was not a journey; it was an act of violence Kael inflicted upon himself and the world.He rode as if the Furies themselves snapped at his horse’s heels. The first day blurred into a nightmare of churning hooves and biting wind. He did not eat. He drank only when his throat seized with dust, swallowing tepid water from his canteen without breaking pace. Sleep was a forgotten language. His world narrowed to the back of his stallion, a sleek, midnight courser named Onyx, and the northern star he used as a guide.By the dawn of the second day, Onyx’s lathered sides heaved like bellows. Foam dripped from the bit. The horse, once proud and fiery, began to stumble on flat ground.“Come on, boy,” Kael urged, his voice a dry rasp. He leaned for

The forest was a tapestry of shadows, but Elira’s new eyes saw the paths clearly. She moved with a predator’s grace, Thane’s weight against her side not a burden but a central fact of her existence. His ragged breath was a rhythm in her ears, his pain a faint, sympathetic echo in her own chest. The bond was a taut, golden cord in her soul, vibrating with one clear directive: Protect. Shelter. Him.The stark silhouette of her father’s estate—now her estate—rose ahead. No longer a monument to Malven’s cruelty, but a forgotten fortress. And Finn, the sharp-eyed young man she’d installed as steward after her father’s fall, was inside.She didn’t knock politely. She struck the reinforced kitchen door with the heel of her palm, the sound cracking through the silent grounds.The door opened a sliver, then wider. Finn stood there, not with a candle, but with a drawn dagger held low. His eyes, quick and intelligent, darted from her gold-glazed gaze to Thane’s battered form, to the ferocity etc

The Howling Crags were not a battlefield. They were a meat grinder.The Volgarians had not been idle. They’d learned from their defeat at the capital. No longer just sabers and stubborn fury, they came with industry. Their front lines advanced behind clanking, wheeled shields of iron. Their guns were not the long, elegant rifles of Ardian marksmen, but shorter, brutal things that spat clouds of shrapnel. And from their rear lines, with a terrifying whoomp, came the high-arcing fire—iron spheres launched from catapult-like tubes on carts, packed with gunpowder and scrap that rained down in devastating, indiscriminate bursts. (Think naval mortar bombardments, but on land.)But Kael Rennar had not led an army of the past.The Ardian forces, dug into the scree and rock of th