บททั้งหมดของ The Harbinger’s Forbidden Mates: บทที่ 11 - บทที่ 20

Rory's POV The first thing I noticed was her smile.It was bright, playful, almost too wide for the shadows we were living in.“Wow, you look like you’ve been carrying a storm cloud around all day,” Maya said as I dropped onto the dorm bed. “What happened? Did a professor glare at you too hard? Or” she smirked, lowering her voice“is this about the brooding one with the haunted eyes?”I shot her a look, but my heart jumped. She didn’t know how close she was.“You’re ridiculous,” I muttered.“And you’re avoiding the question,” she shot back, curling up with her knees tucked under her chin. Her amber eyes glowed mischievously in the lamplight. “Come on, Rory. I’m your roommate. Spill. Or I’ll just assume you’ve been sneaking kisses behind the library shelves.”Her teasing laugh filled the room, but it only made the ache in my chest sharper. Because it almost wasn’t a kiss. It almost didn’t stop my lips from burning. Almost didn’t stop me from replaying Elias’s words over and over: You r

Rory's POV “You’ve started a war.”The words reached me before I even stepped through the school gates the next morning. Whispers trailed behind me like smoke, sharp, deadly, hard to ignore. Faces turned, eyes followed. Some looked at me with awe, others with disgust, and too many with a hunger I couldn’t name. I gripped the strap of my bag tighter, my throat dry. Last night’s chaos hadn’t ended on that patio. It had spilled into every hall, every whispered talk. I was no longer just a student. I was the prize. Two wolves leaned against the stone railing near the patio pond. I heard one mutter, “She smells like him. She carries his mark.” “Not his,” the other growled. “She’s the wolf’s. Didn’t you see him nearly tear Lucien’s throat out for her?” A pair of vampire students slid past them, laughing like knives. “Pathetic mutts. She belongs to blood now. It’s already in her veins.” I forced myself to keep walking, head high, though my chest felt hollow. Then, from the training

Rory’s POV The fire in the ceremony room burned with an eerie blue light. Shadows crawled across the stone walls like live things. My pulse raced so fast I thought it might rip out of my chest. “You can’t force me,” I whispered, backing away until my shoulders hit the cold wall. Lucien stepped forward, his red eyes sparkling in the dim light. His voice was low, scary, yet soft enough to shiver down my spine. “I don’t want to force you, Rory. But you don’t understand what’s at stake. If I don’t bind you, someone else will. Do you want Kael’s curse? Or Darius’s fire tearing you apart? At least with me, you’ll survive.” I shook my head. “Survival isn’t living. I want freedom, not chains.” His lips curled in something between a grin and a plea. “You think a bond is a chain? No… it’s safe. It’s power. It means no one else can touch you. Not Kael. Not Elias. Not even Selene.” “Selene?” The name tasted like poison. “So that’s what this is really about. You want to keep me from her. I’m

Rory’s POV  The classroom door slammed shut with a force that made the windows rattle. “You think this is a game?” Elias’s voice cracked like thunder in the silence. His golden eyes burned as furiously as the runes etched across his desk. My stomach knotted. “I wasn’t trying to break rules. I” “Silence.” His order cut through me, sharp enough to slice the air in half. He stalked closer, his robe brushing the floor, his presence so overwhelming I shrank back against the desk behind me. I swallowed hard. “You gave me detention for defending myself? For living?” His look pinned me like a blade. “You lit half the courtyard on fire with your heartbeat. Do you even understand what you’ve done?” Heat rushed to my face. The memory of Darius, his flames bending to my pulse, burned through me. “I didn&

Rory's POV The sound of steel slicing through the night snapped me awake.Moonlight spilled across the courtyard, silver and sharp, casting long shadows. My heart thudded painfully when I saw them two figures circling each other, blades gleaming.“Stop this!” My voice tore through the silence, but neither listened.Kael lunged first, fire sparking across his blade. Lucien parried, shadows curling around his arm like serpents. Sparks burst where their swords clashed, painting the night with flashes of fire and darkness.“Enough!” I shouted again, running forward. “You’ll kill each other!”Kael’s eyes burned as he spat, “Better I kill him than let him have you.”Lucien smirked, though his breathing came fast. “As if she’d ever choose you, Kael. You’re fire, yes… but fire burns out. Shadows endure.”My chest tightened. “You’re both wrong!”But they didn’t stop.Their weapons collided again, the sound like thunder splitting the sky.I pushed between them, but Kael shoved me aside with a