All Chapters of TWICE BOUND: Chapter 1 - Chapter 7

I'd lost count of days a long time ago.The scars on my arms were the only things I had left to mark the passage of time. Each one, a mix of old and new, thick and thin, was a testament to my survival. They were proof that I was alive and had not yet been defeated.The sound of iron scraping stone made me freeze. My cell door. I hadn't seen it open in seven years. When two guards came in, their boots were so loud it hurt my ears; I'd gotten used to the quiet."Get up," one of them said roughly. "You're being released." I didn't believe it. Released? It had to be some kind of trick. I stayed right where I was until the second guard grabbed my arm and pulled me up. My legs shook, but I managed to stand up straight."Don’t pull her so hard," the first guard snapped, "you'll make her fall before we get to the gate." The other one just sneered. "She's a traitor. She should just die here." I didn't say a word. I knew it was useless; they never listened to me.They finally unlocked the shac

The darkness swallowed me whole.I woke up to cold stone beneath me. My head hammered with a pain that felt like it would split me open, and my chest heaved with every breath. The air around me was thick and damp, smelling of nothing but rust and blood.I struggled to push myself up, my arms shaking until I was finally sitting. I blinked, trying to clear the blur from my vision. The only light came from faint slivers cutting through the cracks in the ceiling."Where... am I?" I shouted into the emptiness. The sound just bounced off the stone walls, the only answer I got.My wolf within me stirred, restless. She was pushing me forward, into the darkness in front.My body strained, but my legs had moved on their own. Step by step, deeper into the cave.The sound preceded the vision. Jangling chains, growls and snarls, ragged breathing.I froze.Then I saw him.Chained to the cave wall, on the opposite end of Alley from where I was now standing….. towered a human so large they were begin

“You're mine. Don't you ever forget it," Kael growled, his golden eyes blazing into mine."I gulped hard, raising my chin. "No," I panted. "I don't belong to anyone. I don't belong to you."He shoved me against the cold cave wall, his grip tightening on my arm. His wolf pushed against mine, demanding submission, but I fought back with everything I had."You can feel it, Lyra," he snarled, his voice low and rough. "Don't lie to yourself."I feel the bond," I confessed, my heart thumping so loudly I could barely hear anything else. "But a bond isn't chains. I just got out of prison after seven years. I won't live in another cage."His expression flashed with guilt or pain I couldn't guess which one, it faded too quickly before I could. He stepped away from me, releasing his hold on me."You're a fool," he muttered. "A fool who will get herself killed."Maybe," I said, my voice unwavering. "But I'd rather die free than ever be owned again." His wolf growled and he turned, boots clanging

The dawn broke over terrain I didn't recognize, painting the sky in shades of amber and blood red. I'd been walking all night, following the tunnel until it spilled out onto a rocky outcropping that overlooked what had once been the Glom territories. Even now, years later, I could see the scars of destruction. Blackened earth where homes had burned. Scattered stones that might have been a village or a gathering place. The land itself seemed to mourn what had happened here.I sat on a flat stone, my bare feet bleeding, my body exhausted beyond measure. The hunger gnawed at my stomach, and thirst clawed at my throat, but worse than the physical pain was the emotional vertigo of everything Damon had revealed. Marcus hadn't just imprisoned me for a crime I didn't commit. He'd murdered my parents to hide his own crimes. He'd built his entire rule on a foundation of blood and lies.And Kael. My mate. My bond. Was he complicit in this? Did he know the truth about his father? Or was he as muc