All Chapters of BLOOD BOUND: Chapter 71 - Chapter 80

Elise Ravencroft's stronghold was situated in a no-man's-land between Austria and Switzerland. Mediaeval architecture and ancient stone structure are entirely out of date in the twenty-first century, with the exception that they were designed to be invisible to humans and off-limits to most supernatural beings."She's expecting you," Stefan remarked as they made their way through chilly stone hallways. Stefan took Aurora through a smuggler's entrance, a path known only to Purity Front members, guarded by blood wards who recognised Stefan and accepted Aurora because she was with him."I informed her that you wanted to talk about alternatives in private and that you were doubting the viability of integration. She believes you are thinking about defecting." Will she accept that? She believes anything that supports her perspective because of her conceit. Well-known hybrid questioning integration? She believes it, of course. She has consistently foreseen this.The interior of the fortress

The exposure of the Purity Front created chaos across the supernatural world. Within forty-eight hours of Aurora's broadcast, seventeen countries issued warrants for Elise Ravencroft's arrest.The Purity Front was classified as a terrorist group by Interpol's supernatural branch. Hundreds of operators either completely went underground or scrambled to disassociate themselves from the movement.However, Aurora didn't foresee the difficulties that came with success. Marcus displayed her texts that had inundated their accounts and remarked, "We're getting death threats." "Thousands of them.People blaming you for exposing the Purity Front, claiming you've made things worse, promising revenge."Aurora read through a sample.The anger was strong: "You ruined our last chance to keep pure bloodlines. Your hybrid kids will be gone in a generation, and it's your fault."Another: "Ravencroft was protecting us. You're a traitor to all supernatural species." A third, more direct: You won't surviv

Elias began probing Aurora with topics she wasn't prepared to address when he turned thirteen. Then why do they despise that we exist? As he read about another incident in the news one evening, he enquired. "What did we do to make them want us dead?" There is no rationale for hatred.It all comes down to fear and the individuals who are ready to turn that fear into violence. A rationale, however, must exist. Everyone hates someone for a certain reason.Finding words that were honest without being crushing, Aurora sat beside her son. "Some people require a sense of superiority. For them, being "pure," "better," or "chosen" is vital to who they are.That identity is called into question when hybrid offspring are born and grow up. We disprove their whole worldview by showing that strength does not require purity and that power is born from mingling. They despise us because we prove their theories wrong.Are we to simply accept the fact that we will be hated?No. Our very existence is pred

Five years after the Purity Front's exposure, Aurora noticed something unexpected: the younger generation didn't care about species purity at all.Supernatural teenagers and young adults those who'd grown up with integration as default rather than controversial experiment treated cross-species relationships and hybrid children as completely normal. To them, making big deal about bloodline purity was like making big deal about hair color: technically observable but socially irrelevant."Nobody my age cares about this stuff," Elias said dismissively when Aurora tried to explain historical context of species segregation. He was eighteen now, attending university, living independently. "Like, my roommate is pure vampire and he's dating a werewolf and nobody thinks that's weird. It's just dating.""Twenty years ago, that relationship would have been illegal in most places.""Twenty years ago was prehistoric times, Mom. Things are different now."It was true. Aurora saw it everywhere young

The debate was aired live to audiences worldwide, both human and supernatural, and took place in Geneva, a neutral location. An estimated 50 million supernaturals and an additional 100 million humans interested in societies they had only lately discovered are expected to watch.Elise Ravencroft looked elegant, composed, nothing like terrorist who'd murdered children. She wore modern clothing but carried herself with ancient nobility. Centuries of experience showed in every gesture.Aurora wore simple professional attire no pretense, no performance. Just herself, prepared to defend choices that had defined her generation.The moderator, a neutral fae academic, established rules: each would make opening statements, then moderated discussion, then closing statements. No personal attacks. Focus on ideas, not individuals.Ravencroft went first."Integration promised progress. What it delivered was erasure. In thirty years, we've lost more cultural heritage than in previous thousand years.