All Chapters of BOUND by BLOOD and MOONLIGHT : Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

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Chapter Twenty-one — The Shadows in the Archives

Bella POVBella shouldn’t have been there.The echo of the ward’s explosion still rattled in her ears, but the red alarm lights flickering down the corridor left no room for hesitation. Her palms burned, her spine tingled, but she forced herself to stand, dragging her legs forward, each step heavy with awareness.Jake’s presence was close, almost too close. She could feel him before she even looked up, like heat pressing against her back. But his eyes were sharp, calculating, scanning the halls faster than hers could.“Bella,” he said, voice low but clipped. “Move.”Her pulse jumped. Move? Was he giving her an order or a warning? She didn’t have time to think about it. Behind them, the ward began to pulse again, a deep blue light crawling along the floor, sealing the corridor.“Jake, what” she started, but the words died in her throat when he grabbed her wrist. Not roughly, but tight enough that she felt the power in his grip.“Trust me,” he muttered, almost as if answering a question

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Chapter Twenty-two — The Phase Unfolds

The words still echoed in her chest: Prepare for the next phase.Bella’s legs refused to obey at first. The air in the restricted archives was thick, almost alive, pressing against her lungs. The shadow creature hadn’t fully retreated. It lingered near the cracked walls, coiled and waiting, like it had been commanded to observe rather than attack.Jake’s hand gripped hers, firm, guiding, but not in comfort. In his eyes, she saw something she hadn’t seen before: calculation. Strategy. A silent acknowledgment that the coming moments weren’t just dangerous, they were orchestrated.“Stay close,” he murmured.Bella wanted to ask why he seemed to be protecting her, why he wasn’t angry at her intrusion but the sound of footsteps approaching cut her off. Heavy, deliberate, echoing against the stone. Not student footsteps. Not guard footsteps. Something more commanding.Jake pressed her back against the corridor wall, silent, alert. She followed his gaze. Shadows lengthened along the floor, tw

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Chapter Twenty-Three — Lines That Don’t Wash Away

Bella came back to herself on cold stone.Her shoulder slammed first, then her hip, then the breath punched out of her lungs as she rolled across the academy floor. The corridor lights flickered above her white, then red, then dead.She pushed up on instinct.Pain screamed through her arm, but she ignored it, dragging herself upright just as a blade of shadow sliced through the space where her head had been.Bella staggered back.“Move!” Jake’s voice cut through the chaos.She didn’t ask. She moved.Jake yanked her by the wrist, hauling her behind a shattered pillar as the corridor detonated again. Stone exploded. Dust filled the air. The scream of magic raw, furious ripped through the passage like a living thing.The Academy was fighting back.So was whatever they’d woken.Bella pressed her palm to the ground, grounding herself the way she’d been taught except the power inside her didn’t settle.It surged.Hungry. Alert. Awake.“That’s not supposed to still be active,” she muttered.

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Chapter Twenty-four — The Weight of Choosing

Jake — Third Person Limited POVJake already knew he was going to regret this.The corridor was empty, lit only by the faint glow of runes etched into the stone walls. His boots echoed too loudly, every step a reminder that the Academy never really slept. Somewhere above him, a bell rang once low, deliberately signaling the end of curfew.He didn’t slow.He had spent the last hour convincing himself this was the only way. The safest way. The smart way.That didn’t make it feel any less like betrayal.“Alpha.”The voice came from the shadows ahead. Calm. Expectant.Jake stopped.Three elders stepped into view, their robes dark, their expressions unreadable. They didn’t bow. They never did. They looked at him the way they looked at problems that needed managing.“You took your time,” Elder Kael said.Jake’s jaw tightened. “You said it was urgent.”“It is,” another elder replied. “Bella crossed into restricted territory tonight.”Jake didn’t react. Not outwardly. He already knew. He’d fe

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Chapter Twenty-five — The Price of Silence

Jake — Third Person Limited POVThe summons came before dawn.Not a knock. Not a messenger.A pull.Jake woke with his heart already racing, the bond thrumming low and uneasy in his chest. He swung his legs off the bed, muscles tight, instincts screaming that something had shifted while he slept.He didn’t bother dressing properly. Just boots, shirt, coat. By the time he stepped into the corridor, the pull sharpened, guiding him down halls he’d never been invited into before.That was the first warning.The second was the guards.Two of them stood outside the chamber doors, neither meeting his eyes. That alone was enough to set his teeth on edge.“Alpha Jake,” one said stiffly. “The Council is waiting.”Jake nodded once and pushed the doors open.The room beyond was circular, stone walls etched with glowing runes that pulsed faintly with moonlight. The air felt thick, heavy, like it pressed back when he breathed.Five elders stood around the central platform.Not three.Five meant jud

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CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: What They Hid Below

Bella POV Bella didn’t tell anyone, That was how it started.Not Jake, not the healers and not even the one person who would’ve told her she was being stupid in a way that sounded like care.She waited until the corridor lights dimmed into night-cycle and the Academy pretended to sleep.Then she moved.No cloak, no disguise and no plan that involved permission.Straight down the west stairwell the one the elders said was sealed after the last attack. The one Jake had told her, don’t go near that place again, like a warning and a plea had mixed in his throat.Bella took the steps two at a time.Her hand brushed the wall and sparks bit back.“Yeah,” she muttered. “Still alive.”Good.That meant whatever she’d felt earlier, the pressure, the pull, that wrongness under the Academy’s bones it hadn’t gone away. It had just learned how to wait.And Bella hated things that waited.The stairwell ended where it always had.A door that shouldn’t open.She didn’t touch it.She stepped through.

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Chapter Twenty-seven — Fault Lines

Bella didn’t run.That was the mistake.The moment she stepped out of the hidden passage, boots echoed behind her too calm, too measured. Not guards. These people walked like they already knew where she’d land.“Bella.”Her name hit the corridor like a slap.She turned slowly. Elder Maelis stood there, hands folded, expression mild. Two others flanked him. No weapons drawn no alarm bells. That scared her more than chains ever could.“You weren’t meant to see that wing,” Maelis said.Bella lifted her chin. “Funny. Because it looked like it was built for someone exactly like me.”Silence.Not a shock. Not denial.Maelis’s mouth twitched, almost amused. “You’re clever. That’s always been the problem.”Her fingers curled at her side. The memory of what she’d seen burned behind her eyes names carved into stone, symbols older than the Academy, records that shouldn’t exist. Omegas, trials, failures. Survivors crossed out in red.This had happened before.She wasn’t special.She was next.“Y

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Chapter Twenty-eight — I Wasn’t Supposed to Choose

First Person POV — BellaI didn’t move.That was the first mistake.The second was breathing.Because the moment my lungs filled, I felt it again, that pull under my ribs, that low pressure that wasn’t pain but wasn’t calm either. Like something inside me had leaned forward and gone, finally.The lights above me steadied, but my pulse didn’t.Footsteps echoed. Whoever was coming knew exactly where I was and didn’t care if I knew it too.Think, Bella.I backed away from the corridor wall, fingers brushing cold stone, eyes scanning for exits I already knew weren’t there. The archive door behind me was sealed again, smooth like it had never blown me across the floor in the first place. No scorch marks, no cracks.Like it was mocking me.I swallowed. My throat felt dry, tight. My heart was loud enough I was sure they could hear it.“Okay,” I whispered to myself. “Okay. You don’t panic. You don’t run. You don’t”A shadow crossed the floor.I froze.“Bella.”Jake’s voice.Relief hit me so f

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Chapter Twenty-Nine — When Silence Starts Screaming

Bella First Person POVI didn’t wait for the feeling to settle because if I did, I knew I’d freeze.Everything after that moment blurred together, felt like moving while the ground was still shaking.The kind that’s quiet but deep, like something underneath is adjusting its weight and you’re standing right on top of it.My chest was tight, more like my body already knew something my brain hadn’t caught up to yet.The Academy didn’t sound the same.That’s the first thing I noticed.Footsteps echoed too clearly, doors felt slower to respond, even the air felt like it was pressing back when I moved, like “are you sure?” without actually saying it.I kept walking anyway.Jake was a few steps behind me. I didn’t look back. I didn’t need to. I could feel him the way you feel someone watching your back in a fight. “You okay?” he asked.“No,” I said. “But I’m upright. That’s the best you’re getting.”He didn’t push. Which somehow annoyed me more than if he had.We turned down a corridor that

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Chapter Thirty — Things Don’t Break Quietly

POV: Bella (First Person)They didn’t put chains on me.That was the first mistake.They walked me through the Academy like I wasn’t dangerous, like I hadn’t just flattened someone without really trying, like the thing under my ribs hadn’t stretched and settled and gone quiet in a way that scared me more than noise ever could.Two enforcers. One in front. One behind.No touching.Just close enough to remind me I wasn’t free.The halls felt different now. Or maybe I was. Same stone, same torches, same stupid banners hanging like they meant something. But everything felt thinner. Like if I pushed just a little, it would tear.“Keep moving,” the one in front said.He didn’t know, none of them did. Not really.If I wanted, I could end this walk in half a breath.That thought sat in my head like a loaded weapon.I didn’t use it.Not because I couldn’t.Because I wanted to know what they were going to do next.They took me down instead of up. Deeper than student levels. Past the training wi

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