All Chapters of BOUND by BLOOD and MOONLIGHT : Chapter 31 - Chapter 38

POV: Jake (Third Person Limited)The door didn’t open again.That was how Jake knew this wasn’t a test anymore.Tests ended but this didn’t.The light flooding the room wasn’t blinding, it was worse, steady and unflinching. Like something staring without blinking. The markings on the floor pulsed once, twice, then locked into a rhythm that didn’t belong to the Academy’s wards.Bella’s grip on his wrist tightened.Jake had seen that look on battlefield commanders right before everything went wrong.“Jake,” she said quietly. “Whatever you’re about to do, decide now.”He didn’t hesitate.That scared him more than fear ever had.“I’m not stepping back.”The air thickened.The voice returned, layered now, like more than one mouth speaking through the same breath.“Alpha Jake,” it said. “Your presence is unauthorized.”Jake laughed under his breath. “Add it to the list.”The floor shuddered.Bella felt it first. He saw it in the way her shoulders set, like she was bracing against a tide onl

Bella’s POV The applause didn’t stop when Jake was led off the platform.That was the worst part.People were clapping like something good had happened. Like they hadn’t just watched the elders humiliate their Alpha and quietly blame an omega for it. Like they hadn’t just seen power bend because the right family walked in at the right time.I stood there, hands clenched, pretending my chest didn’t feel like it was cracking open.The crowd broke into noise. Talking, laughing, speculating. The Academy does that thing it always does; chews on drama and spits out versions that taste better than the truth.“She shouldn’t have been there.” “He chose wrong.” “That Lyra girl though… Did you see her?” “Alpha blood recognizes alpha blood.”I walked passed, because if I stayed one more second, I was going to do something stupid.My boots hit stone hard as I cut through the corridor. Every step felt watched. Like eyes were tracking me from behind walls.Good. Let them watch.They already decided

Bella POVI stopped telling anyone where I was going. That was the first change.No more explanations, no more “I’ll be back.” No more looking over my shoulder to see who might be watching or pretending not to.If the Academy wanted me blind, I’d move in the dark on purpose.The second change came quietly.I stopped trusting Jake.Not because I wanted to. Because every time I opened my mouth to warn him, I saw Lyra’s voice sitting comfortably in his head, soft and familiar, smoothing over my words before they could land.So I shut up.And I started preparing alone.The place I found wasn’t on any map.The first thing I noticed was the smell.Not blood, not magic. Dust. The kind that settles only when no one’s walked a place for years.It was under the old south wing, past three sealed doors and a staircase that smelled like rust and old magic. The wards there were tired. Not broken, just old. Like they’d been holding their breath for too long.That thing inside me pulled hard as I des

Lyra POVI shattered the bowl before the blood even finished steaming.Stones cracked. Shards flew. The sound echoed too loud in the chamber, bouncing off walls that had heard worse things than anger but still seemed to flinch at mine.The blood splashed across the etched floor, hissing softly where it met the old sigils, like it was offended I’d denied it purpose.“She was not meant to be there.”The chamber pulsed faintly in response, moonlight bleeding through the cracks in the ceiling like it was listening, like it was amused. The walls always reacted when emotions ran too close to the truth. This place had been fed too many confessions over the centuries to stay neutral.“She wasn’t meant to touch it,” I continued, pacing the circle. “She wasn’t meant to wake anything.”The shadow in the far corner shifted, pulling itself taller, denser, until the darkness felt occupied rather than empty.“You planned for her arrival,” it said calmly.“I planned for her timing,” I snapped. “Not f