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ANOKAII woke up and the first thing I noticed was that the ceiling was made of wood. I knew that ceiling. Shadowcrest, the healer’s hut. My body felt heavy, like I’d been sleeping for years but I felt the anxiety slowly releasing the hold it had on my body.I turned my head, they were there. All four of them, sitting in chairs, standing by the wall. They looked like hell, tired, and worried.Emiriel saw my eyes open first, he was at my side in a second. His hand wrapped around mine. It was warm. Solid.“Anokai,” he said. His voice cracked.“Hey,” I managed. My throat was dry. Rowan came over. He didn’t say anything, he put a hand on my forehead, like he was checking for fever. His touch was rough but gentle.“Six days,” Malachi said from near the window. He pushed his glasses up. “You scared the life out of us.”Nicholas just watched me. His silver eyes didn’t blink. They told me what happened, how they found me in the glade after everything went dark, how they brought me back. The

THE BINDING

ANOKAIThe grounds had never held this many people.I stood at the top of the steps in front of the packhouse and looked out at all of it, the merged territories laid out below in the firelight, faces from Shadowcrest mixed in with faces from packs that had been enemies a few weeks ago, all of them gathered in the same open space because the new alpha king had called for it and nobody refused that call anymore.Torches lined the edges of the crowd. The night was warm for once, no full moon hanging over us this time, just ordinary stars and ordinary dark, and somehow that made it feel like something was finally allowed to be simple.The brothers stood with me. Emiriel on one side, then Nikolai, then Malachi, then Rowan, all of them dressed the way they had been for the selection, formal and dark and impossibly imposing, and I stood in the middle of them in a dress the same midnight blue as that night, and I could feel every eye on the grounds find us and stay there.The priestess waite

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ANOKAIThree months had passed since the ritual, and most mornings I woke up before any of them did.That morning was the same.I lay there for a while just listening to four different kinds of breathing around me, feeling the bond hum quietly underneath everything the way it always did now, steady and warm, nothing pulling or aching or twisting the way it used to.Nikolai stirred first, the way he always did, his arm tightening around me without him fully waking, and I let myself stay there a few more minutes before easing out from under it. The packhouse was different now too.Not in any way you could point to exactly, the walls were the same walls, the halls were the same halls, but the air in it had changed. People didn’t flinch when the brothers walked past anymore. Maids didn’t go quiet and shrink against walls.There was laughter in the kitchens some mornings, actual laughter, and the first time I’d heard it I’d stood in the hallway for a long moment just listening because I ha

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