BOUND TO THE ALPHA I SWORE TO KILL의 모든 챕터: 챕터 111 - 챕터 120

🪷ISORA🪷I waited a few minutes before coming down from the table, my legs still shaky and my body still humming from the feel of Adrian's hands on my skin. I straightened my nightwear and tucked my hair behind my ears and then I started arranging the chairs that had been pushed back when the elders stood up to leave. The wood was cold under my palms and the room smelled like old parchment and the faint lingering scent of Adrian's cologne.When I finished, I walked out of the meeting room and into the hallway, and the silence pressed against me like a blanket. The guards who had been standing at attention earlier were gone now, probably reassigned or dismissed, and I was alone with my thoughts and the echo of my own footsteps on the stone floor.I went to my room first because I needed to change. It was almost midday and I was still in my nightwear, the thin cotton shift that barely reached my knees and showed every curve of my body. I had been sitting on Adrian's lap in front of the

🥀ESMERALDA🥀Staying calm like my father said was not going to do me any good, and the more I thought about it, the more I realized that I had been sitting still for too long while that servant took everything that was supposed to be mine. I had been patient and I had been strategic and I had been playing the long game, and all it had gotten me was humiliation in front of the elders and a mate who would rather claim a nobody than look at me twice.I had thought about it carefully, turning the options over in my mind, and I had come to a conclusion. If I sent Azrian to act fast, he would definitely meet the servant here in the pack, and that was going to change everything I had built and worked for completely. Azrian was unpredictable and dangerous and he did not care about my plans or my future or the years I had spent positioning myself as the future Luna. If he got his hands on Isora, he would not share her and he would not return her and he would not let me use her for my own purp

🪷ISORA🪷The tray was heavy in my hands and the food was getting cold and I was standing in the hallway outside the study with my heart pounding so hard that I could feel it in my throat. Adrian's words were still echoing in my head, bouncing off the walls of my skull and settling into the cracks of everything I thought I knew.I want her to figure it out by herself.I took a breath. Then another. Then I pushed the door open and walked inside.Adrian was sitting behind his desk with his head leaned back and his eyes closed, and Garrick was standing by the window with his arms crossed over his chest and his face hard and unreadable. They both looked at me when I entered.I did not look at Garrick. I could not look at him because if I looked at him I would see the coldness in his eyes, the same coldness that had been there in the dungeon when he looked at me like I was a problem he had not anticipated. I kept my eyes on Adrian and I walked to the desk and I set the tray down in front o

🐺ADRIAN🐺The path to the river was hidden behind a ridge of rocks that most wolves never noticed and even fewer bothered to explore, and as I led Isora through the narrow gap in the stone, I could feel her eyes on my back and her breath coming in short shallow gasps from the walk uphill. The cabin came into view first, built from dark wood that had been cut and fitted together with care, its roof slanted and its chimney tall and its windows dark and empty. The structure stood solid against the mountain, the wood still dark and rich and the lines still clean and sharp.The river was wide and deep and the water was dark and cold and the sound of it moving over the rocks was the only thing that had ever been able to quiet my mind.Isora stopped at the edge of the bank and looked out at the water, her arms wrapped around her body, her shoulders hunched against the cold. Her hair was still damp from the shower she had taken earlier and her face was pale and there were dark circles under

🪷ISORA🪷 I nodded against the pillow. "Say it with your mouth." "I will be a good girl." The words came out breathy and I hated how much I meant them. I wanted to be good for him. Adrian started talking, his voice low and even, like he was reading from a book that had been written a long time ago. "Two boys were born into a family. Their father was the Alpha, and he loved the younger one more than the older one. The twin who was not loved harbored hatred in his heart. It grew there for years, fed by every look their father gave the other boy, every word of praise, every moment of attention." I knew he was talking about himself and his brother. He was not phrasing it that way but I knew. The younger twin was him. The one who was loved was him. The one who was hated was Azrian. "The older twin altered a ritual and poisoned the younger twin, causing him to become a beast. A moon beast. He thought their father would finally hate the cursed son, but their father did not. They found