All Chapters of BOUGHT BY THE BEAST: Chapter 161 - Chapter 168

The shock-troopers came up the stone steps of the pier in a solid wall of gold and steel.Two hundred men in heavy southern plate, their long spears leveled, their boots hammering the wet cobblestones in a steady, terrifying rhythm. They smelled of sea salt, hot iron, and the cold arrogance of an invading army that believed the lower city was helpless.They were wrong.Caspian did not wait for them to reach the street. He moved before the lead rank could clear the top step, his broadsword clearing its sheath with a sound like a winter gale. He did not leave my side. His left hand stayed clamped around my waist, his fingers digging into my hip through the plum velvet of my gown, dragging me with him as he charged the front line.The first clash was deafening.Caspian’s blade hit the lead soldier's shield with enough force to shatter the iron frame, driving the metal back into the man’s face and throwing three guards behind him off the edge of the pier into the freezing harbor. He fough

The old seer’s prophecy hung over the Grand Assembly Hall like a blade suspended by a single thread.For two seconds, nobody in the hall breathed. The thousands of citizens in the galleries, the forty northern alphas on the dais, and the six House Lords in their formal surcoats stood frozen.Beside me, Caspian’s arm locked around my waist with a force that nearly crushed my breath away.He didn't look at the blind old man. He didn't look at the crowd. His silver eyes snapped down to my face, dark, wild, and wide with a sudden, suffocating terror. His big hand slid down from my waist, flattening over my stomach, his broad palm pressing through the midnight-blue silk of my gown as if he could physically shield our baby from the words spoken across the hall."What did he say?" Caspian growled, his voice a low, subterranean thread that made my ribs vibrate.Seraphine stepped forward on the dais, her ice-blue eyes grave as she looked from the old seer to Caspian."He speaks the ancient tru

The roar of ten thousand wolves rising from the valley floor sounded like a storm tearing through the mountains.I stood at the edge of the master suite balcony, the bitter winter wind whipping my dark hair across my face, the heavy crimson silk of my gown snapping against my legs.Beside me, Caspian loomed like a fortress. His broad left arm was locked around my waist, his big hand flattened against my hip, holding me flush against his side while his silver eyes scanned the sea of dark fur and steel below.Ten thousand warriors from the seven northern clans had filled the outer courtyards and spilled past the lower gates. Their banners... ancient wolf heads and mountain pines... fluttered in the freezing air."They didn't come to challenge the Keep," Ezra said, stepping onto the stone balcony behind us, his twin swords sheathed at his back. "They came because the news of the Sunken Altar reached the high ridges. They know the First Moon Seal has been cla

The iron span groaned as the central beam snapped, the screech of twisting metal echoing down the five-hundred-foot gorge.The armored transport slid sideways across the icy deck, its rear wheels slipping off the edge into open air. Vespera shrieked, her golden fox furs flying around her face as she clawed at the slippery metal frame, sliding fast toward the drop.Beside the falling vehicle, Kieran hung from his iron wrist-chains over the abyss, his boots dangling over five hundred feet of black rocks and roaring water.Caspian moved before the transport hit the gorge.He didn't care about Vespera. He didn't care about the transport. But his silver eyes caught the panic in my face as Kieran's chain began to slip, and the Beast answered. In a single, blurring leap, Caspian landed on the stone anchor at the mouth of the bridge. His bare hands shot out, closing around the main iron chain just as the winch mounting tore free from the timber.The heavy