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Blade's POVIt happened the moment the last word of the oath left my mouth.Something opened up inside me. Like a door I never knew was there swinging wide. And then she came pouring through it.It felt like they were pouring all of her into me.I felt her heartbeat first. Fast, too fast, fluttering like a trapped bird. Then her breath, shallow and shaking. Then the cold. The cold ache in her arm, threading up from her wrist into her shoulder, into me, like winter water poured straight into my bones.I sucked in a sharp breath. So this was what she had been carrying. Alone. All this time.It should have scared me more than it did. I had just tied my whole life to a dying woman. I had made her death my own. Any sane man would have been afraid. And some small part of me was. But the bigger part of me … the part that had been hollow and howling since the day she ran … went quiet at last. Because she was here. Because I could feel her heart beating like it was mine. Because whatever hap

Calla's POV“What do you want to do?” Blade asked.I knew what he meant. About the Book. About the quest. I didn’t answer. I looked away, out at the dark water, because I didn’t have an answer that wouldn’t lead to a lie.He didn’t push. He just reached for me and pulled me back against him, settling me between his legs, my back to his chest. The sudden warmth made a small sound slip out of me before I could stop it. He went still for a second, then I felt him almost smile against my hair.He nuzzled the top of my head, slow and gentle. I was too weak to fight it, so I just let myself rest back against him, let his heat soak into my cold, aching body. His arms came around me, careful of the marked one.He leaned down to my ear.“Let me tell you a story about that book,” he said.I turned my head, surprised. “You know about it?”“I am the alpha of course I do.” His voice rumbled low in his chest, and I felt it against my back. “Settle in. It’s an old story.”He held me closer, and h

Bianca's POVI found Kyle in the small training yard behind the barracks, and I didn’t even let him finish his sword drill before I grabbed his arm and pulled him into the shadow of the wall.“I need to talk to you,” I said. “Now. Where no one can hear.”He took one look at my face and the practice blade went still in his hand. He didn’t ask questions. He just nodded and led me through a side door into an empty store room, pulling it shut behind us.“What is it?” he asked. “You look like you’ve seen a ghost.”So I told him. Everything. About the black veins on my own arm that morning. About Adele walking in when I’d told her to stay away. About how she’d climbed up onto the bed, taken my arm in her small hands, and pressed her palm flat against the marks. And how the veins had simply … faded. Shrunk back. Vanished, like they’d never been there at all. Like she’d wiped dirt off a window.When I finished, Kyle was very quiet.“Are you sure about what you’re saying, Bianca?” he said at

Bianca's POVI sat with Adele until she fell asleep.It took a while. She was restless that night, turning over and over, asking again and again when her mummy was coming home. I stroked her hair and told her soon, soon, even though I didn’t know if it was true. Eventually her breathing slowed and went deep, and the little wooden wolf slipped from her fingers onto the blanket. I tucked it back into her hand the way she liked, kissed her forehead, and crept out.I’d barely pulled the door shut behind me when I heard a commotion. The sound of angry raised voices, shouting, the heavy tramp of boots, all of it coming from the courtyard below. A ruckus loud enough to echo through the halls. My heart jumped. After Tanya’s threats, every loud sound felt like danger now.I hurried down toward it, pulling my shawl tight around my shoulders.The courtyard was full of people. Guards, servants, a knot of lords roused from their beds, all gathered in the torchlight around something I couldn’t s

Bianca's POVKyle was on his feet before I even heard them.One moment, he was beside me, warm against my side, the dawn coming up soft and gold. The next he’d surged up, his blade in his hand, his whole body had gone tense and still … and then they stepped out of the trees.Soldiers. A whole ring of them, closing in around the great rock from every side. There were a dozen at least, maybe more; their spears were lowered, swords drawn, fanning out to surround us where we had nowhere to run.I scrambled up with Adele clutched to my chest, my back against the cold stone.“You’re under arrest,” the lead soldier said. “By order of the palace. You’re to come back with us. Both of you.”“On what charges?” Kyle’s voice was hard, his blade up, his body between them and us. “We’ve done nothing wrong. Nothing.”“Nothing wrong.” The soldier laughed, short and ugly. “We hanged a spy last night who’d been feeding the enemy from inside our walls. And now here you are … another of the Alpha’s own m