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༄Chapter 11

Bella's POVI was standing in front of the Lycan King in a temple and my heart was beating so loud I was genuinely convinced he could hear it.We had moved out of the healers' room and the healer had done most of the talking, explaining what had happened with the ritual, what the circle mark on my palm meant, what came next. I had stood there and listened and tried to keep my face from doing anything embarrassing while she laid it all out.Once every fourteen days I would need to give the King my blood.That was it. That was my life now apparently. The healer had said it plainly, no softening, no buildup, my blood, drawn at the correct interval, would suppress the curse and over time work toward curing it completely. How long that would take she couldn't say with certainty. What the curse actually was she had explained in terms I only half followed. What I understood clearly was this, I had walked into that room, my blood had touched that altar, and something had locked into place tha

༄Chapter 12

Bella's POVMy head was still all over the place when the carriage pulled up to the packhouse.Everything from the temple was sitting in my chest in a pile I hadn't sorted through yet, the ritual, the mark on my palm, Ethan's voice around my name, the seven days between now and the palace. I needed to put all of it down and stop turning it over before I did something stupid with it.What I needed was a cool shower, something light to eat, and a long sleep. That was the entire plan for tonight. No Andrew, no Hailey, no drama. Just my room and enough quiet to think straight again by morning. Simple and achievable. I just needed to get through the front door and up the stairs without incident.I walked into the packhouse with that plan firmly in mind.Andrew and Hailey were in the dining room.Of course they were.I caught them through the doorway before they noticed me, sitting at the table with dinner in front of them, Andrew saying something low near her ear that made her laugh, his h

༄Chapter 13

Bella's POVI stood there for a couple of seconds and let the weight of Andrew's tone sit on me properly.Not because I was afraid. Well, not only because of that. But because I needed a moment to acknowledge to myself, honestly, that I had walked into this marriage with my own two feet and my own two hands and dug this particular grave so thoroughly that I was standing at the bottom of it looking up. No soothsayer needed to confirm that. The evidence was right in front of me every single day wearing Hailey's face and Andrew's cold eyes and the mark on my left palm that tied me to a cursed king I had no business being tied to.I had done this to myself.The previous version of me had done all of this and left me to live inside it.I turned and walked upstairs without another word.There was nothing left to say down there tonight and I knew it. Andrew had drawn his line and sitting in that dining room arguing past it wasn't going to move anything. I needed to be in my room with the doo

༄Chapter 14

Bella's POV"Luna, are you okay?"Julie was across the room before Andrew's footsteps had even fully faded down the hallway, her hands coming up toward my arm and then stopping just short of touching it, like she wasn't sure if she was allowed.I looked down at my right arm. The skin where his fingers had been was already turning, a red mark sitting there in the exact shape of his grip. I stared at it for a moment and then looked away."Was he like that before I lost my memory?" I asked her.Julie's mouth opened. Then closed. I watched her choose her words the way someone picks their way across unstable ground, testing each one before putting weight on it."He had never hurt you physically before, Luna," she said quietly. "Not like that. He was cold, and he was… he wasn't kind to you. But he never raised his hand."I stood there and let that settle.So this was new. This was Andrew crossing into something he hadn't crossed before, which meant things were escalating in a direction I ne

༄Chapter 15

Bella's POVI wanted to walk past her like she wasn't there.That was my entire plan. Keep my face straight, keep moving, get back to the sitting room and wait for my food and let Hailey stand in that hallway doing whatever she wanted to do with herself. I had already handled the kitchen situation without raising my voice and I was genuinely proud of that. I was not about to let her drag me into something messy on top of it.I moved to the side to go around her and she stepped directly in front of me.I looked at her face and saw exactly what was sitting on it, that particular brand of calm that lives on someone who believes they are completely untouchable, completely covered, completely free to do whatever they like because the person who protects them will always take their side no matter what. She had been wearing that expression since the day Andrew walked through the front door with her and it had been getting more comfortable on her face with every day that passed.I moved to th

༄Chapter 16

Bella's POVI never saw that slap coming.Memory loss or not, with everything Andrew had put me through, a slap across my face in my own hallway had not been something I had prepared myself for. I had never once imagined he would slap me across the face. Choke me, yes. Grab my arm hard enough to leave marks, yes. But this, standing in my own hallway in front of my own servants with his hand across my face, I genuinely had not seen this coming and the sting spreading across my cheek felt like something I needed to verify was actually real.My head went to the side with the force of it and my hair fell across my cheek and the sting was already spreading from my jaw up toward my eye and I was standing there with my heart hammering and my breathing completely off and the whole thing still felt like something that had happened to someone else two seconds ago.And Andrew was already on the floor with her, down on one knee, his hands cupping her face, checking her head with a gentleness and

༄Chapter 17

Bella's POVMy father was here.I couldn't fully wrap my head around it but I felt it immediately, that warm shift in my chest the second Cordell said his name, something settling inside me. My father, Alexander of Blackthron. Here. In this packhouse. And for one full second I let myself feel the relief of that without pulling it apart or questioning it because I needed that second.I could talk to him. I could find a moment, a quiet corner, tell him I needed out of this marriage without Andrew knowing, without making it a whole political situation, without involving the King again. My father was powerful and he was here and that changed something about today that nothing else had managed to change."Go to your room, Hailey." Andrew's voice came from somewhere behind me, still in that soft careful tone he kept just for her. "I need to handle this."I heard him kiss her forehead. And then his footsteps, and then he was looking at me."Don't even think for one second that you can do any

༄Chapter 18

Bella's POVThe second my father walked out of that door Andrew dropped his hand from my waist.Not gradually, not with any attempt to make it look natural, he just let go, immediately, like the performance had an off switch and my father stepping outside was the thing that flipped it. Like touching me for longer than was necessary was something he couldn't stomach once there was no audience to do it for.He smiled at me. One side of his mouth, lazy and satisfied."You acted well," he said. "Keep that up and I won't raise my hand on you." Then he turned and walked away.I stood in the middle of the sitting room and stared at the empty space he left behind and felt the full weight of my situation settle on me all at once. Not the specific sharp pain of the slap or the throb of my arm or any of the individual things, all of it together, at the same time, sitting on my chest like something I had to consciously breathe around.My father had just left. He had walked out of this packhouse b

༄Chapter 19

Bella's POV"I'm going out to see a friend," I said, and I held his gaze and kept my face completely straight and gave him absolutely nothing.Andrew looked at me. Then his eyes moved down over my outfit slowly, the way he did when he was looking for something to catch, something that didn't add up. Then he looked at Julie standing behind me and I felt her go still without turning to check."Which one of your useless friends?" he asked."Someone from before the marriage," I said. "I don't think you'd remember her. It was a long time ago, and my friends are not useless." I kept my voice easy, kept my shoulders relaxed, and kept the whole performance sitting at exactly the right level of casual. "I'll be back before it gets late. Julie's with me and your driver, so they can report to you when we're back." I smiled at him. "You'll know exactly when I'm home."Andrew looked at me for a moment longer than was comfortable and I held the smile right where it was and waited."Hmm." He looked

༄Chapter 20

Bella's POVI noticed the absence of guards and servants somewhere in the middle of the walk and it took me another few seconds to understand what it meant. No staff lining the corridors, no guards posted at intervals, no one moving through the hallways at all. Just Beta Matthew's footsteps ahead of mine and the quiet of a part of the palace that was not meant to be seen by most people who came here.Private suite.Of course. A king with a curse that nobody was supposed to know about wasn't going to have me escorted through the public areas of his palace and past every set of eyes that lived here. That made sense. It didn't make my heart rate do anything more reasonable but it made sense.Matthew stopped at the last door at the end of a long hallway and turned to look at me briefly."Go inside," he said.And then he was already walking back the way we had come, his footsteps getting quieter, and I was standing in front of a closed door in a private hallway of the Lycan King's palace e

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