Sleep didn’t come.I lay on the narrow servant’s pallet in the tiny room they finally locked me into, eyes wide open, staring at the cracks in the ceiling.Every time I closed them, I saw Lucian’s face under the Moon—eyes silver, lips saying, "I reject this bond."Every time I swallowed, I felt Kael’s thumb ghosting over my throat, his voice murmuring, *Once I mark you, no one will ever touch you again without bleeding for it.*I didn’t know which memory hurt more.By the time grey seeped into the sky, my body was lead, and my thoughts were frayed raw.The door banged open at dawn.“Up,” a maid snapped, already moving to strip my pallet. “We don’t have all morning. The Alpha of Blackthorn won’t want to wait for his new Luna.”Her words hit like a slap.Luna.My throat tightened. “I’m not—”“You will be in an hour,” she said briskly. “Move.”They treated me like a task, not a bride.I was hauled to a washing chamber, undressed with rough efficiency, dumped into a tub barely warmer than
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