Todos los capítulos de A Marriage Bound by Curse: Capítulo 1 - Capítulo 4

The Iron Citadel did not believe in quiet.Even in its calmer hours, there was always movement somewhere within its walls. Steel striking steel in the lower yards. Boots crossing stone corridors with no care for how sound carried. Voices raised not in alarm, but because no one bothered to soften them. Where Valmere seemed built to hold itself together through order and restraint, the Iron Citadel was built to endure force.Fenrir had always preferred it that way.The morning air in the training yard still held the bite of early cold, though it had already begun to burn off under the rising sun. Sweat clung to his skin beneath the collar of his shirt, and the back of his neck was damp where dark hair had begun to stick. He rolled one shoulder once, loosening it, then lifted his sword again just as the warrior across from him lunged.Fenrir sidestepped, turned, and drove the pommel of his weapon into the man’s ribs hard enough to take the breath from him wi

The road into Valmere gave way to a worn path that became more refined the further one traveled into it. The ground beneath the horses’ hooves smoothed, not polished, but maintained. The trees lined either side of the path, spaced evenly, branches arching overhead in a way that filtered the sunlight into a soft, shifting pattern rather than blocking in entirely. Warmth lingered in the air. The smell of greenery wafted through the air with a subtly floral aroma.The grass stretched evenly along the roadside, untouched by neglect but never overgrown. Low shrubs and quiet bursts of color lined the edges in careful intervals, but still felt as if they were placed that way naturally. Even the wind seemed to move differently, slipping through the trees without disrupting them.“This is nothing like the Citadel,” Elias said after a while, his gaze shifting between the land and the walls beginning to rise in the distance.“A lot of the human territories are nothing like the Citadel,” Rowan ga