Alle Kapitel von BOUND BY REVENGE: The Alpha King's broken bride : Kapitel 31 – Kapitel 40

POV: Nyx (First Person)I did not sleep much. Kept tossing and turning.I lay on top of the covers fully dressed because undressing felt like admitting the night had happened and I was not ready to admit that yet. The ceiling above me was very still and unhelpful and my body was not either of those things.I kept replaying it.Not with horror which was the problem. I wanted horror. Horror would have been useful and would have given me somewhere solid to stand. Instead what I had was the specific, traitorous memory of his hands, his groans, his voice, the way he had pressed his forehead to mine in the middle of it all and said my name like it meant something, my body responding to the memory the same way it had responded to the reality, with a warmth that had no interest in my opinions about it.I liked it. No, I loved it.That was the thought I had been circling since I walked out of his study with my composure held together by nothing but stubbornness and the muscle memory of ninetee

POV: Thorne (Limited Third) The communication stone went cold in his palm at half past midnight. Thorne didn’t move for three full seconds. Then he stood with his coat already in hand, and the hunt began. He understood the order perfectly. Lucian had just pulled the one thread he had sworn for seven years he would never touch. The healer who signed the original evidence against Nyx. The file everyone had been told was closed. It wasn’t closed anymore. Thorne moved like a shadow through the estate. No lights. No noise. He knew every corridor, every guard rotation, every weak point in the security he himself had designed. By the time the moon had shifted a finger’s width across the sky, he was already deep in the lower east wing archive, lantern low, fingers flipping through sealed boxes of medical records from seven years ago. He found the original evidence report in under twenty minutes. The healer’s name was Mira kale. He cross referenced her against the retirement

POV: Nyx (First Person)I was in the library before the sun came up.Not because I thought I would find something. More because sitting in my room staring at the ceiling had stopped being an option somewhere around three in the morning and moving felt better than staying still with everything I was carrying.I pulled every file that cross referenced Lysandra's name.There were not many. A death record, formal and brief. A pack announcement, two paragraphs, the kind of language that said everything had been handled and nothing needed to be examined. Two lines in a council communication that referenced the incident without describing it. No details. No account of what actually happened or where or how.I sat with the thin stack in front of me and understood something that had nothing to do with what was on the pages.You did not scrub a record this clean by accident.Someone had decided that Lysandra's death should not be examinable.I put the files down.Frustration sat in my chest lik

Nyx’s povI had not slept.I had laid on top of the covers until the grey pre-dawn light came through the window. I stood in the doorway of my room, my hair still a mess from a night of restless, half remembered dreams. The morning light was weak, filtering through the hallway windows in gray streaks, but it was enough to see the expression on her face I had only just washed my face when I heard a knock. I opened the door and I saw her. My ‘sister in-law’"Elara?"“Good morning.”She wasn't smiling.She wasn't wearing her usual mask of polite pack diplomacy.She looked like she had seen a ghost, or perhaps, like she was about to turn me into one."I really do know why people like saying my name instead of just simply greeting but that’s fine. I have something you must see."She was a talkative. I knew that for sure. She didn't wait for an invitation. She pushed past me into the room, her silk dress rustling against the doorframe.I closed the door slowly, I was stunned by her sudd

POV: Nyx (First Person)Thorne's note had urgency in it. *I need you to meet me in the study*I already knew what some of it was going to be. Elara had come to my room two days ago to tell me about my real family and I had spent two days carrying that knowledge with nowhere to put it. Now I think whatever Thorne had to say is related to that. They were already there when I walked in.Elara was by the window, Thorne was beside the desk with a stack of documents and the stillness of a man who had ordered this hour in his head already and was ready to execute it, and Lucian was standing behind the desk. Nobody spoke when I came in.I sat across from Lucian and I waited.Thorne said, "I am going to put some things on this desk and I need everyone to let me finish before they speak."He looked at Lucian and Lucian nodded once.Thorne placed the first document down."A healer named Mira Voss," he said. "She left her healer's inn after Lysandra's death and retired to a border village. She