All Chapters of He Burned the Bond, I Buried His Heir: Chapter 1 - Chapter 8

When I walked out of the Healing Hall, the healer’s words were still echoing in my head.“You were four weeks pregnant. But the fetus has stopped developing.”“The silver taint has damaged your Moonborn Core. Your body could not sustain a black-core pregnancy in this condition.”“If you begin treatment now, there may still be a chance.”“But if you delay any longer, your Moonborn Core may collapse completely.”“After that, you may never complete a mate bond again.”“Or carry another child.”Tears fell without warning.The child I had waited five years for had come without my knowing.And left without my knowing.I never even had the chance to protect it.Ten years ago, assassins came for the last Blackthorne heir.My parents died protecting Ronan.Not because he was Ronan.Because if he died, Blackthorne’s black-core bloodline would end with him.And Nightvale’s ancient vow would die too.Long before I was born, our Moonborn bloodline had been promised to Blackthorne.My mother once to

The moment the call came through, I knew everything was about to break.I barely heard the rest.Because Ronan changed.One second ago, he had been standing before the altar in the Old Moon Shrine, cold and furious.The next, his alpha scent crashed through the room.The air turned heavy.My body locked up at once.Not fear of a man.Instinct.My wolf knew before I did.The Alpha had lost control.“Elara.”He looked at me with pure ice in his eyes.“You dared touch her.You dared touch my child.”Not a question.A verdict.The Moon Priest tried to speak. Ronan cut him off without even looking his way.“Take her.”The pack enforcers moved immediately.One on each side.I twisted once. It did nothing.Their hands closed on my arms, and pain shot through my shoulders.“It wasn’t me.”Ronan did not even look at me.That hurt more than if he had.The ride was silent.No one spoke.His alpha scent filled the whole car, rage and panic and something close to madness.I sat pinned in the corner,

Ronan used everything Blackthorne had.More wolves. More channels. More money. Every shadow network in the city.Still, he found nothing.No trail.No report.No sign of Elara at all.It was as if she had never existed.In the end, he went to Elisa.The study was warm. The fire was steady.He stepped inside and felt cold anyway.For one stupid second, he caught himself searching the air for Elara’s scent.There was nothing.Not even a trace.“Mother.” His voice came out tighter than he meant. “Do you know where Elara is?”“She’s gone. I can’t find her.”Elisa looked up at him.Her face did not change.“You can stop looking.”“I already severed the claim on behalf of Blackthorne.”“From this point on, she has nothing to do with you.”Ronan went still.Something dropped inside his chest.Hard.“What?”He took a step forward.“You had no right.”“That was a vow I made to the Moon.”Elisa held his gaze.There was no anger in her eyes.Only disappointment.The kind that had gone past rage a

Elisa sent me to a secluded healers’ hall, hidden far from prying eyes.After Ronan forced that much wolfsbane draught down my throat, my body nearly gave out completely. It did not only damage the body. It struck my wolf again, hard enough that I might not have survived it.If Elisa had not reached me in time, I would have died.I still remember that day. The woman who had always seemed unshakable knelt before me at last. She wept as she apologized to me, and to my dead parents.By then, it no longer mattered much.What would kill me had never changed. The silver taint spreading through the mind was still there, buried deep, waiting. The healers did what they could, but they never lied to me. I was running out of time.The only thing I could not let go of was my father’s family signet bracelet.It had shattered.I gathered every fragment and kept them in a velvet box beside my bed. No matter how carefully I fit the pieces together, it never became whole again.Neither did we.Three mo