All Chapters of All Is Fair In Love And Blood: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

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Chapter 31 ~ A Different Summons

{Ragna’s POV}The second horn blast faded through the kennel corridors, yet nobody seemed interested in speaking again.Or arresting me.Or setting me on fire.Which, considering how the last few hours had gone, felt like a refreshing change.I remained where I stood while the silence stretched across the kennel section. Around me, Bloods stared toward distant corridors as though they expected monsters to come pouring through the walls at any moment. Several Iron Wardens had already abandoned whatever plans they previously had for me and were moving quickly through the underground passages with a sense of urgency that bordered on panic.The Head Iron Warden was among the first to leave. That alone was very significant.Moments ago she had looked ready to personally drag me into chains. Now she was gone.Not just gone, but gone in a hurry. Apparently something had managed to become more important than my existence.Honestly impressive.I watched another group of Wardens rush past befor

Chapter 32 ~ The Councilman

{Ragna’s POV}The carriage rolled steadily away from the Arena while silence settled between Milena and me.For a while, neither of us spoke. The only sounds came from the horses pulling us forward, the rhythmic turning of the wheels beneath us, and the occasional creak of wood whenever the carriage hit an uneven stretch of road. After everything that had happened inside the Arena, the quiet should have been comforting.Instead, it felt strange.Almost suspicious.Then again, perhaps that was because my day had involved being publicly abandoned by my mother, nearly eaten alive by beasts, accidentally discovering that I apparently possessed enough strength to dismantle living creatures, and now being summoned.At that point, suspicious had become my normal.Milena eventually broke the silence.“I still can’t believe this is happening.”I glanced at her.“What part?”“All of it.”She shifted in her seat and looked toward the small carriage window.“I’m going to the Palace.”The way she s

Chapter 33 ~ The Truth And A Child

{Ragna’s POV}“Is that your father?”Milena’s question hung between us, but I didn’t answer it. My attention remained fixed on the man standing a short distance away while a dozen unwanted thoughts crashed into each other inside my head. Some were angry. Some were confused. Most were things I had spent years refusing to think about.Unfortunately, he looked exactly the same as I remembered.Which was annoying.Time should have at least had the decency to make him uglier.“Ragna,” he said quietly. “This was the only way I could get to see you.”I stared at him for a moment before asking the only question that mattered.“Why am I here?”There was no point pretending we were about to have some emotional family reunion. If he had dragged me away from the Palace and brought me into the middle of nowhere, then he could start by explaining why.Milena finally recovered from her shock.“Good day master.” She turned to me. “A councilman is your father?”Her gaze moved between us several times

Chapter 34 ~ Not All Of Them

{Ragna’s POV}“You are the forbidden child of one of them.”The words lingered in the air long after my father finished speaking.For a moment, I genuinely wondered if I had heard him correctly.Then I decided I had.Which somehow made things worse.I stared at him while silence stretched between us, and the more I thought about what he had just said, the more ridiculous it sounded.Finally, I shook my head.“I knew it.”My voice came out flatter than I intended.“I knew this was bullshit.”My father didn’t react.“This just confirms it.”I pointed toward the distant direction of the Palace.“I need to get there before you start telling me dragons raised me in the woods.”With that, I turned and resumed walking.Or at least I intended to.Because before I had taken more than two steps, my father’s voice cut through the air behind me.“Your mother was once an Arena Blood.”My feet stopped. Everything stopped, and slowly, I turned around.“What did you just say?”His expression remained

Chapter 35 ~ Speechless

{Ragna's POV}“But not all of them died… and not all the cubs were killed.”The words settled heavily between us.For a moment, nobody spoke.I simply stared at him while my mind struggled to keep pace with everything he had already said. The story was absurd. It sounded like something an old drunk Blood would mutter after too much fermented root wine and too little sleep. Yet the more my father spoke, the less it felt like a story and the more it felt like a memory.A terrible memory.One he had spent years carrying alone.Milena swallowed.“So some of them survived?”My father nodded slowly.“Yes.”His gaze never left mine.“Some of the mothers escaped the slaughter. Injured. Broken. Hunted. But alive. And despite the King’s efforts, a cub survived also.” He said it again and something went heavy inside my chest.The feeling arrived before the understanding did.My father took another breath.“The King believed he had ended the bloodline. He believed he had prevented the future the r

Chapter 36 ~ Worst Person

{Ragna's POV}“This is my revelation.” My father had just spoken— pouring out a lot and I was dazed and considering it when something cut me off. A scream ripped through the air.Not the startled shout of someone reacting to bad news or the angry yell of a man demanding answers. This was different. There was something primal inside it, something that made the hairs on my arms rise before the sound had even finished echoing across the road. Another scream followed from somewhere farther away, then another after that, until the distant world seemed to awaken all at once.People were shouting.People were running.The attack was no longer something approaching.It had arrived.My father’s expression changed immediately. The man who had spent the last several minutes reopening old wounds and dismantling everything I thought I knew about myself seemed to disappear, and in his place stood a councilman, a survivor, a man who had apparently spent years expecting this exact day.“We need to

Chapter 37 ~ Fake And Real Prisoners

{Ragna’s POV}For a moment, nobody moved.The corridor seemed to shrink around us as the King’s gaze settled on our little group, drifting from my father to me and then back again. The shock on his face lasted only a second, but it was enough. It was enough for me to understand that he had recognized something he was never supposed to recognize.Beside me, Milena had gone rigid.I couldn’t blame her.If there was a worse person to be discovered by, I had yet to meet them.The King’s presence had never frightened me before. Even now, standing in the center of a corridor surrounded by councilmen and armed guards, he still looked more like a man carrying an overfed cub beneath his robes than the ruler of an entire freaking kingdom— pot-bellied idiot. But fear had very little to do with appearances. Fear had everything to do with consequences, and the consequences standing before us now were enormous.My heart had only just begun to quicken when I felt fingers close suddenly around my wr

Chapter 38 ~ Right

{Ragna’s POV}For a moment, I simply stared.Liam stood outside the cell exactly where Milena had been looking, and before I could stop myself, our eyes met.That was when I realized I was smiling.The realization hit so suddenly that it almost felt physical.What was I doing?My smile vanished immediately, and I looked away, disturbed less by Liam’s presence than by my own reaction to it. Nothing about my current situation justified smiling. I was sitting inside a dungeon beneath the Palace. The Kingdom was preparing for an attack. My father had spent the last several hours dismantling everything I thought I knew about my life, my mother, and myself. Somewhere above us, powerful men were probably discussing whether I should be executed now or later.There was absolutely nothing amusing about any of that.Yet I had smiled.At Liam.The thought was irritating enough that I immediately pushed it away.Unfortunately, Milena chose that exact moment to speak.“Goodness.”The word escaped h

Chapter 39 ~ Internal Worry

{Liam’s POV}The dungeon corridors were loud.They were always loud.Some prisoners shouted because they were angry. Others shouted because they were afraid. A few simply feared silence more than confinement and filled every moment with noise to avoid being left alone with their thoughts.The upper levels of the Palace were different.As I climbed the stone steps and left the dungeons behind, the shouting gradually faded until only distant footsteps and hurried voices remained. It was an odd contrast considering the state of the Kingdom. Beyond these walls, warriors were mobilizing, messengers were exhausting horses, and generals were preparing for what might become the most significant threat the Reigns had faced in years. Yet here, the corridors remained calm, orderly, and deceptively peaceful.At least on the surface.I walked through them with my escort following several steps behind and found my thoughts returning, somewhat annoyingly, to the conversation I had just left.Ragna r

Chapter 40 ~ My Theory

{Liam’s POV}My father didn’t speak.For perhaps five full seconds, he simply stood there staring at me, and I allowed the silence to remain exactly as it was. There was no point filling it. Some truths demanded room after they were spoken, and this was one of them.Eventually, he laughed.Not because he found anything amusing.Because disbelief often disguised itself as laughter before surrendering to reality.“…What?”His brows pulled together as though the word itself had refused to cooperate.“What do you mean Sir Hagari is the culprit female’s father?”His eyes searched mine, looking for the smallest sign that I had decided to entertain myself at his expense.“That isn’t possible.”He shook his head almost immediately.“No. Hagari has served beside me for years. He has been one of the most loyal men in this Kingdom.”His voice grew firmer as he continued, convincing himself more than he was convincing me.“He cannot betray me.”I waited until he finished.“It’s the truth,” I said

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