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Chapter 30

The House Is ListeningThe laugh came from beneath the bed.Soft.Low.Wrong.Not childlike now.Older.Almost pleased.Damien moved in front of me so fast the journal pages fluttered in my hands.“Enough,” he growled.The house answered.Every door upstairs slammed shut at once.The sound cracked through the hallway like gunfire.I flinched.

Chapter 31

Blood on the FloorboardsThe second door slammed somewhere deeper in the house.The sound rolled through Frost Ridge like a warning.Then everything went still.Not peaceful.Not empty.Listening.Damien stood between me and the open bedroom door, shoulders rigid, claws still out, blood drying down the side of his torn shirt.For one second, neither of us moved.The journal stayed open in my hands.The words still burned silver across the page.WHAT BLOOD LOCKED, LOVE WILL OPEN.I hated every single part of that sentence.Especially the love part.Especially the way the bond between us had pulled the second I read it, like it had heard its name called from another room.Damien’s breathing shifted.Small.Controlled.Wrong.I looked up. “You’re bleeding again.”“I’m fine.”“No, you’re doing that stupid alpha thing where you pretend major blood loss is a personality trait.”His mouth tightened.A drop of blood slid from beneath his shirt and hit the floor.The house inhaled.That was th

Chapter 32

Tell Me to StopThe silver chain tightened around Damien’s ankle.He caught the bedpost before it could pull him off his feet.The wood cracked under his grip.“Don’t touch it,” he growled.I looked at my burned fingers.Then at him.“Little late.”His eyes flashed gold. “Lena.”“Stop saying my name like it’s a leash.”The house creaked around us.That got its att

Chapter 33

The Door That Wasn’t There“Don’t.”The house whispered the word from the mirror.From the floor.From the walls.From somewhere so close it felt like it had crawled between my ribs and spoken from there.Damien stepped back first.Fast.Too fast.Like touching me had become fire and he had remembered the burn.The cold rushed in where his body had been.I hated that too.

Chapter 34

The Room That Shouldn’t ExistThe room should not have fit inside the house.That was my first thought.Not fear.Not wonder.Logistics.Because apparently my brain had reached the point where impossible architecture was now a zoning concern.The door opened into a circular chamber made of stone.Not wood.Not plaster.Stone.Old black stone, damp and veined with silver, rising into a domed ceiling that disappeared in shad

Chapter 35

The Woman with Silver EyesSeraphina Frost.The name rang through the stone room without being spoken again.It lived in the walls.In the portraits.In the cradle.In the way Damien had gone completely still beside me.I looked at him. “Who is she?”His eyes stayed on the mirror.“Story.”The mirror woman smiled wider.“No,” she whispered.The

Chapter 36

The First Frost Queen The roar came from beneath the house. Not outside. Not upstairs. Beneath. Deep under the floor, under the hill, under the roots of Frost Ridge, something answered the mirror woman like it had been waiting centuries to hear her voice again. The stone room shook. Portraits rattled against the walls. Silver candle flames stretched toward the ceiling. The old cradle rocked so violently its wooden legs scraped against the floor. I stumbled. Damien caught me before I hit the edge of the cradle. The second his hand closed around my waist, the room went silent. Too silent. His fingers froze against me. The bond between us pulsed once. Soft. Hungry. The mirror woman watched. I stepped away from Damien before the house could write another horrifying sentence about love and locks. My heart was hammering so hard it made my ribs ache. “What was that?” Damien’s gaze stayed on the floor. “Something old.” I laughed once. Not because it was funny. Because

Chapter 37

What His Blood Remembers Ask him what his blood remembers. The words stayed in the room even after the mirror woman stopped speaking. They clung to the stone. To the portraits. To the space between Damien and me. Damien did not move. That was the problem with him. He could stand in the middle of a haunted room full of erased Frost women while something roared beneath the house, and still look like silence was a reasonable strategy. I shut the journal. The sound cracked through the chamber. “What does your blood remember?” His eyes opened. Gold. Tired. Guarded. “Not enough.” I stepped closer. The silver crack in the floor glowed between us. “That is not an answer.” “No,” he said quietly. “It is the truth.” The house groaned. The portraits shifted. One by one, painted faces turned toward him. Damien’s throat moved. For the first time that night, he looked trapped in a way I recognized. Council hall. Rain. Blood on his mouth. I hated that memory. I hated th

Chapter 38

The Divided Queen Every portrait turned toward me. Not metaphorically. Their painted faces shifted in their frames, silver eyes sliding from Damien to me until the whole room stared. I could not breathe. Dozens of Frost women watched me from the walls. Queens. Stories. Warnings. Dead women with stolen names. My fingers curled around the journal. “What does divided mean?” The mirror woman tilted her head. For once, she did not answer. That scared me more than if she had. Damien pulled against the silver light around his wrist. It burned him when he moved, but he still tried to step closer to me. Of course he did. Hurt and still trying to shield me from paintings. Very on brand. “Don’t,” I said. His eyes flashed. “Lena.” “I mean it. Stay there.” The command surprised both of us. Not because it was loud. Because the room listened. The silver chain around his wrist loosened slightly. Damien went still. So did I. The portraits smiled. Every single one. “Oh, I

Chapter 39

Blood Oath The stone door slammed shut. The sound echoed through the chamber and rolled back at us from walls that should not have existed. I turned. The door had vanished. Not closed. Vanished. Where it had been was now solid black stone veined with silver. I stared at it. “Of course.” The room waited. I exhaled slowly. “No, actually, I’m too tired for of course.” Damien shot me a look. “What?” I said. “I’m growing.” The mirror woman watched us from the glass. The portraits watched from the walls. Frost Ridge watched from everywhere. I was starting to understand that privacy had never existed in this house. It had only been another lie my mother let me believe. Damien pressed his bleeding wrist against his shirt. “You need to stay away from the mirror.” “I figured that out when the dead queen fragment tried to emotionally adopt me through glass.” “She is not safe.” “Neither are you.” The words slipped out clean and sharp. Damien went quiet. I hated how true

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