Bound moon のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 1 - チャプター 4

Serafine’s back scraped against the cold cellar wall as heavy boots thudded above her head. Her heart pounded hard, but she kept her breathing slow and quiet. She had lived down here for years. Darkness was her friend. Silence kept her alive. The trapdoor flew open with a loud creak. Torchlight poured in, bright and painful. “Bring her up!” Darius shouted. “Now!” Rough hands grabbed her arms. Her twin stepbrothers, Darius and Kaelen, hauled her out like a sack of grain. They looked scared. Good. They should be. “Diacina ran off last night,” Kaelen said, shoving a bundle of red fabric at her. “You’re taking her place. Put this on.” Serafine stood there in her thin shift, staring at the expensive silk. “You want me to marry the monster in her name?” Darius grabbed her chin hard. “You do this or the whole family dies. Lucian Draven will kill every last one of us if the treaty falls through. Play the part. Keep your mouth shut. Buy us time to run.” She didn’t fight them. Fighting n

The second wave crashed into the yard like a storm.Serafine gripped the short sword tighter, her knuckles white. Her arms shook. Blood from her split lip dripped onto the snow. All around her, wolves snarled and steel clanged. Lucian stood in front of her like a wall, his bare back streaked with red.“Push them back to the gate!” he roared.He charged forward, swinging his heavy blade in wide, deadly arcs. Two attackers went down screaming. But more kept coming. A half-shifted wolf with massive claws leaped at him from the side. Lucian twisted, but the twitch in his left arm slowed him. The claws raked across his ribs.Serafine didn’t think. She ran straight at the beast.Her sword slashed across its hind leg. The creature howled and spun on her. Its hot breath hit her face. She dodged the first snap of its jaws, but the second caught her shoulder. Pain exploded down her arm. She screamed and drove the blade into its side.Silver light flared from her hands again.The wolf flew off h