All Chapters of THE TIGER WOMAN: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

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THE WOLF KING-POV RAKA

Pain. That was the only word in my head when I opened my eyes. My back was burning. Like someone had poured boiling water from my neck to my waist. I wanted to scream, but my throat was dry. It tasted sour. The remains of last night's vomit. Then something wet. Rough. Warm. Licking my wound slowly. My body jerked. Instinct made me want to kick. "Stop!" My voice cracked. Hoarse. Like I hadn't drunk in three days. When I opened my eyes, the sky was no longer black. It was gray-blue. Dawn. Thin light filtered through the banyan leaves. And in front of my face, there was a snout. Huge. Black fur. Wet. Its breath smelled of blood, earth, and carcasses. A wolf. Memories from last night hit me. Alina. Claws. Blood. Blacking out. I tried to move back. But my body wouldn't listen. The moment I moved even a little, pain shot up to the top of my head. The wolf didn't move. It sat. Head tilted, watching me like I was a kid who'd fallen out of a tree. Behind it were six more. Forming

Last Updated : 2026-07-29

THE BLOOD TRAINING -POV RAKA

6:20 AMThe sun wasn't up yet. But the Eastern Forest was already hot. Humid. Sticking to my skin.I walked at the back. Seven wolves ahead of me. The King led the pack. His tail didn’t even twitch.This body felt wrong. The wound on my back had closed, but it still hurt underneath. And my nose...Every breath pulled in too much.Dried blood, two days east.A rotting deer by the river.Fear. And Alina. Her scent was still stuck in the bushes from last night._"Stop."_The command hit my skull.Every wolf froze. Like stone. Even the crickets went quiet._"Breathe."_I obeyed. Dragged in a deep breath.And the world tore open.Three rabbits, fifty meters left. Hearts pounding.A snake coiled on a branch above me. Scales cold.Alina’s blood trail. Fresh. Southwest. She was limping.My stomach turned. "I... I can hear everything."_"That’s my blood,"_ the King said. He sounded pleased. Like a man who just planted a seed. _"From now on, your senses don’t belong to a human anymore."_*Lesso

Last Updated : 2026-07-29

THE MOON ON MY SKIN -RAKA'POV

Night fell without a sound.The Eastern Forest was hot during the day. At night, it got cold. The kind of cold that crawled into your bones. I sat on a rock. At the very back. Like always.The other seven wolves were curled up. Sleeping. Breathing in sync. Only the King was awake. He sat on the highest rock, facing the sky. His tail wrapped neatly around his feet.Today was day three.Three days since my eyes turned yellow. Three days since the rabbit’s blood was still on my tongue. Three days since the King said: _"In three days, during the new moon, you will be complete."_And tonight was the new moon.The sky was black. No stars. No light. Just darkness. Thick. Like wet cloth.My body had felt wrong since this afternoon. My bones felt pulled. My skin felt too small for what was inside. My heart was beating too fast. Too loud. I could hear it in my own ears. _Thud. Thud. Thud.__"Do you feel it?"_ The King’s voice entered my head. He didn’t turn around.I nodded. My

Last Updated : 2026-07-29

VOICE FROM THE SOUTHWEST POV'RAKA AND RAGE IN THE DEN -POV ALINA

I followed the King deeper into the forest.But that voice was still spinning in my head._"Raka..."_Three weeks.Three weeks since that night.The night I couldn't sleep.The night I hurt Alina.And the night I left her in the ravine. I thought she was dead.She wasn't._"Stop."_The King's voice cut through.We stopped on the ridge. Below was a valley. Silent._"Today you go alone,"_ the King said. _"Prove yourself."_I said nothing. But the hairs on the back of my neck were already cold.There was a smell.The same smell as three weeks ago. The smell of blood and wet fur.The bushes below moved.Alina.She ran out. Her clothes were torn. Her left shoulder wrapped in a messy bandage.Her eyes locked straight onto me._"RAKA!"_A spear flew.I blocked it with my arm. It hurt. My bones ached.But I didn't fight back._"DIE!"_She was in front of me now. Scratching. Kicking.With every strike, her breathing got heavier._"Fight!"_ she shouted. Her voice broke. _"You were brave before.

Last Updated : 2026-07-29

BLOOD PLAN-DRAVEN POV

The smell of blood was still on my hands.Her blood.Three hours since I’d put the last bandage on Alina’s shoulder. Three hours since I’d shouted at her until she went quiet.The stone hall was colder than usual. Twelve of my best commanders knelt before me, their shoulders rising and falling. Afraid. Good."Stand."My voice echoed off the walls. They rose slowly. Bayu was in front, his face lined and old. He was the one who used to carry me on his back when I was a kid. Now he was waiting for me to break him."Who was on the western border last week?"Five of them stepped forward. "We were, Your Majesty."I didn’t yell. I was too tired for that. All I felt was a hot, empty weight pressing down on my chest."Then explain it to me. How did she come back with the same wound? Twice?"Silence. The only sound was the torches cracking and spitting."Speak." The word came out lower than I meant it to, but it still had enough weight to make the flames shudder and die."We... we didn’t see th

Last Updated : 2026-07-29

BLOOD FOR BLOOD-draven'pov

The rain wouldn’t stop. Not the normal kind. This was the kind of rain that crawled into your bones, turned the earth to mud, and made the smell of blood ten times worse.I was perched on the highest branch by the river. Twenty meters up. From here I could see everything. The wind carried the stench up to me. A stench that had been stuck in my nose for three nights straight.Three nights. Three nights since I’d slept more than ten minutes at a time. Three nights since I wrapped the last bandage around Alina’s shoulder. Three nights since I watched her lie there, biting back pain, while I bit my own lip so hard I tasted iron just to keep from screaming.My eyes burned. My head felt heavy. But one second of carelessness and we were all dead.Below, by the riverbank, were four young wolves. You could see their ribs. Their fur was matted. Their eyes were dull. These weren’t warriors. These were kids forced to hunt because the pack was already starving.Bait. Perfect bait.My

Last Updated : 2026-07-29

THE RACINE OF blood - draven pov

Dawn hadn't come yet. There was only darkness.Thick darkness. The kind that made my eyes ache from forcing them to stay open.I stood at the edge of the ravine. Wind rose from below, carrying the smell of wet dirt and... wolves.A lot of them.Behind me, 12 tiger warriors crouched behind rocks. Weapons in hand. Holding their breath.Next to me, Alina.She wasn’t wearing armor. Just a plain black shirt, cloth pants, and a dagger at her waist.I’d changed the bandage on her shoulder 2 hours ago. White. Tight. But I knew the wound underneath was still throbbing with every breath she took."Ready?" I whispered.She didn’t look at me. Her eyes were locked straight ahead, into the dark forest."Been ready for 3 days," she answered. Her voice was cold. No tremor.Bayu was on my left. He held up 3 fingers.The signal. 3 more minutes.I closed my eyes. Just once. To gather everything. The rage. The pain. The emptiness of the last 3 nights.When I opened them again, there was only calculation

Last Updated : 2026-07-29

THE NEW KING-RAKA'S POV

The rain wouldn’t stop.I ran. Didn’t look back.Behind me there were only corpses. The King’s corpse. The pack’s corpses. The corpse of my own pride.Mud splattered on my face with every step. Thorns tore at my calves until they bled. But I couldn’t stop. Stopping meant dying. Same as them."RAKA!"The Wolf King’s last roar still echoed in my head, so loud it hurt my eardrums. "TRAITOR!"Coward. Yeah, I’m a coward.But a coward who’s still breathing.I don’t know how long. Felt like a whole day. Lungs burning, legs shaking, breath about to give out. Finally my body gave out too. I collapsed under a huge tree with roots sticking out like claws. Panting. There was blood on my palms. Didn’t know whose.From far away, a howl. Long. Dragging.A mourning howl. It meant their king was dead.I laughed instead. My voice cracked. "Safe travels, my Lord," I muttered into the dark. "Thanks for teaching me one thing."How to survive. By being the most ruthless.That night I didn’t close my eyes a

Last Updated : 2026-08-05

POISON IN THE River - DRAVEN POV

The smell of blood was still stuck in my nose.It had been 5 days since that war. 5 days since Raka ran. The tiger den was quiet. Too quiet.I sat on a flat rock in front of the main tent. In my hand was a report from Bayu. Scratches on a piece of bark. `3 buried. 4 seriously wounded stable. Water in the eastern river tastes strange.`Strange.Alina came out of the tent. Her steps were still limping, but her back was straight again. Her face was pale. The fever only broke last night. "What does it say?" she asked. Her voice was still hoarse."The water in the eastern river tastes bitter," I answered. I crumpled the bark in my hand. "The healer said 2 tiger cubs threw up after drinking this morning."Alina tensed immediately. "Poison.""I was thinking the same."Silence. Only the sound of wind through the leaves."This is Raka’s doing," Alina whispered. Her eyes lit up. "Only 5 days as king, and he’s already playing dirty."I stood up. My ribs still hurt if I moved too fast. But

Last Updated : 2026-08-05

THE CAGE AND THE BLOOD LETTER -POV DRAVEN

This damn underground cage. Damp. Cold. And the smell... the smell of dried blood, wet dirt, and the smell of people who’ve already given up. Sera was hanging. Both wrists chained up high, so only the tips of his feet touched the ground. The other three were in the corner. Their muzzles gagged with leather so they couldn’t scream or bite their own tongues. Six hours. Six hours I’d been sitting here, listening to the rain outside that just wouldn’t quit. The door creaked open. Bayu walked in. The torch in his hand was shaking. His face was still wrapped in bandages. There were brown stains on his cheek. "The others talked, Your Majesty," he said. His breath was heavy. "The fox. Coward. He cracked first. Said their base is at Skull Cave. Northwest. A day’s walk from here." I nodded. My throat was dry. "And Sera?" Bayu shook his head. "Stone. Hasn’t said a word. Just keeps grinning." Alina had been beside me the whole time. Not sitting. Not leaning. Her eyes never left Sera for

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