《Three Mates One Betrayal》全部章節：第 1 章 - 第 4 章

KESSAThe stone under my back had memorized the shape of me.Three years of it. The same cold seeping up through my spine, the same iron door groaning on the same hinge, the same slit of moonlight crawling across the same crack in the ceiling like it was counting down something only it understood.I used to be Luna Kessa Thorne. Now I was just the thing they kept.Footsteps. Not the guard’s — his were heavy, bored, the shuffle of a man who’d stopped caring what he was guarding a year ago. These were fast. Three sets, moving in a rhythm I hadn’t heard in so long I almost didn’t trust my own ears.I knew that rhythm in my bones before I knew it in my head.The door didn’t groan this time. It screamed, wrenched off one hinge, and then he was there — Dorian, first, always first, always the one who couldn’t wait for the others — and the moonlight caught his face and I forgot, for one traitorous half-second, to hate him.“Kessa.” Just my name. Like it cost him something to say it.Behind hi

KESSABlood doesn't wash out of old floorboards. I learned that watching my father's soak into wood grain that had probably absorbed a hundred years of hunting accidents before it absorbed him — dark, then darker, spreading into the grain like the wood itself was trying to drink him down and hide the evidence.I didn't move. Some animal part of me had gone very still, the same stillness the cell had taught me, the stillness of a body that's learned stillness is sometimes the only thing it can control."We can't stay here." Ronan's voice, low, already moving, already scanning the shattered window for a second shot that hadn't come yet. "Whoever fired that dart knows exactly where we are. Every minute we stand in this room is a minute we're a target.""He's my father." I heard how thin my own voice had gone, heard it crack on the word like the word itself was too heavy to carry. "I'm not just leaving him on the floor like—""You're not." Dorian knelt across from me, hands hovering the w