All Chapters of Bound to the Shadow Alpha: Chapter 11 - Chapter 13

The frost-covered pines of the northern border groaned beneath a biting midnight wind as the Silvercrest envoy crossed into Obsidian territory. Standing beside Damian on the stonewatch balcony of his fortress, I pulled my fur-lined cloak tighter around my shoulders, watching the torches flicker along the snow-draped ravine below. ​"Julian actually came himself," I murmured, my breath misting in the freezing air. "Cutting off his silver mines and exposing his pact with the Eastern Ridge finally forced him out of his den." ​Damian stepped directly behind me, his towering frame radiating the scorching, predatory heat of a true Lycan King. His clawed leather glove rested on the stone parapet beside my hand, close enough that the dark electricity of our bond hummed beneath my skin. ​"A starving wolf doesn't walk into a lion's territory just to beg, Aria," Damian said, his low baritone vibrating against my spine. "He brought three of his inner-circle betas and an Eastern Ridge emissary h

Burning oil dripped from the rusted bars of my brother’s cage, hissing as each black droplet struck the frost-covered flagstones below. ​Up on the shattered gallery, Celeste tilted the blazing torch an inch closer to Marcus’s oil-soaked rags. The sweet, helpless healer who had stolen my life in Silvercrest was gone; in her place stood a cold-blooded puppeteer wearing a victorious sneer. ​"Strip off the Lycan King’s cloak and sever his mark right now, Aria," Celeste called down, her voice ringing above the snarls of the battle outside. "Walk out those gates in chains, or watch the last of the Sterling bloodline burn alive." ​Beside me, Alpha Julian stared up at the woman he had betrayed me for, his face pale with disbelief. "Celeste, what are you doing?" he choked out. "You swore you didn't know anything about the cells beneath the packhouse!" ​"Shut up, Julian," Celeste laughed cruelly, not even sparing him a glance. "You were useful while I needed an Alpha’s seal to move silv