Blood Over Bright Haven Broken Binding Novels & Stories

I didn’t need a blueprint. I just needed to follow the sound of the hearts I was protecting. THE END OF BLOOD AND BETRAYAL

“You need to rest, sweetheart. You lost a lot of blood.” I nodded faintly. “And I need to tell you something… something about the boys. About Cassian….about all of them Raven” I stiffened and nodded at her. “They’re cursed,” she said quietly. “It’s called the Blood Vane Curse. It’s been with them since their mother died. Every Blood Moon, they suffer. Their bodies burn and their thirst becomes unbearable. It’s like a death sentence every month and this is the Hundredth year they would face that and rumours have it that they might not survive it.”

I jolted awake, breath caught in my throat like a scream that never made it out. The room was dark, quiet. My heart thundered against my ribs as the phantom scent of bleach and blood clung to my senses. I couldn’t move for a moment, just stared into the shadows, waiting for his voice to come crawling out of the dark again. But it didn’t. Instead, I felt warmth at my back. A solid presence. Conner. He stirred beside me, groggy but alert in a way only men like him could be.

Hearing that, the neighbors started cursing. "She already wired the funeral money and still won't admit it." "That really sounds like Lydia's voice. How cruel! Three people are dead because of her!" "The world has gone mad. She was speeding, and she's blaming the victims for the accident? I saw the video. She hit them before they even stepped on the crosswalk!" I turned to Maeve. "You told me the car was scraped and asked me to transfer ten thousand for repairs. How did it become funeral money? Besides, I've been sick the past few days—that voice is clearly edited!"

Haimon could not attack a blood, and our unborn baby was a blood. "Don't kill us, Adam," I said as gently as I could manage. I sent all my power in that last blast, so I was weak. This was the best I could do. He sniffed the air several times and moved close to my neck, where his mark was. He took in my scent, still growling, and then he bit down on the mark. It was painful at first, but then pleasure washed through me, and I moaned. He pulled me close tightly, pulled on my blood and magic a little, and then released me. I looked at him, and his eyes were normal again. He had tasted my blood and pulled on my magic a little to quiet down his hunger. Adam had tears in his eyes.

Blade promised to keep me safe and I will trust in him. I take in deep breath as Julian points at me and yells, “This is unnatural! She doesn’t count for shit! Tell that damn man he still owes me and if he doesn’t pay up then I won’t just come for him. I’ll come for his pretty little half-blood too!” He pauses, his eyes flickering up to meet mine and the corner of his mouth twitches up as he says, “In fact, we should show him what we do to those that make a mockery of us.”

Their shared cries and the slick sounds of their joining colored the night, while the distant city lights glowed below—silent, indifferent witnesses to the boundary they had willingly crossed. ****tbc****

“But you don’t get to call down heaven just because I’m standing alone.” Sky tilts her head. Storm-glass eyes measure me. Fourteen, maybe. Old enough to level cities. Young enough to think it’s a game. “Fair.” The next one’s from her hand. She flicks her fingers. A needle of lightning, thin and precise, aimed for my throat. I don’t dodge. I breathe in. Cove’s in my blood. I’m in his. The blood-binding doesn’t need vines today. When I open my mouth, the bolt goes into me, through me, into him. He’s two hundred yards back, on his knees, and he takes it anyway. Eats it.

Silver light poured from my skin, brighter than sunlight, carrying an energy that made every vampire in the building recoil instinctively. Raven screamed as the magical feedback tore through her body. Blood exploded from her eyes, streaming down her face like crimson tears. More blood poured from her nose, her ears, even her mouth as the ancient binding's destruction ravaged her system. She'd been magically connected to my bloodline when it shattered, and the backlash was destroying her from the inside out. "Moonkeeper!" she shrieked, her voice breaking as blood filled her throat. She stumbled backward, her legs giving out as internal hemorrhaging spread through her organs. "She was a fuckin

But when I glanced once over my shoulder, his back was already turned, rigid, unyielding. By the time I reached the sanctuary of my room again, the tears I had held back finally spilled. I pressed my palm to my chest, as if I could hold my broken heart together, as if I could silence the voice inside me that whispered last night hadn’t been a mistake at all. It had been the truth neither of us were ready to face. And that truth, whether we liked it or not, was going to destroy us or bind us together forever.