Bound to Four Alphas
"The right full moon ceremony, timed precisely to a bloodline reaching the exact age at which the fifth house's magic reawakens most violently."
"You're saying you orchestrated the bond," I say, disbelief and fury tangling together in my chest until I can barely tell which one is louder. "You're saying none of this, none of them, was ever real?"
"Oh, it's real," she says. "The bond itself doesn't lie, whatever else surrounds it might. I simply made certain the conditions existed for it to surface exactly when I needed it to." Her gaze moves over each of the alphas in turn, assessing, cataloguing. "Four alphas, each carrying a fragment of royal blood diluted enough that no one thought to trac