Bloodbound To The Alpha Beast
Dawn arrived without ceremony, without pity, creeping pale and grey across the camp like a sickness.
The witch was already awake. She looked at me once—my bloodshot eyes, the tremor in my hands, the way my shoulders hunched as though bracing for a blow—and nodded.
“White,” she said, pressing the cloth into my hands. “You will stand clean before the river so he has nothing over you again.”
My fingers fumbled as I wrapped the cloth around myself, the fabric too light, too bright.
‘A shroud,’ Vethros purred. ‘She dresses you like something meant to be buried.’
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