Echoes of the Severed Bond
READING AGE 12+
Alpha Kaelen publicly stripped his seven-year-old daughter, Elara, of her inheritance at the Blood Moon trial. Because she failed to transform, he coldly condemned her to the brutal labor camps. Pinned down by her mate's oppressive aura, Lyra coughed up black blood as the fatal curse mark beneath her clothes shattered. Driven to despair, Lyra made an irreversible choice. She drove a f*******n ritual dagger just above her heart, violently severing their sacred Mate Bond. The agonizing backlash instantly drained her vitality, reducing her remaining three days of life to mere hours. Miles away, Kaelen dismissed the bond's snap as a pathetic threat, ignoring the fleeting black veins pulsing on his own wrist. Carrying her feverish daughter, Lyra vanished into the f*******n Shadow Forest. Could she forge a sanctuary before her soul completely dissolved?
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Valerius healed. It took a full season—a mercy, the Vale's wisest blood-singer said, that a creature of his age could mend at all from the Wraith's last bite. I did not leave his bedside. I told myself it was duty, the debt of a queen to the consort who had spilled his blood for her throne. I told myself a great many things, and the shadows a……
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