Chapter 16 Kael’s First Softening
The castle slept lightly—never fully silent, never fully trusting. Even the torches along the obsidian corridors burned with a watchful, near-sentient awareness, as though they had witnessed too many intrigues to ever rest. The Black Keep was a fortress built on centuries of paranoia, and tonight, K...
Chapters
1. Chapter 1 The Queen of Silence
2. Chapter 2 A Body Brought in Chains
3. Chapter 3 Something Stirs
4. Chapter 4 The Blood That Shouldn’t Exist
5. Chapter 5 The Prophecy Whispered
6. Chapter 6 The Prisoner’s Defiance
7. Chapter 7 The Queen’s Hunger
8. Chapter 8 The First Summoning
9. Chapter 9 The Touch She Regrets
10. Chapter 10 Shadows Eavesdroptled Chapter
11. Chapter 11 Nightmare in the Crypts
12. Chapter 12 The Dungeon Ambush
13. Chapter 13 She Saves Him
14. Chapter 14 Blood Trial
15. Chapter 15 Bound to the Queen
16. Chapter 16 Kael’s First Softening
17. Chapter 17 Forbidden Instruction
18. Chapter 18 The Queen’s Weakness
19. Chapter 19 Court Seduction Games
20. Chapter 20 The First Almost-Kiss
21. Chapter 21 The Feast of Red Moons
22. Chapter 22 The Dance of Shadows
23. Chapter 23 A Taste of Power
24. Chapter 24 The Queen’s First Confession
25. Chapter 25 Kael’s Past Revealed
26. Chapter 26 Blood Sharing Temptation
27. Chapter 27 The Oracle’s Warning
28. Chapter 28 The Castle Trembles
29. Chapter 29 Kael’s Mark
30. Chapter 30 The Unwanted Truth
31. Chapter 31 The Queen Falls Ill
32. Chapter 32 The Blood Bath Scene
33. Chapter 33 A Threat from the West
34. Chapter 34 Lyrathia Refuses
35. Chapter 35 The First Real Kiss
36. Chapter 36 Kael’s Heartbreak
37. Chapter 37 The Battle of the White Gate
38. Chapter 38 The Crypt Awakens
39. Chapter 39 Lyrathia Nearly Dies
40. Chapter 40 The Curse Breaks Open
41. Chapter 41 Lyrathia Awakens Changed
42. Chapter 42 Kael Confesses
43. Chapter 43 The Bond Strengthens
44. Chapter 44 They Finally Touch
45. Chapter 45 Kael is Marked
46. Chapter 46 The Abduction
Zoom out
Zoom in