Chapter 42: Shattered pretense
Disorientation hit me like a fist. One moment, blackness, the scent of leather and Talon, the feel of his heavy breathing on my back. The next, chill stone on my face, the reek of wet straw and blood, the distant rumble of Borin's malevolent laughter. Nightfang. Terror, icy and cold, gripped my thro...
Chapters
1. Chapter 1: Shadow’s scars
2. Chapter 2: The blood moon hunt
3. Chapter 3: Silverfang storm
4. Chapter 4: Bloodmoon run
5. Chapter 5: The claim
6. Chapter 6: The cabin of suns
7. Chapter 7: Embers of safety
8. Chapter 8: Stop!
9. Chapter 9: Silverfang Scars
10. Chapter 10: Molten fire
11. Chapter 11: The silence and the door
12. Chapter 12: Whispers in the dark
13. Chapter 13: The circle and the promise
14. Chapter 14: The reckoning
15. Chapter 15: Sunlit fields and smoldering gazes
16. Chapter 16: Dawn and Daciana
17. Chapter 17: Silk and smoldering gazes
18. Chapter 18: The promise and the lace
19. Chapter 19: Taking it in
20. Chapter 20: Whispers in the wild
21. Chapter 21: Humming bees
22. Chapter 22: Sunlit surprise
23. Chapter 23: Whispers and waterfalls
24. Chapter 24: The Question
25. Chapter 25: The edge of seven
26. Chapter 26: Crucible of desire
27. Chapter 27: Conflagration
28. Chapter 28: Pleasure
29. Chapter 29: Pleausre’s echo
30. Chapter 30: Ripples
31. Chapter 31: The invitation
32. Chapter 32: The predator’s promise
33. Chapter 33: Explosion
34. Chapter 34: “Do we have to….”
35. Chapter 35: Whispers and water
36. Chapter 36: The scream
37. Chapter 37: Violated
38. Chapter 38: Silence and sleeping
39. Chapter 39: Fragile freedom
40. Chapter 40: Sunlight and side-eyes
41. Chapter 41: The Weight of Suspicion and the Warmth of His Lap
42. Chapter 42: Shattered pretense
43. Chapter 43: Oblivion in their hands
44. Chapter 44: Foundations
45. Chapter 45: A step forward
46. Chapter 46: Roots and thorns
47. Chapter 47: Ashes and anchors
48. Chapter 48: We fit
49. Chapter 49: The quiet heartbeat
50. Chapter 50: Surprise!
51. Chapter 51: Embers
52. Chapter 52: Embers and echoes
53. Chapter 53: The copper taste of fear
54. Chapter 54: Fear and fright
55. Chapter 55: Drowning in Truth, Rising in Fire
56. Chapter 56: The edge of the abyss
57. Chapter 57: The ghosts we bury
58. Chapter 58: A Den of Vipers
59. Chapter 59: The Viper's Trail
60. Chapter 60: The Siren's Cry
61. Chapter 61: A Siren's Command
62. Chapter 62: Claimed
63. Chapter 63: The Calm Before the Storm
64. Chapter 64: The Viper's Tongue
65. Chapter 65: Cracks in the Foundation
66. Chapter 66: The Monster They See
67. Chapter 67: The Weight That Crushes
68. Chapter 68: The Reckoning
69. Chapter 69: The First Lesson
70. Chapter 70: The gilded cage
71. Chapter 71: The Breaking Point
72. Chapter 72: The Bait in the Trap
73. Chapter 73: The Guardian in the Dark
74. Chapter 74: The Reckoning
75. Chapter 75: The Aftermath
76. Chapter 76: Receive
77. Chapter 77: The Unraveling
78. Chapter 78: The Anchor
79. Chapter 79: The Interruption
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