Chapter 40 - Ablaze
Eli
I don’t know where I end and he begins.
I’m all sweat and slick skin and the rough drag of wool against my back. My breath punches out of me in shaky little bursts, and my body won’t stop arching toward him, like gravity isn’t working right anymore.
He’s still wearing pants.
That’s the worst...
Chapters
1. Chapter 1 – Hunted
2. Chapter 2 – The Alpha’s Den
3. Chapter 3 – The Alpha’s Touch
4. Chapter 4 – Caged
5. Chapter 5 – Heat in the Blood
6. Chapter 6 – Teeth and Fire
7. Chapter 7 – Captured
8. Chapter 8 – Bruises and Teeth
9. Chapter 9 – The Bond's Hunger
10. Chapter 10 – Phantom Fire
11. Chapter 11 – Fever Dream
12. Chapter 12 – Caught
13. Chapter 13 – The Table of Wolves
14. Chapter 14 – The Alpha's Game
15. Chapter 15 – Ghosts from Before
16. Chapter 16 – Watchful Eyes
17. Chapter 17 – Blood in the Dirt
18. Chapter 18 – The Redmaw Threat
19. Chapter 19 – Lines in the Snow
20. Chapter 20 – Cracks in the Armor
21. Chapter 21 – The Breaking Point
22. Chapter 22 – After the Fire
23. Chapter 23 – Bruised and Breathing
24. Chapter 24 – Planning the Impossible
25. Chapter 25 – Echoes of the Past
26. Chapter 26 – Fractures
27. Chapter 27 – Knives in the Dark
28. Chapter 28 – Warning in Blood
29. Chapter 29 – Running
30. Chapter 30 – Blood in the Snow
31. Chapter 31 – The Alpha’s Trail
32. Chapter 32 – Hollow Bones
33. Chapter 33 – Ghosts and Chains
34. Chapter 34 – The Watcher in the Dark
35. Chapter 35 – Meat Memory
36. Chapter 36 – What You Call Weakness
37. Chapter 37 – Between Teeth and Ash
38. Chapter 38 – Fever Born of Fire
39. Chapter 39 – All the Ways He Burns
40. Chapter 40 - Ablaze
41. Chapter 41 – The Shape of Silence
42. Chapter 42 – The Hunger Beneath My Skin
43. Chapter 43 – The First Lesson
44. Chapter 44 – What You Take You Give Back
45. Chapter 45 – Teeth First, Questions Later
46. Chapter 46 – Obedience Isn’t a Dirty Word
47. Chapter 47 – Bite the Hand That Trains You
48. Chapter 48 – Lessons in Pain and Other Forms of Foreplay
49. Chapter 49 – A Lesson in Loyalty
50. Chapter 50 – A Wolf with a Mouth on Him
51. Chapter 51 – You Don’t Know What You’re Asking For, Pet
52. Chapter 52 – Submission Is A Language (And I’m Not Fluent Yet)
53. Chapter 53 – Being Alpha Isn’t a Job, It’s a War
54. Chapter 54 – What Wakes the Wolf
55. Chapter 55 – Teeth in the Silence
56. Chapter 56 – Smoke and Teeth
57. Chapter 57 – What the Wolf Claims
58. Chapter 58 – The Wolf’s Terms
59. Chapter 59 – Bruises and Bravado
60. Chapter 60 – A Wolf’s Duty
61. Chapter 61 – Teeth Behind Smiles
62. Chapter 62 – The War Table
63. Chapter 63 – Wolves in the Grass
64. Chapter 64 – Smoke in the Trees
65. Chapter 65 – The Grudge
66. Chapter 66 – Friendly Teeth
67. Chapter 67 – Friendly Teeth
68. Chapter 68 – The Wound You Can’t See
69. Chapter 69 – The Long Game
70. Chapter 70 – Territory Lines
71. Chapter 71 – Quiet Sabotage
72. CHAPTER 72 – A Whisper in the Dark
73. CHAPTER 73 – The Edge of Trust
74. Chapter 74 – The Wolf at the Door
75. Chapter 75 – Tracks in the Snow
76. Chapter 76 – Fault in the Ranks
77. Chapter 77 – The Quarry Shadow
78. Chapter 78 – Stripped Down to Teeth
79. Chapter 79 – I Keep You
80. Chapter 80 – The Whisper Net
81. Chapter 81 – Council of Teeth
82. Chapter 82 – Hunted Eyes
83. Chapter 83 – Not Bait
84. Chapter 84 – Thin Ice
85. Chapter 85 – Without Words
86. Chapter 86 – First Light
87. Chapter 87 – Ash Between Us
88. Chapter 88 – The Weight of Choice
89. Chapter 89 – Teeth in the Dark
90. Chapter 90 – Shackled in Smoke
91. Chapter 91 – The Chain in My Fist
92. Chapter 92 – What a Wolf Promises
93. Chapter 93 – Rut
94. Chapter 94 – The Part That Burns
95. Chapter 95 – No Rest for the Weary
96. Chapter 96 – Hours with Teeth
97. Chapter 97 – Being Devoured
98. Chapter 98 – Burned Into Bone
99. Chapter 99 – Teeth on the Line
100. Chapter 100 – Ash and Sandpaper
101. Chapter 101 – The First Cut
102. Chapter 102 – The Line Between
103. Chapter 103 – What Won’t Be Taken
104. Chapter 104 – What a Wolf Keeps
105. Chapter 105 – Special Medicine
106. Chapter 106 – The Price of Power
107. Chapter 107 – Not For Sale
108. Chapter 108 – Words in Old Ink
109. Chapter 109 – Charcoal and Rope
110. Chapter 110 – Bound to the Flame
111. Chapter 111 – The Bond Unleashed
112. Chapter 112 – Fractures
113. Chapter 113 – Blood Owed
114. Chapter 114 – Quiet Knives
115. Chapter 115 – Smoke in the Council Hall
116. Chapter 116 – The Scent of War
117. Chapter 117 – Breaking Point
118. Chapter 118 – More
119. Chapter 119 – Edge of Obedience
120. Chapter 120 – The Breaking Point
121. Chapter 121 – A Vow Spoken Twice
122. Chapter 122 – Soft Siege
123. Chapter 123 – Professional Patient
124. Chapter 124 – Back in the Ring
125. Chapter 125 – Poking the Bear
126. Chapter 126 – Matchmaking Menace
127. Chapter 127 – Silent Treatment
128. Chapter 128 – First of Her Kind
129. Chapter 129 – A Dangerous Guest
130. Chapter 130 – Flirting with Disaster
131. Chapter 131 – A Jealous Alpha
132. Chapter 132 – Fish on the Line
133. Chapter 133 – A Study in Knives
134. Chapter 134 – Sworn Oaths
135. Chapter 135 – The Banquet
136. Chapter 136 – Smoke in the Council Hall
137. Chapter 137 – The Alpha’s Leash
138. Chapter 138 – Sharp Tongue
139. Chapter 139 – Quiet Storm
140. Chapter 140 – Fractures of Silver
141. Chapter 141 – Whispers and Walls
142. Chapter 142 – The Edge of Ruin
143. Chapter 143 – The Alpha’s Prize
144. Chapter 144 – The Omega’s Reward
145. Chapter 145 – Razor’s Edge
146. Chapter 146 – Uneasy Departures
147. Chapter 147 – Blood and Bruises
148. Chapter 148 – Cupid with Claws
149. Chapter 149 – New Toys
150. Chapter 150 – The Weight of Disappointment
151. Chapter 151 – Brat Games
152. Chapter 152 – Dream of a Bow
153. Chapter 153 – Breaking Ranks
154. Chapter 154 – Weathering Storms
155. Chapter 155 – Feast of Shadows
156. Chapter 156 – Storm on the Horizon
157. Chapter 157 – The Shape of His Mouth
158. Chapter 158 – The Tightest Leash
159. Chapter 159 – The Disobedient Son
160. Chapter 160 – Lines of Loyalty
161. Chapter 161 – A Father’s Fury
162. Chapter 162 – The Weight of His Gaze
163. Chapter 163 – The Cross
164. Chapter 164 – Ghosts of the Past
165. Chapter 165 – Surrounded by Traitors
166. Chapter 166 – The Ritual Plea
167. Chapter 167 – Worship and Vows
168. Chapter 168 – The Betrayed Heir
169. Chapter 169 – The Mediator
170. Chapter 170 – Angry, Needy, Desperate
171. Chapter 171 – Confessions with Kieran
172. Chapter 172 – The Trap
173. Chapter 173 – Salt the Knife, Feed the Flame
174. Chapter 174 – Giving Freely
175. Chapter 175 – The Journey
176. Chapter 176 – Plans and Pretense
177. Chapter 177 – The Gates of Silvercrest
178. Chapter 178 – Dinner of Diplomats
179. Chapter 179 – Private Negotiations
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