Chapter 72: Terms of Surrender
The days bled together, a strange, suspended time between the decision and the act. The quiet certainty I’d felt after speaking with Lily was now a live wire of anxiety, and the only thing grounding me was the man who had vehemently opposed the entire plan. Xavier had taken my request and forged...
Chapters
1. Chapter 1: The Wrong Beer
2. Chapter 2: Echoes in Static and Blood
3. Chapter 3: The Breaking Point
4. Chapter 4: Sanctuary's Sharp Edges
5. Chapter 5: Rusted Bars
6. Chapter 6: The Hand in the Dark
7. Chapter 7: The Storm Finds Its Calm 
8. Chapter 8: The Giant at the Door
9. Chapter 9: Sparks and Promises
10. Chapter 10: Rumbling stomach
11. Chapter 11: Broken Gold
12. Chapter 12: Echoes and Absence
13. Chapter 13: Cherry Bombs and Tripping Wires
14. Chapter 14: Held and Unlocked
15. Chapter 15: Tending flames
16. Chapter 16: Whispers and warnings
17. Chapter 17: The impulse of trust
18. Chapter 18: Curious thoughts
19. Chapter 19: Whispers in the dark
20. Chapter 20: Golden eyes in the dark
21. Chapter 21: The thorn and the touch
22. Chapter 22: The Edge of Surrender
23. Chapter 23: Sparks, Stumbles, and a Screamed Secret
24. Chapter 24: Lilies and Whispers
25. Chapter 25: Petals, Pulse, and Glowing Eyes
26. Chapter 26: Breath, Bones, and Breaking Points
27. Chapter 27: Shattered Silence and Whispered Terror
28. Chapter 28: Two Weeks and a Cracked Heart
29. Chapter 29: Lilies, Lace, and the Pull of Him
30. Chapter 30: Sparks in the Rain
31. Chapter 31: Post-Tempest
32. Chapter 32: The edge of truth
33. Chapter 33: The wolf
34. Chapter 34: The truth
35. Chapter 35: The Howling Truth
36. Chapter 36: Through the Wrong Woods
37. Chapter 37: The Wolf and the Man
38. Chapter 38: The Cage of Truth
39. Chapter 39: The Breaking Point
40. Chapter 40: The Shape of Us
41. Chapter 41: Hunters
42. Chapter 42: Breakfast of Claim
43. Chapter 43: The full moon
44. Chapter 44: The Pull of the Moon
45. Chapter 45: The Wolf's Claim
46. Chapter 46: The Morning After the Storm
47. Chapter 47: The Weight of Guilt
48. Chapter 48: The Wolf's Ears
49. Chapter 49: The knock
50. Chapter 50: Formal
51. Chapter 51: “She’s my mate”
52. Chapter 52: Leave Taken, Promise Kept
53. Chapter 53: Return
54. Chapter 54: The Weight of Home
55. Chapter 55: Live Wire
56. Chapter 56: Blood and Bone
57. Chapter 57: First glimmer
58. Chapter 58: Human Rituals
59. Chapter 59: Claimed
60. Chapter 60: Sanctuary
61. Chapter 61: Alignment
62. Chapter 62: Scent and Signal
63. Chapter 63: The Wall
64. Chapter 64: The Shadow of the Crown
65. Chapter 65: The Carving
66. Chapter 66: The Run
67. Chapter 67: Pressure
68. Chapter 68: The start
69. Chapter 69: Interrupted
70. Chapter 70: The Ghost in the Room
71. Chapter 71: The Shield
72. Chapter 72: Terms of Surrender
73. Chapter 73: The Scent of Want
74. Chapter 74: Concrete and Claim
75. Chapter 75: Five Minutes
76. Chapter 76: The Shattering
77. Chapter 77: Violation
78. Chapter 78: The hunt
79. Chapter 79: Claimed
80. Chapter 80: The Aftermath
81. Chapter 81: The Cleansing
82. Chapter 82: The Confrontation
83. Chapter 83: Truth and Fury
84. Chapter 84: The Last Word
85. Chapter 85: The Breaking Point
86. Chapter 86: Homecoming
87. Chapter 87: Secret
88. Chapter 88: The King's Confession
89. Chapter 89: The Mediator
90. Chapter 90: The Luna's Path
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