Chapter 86: Homecoming
The black car ate up the miles between my old life and my new one. Xavier drove with one hand on the wheel, the other resting on my thigh, his thumb making slow, absent circles on the denim. We didn't speak. The silence was comfortable, filled with the hum of the engine and the thrumming energy ...
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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