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The Cursed Alpha's Substitute Bride

Chapter 9 Dorian Vex

Word Count: 620 | Released on: 30/03/2026

me in the

as the one place in Ironveil I

upper sitting rooms, and Kael was always elsewhere doing whatever

y in his hand. Performance - I noted, because he hadn't been here long enough to k

the reading table without

than I expect

ding," I

ay that things designed to catch you were ha

anked position. Sent in place of her elder sister." He tilted his

akes care of the people under his protection. Lirien - the previo

d," I r

e curse," Vex said. "Break it

ple connected to it."

le was different - acknowl

hat they sent

g to Greyveil. Tell Zoran the substitute

with those pale grey eyes

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hands unclench from where they had been gripping m

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n the corri

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and had to stop hard

gh that I could see the curse markings on h

g on my ne

to my collar. B

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ession w

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here b

said. "I did

rkings on his hand stilled -

of the storm of what

from Vex,"

nd to,"

ed past me dow

m something every time and felt the burning on my nec

side that door

d to me refuse

t that had changed

dn't know

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“She was never supposed to be the bride. Sera Ashveil was nineteen years old, invisible, and worth nothing to the pack that raised her. Her sister Mira is the beautiful one. The chosen one. The one their father actually looks at when he speaks. Sera is just the spare. So when the most feared Alpha in the known territories - Caius Dravhen, cursed, dangerous, and slowly being destroyed by dark magic - demands a bride from the Ashveil bloodline, the decision takes less than an hour. Mira refuses. Nobody asks Sera. She is dressed in her sister's gown before dawn, pushed into a black carriage, and delivered to a monster - a substitute for a bride nobody wanted to send, to a man nobody expects her to survive. The last woman sent to Caius Dravhen lost her mind within three days. Her eyes stayed open but everything behind them simply vanished.Sera arrives expecting the same fate. What she doesn't expect is that his curse - the dark magic consuming him from the inside out - doesn't break her. It wakes her. Something has been sleeping inside Sera Ashveil for nineteen years. Something old, something hungry, something that the Ashveil pack beat down so thoroughly they were certain it was dead. They were wrong. She came to Ironveil as a sacrifice. She will leave as something they never saw coming.”