Bounded to the Alpha

slipped off wi

focus. Rough stone walls curved upward to a vaulted ceiling. Candles flickered from sconces carved i

en D

imself a drink at a polished wooden bar that looke

shifted on the cold floor, muscles tight from the ride and the fight.

fus

bloodstains, no iron cages. Just silence. R

to your den?" sh

, glass in hand. "I

man who ki

d without blinking. "You'

in the house of a savage warlord with

floor. "You're tied up because I don't trust yo

y m

he murmured, sto

t bond again. Pulling like a rope under her skin. She hated it. She

ting his head. "Didn't y

ew no

, when I touched you. B

looke

just any rogue, Luna. You're bloodline. And that ma

to him. "How do you

purr. "Because I've seen it before. Onc

at's a myth. The Red Lun

descendants carried the power. Until your

stories. About the moon's curse. The blood that glowed silve

y were bedtime

hought they

cy. One the Council has tried to erase. One that says a rogue Luna wit

d. "I'm not here to

lready

s down on the bar. "Rest. We lea

border

re you were born. The pla

ow do you kno

your father

clenched. "

d. "I know.

le

una cracked too-rage, grief, disbelie

floor-but he caught her easily. One hand around her waist,

growled into her ear.

eath h

off

owly. Inte

eady," he sai

at?" sh

rn the

ence-with only the sound of her heartbeat a

t whisper of something even

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