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THE AUREUM TRIAL: BLOOD OATH

Chapter 2 A Name in the Fire

Word Count: 891    |    Released on: 09/05/2025

didn't belong. The students moved through the corridors with effortless grace, their voices ringing with easy confidence, their laughter carr

meant to be he

ce. I had no intention of drawing attention to myself, but wandering around like a lost child wasn't helping my case. I approached a girl

-do you know where the St

the conversation with another girl as if I didn't exist. My stom

ied again, this time with a group o

, I'm look

is lips, not loud, but loud enough. The others smirked, their laughter hushed but pointed. I wasn't stupid.

little

dark tousled hair that curled slightly at the ends. His blazer was crisp, though his tie hung loose like he couldn't be bothered with formalit

. Two entwined serpents, fangs bared, circling a dag

ss bloo

mily known for their cunning, their ruthlessness. A lineage that

tudying me as if deciding how much fun he wanted to have. T

my stomach clench, but I did

"Go down two flights of stairs, past the first set of iron doors, and you'll see a hallway li

ed. "T

nothing as I turned and walked

ant sound of footsteps growing sparse. The grand, open halls narrowed into dim corridors, and t

ushed past them, revealing a long corridor lined with paintings. For a brief

ticed the

rk eyes. Not just portraits. Not just art. Their gazes felt alive, unblinking, follo

esitated, my instinct screaming to turn around, and I listened and decided to turn around and leave, but before I could do that out of the blues, I heard voices co

ady set. The girl's pr

ower, controlled. "She's more

What trial? And who was "the

rtbeat picking up as t

suspect anything, we d

beneath my boot creaked and as I was redirecting my feet out of nowhere, a hand clamped around my wrist. My br

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1 Chapter 1 Welcome to Ashwood Academy...Only if You Survive2 Chapter 2 A Name in the Fire3 Chapter 3 The Predator's Gaze4 Chapter 4 The Academy's First Omega5 Chapter 5 The Announcement6 Chapter 6 The Heir's Entrance7 Chapter 7 The First Taste of Ashwood8 Chapter 8 Omega Among Swans9 Chapter 9 The Gilded Cage Opens10 Chapter 10 The Gilded Tongues and Barbed Smiles11 Chapter 11 Of Starlit Surprises and Social Schemes12 Chapter 12 In the Quiet Between Questions13 Chapter 13 Of Broken Curfews and Threaded Secrets14 Chapter 14 Where No Eyes Should See15 Chapter 15 A Seat at the Wolf's Table16 Chapter 16 A Cautious Little Omega17 Chapter 17 The Quiet before the fall18 Chapter 18 Gown of Glass19 Chapter 19 Compliance in Velvet Gloves20 Chapter 20 Elegance is a Language I Do Not Speak21 Chapter 21 Practice Makes Imperfect22 Chapter 22 In the Wake of the Fall23 Chapter 23 In the Wake of His Touch24 Chapter 24 He Said No One Must Know25 Chapter 25 And the Air Remembered Him First26 Chapter 26 Names We Wear, Lies We Keep27 Chapter 27 Beneath the Weight of Ink and Intention28 Chapter 28 Where Trouble Waits29 Chapter 29 The Ones Who Weren't Invited30 Chapter 30 The Ones Who Volunteer31 Chapter 31 The Punishment That Blooms32 Chapter 32 All the Things I Didn't Say33 Chapter 33 In the House of Wolves34 Chapter 34 The Rules Are Older Than You35 Chapter 35 Wolf-Touched Walls and Wax Seals36 Chapter 36 A Gathering of Wolves37 Chapter 37 Silver-Stuck and Southern-Born38 Chapter 38 The Cost of a Fantasy39 Chapter 39 A Carriage Built on Lies40 Chapter 40 Led Like a Lamb41 Chapter 41 Where Legacy Wore Its Own Reflection42 Chapter 42 An Omega's Guide to Swift Social Suicide43 Chapter 43 When Names Become Trap44 Chapter 44 Where Wolves Don't Bow45 Chapter 45 Fleeing the Gilded Cage46 Chapter 46 Between Her Questions and My Lies47 Chapter 47 Between the Ferns and Favors48 Chapter 48 Baiting the Butterfly49 Chapter 49 Where Rumors Take Root50 Chapter 50 How to Self-Destruct in Front of an Alpha: A Memoir51 Chapter 51 How to Lose a Friend in One Folded Lie52 Chapter 52 What I Should Have Said Sooner53 Chapter 53 Not Made for Chandeliers54 Chapter 54 The Final Rehearsal Before the Reckoning55 Chapter 55 She Wore the Lie Like Tulle56 Chapter 56 The Gallery Before the Fall57 Chapter 57 The Girl Who Walked Like Smoke58 Chapter 58 The Aureum Trial: Not All Will Survive59 Chapter 59 The Moment the Water Turned Gold60 Chapter 60 The Line Between Pretending and Becoming61 Chapter 61 What a Best Friend Would Never Say Aloud62 Chapter 62 Seen By the One Who Should Not See63 Chapter 63 The Heir's Selection: The Dance He Dared to Ask64 Chapter 64 The Heir's Selection:The Dance Where Wolves Speak Softly65 Chapter 65 When the Void Bleeds Red66 Chapter 66 The Memory That Wasn't Mine67 Chapter 67 The Wolve She Handed Me To68 Chapter 68 What Was Mine to Carry69 Chapter 69 To Be Seen by the Wrong Eyes70 Chapter 70 Scriptum Obscura