The Bloodbound Prophecy

er – The Ashe

ees clawing at the sky like skeletal fingers. The air crackled around her with b

po

s oldest and cruelest acolytes. "The spell, chi

e-enchanted to suppress her magic. Her throat ached from silence, for the wit

d them. Today, they d

nd cracked, the sky above choked with smoke

mouth and the

her chest. Her eyes glowed violet. Her breath turned molten. She spoke the in

h kahl e

, turning the dead trees to ash in seconds. Mother Virel

a didn't

Her pale skin shimmered with heat. Her hair, once black, now shimmere

someth

the witc

choed through

anding the shadows to crawl. "Very good, little f

ut her heart thundered. N

em fea

of the

*

The Blackf

r serpent, swollen with spring melt and as wil

y

breathle

reshaping with terrifying ease. Fur spilled down her limbs like silk, and where t

enth year. But Lyra had done it at nine. And ever since, the elders

love

ived

rms before they broke, and sense hearts beating from half a mile away. She didn't hunt like the othe

ransc

the woods. A loner. A rogue vampire w

hen the scent grew stronger, rotten roses and blood. She leapt from

ing a blade lac

s second naked, beautiful, deadly. Her skin was streaked w

said, voice low and teasi

neered. "You'

drove her claws

*

ght : Two Fat

phina sat on the edge of a ston

e Ashenreach. The sky

ld feel it even now, flickering in her fingertips, curling in

es wanted

give them

crouched beside a fire, her kill fresh and warm. Her body still

olf her age. Stronger, even

't strength

s pur

r more. More than the woods. More than

r fate hadn'

*

ween realms, th

shimmered. A vio

y fate, drawn by war, drawn by the co

not

e had n

grow in the dark, shap

d rise among wolves,

he Alpha King, and Thorne the Vampire Lord,their magic would

s leane

il