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BOUND TO THE ALPHA'S CURSE

Chapter 4 Marked by Fear

Word Count: 1108    |    Released on: 15/07/2025

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ks of gray, smudging the horizon like ash dragged across parchment. I lingered outside my cottage, basket of herbs in hand, though my gaze refu

g had wa

he world together. He had always been like that-steady, unwavering, a man who believed faith could shield a

woods, basket slipping from my

that spoke less of wild hunger and more of a warning. Fresh. Splinters curled outward,

Perfectly parallel. A wolf's claws, perhaps, but no wolf

rs returned unbidden-of beasts too large to be real, of glowing eyes in

ds. Kalen. The way his shadow had stretched long against

it b

hi

shield. He stood at the doorway, worry carved into his brow. His hands, once stea

ssed thin. For a heartbeat he seemed as though he might speak further, confess something that

d. "Someon

held mine with an urgency that pulled

d like stone ag

oins in Bloodmoon Hollow. Women tugged their children closer, men sharpened the

by my home but scattered along the outs

s follow me as if the marks had been carved into m

d one woman hiss behind me. "Th

woman lowered her gaze, clutching her shawl t

oo

allowed. She had been of the priestess line, that much was certain, but

though her blood, and min

elt feeble against the pressing dark beyond the windows. My father retired

ordinary life. But the scrape of claws lingered in my mind,

d jolt

t like a growl ca

dles fl

d to the window, pressing

saw

y

ods. Too high above the ground to be any ordinary wol

struck the table, toppling the basket of herbs. Rosemary

st and monstrous, though it refused to step into the open. As thou

d the villagers, prayed until my voice cracked. Instead I fr

eyes softened, as if recog

la

w, broken,

to my mouth. No beas

And then they vanished,

neve

ut my mind raced with a single though

omething in me knew. It belon

me? Why mark the trees li

Bloodmoon Hollow had always been a place of quiet dread, but now the d

elves into the very fence of my cottage, carved deep into

staking the mes

s ma

d by

ed the Hollow had no int

er. A shadow moved, closer than the trees, closer than the dark. She turned slowly-only to

whispered, vo

had

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1 Chapter 1 Ashes of Silence2 Chapter 2 Whispers in the Woods3 Chapter 3 The Alpha's Shadow4 Chapter 4 Marked by Fear5 Chapter 5 Moonlit Secrets6 Chapter 6 A Stranger's Touch7 Chapter 7 Unspoken Tethers8 Chapter 8 The Blood Omen9 Chapter 9 Eyes of the Beast10 Chapter 10 The Forbidden Library11 Chapter 11 Chains of Fate12 Chapter 12 Echoes of Betrayal13 Chapter 13 The Moonlit Pact14 Chapter 14 Wolves in the Shadows15 Chapter 15 Fangs and Firelight16 Chapter 16 The Scarlet Bond17 Chapter 17 His Wolf, Her Fear18 Chapter 18 Bound by Prophecy19 Chapter 19 A Kiss of Darkness20 Chapter 20 The Blood Omen21 Chapter 21 The Alpha's Bargain22 Chapter 22 Claws of Doubt23 Chapter 23 The Priestess's Trial24 Chapter 24 Shadows of Desire25 Chapter 25 The Blood Moon Pact26 Chapter 26 The Voice Beneath the Ashes27 Chapter 27 Whispers Beneath the Blood Moon28 Chapter 28 The Awakening Flame29 Chapter 29 Blood Moon Rising30 Chapter 30 The Memory Beneath the Stone31 Chapter 31 Echoes of the Forgotten Path32 Chapter 32 Veins of Silver Fire.33 Chapter 33 Whispers of Blood and Moonlight34 Chapter 34 Four: Whispers of Moonlight35 Chapter 35 Shadows Beyond the Wild North36 Chapter 36 Shadows Along the North Road37 Chapter 37 Shadows of the Wild North38 Chapter 38 Whispers Beneath the Veil39 Chapter 39 Whispers in the Wild North40 Chapter 40 Shadows Carved in Stone41 Chapter 41 A Bond Unbroken42 Chapter 42 Ashes of War43 Chapter 43 Serpent's Tongue44 Chapter 44 Heart of the Wolf45 Chapter 45 The Witch's Bargain46 Chapter 46 Flames in the Hollow47 Chapter 47 Threads of Prophecy48 Chapter 48 Hunter's Oath49 Chapter 49 Moonlit Chains