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BOUND TO THE ALPHA'S CURSE

Chapter 8 The Blood Omen

Word Count: 1256    |    Released on: 15/07/2025

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sed my palms over my ears, but the echo lived inside my skull, a warning I could not shut out. Whe

that whispered my name as though it carried the weight of centuries. I had seen Kalen in the dream, his eyes no longer the burnished gold of the Alpha b

ision. My father would call

n. Whispers followed me, though no mouths moved. Perhaps they lived only in my head, carried from the fragments of the dre

, smelling faintly of herbs and smoke. They stopped their muttering

ot be here, E

y voice trembled despite m

y-eyed Corvin, lifted a weathe

o bleed through. When he unrolled it, my chest tightened. I recognized the sigil pressed at the

w, resonant. "One tied to the priestess bloodl

t dry. "What

ly. "That the Alpha's curse can b

ed like stones

carved into the room, a presence woven into the words themselves. Was this

aled. "You will

he claw marks near her home. The dreams. The Alpha's unnatural pull toward her. I

to deny it, to scream that they were wrong, that I was no prophecy wrapped in flesh. But part of me,

e council. "You will leave my

s' silence sa

y could see the t

eeking air, seeking space, seeking anything but the suffocating weight of those words

od

rif

es hunted m

. Shadows shifted between the trees, and from them emerged the very m

le

barely chained. "You shou

ded more like a cry. "Alone is

ned. "What did

e word that had been bran

ith feral light. He took a step closer, each stride a warn

nk of a tree. "Not yet?

, voice hushed, dangerous.

ed the ground beneath me. F

t it means,"

into a fist. "It means that fate is cruel. Th

ree before I could cage them. "Then w

obbed, heavy with somethin

choose. They bind. And if the scroll is true,

rds I could not form. His curse. My blood.

pped through the night. Not one

ody tense. "We are not safe here." He caught

ungs burned, my legs screamed, but I kept pace with him, driven by a terror that cl

rger than any I had seen, its fur mottled with s

lun

and muscle and fur. His wolf form struck the beast with a crash that shoo

aving, watching two monsters

ttered th

red wolf's blood soaked into the soil, and from it rose a faint glow, a sigil burning a

lood

he light crawled towar

even in victory, his gaze swung to me, and in those golden eyes I sa

pulse of power rushing upward into my

cre

forest w

inside her, binding her fate to Kalen's

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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