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Bloodbound Destiny PHILOMELA'S MAGIC
A stage had been built in the middle of the square at the heart of the citadel, and it seemed every last man, woman, and child in Tendon had come to witness Philomela perform her ballad.Not that I was shocked. To hear a child of Bragi sing was more than entertainment; it was a luxury precious few would have the opportunity to experience in their lifetimes.Not only were the stories the Skalds recounted with their songs passed down from generation to generation, but so too was the pleasure of hearing the song directly from the Skald’s lips. Because one didn’t just hear, one saw.That was the section I was afraid of since seeing the tunnels going to Vadan had been horrible. This would be a lot worse.“You don’t have to do this if you don’t want to,” Tristan stated from where he stood to my left. “I won’t fault you.”I’ll fault myself. I squared my shoulders.I lived it, which means that I can watch it.”I had to. Needed to see what everyone else had seen that had triggered this strange
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Lyra clutched her arms over her body, her face a mask of distaste that didn’t diminish when she glanced at me.Alpha Orion alone looked unaffected, reaching to place a hand on Philomela’s shoulder as he cried, “Sage foretold that the warrior Princess’s name would be born in fire! Foretold that she would unify all of Southern region beneath the one who controlled her fate. And now you have seen what it is to oppose the will of the gods!”The audience moved, turning to gaze at me. Not with respect, but with terror. “Tomorrow, Philomela will leave Tendon to spread the word of our battle fame.She will journey through Southern region, moving from pack to pack, and in her wake our people will flock in droves to swear vows to me, their Alpha king,” Alpha Orion roared, calling their attention back to him. “And those who fight at my side will be sung about for generations to come!”The crowd cheered, and a heartbeat later drums began to pound. Jugs of mead were thrown about as Alpha Orion sma
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My father isn’t just going to let you go roaming the countryside,Tristan whispered under his breath as he went with me back to the great hall.“Not with half the Alpha in the Southern region desiring to capture or kill you, and the other half on their way to Tendon to meet you. You’re too valuable to allow out of his eyes.He’ll simply have your mother hauled here to offer answers.” “No.” My voice was flat. “Bad enough that Declan and Eleanor chose to put themselves within reach by coming to Tendon, I won’t put my mother at risk as well.”“Then I fail to see a solution.” Tristan pulled to a halt, disregarding the way others on the streets gave us wide space. I had a more difficult time casting aside the scared expressions several of them gave me.“It is a full day’s ride to Moonlit pack and another back. Impossible to accomplish without your absence being noted.”I rubbed at my scarred palm, thinking hard. Then an idea occurred to me. “I need to find Philomela.”Tristan's eyes narrow
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Not allowing me to answer, Lyra declared, “Husband, Andronika must seek guidance from the gods.She requires seclusion for a night and a day to see what replies the gods will offer her.” She snapped her fingers. “Tristan, as Freyja has willed you to watch over Andronika on this journey, you shall attend her.”The men all blinked at her, and Lyra crossed her arms. “Well? You would have the gods wait? Orion, bring the mushrooms. Tristan, ensure Andronika has what she needs to face her challenge.And you”—she leveled a finger at the two visiting Alphas —“should be eating! We are gonna celebrate our partnership and our magnificent futures together. Bring in food! Mead! Music!”Everyone went to their commands, and I mumbled to Tristan, “Get what we need to ride the Moonlit pack tonight and meet me in my room.”Alpha Orion approached and offered me a cup full of pulverized mushrooms. “Drink deeply,” he advised. “I look forward to learning what the gods wish to show you in your visions.”“As
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“There is another one,” my mother interrupted. “We’ve never spoken to you of this, but Declan he was a sickly baby. The healers could do nothing, and informed us the humane decision would be to put him out for the cold and the wolves, but…I couldn’t do it.”It was the way of our people, I understood that. Had known mothers who carried frail kids that were in their arms one day and then gone the next, never spoken of again.But to think that my mother was commanded to do such a thing to my brother made my blood run cold. “It is well you didn’t, Mother, for they were wrong. He grew up strong.” Of the body, at least.“They weren’t wrong.” My mother’s throat twitched as she swallowed, and I glanced at Tristian. He was fast making his way through the pile, tattooed skin gleaming with perspiration, and not out of earshot. “What happened?” I asked.“I prayed to the gods to spare him,” my mother murmured. “Prayed to Freyja and Eir and all who’d listen, offering up sacrifices to show my devoti
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Had it been a choice? Lyra’s words resonated in my brain, the concept that the gods did not select, just intuitively understood what decision a person would make, dominating my thoughts.I cuddled my mother to me, our foreheads touching. “To have your child chosen to hold a goddess’s blood is a privilege none would turn down, Mother. There is nothing to forgive.” “I thought it was just Freyja,” she muttered. And thought nothing of it when your father returned from Mystic Rune pack with tidings the seer had pronounced prophecy of a child of Hlin. Only longed for the day you would come into your power, yet what horror when you did, for it was not life your magic promised but war. I cursed you, my darling. Forgive me.”It was hard not to cringe at knowing that was how she perceived my power, yet still, I didn’t understand why she was begging the way she was.There is nothing to forgive. I am content.” She straightened and held me at arm’s length, gaze riveted on mine. “Don’t lie to me,
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Why didn’t you tell me? “ I…” His throat twitched as he swallowed. “It was a long time ago when I was still a boy, but I remember it clearly.”“You seem to remember everything about her very clearly and yet communicate none of it,” I snapped. “What did she say?”Tristan was silent, and sickness tortured my intestines. For what he might say.And the fact that he concealed it from me at all.“She went into these strange trances when she was being told something by Odin,” he eventually responded.“I was alone with her when she was suddenly seized by one. She informed me that the warrior Princess would unify the Southern region,but that tens of thousands would be left dead in your wake. That you’d tread upon the land like a disease, setting friend against friend, brother against brother, and that everyone would fear you.”His words sunk into my core, and I strained to breathe. “Whatever she saw terrified her,” he added. “I was young, and it sank into my mind that the warrior Princess woul
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Unease trickled into my chest.“What is it?”Or who?“Theodora .” Tristan spat in the dirt.“We need to go.”Alpha Orion had mentioned the name Theodora while we were at Vadan, but I had no clue who she was. “Is she one of Alpha Maximus’s warriors?”“His hunteress. Who he sends to locate those who don’t desire to be found.” His throat twitched as he swallowed. “She’s a child of Ullr.”My gut knotted, for I knew Ullr’s children had bows with magical arrows that never missed their aim. “Who is she hunting?”Tristan tilted his head to meet my gaze, the muscles in his jaw so rigid they strained against his suntanned skin.“No,” I gasped. “That makes no sense. Everyone believes that I’m in Tendon.”“There is no other reason for her to be here, Andronika . We need to go. Get a head start before she finds our trail.”The horror humming in my blood informed me that he was right, except there was only one location to dock a ship of that size on this sea. Moonlit pack. My house.Ignoring Trist
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Bloodbound Destiny TO A BRIGHTER TOMORROW
My bed was undulating under me, rising and sinking as though I’d had too much to drink, the sensation sending a rush of nausea through me. “Tristan,” I muttered, attempting to reach out to him. Except I couldn’t move my arms, scratchy rope locking my wrists together. My eyes jerked awake and brightness pierced into them like knives. At first, all I could see was white, but as I furiously blinked, my eyesight cleared to show the hull of a ship, booted legs all around me. Memory entered my head, of Alpha Maximus and his men arriving in the cavern. Of the reality of Tristan’s allegiances being revealed. Of corpses on the ground all around me, dead by my curse. Of Philomela, blowing smoke into my face as she betrayed her real loyalties. “Good to see you’re finally awake, Andronika . Alpha Maximus’words entered my ears, and I turned over, gazing up to meet his light gray stare. Where am I? “On a ship,” he said with a slight smirk, teasing me with the obvious. Then he lift
Bloodbound Destiny THE BETRAYAL
Good morning, Andronika .Alpha Maximus grinned, tucking a curl of golden brown hair behind his ear.It fills my heart with joy to see you hale and healthy after such a terrifying plunge. I confess, we feared the worst when Melisande knocked you into the water. But I should’ve known better than to distrust Tristan.” To distrust Tristan. His words pierced into my heart, locking me in place even as I heard Tristan emerge out of the cave behind me. Felt him take in the image of Alpha Maximus with his soldiers standing nonchalantly behind him, Tristan’s voice stiff as he said, “Why are you here?” A question I was profoundly worried he already knew the answer to. “We feared you might have been injured, so rather than allowing you to bring her to us, we came in search. Alpha Maximus took a step closer.While I understand your actions, they were too risky by far.You may have both been killed.” A low drone of noise filled my ears and sickness twisted in my gut, ideas rising and fal
Bloodbound Destiny HER DOUBTS
I woke to morning light peeping in through the branches Tristan had used to hide the entrance to the cave, my ears filled with the sounds of trickling water, chirping, and Tristan breathing in my ear, still asleep.A joyful smile bloomed on my face, the purest kind of bliss widening my chest, and if not for the strain on my bladder, I’d have allowed myself to fall back to sleep. Sighing, I carefully lifted the thick arm draped over my belly, the fact that he didn’t so much as twitch telling to the depth of his sleep.Outside, morning had already come and gone, the sun over the horizon and the summer air heated. Nothing stirred except the light breeze in the trees, yet I heard the chatter of squirrels as they yelled at me for interrupting the quiet of the morning. Taking care of my requirements, I crept back into the cave to find Tristan still asleep, eyelashes dark where they rubbed against suntanned skin, his hair a tangled mess.As was mine.Frowning at the tangle that was my braids
Bloodbound Destiny THE BLISS
I groaned softly as he put a finger inside of me, felt his chest rise as he discovered my moisture, my yearning. The thought began to stray as my blood raced quicker through my veins, his cock firm against my behind as he pleasured me. He’d told me everything I needed to know— that he wanted the future I dreamt of for us, and all that was left was for me to believe that he’d never lie to me.And I did trust him.More than anyone. Everyone else lied and twisted and used me to attain their aims or to protect themselves, leaving me cold and alone, but never Tristan. He was ever and always the rock at my back. My love. My life.Twisting in his arms, I straddled him, my knees pressed against the furs as his hands massaged my thighs. Firelight lighted half his face, the other half shadowy, but all of it so lovely I felt I would weep. “I love you,” I said, bending forward to kiss him. I trust you.And I wanted him.The urge to be filled throbbed deep in my sex. I stroked against him, slick
Bloodbound Destiny THE DESIRED FUTURE
Every bit of me for all of eternity. I held his neck as he slammed into me again and again, with each stroke the base of him pushing against the region his thumb had abandoned. My claws ripped his skin, my heels pressing into the tight muscle of his arse as I dragged him into me, my climax teetering on the verge.Tristan kissed me, our teeth smashing together with the power of it, his tongue running over mine as he pushed into me, breathing hot and quick. Then his hands grasped my hips, nearly dragging me off the rock as he thrust deep.Release burst over me like a storm. Like a hurricane that would break the earth apart, my body quivered as it bathed me in ecstasy, drawing me back under each time I breached the surface. Never had I felt anything like that, the feeling washing away sight even as it drenched me in color, my ears full with the sound of my name on Tristan’s lips as he climaxed, flowing into me in a deluge hotter than the seas we swam in.He buried his face in my neck, mo
Bloodbound Destiny HIS FOREVER
Tristan murmured my name as I stroked him root to tip, and heat that had nothing to do with the hot springs erupted in my core. The side of my palm caressed my slippery sex as I pumped his length, and I leaned back, thrusting into it even as I felt my climax grow. I want you in me,” I whispered, but Tristan seized hold of my wrists, his voice a snarl as he replied,I think first I must prove my worth, love.In that moment I may have sworn that nothing could flame my desire more than the way he’d shouted love, but then Tristan took me farther into the cavern, putting me down on a slope of rock worn smooth by water running from another chamber above. It was nearly hot enough to burn, running in rivulets of fire over my throat and breasts, between my legs, but I hardly felt it when Tristan split my legs wide, exposing me.A breath kept too long within my lungs, shuddered free as I glanced at him, massive and powerful as a god between my legs, ready for him to plunge into me. Waiting for
Bloodbound Destiny HER DESIRES
And lest he misinterpret my message, I seized hold of my mail and raised it over my head, tossed it aside, the tunic and undershirt I wore beneath fast following, baring my peaked breasts. Tristan snarled, his eyes black as he sank to his knees, grabbing the tip of one of my breasts in his teeth. I gasped as he sucked it deep, teeth nibbling to the point I couldn’t tell if it was pleasure or agony, just that my thighs were sticky with the yearning for more.Not just more of his hands and lips on me, but mine on him. I wanted to taste that taut tattooed skin, to dig my claws into the firm curve of his muscles, to run my palm over his huge cock.So I pushed him back, stepping down into the pool, the heat of the water searing my skin as I backed further. “It’s hot,” I mumbled, reaching down to remove one shoe and then the other, flinging them past Tristan even as I held him in place with my eyes.As I took a step further, the water came to just above my hip bones. I unlaced my trousers,
Bloodbound Destiny OPEN CONFESSION
Your father didn’t visit?” Tristan’s jaw was constricted. “Only when he wished for answers from her. My existence was the source of a great deal of friction between Lyra and him, so he never took me to Mystic Rune pack.”I hesitated, then added, “Did they not suspect you had god’s blood? My mother knew. He swallowed. “She forbade me to speak Thor’s name. One of my first recollections is of mom telling me that to do so would set me on the path to losing people I loved to fire and ash.He shook his head. “She painted these visions in my head of people screaming, people dying, and everything was always burning.”It was hard to hear that. Not only because she’d been correct, but in the attempt to prevent the doom she’d prophesied for him, Sage had filled her child’s brain with horrors that I felt persisted even now.“I was asleep one night,” he said.My mother shook me awake and told me to hide, pushing me under some blankets in a chest. Moments later, I heard a man’s voice. Heard him m
Bloodbound Destiny THE FLIGHT 2
My stomach surged to my throat, my eyes plunging, down, down to the lethal froth of water and pebbles. A scream erupted but as it tore from my lips, it was Hlin’s and Freyja's name that spilled forth.Magic rushed from my hands, first enveloping Tristan and then my own body with silver light. A heartbeat later, we hit.Even with their protection, the impact forced the air from my lungs. And there was nothing to fill them as we soared higher, then ,we were pushed down into the riverbed again, the water trapping us in its ceaseless churn.Spinning us around and around till I didn’t know which way was up. My elbows touched rock but instead of the water drawing me higher in its relentless loop, Tristan tightened his grasp on me, pushing me along the riverbed.I needed to breathe.Desperate, I battled his grasp. I needed to reach the surface. Needed a gulp of oxygen even if it meant the falls taking me back under a second later.Tristan pulled my arms to my ribs, pulling me along the river
