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2021-12-29 12:14:31The moon shone like a heights cape through the window, across the angels and wolve trapped in the satin mouth of the bed, Moon paralyzed by my shadows against the wall, and got Moth’s pearl-like tears in the corners of his eyes. They were all under my power, but I was as ensnared in this house and its lies as
they were.
I slowly lowered my hand, so as not to startle Moth, before enveloping his trembling form gently in my arms. At last, the tears fell down his cheeks, and he sobbed. The sweet scent of ylang ylang wafted from his skin and hair, and I wondered why, when Moon had been washed in only cheap carbolic soap.
I rubbed Moth’s back, when I studied Moon, who’d tensed like I was about to turn the kid into stone next to the other wolve gargoyles…and I guess that I didn’t blame him.
“If I let you go from the jerremy,” I eyed Moon warily, “do you promise to obey me?&rdqu
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I fought to lock inside the sobs that threatened to overwhelm me. Bronze shadows snaked around my head in the Justice Chamber, trapping inside my jerremy just the same as my tears. Why had I traveled back to Oxford to answer my aunt’s text? I’d thought that all I’d have to do would be Claim an Alpha, then magically I’d become the Wolve Winner destined by the House of Heights.Instead, I’d wound up condemned as a rebel and facing execution.I stared between the three silent wolve masks, as the judge, jury, and executioner sat on their furry thrones. These were the sorcereses who long ago, I’d hoped would welcome me into their covens. Later, when no engraved letter, talking broomstick, telepathic black cat or however I’d figured it’d work, arrived to call me away from my uncle’s non-magical world, I’d dreamed of being left alone to carve out my own life.But Isabella’
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I looked with widened eyes through the one-way mirror, when my jerremy snapped angrily at the glbutt, at the lab in which Moon was being trained by Jason and Alex like the Blood twins had paired up again fresh from mynightmares.Was this mirror here so that the sorcereses could watch the breaking of a werewolve like it was part of the curriculum?When King and I had first sneaked from the Claiming Suite through the silent House of Seasons, when my heart had thundered in my chest and I’d jumped at every shadow because I had to free my Charms before my aunt discovered us, I’d hidden, expecting that Jason would be able to spy us through the other side of the glbutt.King’s mouth had tightened, however, as he’d waved me forward. “We have the same schooling rooms in my empire for difficult Alphas to be displayed to the Alpha Academy. Amusing, wouldn’t you say, that your aunt and my
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I rested my head against the corridor’s mahogany paneled wall outside the library, sinking into the sensation of being home. The sweet scent of honeysuckle wound through the open window out over the formal gardens that were kissed with the early morning’s light. How hadn’t I noticed just how beautiful it was? The House of Heights had been my grand inheritance, duty, and responsibility, but for a decade, it hadn’t felt like somewhere I knew or was safe. Yet after returning from my aunt’s and strengthening the wards against her, atlast this mansion felt like it belonged to me, rather than to her.When Isabella had first begged me to come and stay with her instead, I’d told her that: The House of Heights was mine, and I wasn’t a kid anymore.Finally, that no longer felt like a lie.I rubbed at the garnet ring, which sat heavy on my finger. I was only as free as a felon on day
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