All Chapters of Bloodbound Destiny : Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

My cloak was draped over a bench, so I swiftly donned it as well as one of the antlered masks on the wall, praying that others enjoying the revels still wore theirs so that I would fit in. Then I strolled out into the night.Moving through the trees, I scanned the shadows, wishing to scream Tristan ’s name but knowing that to do so would invite unwanted attention. So instead I muttered, “Tristan ? Tristan ?” then out of desperation, “Lyra ?”Nothing.I needed to find Alpha Orion and the rest of the troops. Needed to tell them what had transpired so they might help in the hunt. But beyond knowing Alpha Orion ’s plan to meet with other Alphas, I had no idea where to find him.Stepping closer to the revels surrounding the fires, I sought familiar faces, wondering now why my parents had never brought me to Vanda. Everywhere I looked, men and women lurched around, either drunk or high on other substances, and those who weren’t moving about were coupling in full view. Not only in pairs,

I would have him and this as well. Would savour this moment straight up to the second I was caught, then fight.And I would treat these guys mercilessly for taking this moment away from me."We have to see her face.”I tightened in response to the demand. But Tristan scowled and said, "She's occupied." Now go away before I upset Vadan's tranquility.Hiding my face would only raise suspicions, so instead I trusted that the mask would do its duty and reared back, my shoulders slamming against the tree. “Shut up and lay with me,” I gasped loudly. Both warriors gaped at my breast rather than my disguised face, and I quietly appreciated the predictability of males.But they didn’t leave.Go left, half of me pleaded, but that sensible voice was drowned out by the wanton part of me demanding that Tristan see this performance through. The part of me that craved his cock deep inside me. It was she who won. She who rode him like a wild animal, released creeping ever closer. Yet the guys rema

felt ill, not wanting to be the reason that these men and women abandoned their families to whatever fate awaited them. As if hearing my thoughts, Alpha Orion shouted, “The fates of those in the Mystic Rune pack are already woven, whether they live or die in our absence is already known to the gods. But the warrior Princess is unfated and all our threads are twisted around hers. Let us stand our ground at the base of the Vadan and bring a reckoning to our greatest enemy, Alpha Maximus of the Ironclaw Dominion pack. Let us have vengeance!” It twisted my head, the idea that all lives were fated except for the few of us who had a drop of god’s blood in our veins. That somehow, by standing with one foot in the mortal realm and one in the divine, the rules that bound all, including the gods, did not apply. The idea was that my actions could catch and tangle the threads of those around me, forcing them into a different pattern than the gods had intended. And it made me wonder about t

My horse stopped and it took me a moment to realize that I’d tugged on the reins, Tristan slowing to look at me over his shoulder. Shaking my head fiercely, I heeled the mare back into a trot, A feminine sob resonated down the trail and my stomach dropped.“No.”Digging in my heels, I cut into the trees, passing past the group and back to the roadway before heeling my horse into speed. Dimly, I heard shouting.Heard my name and commands to halt, but I disregarded them and continued forth.This can’t be.I made the option to come to Mystic Rune pack’s help. I changed fate. Yet when I burst from the trees and was confronted with an orange light on the dark horizon, smoke billowing over me in the wind, I realized I’d altered nothing.Mystic Rune pack had burnt. I raced along the path, halting only once I was at the outskirts of the ruins, the flames already fading down to ashes.Nothing remained standing, not the vast hall nor any of the dwellings.Even the docks that I’d once practice

I whispered, and then I heard a familiar footfall coming up behind me, and I turned.Tristan approached, firelight throwing shadows across the hard angles of his face in a way that made my stomach flip. “Alpha Octavia.” He nodded at the Alpha.Andronika. Where have you been? I asked, then quickly chastised myself for doing so, hurriedly adding, Avoiding real work, as usual?He sat next to me, sending my heart into a gallop as I smelt the aroma of pine and sea.Why? Was there something you wanted me to do for you? My cheeks quickly flushed, and I prayed he’d merely believe the light thrown by the fire. Other than cutting off heads, the list of things that you can do that I can’t do better is very short, Tristan . So to answer your question, no.Octavia cackled and smacked her palms against her thighs.She speaks the truth, boy.”Tristan 's smile grew sly. “Maybe so, but the items on that list I do very well indeed.”Memory poured over me, of his hands on my body and his tongue on my li