Author name: Hauda.A

POV: NOVA I took a wrong turn exploring the fortress two weeks after completing the bond with Dorian. The dungeons […]

POV: DORIAN We returned from the underground forest changed. Not just from shifting together—though that had been transformative. But from

POV: NOVA The full moon called to me like nothing I’d felt before. A month into my recovery from the

POV: NOVA The fever dreams started the second night. Laurel said it was my body processing Dorian’s blood—the vampire essence

POV: NOVA The victory celebration was Isolde’s idea. Three days after we’d repelled the rival court’s attack, she announced a

POV: NOVA The attack came three nights later, at the darkest hour before dawn. I woke to Dorian shaking my

POV: NOVA The questions started the next day. I’d ask them during training, over meals, in the quiet moments before

POV: DORIAN Nova spent the next three days reading my journals. I felt her through the bond—grief, rage, confusion, and

POV: NOVA I couldn’t sleep. Two weeks after receiving my mother’s sword, I still found myself waking in the middle

POV: DORIAN I’d been putting this off for weeks. Dreading the moment. Knowing it would hurt her and hating that