Chapter 20: Dorian stabbed
POV: DORIAN The battle erupted the moment I drew my sword. Isolde’s forces attacked in a coordinated strike—clearly planned for […]
To stop a brutal war, she’s forced into a political marriage with the most feared vampire general alive.
POV: DORIAN The battle erupted the moment I drew my sword. Isolde’s forces attacked in a coordinated strike—clearly planned for […]
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