Chapter 49: The quiet heartbeat
The quiet after the storm hung in the air. It thrummed in the hopes-scented, shadowed room in front of the fire, redolent with woodsmoke, cedar, pine, and our fresh nakedness just revealed. Ronan's fingers had stilled in my hair, the half-braid stubborn. Talon's thumb, tracing idle patterns on t...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1: Shadow’s scars
2. Chapter 2: The blood moon hunt
3. Chapter 3: Silverfang storm
4. Chapter 4: Bloodmoon run
5. Chapter 5: The claim
6. Chapter 6: The cabin of suns
7. Chapter 7: Embers of safety
8. Chapter 8: Stop!
9. Chapter 9: Silverfang Scars
10. Chapter 10: Molten fire
11. Chapter 11: The silence and the door
12. Chapter 12: Whispers in the dark
13. Chapter 13: The circle and the promise
14. Chapter 14: The reckoning
15. Chapter 15: Sunlit fields and smoldering gazes
16. Chapter 16: Dawn and Daciana
17. Chapter 17: Silk and smoldering gazes
18. Chapter 18: The promise and the lace
19. Chapter 19: Taking it in
20. Chapter 20: Whispers in the wild
21. Chapter 21: Humming bees
22. Chapter 22: Sunlit surprise
23. Chapter 23: Whispers and waterfalls
24. Chapter 24: The Question
25. Chapter 25: The edge of seven
26. Chapter 26: Crucible of desire
27. Chapter 27: Conflagration
28. Chapter 28: Pleasure
29. Chapter 29: Pleausre’s echo
30. Chapter 30: Ripples
31. Chapter 31: The invitation
32. Chapter 32: The predator’s promise
33. Chapter 33: Explosion
34. Chapter 34: “Do we have to….”
35. Chapter 35: Whispers and water
36. Chapter 36: The scream
37. Chapter 37: Violated
38. Chapter 38: Silence and sleeping
39. Chapter 39: Fragile freedom
40. Chapter 40: Sunlight and side-eyes
41. Chapter 41: The Weight of Suspicion and the Warmth of His Lap
42. Chapter 42: Shattered pretense
43. Chapter 43: Oblivion in their hands
44. Chapter 44: Foundations
45. Chapter 45: A step forward
46. Chapter 46: Roots and thorns
47. Chapter 47: Ashes and anchors
48. Chapter 48: We fit
49. Chapter 49: The quiet heartbeat
50. Chapter 50: Surprise!
51. Chapter 51: Embers
52. Chapter 52: Embers and echoes
53. Chapter 53: The copper taste of fear
54. Chapter 54: Fear and fright
55. Chapter 55: Drowning in Truth, Rising in Fire
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