A Rejected Wolf and a Court of Ash (Eden and Azriel) novel Chapter 57

ban, markety hand in chhady, but his eyes and nonne Blank than a white, empty paper. There’s no

– this is how it ends. Yet with a terram, not with fire. But by the hand of the one I trusted most.

quiet it might be my imagination. Except I feel it in my bones. Not just a sound, but a vibration in my very soul. A command sent through

aven’t moved, but his voice is in my head again, strained and ragged.

etone colling like a whip through the room. “Kill her.”

His jaw clenches. A flicker of light enters his eyes. Too brief. His hand trembles. The blade wavers.

The soul. Painful like the sound of a soul being torn apart. His black wings spread out around him, magic snapping off his body in pulses. Shadows whip around him, wild and violent like they want him

underestimated you” Mara breathes, astonished. “You’re the strongest High Fae to have ever existed. But even you

I you… even you can’t fight your true

Azriel talls to one kræve, but he doesn’t drop the blade. The magic is too strong and yet……..

He doesn

His entire body shakes. Another screamtips through him, this one more savage, more inhuman. He’s fighting her and it’s killing him. Scars are appearing on his skin. Blood is pooling around tus legs. Hv’ry are bloodshot, no longer violet but filled with blood that’s coming out in tears.

I can’t breathe. My feet are frozen, useless

Azriel’s desperate voice cuts through the chaos, buried in my mind.

Chapter 57

Axel munt have heard Benel this time

-because he shape shit into a wort. The shond is immediate. A crack of bones, a flash of har, musela, and

the tre dogs inside the castle had, yet I know it would the stupid to stay and flight.

meet enime and teach hesitate, stand up my chair and pimp only I don’t make up his back

Toling from it the a knots filling from a branch. But Aeel helps me up with his head. Once I’m sitting on

I’m sitting on his hack, he brunch forward like a rocket,

Khal, still serraring, tummies male portal tears open in front of es, rimmed with mitt and purple light fighting Mara’s command with everything he has holding the queen’s magle at bay long mouth for us to escape.

Awel and enter the ports and then we’re gone. We and in enld know, but we aren’t alor

snow crunches, under Avel’s paws, as we run through a forest only Menn Goddess knows where Night has fallen, but can’t tell how long we’ve been running behind us, I hear the eche of punat. Twisted the soldiers, hissing and snarfing, chasing us through the treas on top of horses.

My fingers are buried deep in Axel’s thick, rull. His spred is incredible. The world blurs as he fears through the undergrowth with savage precision. And

ndi, he took ever

Like I’m riding a thing mountain.

ance down and realize something startling. My legs they don’t reach all the way around his back. Not anymore

Axel is easily the son of a small horse now. Maybe bigger. His paws thunder across the forest floor, crushing anything in the path

My fox stirs inside the

He is growing because you are his Alpha, she whispers. He is your Beta, and a fox doesn’t rely on brute strength. That’s where he comes in. He is your muscle. That’s why he is growing. Your bond with him is deeper than friendship, and he wishes to protect you. He is yours, Eden, Yours to command and

use an you please

My Beta, huh?

1 glance back. Our pursuers are paining.

ili breutha, leaning forward. “Kill them”

He

glances up at me as if asking “You crazy?”

Troll my eyes. “Tou’re big enough to challenge them and they don’t have magic, or they would have used it.”

He stops, totally freezes so that I crash into the brown fur around his neck Axel doesn’t even notice that I’m no longer sitting on his back, but clinging to his neck. He turns his head slowly and stares at our enemies straight in the eye and this time, there’s no whimpers.

He is growling, and our enemies freeze in their tracks because they know this is game over for them.

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