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He couldn’t allow it. In his shredded soul,
in what was left of him after all he’d been
forced to see and do, he couldn’t allow it.
The blood oath kept his limbs planted. A
dark chain that ran into his soul.
He would not allow it. That final breaking.
He pushed upward against the bond’s dark
chain, screaming, though no sound came from
his open maw.
He pushed and pushed and pushed against
those invisible chains, against that blood-
sworn order to obey, to stay down, to watch.
He defied it. All that the blood oath was.
Pain lanced through him, into his very
core.
He blocked it out as Cairn pointed the
smoldering poker at the young queen with a
heart of wildfire.
He would not allow it.
Snarling, the male inside him thrashing,