His Bond Was a Cage

Elowen kneels in a dim root cellar holding a folded paper in the lantern light.

My name is Elowen Grieve, and I was still in the root cellar dirt when I took the paper from my boot.

A bond hearing request. It asks the council to let me out of a bond I never said yes to.

His Bond Was a Cage

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I will not call his cage a bond anymore. Maddox Hurn rejected me in front of our pack, then kept me close to own my Alpha blood. He taught me to hide every scar and call it duty. I stayed because I thought a bond he broke could still be saved. Then I met Bryce Culver. He is a widowed Alpha and county sheriff raising twin girls and carrying grief he never lets show. He looks at me like I am not ruined. My family begs me to run. Maddox says I will never leave. I can still feel his hold on my wolf. Pack law still says I belong to him. To be free, I may have to break the last living part of me and survive what is left. Can I trust a second-chance fated mate when the first one almost erased me? And will the people who used my bond as a leash let me live long enough to try?