Dire Bound (The Wolves of Ruin #1)

Dire Bound (The Wolves of Ruin #1)

Author: Sable Sorensen Listening Length: 21h 24m
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Only the worthy survive the Bonding Trials. She’ll risk her life—and her heart—to be one of them… Meryn Cooper has never dreamed of being one of the Bonded, the King’s elite warriors who form mental links with massive, vicious direwolves. She’s made peace with her life scraping by in poverty in the shadows of the...

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CHAPTER TEN

V enna almost doesn’t make it up the last stretch. It’s a black sheet of slick ice, at times so steep that it’s concave. My feet dangle in total open air as I reach for the next grip. I’m convinced that every inch I gain will be my last.

Venna climbs for a while on her wounded shoulder, but she’s falling behind us, favoring the unwounded arm more and more. I barely need the yank on my tether rope as a signal from Izabel; we both sense that she’s flagging and pause on our climb, clinging to the sheer wall, waiting painful minutes for Venna to reach us.

Adjusting the lengths of our rope and re-knotting them around our harnesses, Izabel and I tether ourselves to Venna’s with equal slack between us, so that we can climb in tandem, pulling her up with us as she uses her feet and a single pick to brace herself.