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 SEVENTEEN

E ventually I get back into the baths, scrubbing the blood off my skin for so long and so hard that it begins to hurt, a comfortable sort of pain that I let flood my senses. It gives me something to focus on other than the cavernous hole in my chest where my heart used to be.

After a while, the bathroom quiets and I realize I’m the only one left. I get out and dry myself in those ludicrously fluffy towels, and then pull on undergarments and a clean set of nightclothes: a starchy white button-down nightshirt and some unbelievably soft white nightpants that cling to my body like a second layer.

When I get back into the bunk room, though, I realize it’s quiet, nearly empty. That’s fine by me; right now, I’m operating through a fog, and I can’t make niceties with the people who celebrated that gory scene in the arena so passionately.