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 22

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

T ime passes strangely. It somehow manages to fly by while also grinding along slowly, kneading salt into my wounded soul as it goes. Everything’s a blur of sitting through boring classes and trying to stay awake, desperately clinging to life in training sessions, and trying not to think about Killian.

In the moments between, I’m training on my own. Izabel and Venna have not stopped trying to get me to join their nightly activities, but I’ve been too busy with the strength routine Tomison gave me. When I’ve improved my ability with the sword, I also ask for help with a bow and arrow.

Stark hasn’t lashed out at me again in the same deeply humiliating way, which I’ve taken to mean that I’m actually improving. He also hasn’t repaid me for the spit in the face, so I continue to keep my guard up around him.