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 23

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

I ’ve grown used to the wild scene in the common lounge every night, but tonight, after surviving the Voice Trial, the other Rawbonds really let loose.

A celebration is in full swing, and all four packs are in attendance. Gone is the tension each of us carried into the arena earlier tonight. The other Strategos throw themselves into the party, drinking and laughing with abandon.

I still find this ghoulish, the way they party after so much death. Eight Rawbonds in total lost their lives, including two from Strategos that I didn’t know well. But I’d been so certain that I’d be one of them that I’m having some sort of adrenaline crash, and I can’t deny that I’d like to take the edge off too.