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 30

CHAPTER THIRTY

I spent the rest of the night in and out of sleep, never able to return to the deep rest I’d been enjoying. When I wasn’t mulling over the phantom screams, my mind returned to the Trial ahead of me—back and forth, a vicious cycle. Finally, I dragged myself back to my own room around dawn and fell back into another few hours of dreamless yet fitful slumber.

We arrive at the arena in the late afternoon. The other Strategos are cheerless and quiet as we reach the center of the field—twenty-three wolves and riders arranged in a perfect circle.

The arena looms massive in the slanted sunlight, its tiered rows already packed with chattering spectators. There are more people here now than there were for the Voice Trial. I wonder if the promise of certain bloodshed has drawn them in. Nobles in their finery crowd the upper levels while the other packs fill the lower seats.