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 FORTY-FIVE

M y worries about my mother’s funeral turn out to be misplaced. Killian handles it all. We argue about it briefly, but he insists on paying for everything.

“You are the future queen, kitten,” he says. “Your mother deserves a proper burial in a place of honor. And you deserve to be able to visit her somewhere beautiful and comforting.”

Which is why he buys her a place in the Garden of Eternal Rest—a lavishly maintained cemetery in the city’s wealthy Northern Quarter, where even the smallest plots cost more than my mother made in a year. It’s looked after by a small sect devoted to the Faceless Goddess, and they’ve brought a priestess here today to bless the ceremony.