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 48

CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT

T he morning of the Unity Trial, the horn blasts through the castle before dawn, so loud the vase on my nightstand rattles slightly.

I’m already wide awake. I’ve been awake for hours, lying here in the darkness, staring up at the ceiling. I sit up slowly and rub my itchy eyes, then mechanically set about slipping into uniform and readying myself as best I can for what’s about to happen.

Our instructors have prepared us as well as they can for this moment, even Daegan, who greatly improved as an instructor once I told him directly that he did not need to look to me for guidance and that he should assume authority during all classes. Today is the culmination of the Proving period, our ability to show the instructors, the king and the nobles that we’re capable of working together across packs.