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n: The Heir The

bloodline awakened, it nea

ary long after the elderly

at him, waiting f

ever

dismiss the old man's ridiculous declaration, and explain that this was

ouncil representative with his shoulders sq

ieved

at frighten

that sounded painfully unnatural. "Did you just

man inclin

my l

ge me for something my a

ime, child. What your awakeni

augh dis

ot a c

. "You are something

stepped

words carefully,

ver eyes shifted

onight. The Sacred Register has reacted to an unregistered female, the Lunar text h

p treating an ordinary girl

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ked betw

talking about me as though I

answered i

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rcumstances, Xande

did

e Rose want to step behind the prince, though s

o you know anything abou

n caught he

moth

es

have to do wi

if the signs

tomach t

ked about her grandparents, distant relatives, or the absence of old family photographs, she re

sidered those expl

unti

s human," sh

s said

mentioned a hidden kingdom. And she certainly nev

expression sof

us hide the truth because they

heart s

ing the estate, her anger gave

e

do you

could answer, Xa

is e

r's jaw

has already assembled. She m

be interroga

ion is not

lence settled

ed Xander

oticed the subtle change in his eyes, t

in this kingdom, he

old man

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ved close

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ind Valerius s

eyes

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h

d spent most of that time arguing, and he had

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hness. The council w

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fro

hy

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she could ask a

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turned t

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exhaled

os

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ked toward th

n the thi

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d toward the chair

t d

mained

aga

, something resembling reluct

e impos

u are s

mall shake

st, he bega

uling family has a history, and every history has its secrets. But there is o

nar blo

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hy

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lded he

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s what happe

suspiciousl

t

blin

agreed

ai

possessed an ability that even the royal family feared. It could awaken a

mind

nk I have th

idence is point

se of

acred Register, and the rea

pau

wolf recognized

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r wo

o realize what

oked

e instincts tha

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lasted a lit

rrowed

nde

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f werewolf children at birth. Every cub born into a regist

the strange mark

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did it

ession h

t important

explained an entire tradition and conve

os

nde

red at e

tly, "The Register did

fro

y n

the space reserved for m

time, his comp

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t began to

d n

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between th

the book restin

at Xa

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not a

n't ne

epped b

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os

solutel

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got to b

m n

hands throu

d to ruin my day. Now you're telling me I'm possibly the heir to a supposedly extinct magi

s jaw t

put it l

m I suppose

ll si

pacing the lengt

believe i

ional terrible decision made because someone had loo

al, or an entire kingdom had the r

aced him again, he

I'm your mate, it doesn'

shed across h

kno

yo

es

your council, not by your family, and c

ed her for a

inclined

sk you to surren

expected t

, trying to determine

us arrogance, no attempt to

hat made her chest f

are you he

es met

e the chance to discover it before an

oked aw

ed that

ause it

wanted to

r Sanguinara was beginning t

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to the sound of someo

os

ened h

ins, illuminating the unfamiliar be

onds, she lay s

e Lu

from the other

sa

arning returne

ng your name after midnigh

swall

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le

voice c

arling.

art st

ew tha

heard it during thunderstorms, when she climbed into her mother's bed because she was too

er mothe

w back th

om

door, sw

touched th

e step towa

ano

out the voic

gry or worried. She usually called her Rose, darling, o

e had called her

ran down

did you

pa

voice a

and I'll expl

hed for t

touched it, someo

d and spu

rousers and a dark shirt, his hair dishevel

glowed

open th

tared

my m

it is

outside we

t, then seemed to realize he was hurt

s voice strained. "But y

ked at t

back

id you

it call

my mother

ng pretending to

le turne

umbled

ved in fr

s chest, deep enough to

ing scratched a

n

ic

soft, fami

voice whispered. "Don't

s filled w

believe it w

badly that she co

bered Marcell

ls, and the way everyone in this house seemed to k

you?" she

ice st

nds, the corrido

in a tone that wa

er why she sto

went

ntire body

atching

side of the door ca

t she did to

t swept thro

tains f

ts frame, and a sharp crack spl

away just as a thin line of silve

the floor, forming a c

ed at it

eared withi

she had seen on

looke

met him, he seemed completely u

ossible," h

bols br

ice fille

voice

mother

hing

e from the walls, the floor,

HEIR HAS B

ched Xand

ice co

D BLOOD HAS

shattered into a

knees b

her before she

moment, her

g passed between them that n

e of w

h of s

whelming sense

ing to the magic as though it had bee

s eyes beg

lv

unmistaka

or of t

d at her, un

bells began to ring t

n

w

re

ll in the kin

d the Sanguinara gates,

turned to thei

up at Xande

happeni

is expression torn be

know," he

time he had said t

he sounded as though

lood Moon kingdom, the an

lost Lunar heir had been erased centurie

SE L

e, a final insc

URNS. THE THRO

d see the inscri

longer be merely a girl whose existe

e most dangerous se

ynasty had spent cent

Sanguinara might have to p

conti