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Trusted Bond

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Autoren: Mary Calmes
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have
    no choice.‖
    It was funny how his harsh words did not match the tender motion.
    ―They violated the law.‖
    My eyes flicked to Logan, and I found him and Mikhail walking
    toward me. ―I don‘t want anyone hurt because of me. Tell him.‖
    ―That‘s not your choice.‖
    ―Logan, I—‖
    ―No,‖ he said icily. ―Yuri will do as his station demands.‖
    ―Logan—‖
    ―No,‖ he said flatly as he reached me, grabbing hold of my arm and
    yanking me close to him. ―You do not have a say here, Jin. You were
    attacked, and I will kill every man that violated the sanctity of my home.
    You cannot possibly understand the magnitude of the trespass, but I do,
    Yuri does, Mikhail, Domin… you‘re the only one missing it.‖
    I looked around the room at Markel, Delphine, even Logan‘s father,
    Peter Church, all of them looking at me with the same look of grim
    resolve.
    ―No.‖ I was firm. ―It‘s barbaric. We don‘t kill people.‖
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    Yuri rose to his full, towering height beside me. ―Your kindness will
    be mistaken as your semel being weak because he does not punish those
    who would harm his reah. Do not ask that of Logan or of me.‖
    ―I—‖
    ―It doesn‘t matter,‖ Domin said, interrupting me. ―No one‘s gonna
    be punishing anybody until we get to the feast.‖
    There was a moment of silence as everyone absorbed his words.
    ―What are you talking about?‖ Logan asked irritably.
    When I looked back at Domin, I realized suddenly that he was more
    than just tired or even sad—he was hurt. He looked just as bad as Yuri and
    me. The left side of his face, which I hadn‘t been able to see from my
    angle in the hall, was covered in marks. His eye would be black and blue,
    and it was pain I was seeing etched on his face. He was holding himself
    stiffly, afraid to move too fast, and there was hesitancy in his every step.
    The man had been wounded.
    ―Both Abbot George and Ian Lund went to Cairo last night to meet
    with their semel. They left without gaining Christophe‘s permission to
    leave his land and so have violated the mandate of the sanctuary Avery
    granted them,‖ Domin explained, his eyes fluttering for a second when he
    flexed the muscles in his back. ―Christophe is furious.‖
    ―How do you know?‖ Yuri asked him.
    ―Because I just came from his home,‖ he said tiredly, walking over
    to the kitchen sink.
    When he reached it, he let out a deep breath, gripping the counter,
    and after a moment, he let his head fall forward.
    I turned to my mate. ―He didn‘t go alone, did he?‖
    Silence.
    ―You didn‘t let him go see Christophe and Avery alone?‖
    When I saw the uncertainty on Logan‘s face, how his eyes were
    slowly filling with dread, I felt my heart clench.
    ―Logan?‖
    ―I never… worry,‖ he said softly, ―about him.‖
    And I understood. None of us ever concerned ourselves with Domin.
    He was savage and strong and he didn‘t walk, he swaggered. I never
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    thought of him as being vulnerable; none of us did. But seeing how he was
    standing, leaning, holding on, I was scared.
    ―Shit,‖ Yuri said under his breath, moving to go to him.
    I put out a restraining hand. ―Don‘t.‖
    His eyes were on my face, but not for a moment did he think of
    disregarding my order.
    ―He‘ll never let you,‖ I said under my breath. ―He‘s too proud.‖
    There was no doubt that I knew what I was talking about. Domin
    Thorne used to be the semel of his tribe, and now he was Logan‘s second.
    And I knew he liked being a maahes, a prince, more than he like leading
    his own tribe, but that didn‘t make what other people said to him any
    easier to bear.
    I knew from firsthand experience that Christophe and his men never
    missed an opportunity to rub Domin‘s nose in the fact that instead of death
    he had chosen to willingly submit himself and his people to the rule of
    Logan Church. Even though it was the best decision for everyone, it didn‘t
    stop the slurs and snide comments. I could only imagine what had
    happened when he had gone to the tribe of Pakhet to demand that they
    surrender Abbot George and his cohort to him. He would have had to fight
    for them to take him seriously, and from the looks of him, that was exactly
    what he‘d done.
    ―Did they attack you?‖ I asked gently.
    ―No, I attacked them.‖
    ―Without provocation?‖
    ―There was enough on all sides so that Logan will not be hearing
    from Christophe on my

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