dge of the sofa, softly recounting stories of Lyr

e room, his face suddenly grave. He looked at L

to her feet. Eleanor

Blood Oath. From this day until the end of time, the Starfall bloodline shall be Lyra Starfall's impenetrable shield. Whoeve

m. It pulsed once, binding itself to the absolute laws of the Interstellar Network, before f

She rushed forward and grabbed

t we owe you, Lyra. Remember this: no matter what you cho

f the Vane flagship, Kaele

een crying, complaining that people on the Star

t, smashing it into the reinforced alloy bulkhead.

eren't what was maki

had taken root in his mental sea. It felt like a t

at. His S-grade canine instincts were screaming at him to d

arning sign of a m

f high-grade mental stabilizer. "Commander, your energy fl

man's hand. It shattered against the

tching contract. Even though he despised Lyra, she was his legal female

him, his canine biology was registering a critical lo

go immediately cr

ctually thinks she can leave me? She's just usin

E-grade female has no prospects. Without your financial

ld definitely be on her knees tomorrow, cryin

and chair and closed his eyes,

ing hallucination. He thought he could smell Lyra's faint, clean scent.

upils contracted into feral slits. "Impo

an E-grade piece of trash? It was

el. "Connect me to Sylvia. Tell her

swan pheromones to pro

m, her sweet, floral scent filling the a

face in her neck

ng ha

re violently than before. The sweet scent suddenly smelled like rotting garba

sat surrounded by her family,

nt was already dragging a high-and-mighty

as going to push hi