Mira Thornvale

Lia was once the healer of the White Rose Clan. At seventeen, she watched her people slaughtered by the Bloodclaw Legion. She survived only because she treated an injured enemy soldier—an act that branded her a traitor. To protect that boy, she willingly endured three years of imprisonment in the Bloodclaw camp, never uttering a word.

She believed he had long forgotten her. Yet she never knew that boy was now the Bloodclaw's ruthless warlord—Karl Thorne, codenamed "The Bone General," who swore an oath to "sever all ties to the past with his own hands."


The Wolfbone Promise

Lia glanced up from the vial she was measuring. “It was steeping too long.”


Karl stepped into the chamber, arms crossed. “You adjusted the temperature on the sterilizer.”


“I don’t want your samples to fail,” she replied lightly.


“You rearranged the order of the reference books.”


She turned to face him. “And yet, you keep coming back.”


He took a step forward. “Because I can’t stop wondering how a traitor walks like a queen in a cage.”


She smiled faintly. “Because this isn’t a cage. Not for me.”


Karl’s eyes narrowed. “Then what is it?”


“A laboratory. A library. A stage.” She looked him in the eye. “You built it for me.”


The quiet hung between them, thick with unspoken meanings.


He placed a folder on her desk. “These are the new Wolfbone mutation reports. You’ll study them.”


She took the folder without hesitation. “And what do I get in return?”


She paused. “Access to the imperial herbarium.”


Chapter 7 – Chains and Soft Words